Some years back I wrote a piece titled "Tirando Piedras" - Skipping Stones - about a young Cuban-American father's conflict with burdening his young Americanito son with all that is Cuba. I think about that story all the time. Grapple with it. While the handing down of our passions and memories about the real Cuba [...]

Cubanos in Wisconsin, a wonderful book written by our friend Silvio Canto Jr., with the assistance of his son Gabriel, is a must have addition to your library. From the quiet Cuban town of Ciego to the bustling city of Havana, no Cubans were unaffected by Fidel Castro’s rise to power in the late 1950’s. [...]

Val and Alberto have already posted this morning on the shootdown of our four brothers over the Florida Straits, but I have to add a short note. I always chuckle when the pro-castro left call us "hardliners" and "intransigent" as though the words were some kind of severe insult. Well, they are not. We are [...]

The following is one of the many eye witness accounts of Fidel Castro's rise to power and the death and destruction that ensued soon after. This account was written by Clotilde Saiz, an 85-year-old Cuban exile who wants to provide her children and others a firsthand account of how Cuba lost its freedom so no [...]

Tonight on Cubanarama Blog Talk Radio, Barbara Rangel and Silvio Gonzalez, grandchildren of Col Rojas, along with guests, will discuss the life of Col. Cornelio Rojas Fernandez. Born in Cuba in the early 1900's, following family tradition, he spent his life in the service of his country. He was Chief of Police in the Leoncio [...]

Just close your eyes and fantasize it's you-know-who, his rat-faced brother, and the sundry other miserable criminals running our sad little island... That would be a truly Merry Christmas...

Far too little attention is given to the true story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the men who risked and sacrificed their lives in the hope of liberating their homeland, and the international repercussions of that failure. I urge you to watch this interview with Bay of Pig veterans Javier Souto and Jose Regalado. [...]

A couple weeks ago Ziva posted about Human Rights Foundation CEO Thor Halvorssen's open letter to Ted Marlow, the CEO of Urban Outfitters, about the store's line of mass murderer Che Guevara merchandise. Now it looks as if Thor can claim a victory... The defiant portrait of Che Guevara has long been used for merchandising [...]

Sorry Cal, but I think your feelings, while admirable, are clouding your judgment. Senator McGovern, who died Sunday, had all manner of evil said about him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was called unpatriotic, disloyal, an appeaser and an enabler of communism. Those were the printable slanders. Many conservatives at the [...]

Superb piece in PowerLine Blog from Steven Hayward: "The Cuban Missile Crisis @50: A Reconsideration | Power Line." [...] But the best and brightest of the Kennedy-Johnson administration were so self-deluded with their “success” that they decided to apply the same strategy of “flexible response” in Vietnam. Cyrus Vance, who was a deputy secretary of [...]

Fifty years ago tonight President John F. Kennedy announced to the world what he had been informed of a week earlier: evidence of Soviet missiles, capable of carrying nuclear weapons and destroying many American cities, were discovered by American reconnaissance overflights of Cuba. The shameful end to the crisis drove the final nail into the [...]

More rumors from the rumor mill... The rumor mill surrounding the health of Fidel Castro churned anew on Friday, despite a letter from the aging Cuban revolutionary published by state media and denials by relatives at home and in the United States that he is on death's door. Social media sites and some news organizations [...]

Aleida O'Guevara... From Antoinette Kelly , staff writer at Irish Central: The link between Ireland and Cuban revolutionaries seems to be growing. In a visit that seems certain to grate on conservative leaders in the US, it has been reported that Che Guevara's daughter will visit a Dublin hospital during a week-long trip to Ireland. [...]

Augusto "Gus" Venegas was on Blog Talk Radio with Tampa's Thomas Parisis on "Radio Libertad Por Cuba" the other day discussing his current book, "Memories from the Land of the Intolerant Tyrant" based on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Gus has become a Facebook pal of mine in recent weeks, so I thought I [...]

As Marta brought to our attention in this previoius post, Urban Outfitters is selling merchandise promoting the image of mass murderer Che Guevara. Thor Halvorssen, President and CEO of Human Rights Foundation,  takes them on. Ted Marlow CEO, Urban Outfitters 30 Industrial Park Blvd. Trenton, SC 29847 Dear Mr. Marlow, The Human Rights Foundation recently [...]