So says Jaime Suchlicki of the Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami in an article published in the Latin American Herald Tribune.
Cubans are too “intimidated” by the communist regime to rebel over the measures announced to deal with the grave economic crisis the island is going through, a U.S. [...]

A letter to the Miami Herald written by Andy Gomez of the Institute of Cuba and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and published in today's Herald:

After reading Fidel Castro's last ``reflection,'' I thought it was time that someone wrote him one and briefly analyze his revolution:
Since becoming ill in July 2006 and transferring [...]

The Miami Herald has special coverage of Operation Pedro Pan in today's online and print versions.
Check it out here.
The articles and columns are good from what I could peruse. I'm perfectly aware of the Herald's frequently-biased and flawed coverage of Cuba-related news. But let's also give credit when credit is due. No other MSM outlet [...]

I had the pleasure of spend some time at the Babalu booth over at Cuba Nostalgia last night. As usual, it was great to catch up with all of our favorite Babalu contributors, founding editors and friends.
As I looked around the display, my attention was diverted more than once to the posts printed on canvas [...]

Rep. Bobby Rush, Congressional Black Caucus member who was part of the Clueless Seven that visited Cuba recently for a friendly chat with the castros, feels the need to tell us the rest of the story regarding his participation in that boondogle of a trip to Cuba. I'm sure all the heat he's received over [...]

While debating the merits of opening relations with Cuba on a local blog, I dug up an article by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs from last July which was gushingly optimistic about the European Union's lifting of sanctions against Cuba being a sort of "turning point" for Cuba.
Well, time is usually a good arbiter, so [...]

Andres Oppenheimer seems to take the middle road in his Sunday Herald column which basically states that although it's probably a good idea to lift the travel ban on American tourists to Cuba, it should only be done if coupled with a diplomatic offensive to "press Cuba to allow fundamental freedoms".
I appreciate Oppenheimer's desire for [...]

Our three esteemed Republican Cuban-American congress-men and woman were among 10 Republicans to vote in favor of imposing government limits on compensation and bonuses to bailed-out bank employees. The measures, according to the proposed bill, would cover non-performance based compensation.
That last sentence is important. Non-performance based compensation. Can anyone explain exactly what constitutes non-performance based [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, Glenn Garvin on Parade Magazine's omission of castro, Inc. from their yearly Top 10 Worst Dictators list:

But in looking over Wallechinsky's list -- which is a current all-star team, not a Hall of Fame that includes the undearly departed -- it's nearly impossible to see how the Castro brothers didn't make the [...]

As a response of sorts to Alberto's post below, the Herald's Andres Oppenheimer offers his own view of the shakeup at the top of the regime:
My opinion: My humble guess is that what happened last week is a combination of the second and third theories. Fidel Castro's article stating that Pérez Roque and Lage had [...]

This Politico article totally takes Rush Limbaugh's side in the Michael Steele/Limbaugh "battle".
(Michael) Steele’s job is really not that difficult. Being a party chairman is not what it used to be. Steele’s job is to raise money and go on TV every now and then and not screw things up too badly.
He has failed at [...]

I respect Rush Limbaugh and think he's a very intelligent man, but unlike some of my fellow conservatives, I find him a bit too much to take in one sitting. Kind of how I feel when I eat too much of my wife's cheese flan. Therefore, this Republican and conservative won't be signing up to [...]

The Miami Herald opinion pages are getting more interesting these days. The selection of two non-liberal columnists as an effort to add some much needed ideological diversity to that paper is starting to take fruit.
Yesterday we had Jackie Bueno Sousa's debut column in the metro section which highlighted personal responsibility and defended George W. Bush. [...]

You may recall a previous post on the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin taking the ACLU to task for their disapproval of the Vamos A Cuba book ban from Miami-Dade County School libraries.
Here's another well-written article from Chron Watch's Alan Sears on the "selectiveness" of the ACLU when it comes to which books they like and [...]

Myriam Marquez hits another one out of the park with this column.
A historical snippet from a Cuban government website on anti-communist guajiros, God-loving country folks fighting Fidel Castro's men in the Escambray mountains:
March 28, 1964 -- Thanks to [the] effective work of Cuban State Security Agent Alberto Delgado, bandits Julio Emilio Carretero and Zoila [...]

Remember Henrietta Hughes, the lady who attended President Obama's rally in Fort Myers, FL on Tuesday? She cried to Obama during the rally that she was living out of her car and had no one helping her out. In typical Messiah fashion, no sooner did she mention this that she ends up getting a place [...]

Here's a nice slap-down of the ACLU and their stance on the controversial removal of "Vamos A Cuba" from Miami-Dade County school libraries by none other than Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin. This isn't totally surprising coming from Garvin, who's demonstrated some libertarian tendencies in his regular gig. Garvin has been assigned a biweekly opinion [...]

Please take some time out of your Sunday to read this excellent piece by the Herald's Myriam Marquez. It's columns like these that make us forget that the same space Marquez's ink occupies was once the dominion of the likes of Ana Menendez. The Herald may be a sinking ship, but for the first time [...]

Good but scary column by Andres Oppenheimer on rising anti-Semitism in South America. Particular focus is on Venezuela and our friend Chavez, of course.
There is a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Latin America in the aftermath of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza -- and the most troublesome part of it is that it's often fueled [...]

OK George, you woke me up (BTW, what's the CS in SOM?).
Anyway, looks like a big brouhaha may be brewing between President Obama and Rush Limbaugh in the wake of Limbaugh's comment that he wants Obama to "fail". As someone who respects Limbaugh but not exactly a dedicated listener of his show, I reacted [...]