Marta here. I started this series, Cuando Sali de Cuba, Stories of Courage and Hope on my own blog, My big, fat, Cuban family in order to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month: Cuban-Style. I asked my readers to send me their stories about how their families left Cuba and how they ended up here in the [...]

Marta here: Welcome to my ongoing celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month: Cuban-Style with a series of stories about Cuban American families and how they ended up here in the U.S.:Cuando Sali de Cuba, stories of courage and hope.
Today I want to introduce you to my friend, Jorge Carmona.
He is one of the Cuban masterminds behind Dos [...]

If you're in southern California this weekend, join us for the LA screening of the award winning documentary, Voices From Mariel.
A recent film festival favorite, the powerful documentary Voices from Mariel tells the previously unheard stories of ten Cuban-American families -- just some of the more than 100,000 Cuban-born immigrants who came to [...]

The award winning documentary,  with a special introduction by Actor/Musician Steven Bauer is coming to Los Angeles.  There is limited seating;  hurry and purchase your tickets at Goldstar.com.

 
Visit the Voices From Mariel web-page for more information on the film, or to purchase the the DVD.

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Testimony of Rafael Lincoln Diaz Balart, Fidel Castro's former brother-in-law, before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee hearing on the Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean.
Excerpts from the May 3, 1960 hearing, keep in mind that Mr. Diaz Balart answered the questions in English. 
The Batista and Castro dictatorships: 
Senator KEATING. Now, let me ask you this. Do you consider [...]

If you're in a hurry to visit Cuba while it's still a totalitarian slave state, make sure you ask your tour guide about this.
To eliminate and punish those deemed unfit for his revolution while using them for free labor, Fidel Castro presided over a closed-door meeting within the regime’s hierarchy. The resulting plan was to [...]

Yale professor, brilliant author, and good friend Carlos Eire corrects the revisionist history presented as fact in Estela Bravo's documentary, "Operation Pedro Pan: Flying Back to Cuba."
Imagine how you’d feel if you were once rescued from a soul-crushing totalitarian regime –not unlike that of the Third Reich – and you then you spent the rest of your life contending with [...]

From The Americano:
I write this short introduction for I know both Ernesto Fernández Travieso, the Jesuit priest who presents what his brother Tomás Fernández Travieso witnessed as a political prisoner in Cuba when he was 18 years old. I knew their mother who protected me while worrying about her two sons. This is a tale [...]

Carlos Eire discussing his latest book, "Waiting to Die in Miami" at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, Thursday, April 21 as part of the George Washington Forum on American ideas, politics and institutions.  It's fabulous, revealing, instructive, and heartbreaking. Take tissue.
Thank you Carlos for sharing your Cuban soul, and bearing witness to Cuba's true history.

H/T: [...]

Steven Bauer visted Babalú at Cuba Nostalgia to promote the documentary ¨Voices From Mariel, which chronicles the Mariel boatlift experience.

He mingled with the crowd, posed for photos, and talked about documentary.  He was great.
This wonderful documentary is available at www.voicesfrommariel.com.

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I'm often amazed at how little people here seem to know about the waves of Cuban immigrants refugees to this country.
The older folks remember that in the early 60's there were some displaced Cuban children that needed homes. This they only know if one of the children ended up in their neighborhood. I'm [...]

Everyone knows what castro's idea of May Day is - tanks, turbas, thugs and long, long, long speeches about dictatorship of the proletariat and yanqui imperialismo. It's hard to mess up a holiday to the extent he has.
castro and Allende: Love
But over in Chile, a nation that in 1973 escaped castro's grasp, fought him off [...]

The revered hero of Cuban Independence, General Antonio Maceo Grajales, who fell in battle on Dec. 7 1896.
"I have never anticipated any benefit from Spain; she has always despised us, and it would be unworthy to believe otherwise. Liberty is conquered with the edge of the machete, it is not asked for; to beg for [...]

 If you're in the LA area, you don't want to miss the esteemed Manuel Marquez-Sterling presenting his important and wonderful book, "Cuba 1952-1959 The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power."

Where:  Eso Won Bookstore
4331 Degnan Blvd. LA.
90008
(323) 290-1048
When: Friday, November 19 2010, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

 Introduction from the bookstore's website:
Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's [...]

My family left Cuba in early 1961.
My brother was on the first Pedro Pan flight in December of 1960. Happily, my family was only separated for a few very tense months. But we were part of the lucky few who managed to leave the country rather quickly.
Once reunited, my father vowed we'd [...]

This is all I could gather and I posted on the Bi-Weekly and here as you can see. I'm sure that you guys have much, much more, goodnight!

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There was a time when the MSM sometimes did their job vis á vis Cuba.  To all those who want to end the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba, and to all those taking cheap shots at the Cuban exile community because some exercised their free speech rights and complained because they were  offended that lackeys [...]

On Wednesday 27-January, Manuel Márquez-Sterling will deliver a talk in Spanish at the Miami presentation of his book, Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power. His talk will be followed by a panel discussion with question and answer period, and book signing. Panelists are Marcos Antonio Ramos, Alberto Luzárraga, and Sylvia G. [...]

The Castro regime finally gets one right when reporting their disgust towards the new security travel screening measures that are taking place around the world. They stated, as Reuters published on their website:
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba denounced as "anti-terrorist paranoia" new U.S. security measures for air travelers from the island and 13 other countries, but [...]

If you're interested in "The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power,"  then tune in and listen to an interview with Manuel Márquez-Sterling and R. Rembert Aranda on Blog Talk Radio's  "Speak Your Mind,"  hosted by Cubanology's Jose Reyes.
The books author Márquez-Sterling, and his collaborator, R. Rembert Aranda will discuss their new book, "Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's [...]