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 [...]

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 [...]

Media complicity with the brutal Castro dictatorship is why we are bombarded with articles promoting Tourism to Cuba, Healthcare in Cuba, Gay Rights in Cuba, et al, while members of the "Ladies in White" and other peaceful dissidents are attacked and beaten in broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of A.P., CNN, and other  MSM outlets.  They enjoy [...]

"The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set [...]

Thanks to the inimitable Paquito D'Rivera for shedding light on this phenomenon, because I've been unable to understand how it is beneficial for Americans to spend their hard-earned, and increasingly hard to acquire dollars on propaganda shows produced by tyrannical dictators who enslave their people and hate us. While it's easy to understand why the [...]

I’ve been debating with myself for weeks whether or not to pay the bucks and attend this event.  Part of me felt I should, in order to offer an honest review.  I hate when people review things they haven’t watched, read, etc.,  but I also have a personal policy to do my best not to spend money [...]

"RIBBIT! RIBBIT!"
He used to be a correspondent for Al-Jazeera English in Communist Cuba, reporting “objectively” on what is happening in Castro’s island paradise. Now, Juan Jacomino is the Second Secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., where he is coordinating “solidarity” activities for the regime. This means that he is organizing support on [...]

Darn! What a bummer. The socialist paradise on the Caribbean is being sucked into a 52 year – wide black hole of its own creation and some self centered “reporter” by the name of Portia Siegelbaum, who must have graduated from the Anita Snow School of communist propaganda regurgitation, is so bummed she felt compelled [...]

Over a dozen Cuban pro-democracy activists were violently assaulted and arrested yesterday, including 2010 Sakharov Prize winner, Guillermo Farinas. Is it in the news? Nope, nada, move along, nothing important here.
How about the shootout in Havana? zzzzz.... Silence.
Capitol Hill Cubans, "The Sound of Cuba's Media Cricketts"
On Tuesday, foreign news bureaus in Havana got flustered by [...]

Because the man has never been known to lie, or hallucinate ...
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro says the US has no interest in seeing peace in Libya but is solely concerned with the country's oil reserves.
Mr Castro, in a column published in state media, said it was too early to evaluate what was happening [...]

Hmm, they seem to work just fine for weight loss on the Cubans that are 'checked-into' them ...

The Daily Caller tracks the tagged beached whale:
It’s not even the new year yet, but Michael Moore is trying to lose a few pounds.
The liberal filmmaker recently checked into a $4,500 a week luxury weight loss spa in [...]

"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." Vladimir Lenin
The press is certainly fulfilling Lenin’s job description when it comes to Cuba.
Supposedly Cuba is “freeing” political prisoners, when as Alberto demonstrated in this earlier post; the reality is forced exile, a gross [...]

Fidel Castro beckoned Jeffrey Goldberg to Cuba for a chat, and Mr. Goldberg gladly accepted the invitation. With friend of Fidel Julia "Cuba Expert" Sweig in tow, he eagerly departed to Cuba, “the tropical socialist island paradise," to "get a glimpse of the great man." (Sic)
One of the resulting articles, Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews, is a surreal walk through Fidel [...]

Dear Sir or Madam:
We write to you worried about the police and paramilitary harassment denounced from Banes, a small town in the Cuban province of Holguín, by Reina Luisa Tamayo. She is the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo the prisoner of conscience who died on 23 February after a prolonged hunger strike that up to [...]

 The first thing that caught my eye in today's Cuba news feed is a speculative article about Hillary Clinton traveling to Cuba to help gain the release of Alan Gross. You can bet this rumor is just a tickler put out to ensure that when the actual event takes place it will have the correct "buzz," and you know [...]

Or anywhere else in the news that I've seen.
Just a few days ago, in an article posted here at Babalu, the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said, "...the important thing was Castro's decision to "definitively'' end the issue of political prisoners in Cuba."
Oh really?  Yesterday, while all was abuzz over the cadavers TV appearance, [...]

The Cuban political prisoners that reportedly are being freed and allowed to leave are neither.  They are mere slaves in a $cam to prop up a murderous dictator for the $ake of business as usual.  How is the current practice of the state selling the labor of Cuban workers , more here, and here, to [...]

The horrific tragedy in Haiti should not be used for political purpose, and Babalú has refrained from commenting on the fact that Cuba is doing exactly that, but IMO there comes a point where remaining silent is unconscionable. 
I've reached that point.  While the Haitian people deserve all the help they can get, from every available [...]

While reporting on Cuba has usually been misleading and favorable to the regime, ignoring easily obtainable, publicly known facts reaches a new level of sloppy reporting. Either that or these reporters’ loyalties unabashedly lie with the regime.
Recently, the Seattle Times erred in an editorial about the embargo, stating:
SEN. Maria Cantwell calls our attention to a [...]

Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana.
Yoani Sánchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, Ciro Díaz and Claudia Cadelo among those arrested. Cadelo is reported to have already been released. Details on whereabouts of other dissident bloggers are still sketchy.
UPDATE 6:46 EST: Im told all were picked up, [...]