Frances Martel at Mediaite has written a lengthy article interviewing CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Havanna, Cuba. Dr. Gupta is in Cuba to investigate for himself the facts about Cuba's healthcare system that everyone seems determined to hold up as a prime example of a successful government/state-run system. Democrats, Hollywood celebrities such as Michael Moore [...]

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: [...]

While the Obama Administration pretends to have lifted the offshore oil drilling moratorium in the Gulf, there have been ZERO drilling permits issued. So we, as usual, are subjects to our OPEC overlords (now headed by Iran), and other foreign sources, for our oil supply. Meanwhile, everyone else is drilling in the offshore areas, including [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Since the younger dictator assumed the role of leadership three plus years ago, there has been a lot of talk about expected changes.  None have materialized to ease the struggle of daily life for the Cuban people, or to lessen the repression.  The latest rumble of change is a possible end to the libreta, the ration card.  [...]

Last year the dictator told the Cuba people they would have to tighten their belts.  Since the ration card only lasts about two weeks out of the assigned month of days, and children over the age of seven are not allowed milk, I'm not sure just what they were supposed to give up. Always, when the [...]

You know you're in trouble when the runaway spending associated with the economic policies being implemented by the US government leaves the country's deficit in worse shape than the deficit of a murderous, communist dictatorship. President Barack Obama's 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan will leave the United States with a worse budget deficit than Cuba, a leading [...]

Castro's propaganda ministry is not notorious for fawning over Republicans. But lately they've been gushing over the Ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Richard Lugar. "Changing Cuba Policy-Staff Trip Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate," is the title of the report Senator Lugar released on [...]

El Universal reports that Cuba is sending "peasants" to Venezuela as sharecroppers.  Of course, the would be slaves must be politically reliable.   The government of Cuba will send farmers and skilled peasants to Venezuela to develop the Orinoco plains and cultivate tubers and grains that will be shared in a 50/50 split by Cuba and Venezuela, [...]

castro is famous for his debt defaults and any banker who would do business with him damn well deserves to lose his money. An impressive banker for Citibank, named Bill Rhodes, reminisced about his banking experiences around the world for the Financial Times, and though these restructurings didn't involve Cuba, he was always the man [...]

As Henry noted, here, to travel to Cuba is to go Sheryl Crow one better on toilet-paper by the square and just live 'free' of the carbon compound. That's what tourists are finding out when they go to Cuba, their dreams about castro being green not quite the same as what they imagined or the [...]