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 [...]

Our good friend George Utset of The Real Cuba , is going to be on Periodismo Punto Com, aired on Radio Martí this afternoon at 4:30 EST. He'll be talking about his important new website, Cuba Search, lanched two weeks ago to help Cubans around the world locate their relatives and friends with whom they have lost [...]

When you seek to have the State completely control commerce, production, consumption, and capital this is what it produces. People always find a way to survive, even if it is outside the restrictions of a system, especially communism. And imagine how it will be here when such policies take full command over our healthcare (see: [...]

I had one of those 'I laughed so hard I cried' laughs ... Ya know?
HAVANA – Raul Castro proposed term limits for Cuban politicians on Saturday — including himself — a remarkable gesture on an island ruled for 52 years by him and his brother. The 79-year-old president lamented the lack of young leaders in [...]

"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 [...]

Oh holy intransigence, this expert is "gasp" Cuban!!! 
From the Yale Journal of International Affairs, via our man in Washington's  Blog,  Capitol Hill Cubans:
A Transformational Year For Cuba Policy
by Mauricio Claver-Carone
Since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and transferred power to his brother Raul, members of Congress have been weighing possible options in U.S. policy toward [...]

Wow, it's a busy night at the BBC Havana bureau.  The article is in Spanish:
Se producen fuertes explosiones a las afueras de La Habana
Un polvorín de las Fuerzas Armadas cubanas (FAR) habría estallado en Santiago de las Vegas, poblado ubicado en las afueras de La Habana, muy cercano al aeropuerto capitalino, según versiones de los [...]

Wow! Must really suck having your best ballplayers defect to other countries so that they can actually be paid for busting their asses to perfect their skills and talent on the diamond ... and count their professional contract and paycheck as their own in a professional league as free men in a free market system. [...]

Oh, well ... Life sucks, and then you die:
Cuba's state-run media and bloggers are not amused at "Call of Duty: Black Ops," a new videogame in which the player can join a secret operation in the 1960s to assassinate former leader Fidel Castro.
"What the United States government did not manage to do in 50 [...]

Luis Felipe Rojas, and Yoani Sanchez report on Twitter that Reina Luisa Tamayo and about 40 her followers were detained after being attacked by police  lying in wait outside the cemetery in Banes.   
I'll update as news becomes available.
Update: from Radio Martí:
Drama en Banes
Dama de Blanco Reina Luisa Tamayo.
(Radio Martí, 31/10/10) - Damas de Blanco y de [...]

Who would have thought two years ago the communist Cuban leadership would become private sector small business friendly while the democrat led government of the United States would line up American private sector businesses in the cross-hairs and put down suppressing fire? (For those not fans of war movies and Army lingo, "suppressing fire" is [...]

Mmm`k, who exactly down there in castro's utopia knows anything about free markets and capitalism? Cuba is not China. They obviously don't have the resources or the capital China has to go very far with this.
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's communist leaders mapped out a brave new world of free enterprise on Friday, approving a laundry [...]

AFP: Cuba to allow first US dollar home rentals in 50 years
Cuba is to allow some houses to be rented in US dollars for the first time in 50 years as well as the opening up of small businesses as it seeks to shed 500,000 public jobs, state media said Friday.
"From October, the ban on [...]

George (and hopefully Alberto) will be on my BTR show tonight, "Infidel's Watch", to discuss the background, details, and political aspects of the developing Cuban prisoner release.
You can listen to the show here starting @ 10:00pm eastern time (7pm west coast).
If you aren't already registered @ Blog Talk Radio you can do so for free. [...]

Juan Formell of Los Van Van says about his visit to the U.S., “... this is not about sharing an idea or an ideology - you can think in one way, I can think in another. But we're talking about mu-sic.’’ And there’s the rub, he can couch it anyway he or his handlers choose, [...]

There will come a tipping point where truth and justice will prevail and the people will win.
Via Capitol Hill Cubans, watch this video showing a group of Cubans defiantly exercising their God given rights.

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Cuba hasn't escaped the chilly temperatures which have invaded Florida the past several days. But that's not all that's cold in Havana.
Remember the promise of better U.S. - Cuba relations in the age of Obama? Well, according to Reuters, you can pretty much forget about that.

After a year of relative civility and cautious praise for [...]

The state of Cuba celebrated this day by sending in castroite thugs to do the cowardly dicatator's dirty work: the beating of women, mass arrests, and contronting diplomats and dissidents. 
From the radical's paradise, brought to you by Cubanews:

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