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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.
Gross, a Maryland subcontractor for the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has been jailed in
Havana since his Dec. 4 arrest after delivering sophisticated
communications equipment to Jewish groups on the island.
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.
Welcome to the Socialism of the XXI
Century!
El Universal (Spanish)
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 Nińo
has to have a different name, because "El Nińo" was "chosen by the
imperialists" to hide its real causes.
According to Hitcher, El
Nińo 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 Nińo" 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 Nińo" for Baby Jesus. (Nińo 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.
You need to read this!: A Swedish man's account of his latest trip to
Santiago de Cuba
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 Nińo! it is
not the drought! IT IS THE STUPID SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T WORK!
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.
Click hereto see a gallery of photos of the
protests in Mérida taken by one of the participants.
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.
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 onConversa Cuba Companionion 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
In “Slums of Havana” Award -winning
journalist David Adams takes viewers in a journey through the decaying
infrastructure of Havana, and the conditions under which many there are
forced to live due to a shortage of adequate living spaces. Reporte Virtual
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.
Click here to listen to the interview with Dr. Biscet (Spanish)
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
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.
A
video about the difficulties facing Cubans who are trying to keep cool
in Havana during these hot summer months.
In
Spanish with English subtitles.
Thanks
to JRHIAL for the link
An impacting video from Cuba: "Decadencia"
(Decadence)
Sept. 9 - Just 11 days before the so called "Concert for Peace"
by Juanes is supposed to take place, this impacting video has
arrived from Cuba
Click here to see a computerized
Tomography of Chávez's brain Humor Page
On the 15th. Anniversary of "El
Maleconazo"
August 5 - We have received photos that have never
been never published before, of the protests that took place in Havana
on August 5, 1994.
Karel Poort, a reader who lives in Holland, was
visiting Havana for the first time on that date and was able to take
dramatic photos of what happened.
I want to thank Karel for sharing these photos with
us. Click here to see the photos and a video EL MALECONAZO
Dr. Darsi Ferrer could be sentenced to 8
years in jail
July 29 - El Nuevo Herald reports today that the
family of jailed dissident Dr. Darsi Ferrer was informed that he will be
charged with actions against the regime and with receiving stolen
property and could receive a sentence of 8 years in jail.
The "receipt of stolen property" refers to two bags
of cement and two aluminum windows that Darsi had bought and had at his
home, but that according to the police he didn't have the "proper
documentation" for those items.
As I reported previously, when I last spoke with
Darsi on Sunday July 12 after he was released from his first arrest, he
told me that the police had stolen 2 windows, construction material and
some iron bars that he had bought and was planning to use to better
secure his home.
"This is all a show. They first beat him and now they
want to charge him," his wife Yusnaimi Jorge Soca told El Nuevo.
Elizardo Sánchez, President of the Cuban Human Rights
Commission and National Reconciliation, told the paper that the "real
objective was to take Darsi out of circulation, because some of his
actions were beginning to take hold. No one, not even the government,
would believe the stolen property accusations."
"He is being accused of things that are considered
minor and if this really goes to trial and he receives a jail sentence,
it would be a real scandal," Sánchez told El Nuevo.
However, the fascist regime in Cuba is not concerned
about another scandal. For 50 years they have been jailing, torturing
and murdering innocent Cubans, while the whole world looks the other
way.
Darsi is currently on a hunger strike at the Valle
Grande prison near Havana, to protest for his unjust arrest.
Historical document
A reader has sent us a copy of the letter that
advised President Lyndon Johnson of the death of Argentinean mercenary
che Guevara.
The letter is signed by Walt Whitman Rostow, Special
Assistant for National Security Affairs.
Photos of Dr. Darsi Ferrer after the police beating of last Thursday
night
July 14 - Dr. Darsi
Ferrer sent me these photos on Tuesday, taken after his arrest
last week.
They show the marks on
his face and other parts of his body after the beating by Castro's
thugs.
The reason? Dr. Ferrer
and his wife had asked a group of friends to join them for a walk on
Havana's Malecón.
The Cuban regime is
paranoid about any group of people getting together.
They think that the
situation can get out of hand, like it occurred a few years ago in the "Maleconazo."
Some of the photos also
show the damage that the thugs from Cuba's State Security caused in
Darsi's home.
The front door was ripped
apart and two of the window frames in the house were stolen.
There is also a photo of
the Medical Certificate signed by the doctor at the hospital where Darsi
went after he was released..
You can see more
information on my post of last Sunday which appears below.
It was
difficult, but they got there
May 20 - Getting the
Marti t-shirts to Cuba hasn't been easy.
This weekend they finally
reached some of the dissidents who will help distribute them.
Some of the t-shirts were
distributed in Havana and others were sent to Cardenas and Holguin.
I want to thank Dr. Darsi
Ferrer and the Plantados for the great help they have provided me with
this project and I also want to thank all our readers who have
contributed to this effort.
We are having more
t-shirts printed and I'm looking at different ways of getting them to
Cuba.
This photo was taken last
weekend when several of the dissidents got together to receive the first
t-shirts.
From left to right: Dr.
Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, Rafael Leyva Leyva, Carol Susent Cruz and Pedro
Moises Calderin.
Rafael and Carol live in
Holguin and took several of the t-shirts to be distributed there.
We want to thank the
following readers who have contributed to our campaign:
Ruth E. Cooke - Diego
Trinidad III - Daisy Varela - Miguel Beltra - Marco Polo - R. Duval -
Dona Flores - Henry Agueros - Christopher Glick - Elena Borkland -
Odalys Fabregas -
Fernando Dominicis - Zivainla Sahl - Alfredo Zayas - Andy Grubbs - R.
Campanioni - Ana J. Martinez - Liliana Quincoses - Pete Guevara -
Constantino Peńa - Angel Valdes - José A. González-Posada - Francisco A.
Gómez
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Racism in
Castro's Cuba
This documentary about racism
in Castro's Cuba was aired Sunday, April 26, on Channel 41 in Miami.
Dec. 17 - Cuba Facts is an ongoing series of succinct
fact sheets on various topics, including, but not limited to, political
structure, health, economy, education, nutrition, labor, business,
foreign investment, and demographics, published and updated on a regular
basis by the Cuba Transition Project staff at the University of Miami.
Click here to learn the truth about Cuba's Health, Education,
Personal Consumption and much more in pre-Castro Cuba.
Play soccer with Fidel
Grab the SOB and throw him as hard as you can. Move
the mouse and you'll see him fall as if he was on his way to Hell.