Update: Video uploaded. Will be on The Ed Morrisey Show today at 3:30 along with Joe Cardona, who along with Luis Guardia, produced the following video:

I’m not going to sugarcoat or editorialize or plead or try to tug at your heartstrings today. Enough has been said and written about the the Black Spring Crackdown of [...]

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Black Spring Crackdown on Cuban independent journalists, librarians and human rights activists.

Here's how that big softy pragmatist raul castro treats a peaceful protester in Cuba, a woman participating in a peaceful march for the release of her imprisoned loved one:

More from Breitbart via AFP:
Police detained about 30 people as they marched in Havana Wednesday in a protest led by the mother of a political prisoner who [...]

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The castro regime, following the "script" to a tee:
A US decision to ease sanctions on Cuba and two other countries to allow exports of Internet services is intended to "destabilize" the communist island, Cuba's government has said.
According to raul and co, anything from the US - other than free millions in cash - is meant [...]

If you havent had the chance to hear Marco Rubio in person, want to meet the future Senator and are in Miami, you may want to set aside Friday afternoon for same:
As Marco Rubio continues his march towards the U.S. Senate, he is campaigning across Florida and would love nothing more than to see you [...]

Great piece at American Thinker on the reality that is Cuba today:
Interested in seeing Barack Obama's dreams for the U.S. in real time? Pack some toilet paper, Tylenol, and towels. Then hop a plane to Cuba. Just ninety miles off Florida's coast, Obama's ideas are alive and kicking.
In fact, visiting Cuba today may be more [...]

Right here.

Absolutely brilliant take down of NBC by Humberto Fontova at the American Thinker:

Apparently eager to highlight their hypocrisy, the month prior to their Cuba broadcast, the "Today Show" reported on location from Cape Town, South Africa. "The one indispensable visit on a trip to Cape Town is a pilgrimage to Robben Island [a former political [...]

Info, right here.

Ran into Enrique Encinosa last week at the Radio Mambi studios right before I went on the air with Lourdes De Kendall. He handed me a CD and said "I just re-wrote my Escambray Rebels book. Added a bunch of stuff. I want to get it into Cuba."
"I think I can help with that," I [...]

No word yet this morning on the state of Guillermo Fariñas health. Last report was around 3 AM where his mother stated that he was receiving medication via IV.
Will update as news comes in.

Ive received quite a few emails from folks asking what they can do to help. We all feel a bit useless and [...]

Twitter reports coming in from Cuba say Coco Fariñas fainted and was rushed to hospital. Will report more as info comes in...
Milian castro hospital, per Yoani who says they are on their way there.
More here.

US Senate Honors Orlando Zapata Tamayo

I'd thought of using the old Coppertone jingle when posting about Charlie Crist, but the Archies tune is pretty good, too.

Mississippi wants to sell more rice.
Kansas wants to sell more wheat.
Missouri wants to sell more milk and cheese.
North Dakota wants to sell more corn.
And Indiana's got the soybeans.
Representatives from all of the above agricultural industries are in DC as we speak for a hearing "To review U.S. agricultural sales to Cuba."
Naturally, the entities which these [...]

That's the vote tally from the European Union in their official condemnation of the castro regime for its murder of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo:

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday strongly condemning the "avoidable and cruel" death of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata and voicing its concern at the "alarming state" of another [...]

I havent covered the comments by the supposed "actor" Willy Toledo with regards to Orlando Zaata Tamayo, mainly because I didnt want to give the asshole any more press, but Andy Garcia blasted him yesterday:

Si ese actor o cualquier otra persona en el mundo cree que Zapata era un preso común o un agente de [...]

Via Penultimos Dias, Costa Rica President Oscar Arias:
“Los presos políticos no existen en las democracias. En ningún país verdaderamente libre uno va a prisión por pensar distinto. Cuba puede hacer todos los esfuerzos de oratoria que desee para vender la idea de que es una democracia especial, pero cada preso político niega en la práctica [...]