When you make billions in blood money as the despicable Brazilian company Odebrecht does, karma can definitely be a bitch. Last week we told you about the accident that took place at the Miami International Airport with the Odebrecht built people mover train that injured two passengers. This morning, we now learn that the Adrienne [...]

Cayman Island authorities are searching for two Cuban refugees who managed to escape a detention center in that country where they were being held awaiting deportation back to Cuba.
Via Caribbean Journal:

Cayman Seeks Cuban Refugees After Escape from Detention Centre

Above: the boat that landed in Cayman Brac April 18 (Photo: GIS)
Cayman Islands law enforcement and [...]

Independent journalist Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia reports from Cuba that the Castro dictatorship continues its repressive operations against members of the opposition in several cities. In a report filed yesterday, Ferrer Garcia details the oppression against the dissidence throughout Cuba, including beatings of human rights activists and the arrests and continued imprisonment of several members [...]

Cubazuela's favorite actor gave an A-list Cannes audience a vodka-fueled sample of his deep critical thinking yesterday.  The event, bankrolled by fashionista Giorgio Armani, and sponsored by the activist group,  "Artists for Peace and Justice," drew a glittering crowd of would-be ethicists and political scientists from the film industry.
According to  Britain's top newspaper, The Daily [...]

Then the Castroites washed away this national stain and humiliation.....right?
According to Ileana Fuentes in 1961 the Castroites rounded up what they determined were all the prostitutes in Cuba and herded them into re-education camps to learn more seemly professions--Milicianas, for instance. The total number of women rounded up in this “brothel of [...]

Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

Celebrating José Martí and Cuban Independence at the San Carlos Institute

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. - José Martí
If what [...]

Right now, greeting fans and signing copies of his wonderful book, ¨Take Me With You: A Memoir¨
 

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A constant at Cuba Nostalgia: Cuban food

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Here is a video of the Cuba Solidarity Day event at The Heritage Foundation last week which featuread House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Connie Mack (R-FL), former Cuban political prisoner (of the Black Spring's "Group of 75") Normando Hernandez, Vanessa Lopez, Dr. Tania Mastrapa, and messages from the island from pro-democracy leaders [...]

Some good news to start your Sunday:
The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his son told NBC News on Sunday. He was 59.
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi died at home after a long battle with cancer. His health had deteriorated quickly, his brother Abdel [...]

Dr. Jose Azel in the Miami Herald:

Cuban embargo and defending U.S. property rights
Libertarians hold that the fundamental reason for the existence of governments is to protect life, liberty, and property. These are the principles articulated by John Locke in the 17th Century, the principal architect of liberal thought who deeply influenced our [...]

On May 20th, 1902, Cuba become a free and sovereign nation after winning its independence from colonialist Spain. However, less than six decades later, Cuba would once again be enslaved by Fidel Castro, another Spanish feudal lord as vile and vicious as his ancestors.
But just as Cuba eventually defeated the tyranny of the Spanish, they [...]

Via Pedazos de la Isla:

Santa Clara, Cuba: Opponent’s Grandmother Dies During Violent Act of Repudiation

Act of Repudiation that led to the death of the grandmother of Idania Yanez. Via: @antunezcuba (Twitter)

Today, Saturday, May 19th, the grandmother of activist Idania Yanez Contreras in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, died after suffering a stroke following a drastic rise [...]

Good friend Roland Alum compares Cuba's closed Marxist-Leninist society with the Dominican Republic's system of free enterprise and expanding freedom. 
From the Sun Sentinel:
On May 20, 1902 the Cuban Republic was born, following the Spanish-American War, or Spanish(Cuban)American War, that ended Spain's colonial rule. Coincidentally, this May 20, the Dominican Republic is holding its 14th presidential election [...]

"Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio's past?" Headlines an AP story today.

AP New York correspondent Mario Llerana (on right) in 1958
"There are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back," continues the AP hit-piece, which is in perfect keeping with their tradition.
To wit:
The Associated Press [...]

A top apparatchik of the only regime in the Western Hemisphere to herd thousands of men and boys into forced labor camps at Soviet-bayonet point for the crime of fluttering their eyelashes, flapping their hands and talking with a lisp was just granted a U.S. visa to lecture Americans on “Gay Rights.”
From San Francisco [...]

Reporter Cristina Puig talks to our own Henry Gomez about Cuba Nostalgia at Fox News Latino:

Cuba Nostalgia: Festival Takes People Back to Pre-Castro Cuba
It’s a journey that takes you back to Cuba before Fidel Castro rose to power, when the island was a must-stop for tourists and was the Caribbean’s crown jewel.
“Everybody [...]

HAH! and you thought Mariela Castro was some kind of charlatan who owes her royal position to shameless Stalinist nepotism ...HAH! Why the New York Public Library will have you know that in fact:
Mariela Castro Espín is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX). She was President of the [...]

Ninoska Perez-Castellon on the absurdity of the Obama administration granting Mariela Castro a visa to enter the U.S. (via El Nuevo Herald, my translation):

"It is denigrating to the United States to extend the privilege of a visa to a person who only defends members of the gay community who are pro-Castro and is an official [...]

Garrincha one of the best U.S. political cartoonist today, is at Babalú.

Babalú friends Jose and Maritza Lopez with Val

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