Congressmen accuse Obama of appeasing the Cuban regime

Feb. 7 - Eight congressional Republicans on Friday alleged the Obama administration is trying to ``appease'' the Cuban government after the arrest in Havana of a Washington subcontractor, and called for the cancellation of bilateral migration talks now set for Feb. 19.  

"We are greatly concerned about the manner in which the administration is handling the arrest of Alan Gross'' and its impact on the U.S. government's pro-democracy programs in Cuba, they wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

Now Chávez will have to import Cuban drivers for Venezuela's police cars

Feb. 5 - Five brand new patrol cars arrived Friday at the city of Puerto Ordaz, in the state of Bolivar, Venezuela.

Francisco Rangel Gómez, the pro-Chavez governor of Bolivar, setup a big public reception for next Monday to receive the new patrol cars, as a symbol of how the government is making large investments in an effort to fight the ever rising crime rate.

On Friday evening, a caravan with the five new patrol cars was on its way to be stationed at the police station, where Governor Rangel was going to officially receive them on Monday.

But, according to press reports, the driver of the leading car saw a policeman that was lying on the road and had to make a sudden stop.

The four patrol cars that were following it crashed against each other and all five cars were destroyed.

No reason was given as to why there was a cop lying on the road. Maybe it was siesta time in Puerto Ordaz.

It's possible that next week Chávez will ask Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to send him Cuban drivers to drive Venezuela's patrol cars.

After all, Cubans are already in charge of the presidential guard, the security agencies and most government offices in what used to be Venezuela and is now known as "Cubazuela."

Maybe the police will be next.

Results, so far, of the "Cuban technicians" sent to Venezuela to fix the energy crisis: 6 plants damaged

Feb. 4 - Venezuelan columnist Nelson Bocaranda reports today in his popular column "Runrunes," published in Venezuela's El Universal, that the "Cuban technicians" sent by Castro to help solve Venezuela's energy crisis have already damaged six energy generating engines located at four different hydroelectric plants.

Two of the plants are the Cadafe Planta Centro and the Josefa Camejo.

Bocaranda reports that the damages were a result of the Cuban technicians starting the engines without the oil that was required to run them.

The Venezuelan government is urgently trying to buy replacements, without letting know what really happened to the damaged ones.

Since the person in charge of the Cuban technicians is a well known torturer, Ramiro Valdés, maybe the Cubans were just following orders to torture the engines by running them without oil.

Bocaranda also reports that four turbines that are being installed at El Vigía hydroelectric plant and that were supposed to be new, were actually remanufactured in Tanzania.

The government of Tanzania was trying to get rid of them because they were obsolete and finally found someone willing to buy them.

The real reason why Castro is sending a murderer and torturer to Venezuela to "solve the energy crisis"

Feb. 2 - As we have been reporting, Venezuela is suffering an energy crisis due to the lack of maintenance at the country's hydroelectric plants and because the government has not bothered to plan for future power requirements growth, since Hugo Chávez came to power 11 years ago.

But don't worry, Chávez announced on Tuesday that his partner in crime, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, called him to let him know that he was sending a "technical delegation" to take care of the problem.

And who is the expert electric engineer in charge of the technical delegation? No other than Ramiro Valdés, one the Castro regime most sinister and cold blooded criminals.

Ramiro Valdés only experience with electricity consists of applying electric rods against the humid bodies of dissidents, detained in the cells of the G2.

The real reason why this criminal is being sent to Venezuela is because Chávez is very concerned about the instant coverage given to the recent students demonstrations in Twitter and Facebook.

Valdés will teach Chávez how to crackdown on those who are using these social networking places, to let the world know the abuses being committed by the national Guard against Venezuela's unarmed students.

Don't be surprised if in the next few days you begin to see Venezuelans being arrested for using Twitter and Facebook to "spread enemy propaganda."

Van Van to Brandsmart

The Cuban group Los Van Van held a concert on Sunday night, January 31, at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.

Juan Formell, the leader and director of the group, took the opportunity of being in this imperialist country and in the city where the "Cuban Mafia" lives, to go shopping for a plasma TV at Brandsmart in NW Miami near the Palmetto Xway.

Formell, who can enjoy travel benefits and has the money to shop at American stores because he is an unconditional supporter of the Cuban dictatorship, was able to go shopping in this city, that according to the Cuban regime is full of "terrorists," without anyone bothering him.

Now, he will go back to Havana with his new TV and will tell "La Mesa Redonda" how they had to risk their lives to visit Miami.

But if you want to see who are the real intransigents; the real terrorists; the ones who can't accept freedom of the press and cannot interact with other human being in a civilized way, look at this video of several members of the Van Van group and the guards hired by them, pushing and insulting Gina Romero, a reporter who works for Channel 41 in Miami, who was trying to interview Formell.

The video is in Spanish and contains some bad words, since most Castro supporters cannot express themselves without using obscenity.

The ignorance and stupidity of these people knows no limit

Jan. 31 - Venezuela's new Environment Minister made his public debut on Sunday, during Chávez's weekly TV program "Aló Presidente,"  and he immediately showed why he was chosen for the post: He is not only ignorant but also stupid.

The new minister, Alejandro Hitcher, told Chávez that the weather pattern known as El Niño has to have a different name, because "El Niño" was "chosen by the imperialists" to hide its real causes.

According to Hitcher, El Niño should be called "El Cope" for "Calentamiento del Oceano Pacífico Ecuatorial" (Warming of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean).

What this vegetable, who is now Venezuela's Environment Minister, doesn't know is that the name "El Niño" was not an imperialist invention.

The name was chosen by the fishermen of Puerto Paita in Peru, because this weather phenomenon is usually noticed around Christmas with a warming of the Pacific Ocean, near South America.

As a result, the Peruvian fishermen named it "El Niño" for Baby Jesus. (Niño means boy in Spanish)

Also, this weather pattern is not new, it has been occurring for close to 11,000 years, long before the "yankee imperialists" became an excuse for inept dictators and stupid environment ministers.

if someone tells Hitcher where the name came from, I would not be surprised if he says that George W. Bush's great-great-grandfather was a Peruvian fisherman.

No wonder these people destroy everything that they touch.

Do you want to know why is there an energy crisis in Venezuela?

Jan. 29 - Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez blames the drought for the severe energy crisis that has forced his government to implement electricity rationing n the country.

According to Chávez, the drought has dried up reservoirs and rivers that fuel Venezuela's hydroelectric plants.

But the same severe drought has affected Venezuela's neighbor, Colombia, without causing a crisis.

The real reason for Venezuela's energy crisis is that the lack of maintenance at the country's hydroelectric plants, has caused most of them to operate at only 40 or 50% capacity.

The largest power companies are state-owned CVG Electrificación del Caroní (EDELCA) and Compania Anonima de Administracion y Fomento Electrico (CADAFE) accounting respectively for approximately 63% and 18% of generating capacities.

For over a year, technicians who work at the CADAFE Planta Centro hydroelectric plant, located in Moron, in the state of Carabobos, have been warning that it is in a state of semi-destruction and that many of the country other plants are in similar condition and there is a possibility that vthe entire power grid could collpase.

But the warnings were ignored by Chávez, who has dilapidated 800 billion dollars since he came to power setting up puppet regimes in Central and South American countries; buying arms, fighter planes and ships to prepare for an imaginary invasion and trying to keep Cuba's economy from collapsing.

Take a look at these photos of the CADAFE Planta Centro and see why there is no electricity in Venezuela.

It is not El Niño! it is not the drought! IT IS THE STUPID SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T WORK!

Click here:  CADAFE PLANTA CENTRO

Chávez's National Guard using chains with hooks, against students protesting peacefully

Jan. 28 - Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional, has this photo of a National Guard soldier holding a chain with hooks, while facing a group of Venezuelan students protesting against the closing of television network RCTV Internacional.

According to the paper, the chain has been used by the Guard against students who awere participating in the protests that have been taking place in several Venezuelan cities.

Here we go again.... another bust of che Guevara gets decapitated in Venezuela

Jan. 27 - Once again, a monument to Argentinean terrorist che Guevara in Venezuela has lost its head.

This time was in the city of Mérida, where thousands of students went to the streets on Monday and Tuesday to protest the closing of a television station by the Chávez regime.

At least two other monuments to the Argentine mass murderer had been previously destroyed in Venezuela, by those who do not want Venezuela to become another Cuba.

"No to the closing of RCTV and No more blackouts," was written on the front of the monument.

The bust was put in place two years ago across from the Universidad de los Andes (ULA).

On Tuesday students took hammers and left che headless.

Venezuelan students continued their protests on Tuesday, this time in Caracas

Jan. 26 - University students opposed to Venezuela’s dictator Hugo Chávez protested in Caracas on Tuesday outside the headquarters of state-run VTV television against the network’s “violent discourse.”

A delegation of the students was able to meet with executives of the network.

"It is the first time that they have agreed to meet with us and the reason they did it was because there were thousands of us protesting outside their offices," said one of the students.

Anti-Chávez demonstrations in Venezuela increase. Two students are killed in Mérida

Jan. 26 - Venezuelan students continued their protest against the Hugo Chávez regime and they plan even more protests for Tuesday.

In the city of Mérida, two students were killed during the protests.

According to the official media, one of the students killed was 15 year old Yosimir Carrillo Torres, a member of Chavez's Socialist Party.

According t Venezuela's Interior Minister, Carrillo Torres was killed by snipers who were firing from nearby buildings.

The other student killed was Marcos Rosales, 28 years old and a member of anti-Chávez political party Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT).

Globovision TV was reporting that the violence in Mérida continued past midnight.

The fantastic market that US investors are missing

Jan. 23 - Can you imagine Bill Gates or Donald Trump having to do this?

Every night in the cabaret of a luxury hotel a European businessman goes from table to table making an unusual request. He approaches the guests and asks that when their bill comes, they let him pay it with the colored vouchers that he has in his pocket. In exchange, they will give him the amount in convertible pesos, which he can then turn into dollars or Euros which he can take far away. This man is a victim of the financial Corralito that prevents many foreign investors from taking their earnings out of the country. So that they don't utterly despair, the Cuban authorities allow them to consume the length and breadth of the Island, paying with pieces of paper lacking any real worth. 

Today the frozen funds drama touches many businessmen who, after the 1995 passage of the Foreign Investment Law, were ready to invest in our economy. They enjoyed the privilege of running a company, completely forbidden to those of us born here. They came to be a new business class in a country where the Revolutionary Offensive of 1968 had confiscated even the chairs of the shoeshine boys. The huge profits they were managing to extract turned them into very attractive targets for the hustlers, rental house landlords, and members of State Security. Many of them were seen in the most expensive restaurants, choosing appetizing dishes while accompanied by very young women. Others, the minority, gave additional gifts to their employees to compensate them for their low salaries in Cuban pesos paid by the State, through which the foreign companies contracted for their labor.

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Andy García: I feel Cuba

A beautiful video narrated by the Cuban born actor

Another video showing the real conditions of the hospitals in Cuba for regular citizens

Video taken at the Hijas de Galicia Maternity Hospital in Havana, on June of this year.

In any civilized country, a hospital like this one would be closed by the health authorities.

Not even an animal hospital would be allowed to remain open under such filthy conditions.

Fidel Castro would have died years ago if he was forced to go to one of these hospitals.

Next time a Castro apologist, like Michael Moore, claims that Cubans receive excellent health care thanks to the Castro brothers, send him this video.

Video of the pro-Castro mob attacking the Ladies in White in Havana on December 10, 2009

Yusnaimi was released on Thursday afternoon. Listen to our interview with her

Dec. 10 - Yusnaimi Jorge Soca, the wife of Dr. Darsi Ferrer, was released on Thursday afternoon, approximately 7 hours after she was arreste by Castro's Gestapo when she tried to participate in a march to commemorate the International Human Rights Day.

Last night, I was a guest on Conversa Cuba Companioni on Blog Talk Radio and was able to reach Yusnaimi at her home in Havana and she explained everything that happened on Thursday.

Listen to the audio:

Postcard from Las Piedras, Cuba

Message from prisoner of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet

Nov. 27 - Prisoner of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet spoke with Radio Martí from the Combinado del Este prison, to announce a new campaign asking the Castro regime to respect the human rights of the Cuban people.

Dr. Biscet is asking Cubans in and out of the island and people all over the world to support this campaign that will begin on December 5 and end on December 10, the International Day of Human Rights.

Dr. Biscet said that he is on cell 1232 on the second floor of  the Combinado del Este prison, a maximum security area where the most violent common criminals are being held.

Because he has to share his cell with prisoners accused of violent crimes, Dr. Biscet considers that his life is at risk.

"I feel good, even though I still suffer from several illnesses that I have managed to keep under control. However, I have lost most of my teeth due to the stress and the lack of  hygiene at the prison," Dr. Biscet told Radio Martí.

Dr. Biscet was sentenced to 25 years in jail for teaching his fellow Cubans about Dr. Martin Luther King and his peaceful protests in support of civil rights in the United States.

Instead of supporting Dr. Biscet, the Congressional Black Caucus, The NAACP and several black artists like Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, support the criminals who are keeping Dr. Biscet in jail.

Cuban Sushi: Lágrimas Negras in Japanese!

An excellent interpretation by a Japanese group of Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears), the famous Cuban song by Trio Matamoros.

Please sign the Internet petition for the freedom of Dr. Darsi Ferrer

Update on Dr. Darsi Ferrer

Oct. 22 - Dr. Darsi Ferrer has been on a hunger strike at the Valle Grande prison for the last 10 days. 

Here are excerpts from an e-mail that I received today from Yusnaimi Jorge Soca, Dr. Ferrer's wife: "Yesterday I was able to receive a call from someone inside the prison who told met that Darsi wanted me to know that he was not feeling well, but that I should not worry because he is strong enough to resist."

"Now, I want you to know that the lawyer who supposedly was going to defend Darsi was actually working for his accusers, because she lied to me when she said that some of the charges had been dropped.
The truth is that the charges are the same as they were on the day that he was arrested: Attempting to buy and illegal possession of two bags of cement.
What the lawyer actually did was make sure that the police had enough time to prepare the charges before he is taken to trial."

Only in a totalitarian Stalinist system like the one in Castro's Cuba, would someone be sent to jail for having two bags of cement to make repairs on his house.

Only in a totalitarian Stalinist system like the one in Castro's Cuba, would you be forced to use a "defense lawyer" who is actually working for the brutal regime that is accusing you.

The "Quivicán Sound Machine"

Can you imagine what this Cuban would be able to do if he had access to all the musical instruments required?

He is much better than all those who performed at Juanes' Concert for Peace.

The last dance

Oct. 6 - An exclusive video obtained by Maria Elvira Live shows former Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage and former Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque dancing and having a good time at the farm of Conrado Hernández, a Cuban national who represented Basque interest in the island.

Both, Laje and Pérez Roque, were purged last March after Cuba's intelligence services found the videos and recorded phone conversations in which both former officials made jokes about the Castro brothers and other prominent members of the Cuban regime.

The recordings had been made by Hernández, who apparently wanted to deliver ’‘evidence’‘ to Spanish intelligence about the way of thinking of the new generation of Cuban leaders and what political changes could be expected.

Hernández was arrested on Feb. 14 at Havana’s international airport as he prepared to leave with his wife to Bilbao, Spain.

Click here to see the video.