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What’s new on Cuba travel?

Recently there have been a lot of stories out there plugging travel to Cuba.  Google the words Cuba travel, and there are about 12,500,000 results in 0.26 seconds. Americans are traveling to Cuba in record numbers and everyone from the New York Times, Hollywood's elite, and some members of congress all hail to Castro's Potemkin hell.  Why even the Pope [...]

CNN the Castro-Crescent News Network

Frankly, the alliance of the communist left and radical Islam gives me nightmares. I first became aware of this frightening trend years ago when my husband and  I noticed a definite anti-Israel bias in LA Times articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Always, always, these biased articles were penned by liberals, supposedly the tolerant, peace loving defenders [...]

Presenting “Two De Force” by Orestis Matacena

Looking for some bang-up entertainment? Cuban-American actor, filmaker and defender of freedom, Orestis Matacena has a new film, Two de Force. It's an action packed view of what might be going on behind the officially presented view of US - China relations. The cast includes Luke Steward as President Obama, Jesse Wang [...]

Another hunger striking Cuban prisoner dies from neglect

How easy it seems for the monsters running Cuba to impose a death sentence with no verdict named; all they have to do is ignore humanity, and mock God.  
Dania Virgen Garcia reports on Cubanet that Leonardo Brindis, age 22, died after being denied medical treatment by prison doctors.  He had been on a hunger strike [...]

Looking for a good read?

I was thrilled and honored when I received an email from the award winning Cuban-American novelist and playwright, Teresa Dovalpage, inviting me to review her soon to be published collection of short stories.   I'm so happy I accepted because I throughly enjoyed reading The Astral Plane: Stories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond, a collection of eight short stories, [...]

Nothing but winter for Cuba

It's Groundhog Day, and if Punxsutawney Phil is correct, we are in for six more weeks of winter before we can look forward to spring.  Sadly, the weather's temperature is not the only measure of warmth for humans.  As it is, there is no need for a weather predicting rodent in Cuba, because there is [...]

Is Obama just incompetent or a Saul Alinsky radical?

If you agree that Obama is a Saul Alinsky radical, then how is Mitt going to defeat him if he doesn't recognize, or is not willing to call him what he is?

It's not just economy stupid, it's the constitution.  Live free or die!
 
The sole responsibility for the content of this post lies with the author. It does [...]

Combating the myth of a monster

Combating the icon isn't easy, but friend Christina Molina is tireless when it comes to debunking the myth of Castro's executioner, whether painted on the side of a food truck, or the t-shirt.
 Here's her latest from The Tolucan Times:
 From Pop Culture to Slop Culture: The Importance of Educating Yourself Before Jumping on a Bandwagon

Pop culture icons have [...]

Cuban prisoner treated well by U.S. prison system

Unfortunately, this is about the Cuban prisoner caught working against the U.S., not the exile accused of "terrorism" fighting for the freedom of his homeland.  I'm sure you've seen the articles celebrating that one of the "Cuban Five" was granted his requested transfer to a Florida prison to make it easier for his mother to [...]

Mercedes channels Che Guevara

Under a huge portrait of Che Guevara, Mercedes' Dieter Zetsche touted a vision of car-sharing. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET
This image has been used sell everything from watches to baby clothes, and considering the number of t-shirts, and other items we see emblazoned with the murderous mug, you might wonder, why bother getting upset? 
I'll tell you why.  [...]

Canada welcomes Cuban reforms

Of course they do, because:
"Cuba is Canada's largest market in the Caribbean and Central American region, with two-way trade topping $1 billion in 2010. A Canadian oil and gas company, Sherritt International, is the largest foreign investor in Cuba."
From this article wherein the Canadian minister for Latin America trips all over herself  trying to display concern [...]

U.S. Bishop’s fail on human rights

Really folks, you couldn't make this up.
From Capitol Hill Cubans:
U.S. Bishops' Absurd Foreign Policy
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has unveiled its 2012 legislative agenda.
Among its priorities is ensuring that U.S. trade with democratic Colombia doesn't violate human and labor rights, while lobbying to expand trade with totalitarian Cuba despite no existing human and [...]

Cuba? The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Friday night thinking about Cuba, these lyrics came to mind.
How many freedoms must Cubans be denied
 before their humanity is recognized?
How many must die at sea
Before they’re allowed to sail free?
Yes, how many times must the executioner prevail
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
 Yes, how many [...]

Castro and Cuba’s culture of poverty

This New Year's Day marks fifty-three years of Castro's iron fisted rule in Cuba. Fifty-three years of repression and misery for the Cuban people, a reality usually ignored by the press and so-called Cuba experts.  However, occasionally the truth slips through the wall of propaganda.
Good friend Roland Alum, a political anthropologist, wrote this timely article on [...]

Behind the scenes in Cuba

So far this isn't part of the tourist tour in Cuba, but at the rate violent repression is increasing who knows, perhaps those seeking "Forbidden Fruit" in Cuba will someday share the very real Cuban experience of having your head cracked open by one of Castro's mobs.
Photo captured from video posted below at [...]

Bibi rejects the New York Times

In the spirit of the season, a very Happy Hanukkah gift from Bibi Netanyahu.  It's a thorough dressing down of the unethical rag--enjoy!
From Aish.com
Bibi Rejects the New York Times
by Ron Dermer, Senior Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister
Why Netanyahu refuses to publish an op-ed in the so-called “newspaper of record.”
 Ron Dermer is a senior [...]

Porno Para Ricardo band member arrested in Cuba-Updated

Gorki Aguila Carrasco, Yoani Sanchez, and others on Twitter and Facebook report that popular Porno Para Ricardo guitarist Ciro Diaz has been arrested in Cuba.

Also rounded up on eve of Human Rigts Day, Guillermo Fariñas, Antúnez and his wife Yris Perez, Darsi Ferrer and his wife, Librado LInares, Angel Moya, José Ferrer, Jorge Cervantes, and many many [...]

Protest in Havana for Laura Pollan

This was taken November 24, 2011 around 10:30 am, on the corner of 23 and L in La Habana.

By marisolmarquez1:

"Protesters were trying to express their ideas and support the "Damas de Blanco" and Laura Pollan. Everyone was supportive except for one lady who decided to rip the sign apart. The police [...]

Cuban woman makes desperate plea for the world to save peaceful dissident husband

While the MSM continues to parrot Cuban state press run by a murderous outlaw dictator, they ignore the brutal violent acts of repression against Cuba's peaceful dissidents. 
The life of Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) is in danger.

I am pleading with the MSM and international human rights organizations to please speak out [...]

Cuba’s fabricated concern for sustainable development

The pile of mierda from official sources in Cuba gets higher every day.  Now that Cubans can supposedly buy and sell cars and real estate, it seems they now also need to respect the image of their cities.  (The article is printed on toilet paper;  I won't link, but you know where to find it.)
Cuba, to [...]