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NON-Fiction Bestseller “Havana Nocturne”–actually plagiarized from NOVEL by DGI-controlled Cuban author

"We demand royalties, Mr English!..You'll hear from my attorney Greg Craig!"
And here some of us thought TJ English's Book "Havana Nocturne; How The Mob Owned Cuba and Lost it to the Revolution" was unreliable because the author had relied on a Castro regime official as a major source.
HAH!...What a FOOL I was!....Turns out, instead of [...]

The Lexington Institute and their funding

("The Lexington Institute's) Thompson is a go-to guy for reporters in search of comment on specific military programs. (i.e. an "Expert") Among Washington pundits, the affable former academic has carved out a niche as a reputed back-channel for power-brokers who want to pass along their own views and positions.
What is often not revealed in [...]

“Cuba May Be the Most Feminist Country in Latin America!” squeals The New York Times

The longest-suffering female political prisoners in modern history suffered their tortures in Castro's Cuba. Many died by firing-squad and prison beatings.
Our friends at Newsbusters disclose the title of this post.
First off: UNSPEAKABLE (!!!) Pre-Castro Cuba had more female college students as a percentage of population than the U.S., according to Guillermo Cabrera-Infante. [...]

Fry the Five

Our friend Dr. Antonio Rafael de la Cova chimes in on the controversy involving "The Five."

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Divide & Conquer: Havana Seeks to Turn Jewish Community Against Cuban-Americans (says Chris Simmons)

Recently-ordained Rabbi Raul
"The biggest obstacles to a prisoner swap and a major reason Alan Gross is unlikely to come home any time soon can be found in the strident opposition from hardline anti-Castro Cuban-Americans, most notably their congressional leadership in the Florida Republican delegation: Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Cuban-born Rep. [...]

The “Chinese model”–INDEED!!!

From the Wall Street Journal, no less:
"As living standards (in Cuba) plummeted, Havana residents ate many of the city's cats."
And this in a nation that during the UNSPEAKABLE (!!!) Batista era boasted the 3rd highest protein consumption in the Western Hemisphere (mostly pork, chicken, fish and beef, as befit citizens with a [...]

“The gal is back in town…!” (and with a freshly-minted Obama State-Dept. visa)

Guess who just got back today?
That wild-eyed Castroite spy who had been away
She hasn't changed, hasn't much to say
But man, I still think them cats ( at the U.S. State Dept.) are crazy!
Our friend Lieut Col. Chris Simmons, who helped nab Ana Belen Montes, also helped boot this Castro spy, Josefina Vidal, from the U.S. [...]

“Terrorism” then and now

From April 20 1956

When "dialogue" with a Cuban "dictator" actually had a chance (he'd actually resigned once already after 4 years and promised to do the same very shortly)--all who engaged in this dialogue were denounced as "esbirros!" "lackeys!" "traitors!" blah..blah...and actually had their lives repeatedly threatened by Julio 26 terrorists, many of them in [...]

NRA News Interviews Babalu blogger

Video of interview here. (Some Cuba stuff near end.)
Article that prompted interview here.
Video that prompted some of the comments here.
(Pero fijense como este Fontova--el muy DESCARA'O!--le mete el asunto de Cuba en la ultima parte del interview, a pesar que no fue el tema que la gente del NRA pensaban discutir cuando lo llamaron [...]

Arturo Lopez-Callejas denounces Brothers to the Rescue as “Terrorists like Hezbollah”

"Cuban American political groups such as Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban American National Foundation had paramilitary terrorist branches acting side by side with their legal political activities, similar to modern terrorist groups of the Middle East and Pakistan, such as Palestinian Hamas" or Lebanese Hezbollah.

Did Arturo Lopez-Callejas learn this hideous secret about [...]

Director of Una Noche, Lucy Malloy Speaks ( I SWEAR this is not a SNL skit!)

Lucy Malloy: "We shot it in Cuba, so it was not an easy production. Resources are scarce because of the embargo, so we had to get really creative to make it all come together. We had a lot of amazing support (From Whom? The Stalinist regime, perhaps? Your co-producers?)
Lucy Malloy: "We shot in [...]

Protest against use of Che Guevara’s image!

This protest is not against Che's glorification, mind you. Instead it's against the LACK of glorification in this particular use of his image, which seems to insult his glorious legacy and does not march in lockstep with his worldwide glorification.
The group is the Organization for the Protection of Democratic Rights, India's version of [...]

“Highly Alarming!”–U.S. Professors in Teheran!

Rutger profs and students at Univ. of Havana--one of about ten GAZILLION back-and-forth "educational" programs between Cuba's Stalinist regime and U.S. Universities.
An alarming news report from Iran's Press TV, a propaganda arm of the Iranian government, showing American professors gathering in Tehran to discuss the Occupy Wall Street Movement:
Unfortunately there's not nearly enough bandwith [...]

“You wanna go to WAR?!…OK!–I take you to WAR!” (front-line dispatch from bloody and continuing Cuban-Sandwich War)

"Miami, to them, is neon, mojitos and surgically-enhanced women who wouldn't be caught dead eating the sandwich.
“They wouldn’t have eaten the bread for sure,” Fair laughs and then continues. “Pulled the meat off and eaten in the meat, and in private.”
“And then barfed it up,” Audet counters. “Barf.”
The traditional Cuban sandwich is a specialty of [...]

Americans treat Colombia like their Brothel!–Only Cure: Colombia need a Stalinist Revolution!

"It's pretty clear that they want to treat Latin America as a brothel," the Colombian newsmagazine Semana quoted one tweet as saying about the U.S. agents.

Then take the bull by the horns, Colombians!...This ghastly scandal, this overwhelming SHAME!...must be washed away by a Stalinist regime that murders tens of thousands of Colombians, jails and tortures [...]

“Please release him…Let him go.” (sings Arturo Lopez-Callejas about his classmate Gerardo Hernandez)

Raul Castro's omni-poweful son-in-law (Major Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Callejas) heads GAESA, by far Stalinist Cuba's richest bureau.
The cousin (Arturo Lopez Callejas) of GAESA's Chief Excutive Officer is seated on far right at this Washington "conference" last week. GAESA owns Cuba's tourist industry. By some odd coincidence the head of GAESA has a cousin in [...]

Arturo Lopez-Callejas and Gerardo Hernandez– College fraternity chums?

"I hold here in my hands!"

Here's a link to Stalinist Cuba's Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (Institute of Foreign Relations) featuring a famous graduate laureate who today serves a life sentence in the U.S. for the same crime as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg ON TOP of for conspiracy to commit murder, Gerardo Hernandez.

Here's a [...]

Awww…what a devoted humanitarian that nice Jewish kid Arturo Lopez-Levy!

Here's how the New York Times quotes and describes Arturo Lopez-Callejas, Raul Castro's relative-in-law and former (?) officer in Cuba's KGB-trained and tutored intelligence and secret-police agency:
“It reinforces the image of a Cuba in transition, in which religious communities have expanded their freedom to worship. Freedom of religion acts as a multiplier of other [...]

I SWEAR I am not making this up!

I SWEAR I am not making this up.
Event A. In the midst of arresting 1162 people for attempting to exercise their free-speech, a Stalinist regime reinstates an apparatchik who had earlier veered slightly from the party-line.
Event B. Citizens of a free country threaten to vote with their dollars.
According to Gannet columnist and one of [...]

FoxNews’ David Asman pulls an Ozzie Guillen (apology, that is)

(Estela Bravo's candid camera caught Asman(then with the Wall Street Journal) outdoing most of his lunchmates...(starts at 2.10 in video) )
FoxNews David Asman writing in today's Washington Times:
I have to respond to an ill-informed attack (“Strike Two for Ozzie Guillen,” Commentary, April 12) by Humberto Fontova that associated me with apologists for Fidel Castro. [...]