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 [...]

Of course, we can count on the Cuban government to keep its promises just as they've done for the last 53 plus years: The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking [...]

It's official, there was no "lifting" of the ban. Capitol Hill Cubans: Castro Confirms Ban on Cuban-American Artists at 9:12 AM Tuesday, August 21, 2012 The BBC was the first news outlet to erroneously report on a supposed "lifting" of the Castro regime's ban on Cuban-American artists, even though not a single song by Willy [...]

 Capitol Hill Cubans: Imagine Teddy Bears Over Havana Does Sweden only support dissidents in Cuba? Of course not. Sweden is a leader in the promotion of human rights and democratic movements in repressed societies throughout the world -- from Cuba to Burma. However, when Swedish youth leader Aron Modig was asked this question at the [...]

Excellent editorial from our friend Ernesto Hernandez Busco at Penúltimos Días. Aron Modig: to play the Swede Jens Aron Modig has managed to perfectly illustrate an expression of Cuban slang that means the ability, at one and the same time, to ignore an issue or obligation, feigning innocence or clumsiness, while pretending it has nothing [...]

Don't get me wrong here. I am not advocating pulling back on free speech, I do want to point out the abuses, and then the hypocritical aghast angst and outrage those that flaunt, and even abuse, their free speech feign. Let's be clear here. The terminology Rush Limbaugh used in reference to activist and democrat [...]

In the spirit of the season, a very Happy Hanukkah gift from Bibi Netanyahu.  It's a thorough dressing down of the unethical rag--enjoy! From Aish.com Bibi Rejects the New York Times by Ron Dermer, Senior Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Why Netanyahu refuses to publish an op-ed in the so-called “newspaper of record.”  Ron [...]

While the MSM continues to parrot Cuban state press run by a murderous outlaw dictator, they ignore the brutal violent acts of repression against Cuba's peaceful dissidents.  The life of Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) is in danger. I am pleading with the MSM and international human rights organizations to please speak out [...]

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 [...]

Here's more on Estela Bravo, currently on a propaganda tour peddling the regimes version of Operation Pedro Pan.  Agustin Blazquez takes a revealing look back at Ms. Bravo's long association with the bloody Castro regime. The 2005 article is about a pro-Castro documentary shown on PBS by filmmaker Estela Bravo, a known collaborator with the Castro regime.  It's [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Once again, the MSM shows that it  is either incapable of, or refuses to report about Cuba within the realm of reality.  The AP headline   reads, "Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market decrees."  Either the AP writer is deliberately obscuring the facts, or is ignorant of basic economic principles.  "Free Market", simply defined is, " business governed by the [...]

 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 [...]

CubaNet reports that at checkpoints on entrances to Havana,  the PNR (Agentes de la Policía Nacional Revolucionaria) stopped citizens transporting seafood to Havana, and seized fish, lobster, and other products.  They also arrested  some citizens because they possessed more than their allowed limit of of food items- onion, garlic, fish, yogurt, alleging that the objective was to sell [...]