Added on July 12 - The UMAP (Military Units to Aid Production) were established by the Cuban government in 1965 as a way to eliminate alleged "bourgeois" and "counter-revolutionary" values in the Cuban population.

Anyone who was considered to be "unfit" was sent to these concentration camp, and that included gays, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses and members of other Protestant religions Castro ordered his secret police to round them up and send them to these forced labor camps.

Thousands of Cubans were sent to the UMAP camps between 1965 and 1967.

Click here to see the video

Added on July 12 - A tourist guide who worked primarily with Italians group visiting Cuba, explains how the regime prepares guided tours to prevent foreign tourists from learning the reality of life in Cuba under the Castro brothers.

Click here (In Spanish with English subtitles)

Watch this dramatic 19 minute video by Colombian television network Caracol, about two Cuban doctors, husband and wife, who were sent to Venezuela by the Castro regime and how they were able to escape to Colombia, with the help of Dr. Julio Cesar Alfonso, director of`Solidarity Without Borders.

The couple went first from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to the city of Merida, where a Colombian lady took them into her home.

From there, they were finally able to cross the border into Colombia.  Click here (In Spanish)

Cuba and Cocaine

Watch this FRONTLINE video about the involvement of the Castro regime with drug trafficking Click here

Welcome to the Socialism of the XXI Century

This video was shown on Venezuela's Globovision television network.

It shows a bunch of armed young hoodlums robbing Caracas' drivers in plain daylight.

Chavez's Venezuela is considered one of the world's most dangerous countries. Every weekend dozens of people meet a violent deaths ant the hand of armed thugs. Click here

Anti-Chávez billboard in Alabama makes headlines with a 3 letter word

Cameron Adams made a U-turn to get a picture. "Don't Buy Gas From This Ass! That's what it says right there in yellow and blue and red."

Once you spot the sign at Interstate 65 and County Road 287, it's hard to look away.  It has a picture of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, the logo of Citgo (a subsidiary of Venezuelan oil company) and the sign: "Don't buy gas from this ass."

Mickey Donaldson says he's never seen anything like it. "We just don't see ASS on the side of the road everywhere we go in America."

Right now, you can find it on the side of the road in Bay Minette.

John McCombs owns the entire billboard and says he had some free space so he put up that message. He believes that if people truly understand world events, they will be a little less opposed to that 3 letter word. "He called my president the devil so I don't like him. He's in with Iran's president and he hates America. That's the main thing."

So, the three letter word will remain a pain for some. McCombs says he has no plans to take the sign down and might even move it around the county!

Click here to see a news video about the billboard

Buscándote Habana is a documentary, filmed entirely in Cuba, about the internal migration from the eastern province of Oriente to the capital of Havana.

The "orientales" who move to the capital, without receiving a previous permit from the government, are considered illegal, are not allowed to work and, if found, are deported back to Oriente. 

Click here to see Part I and here for Part II

Two videos about the Castro brothers drug connection

In this video (in Spanish with English subtitles), Cuban armed forces Captain Miguel Ruiz Poo testifies during the trial of General Arnaldo Ochoa, who was accused together with Ruiz Poo, the de la Guardia brothers and others, of participating in drug trafficking without the knowledge of the Castro brothers, something that anyone familiar with the control exercised by Fidel and Raul Castro over the entire island, knows that it cannot be true.

Ruiz Poo tells his accusers that Fidel and Raul Castro were informed of what was going on.

After Ruiz Poo makes the revelation, the state prosecutor, Juan Escalona, asks for "doctors" to come in and help Poo because he had suffered a "nervous break down," and that put an end to his testimony.

Look at the terrorized face of Escalona, the other military judges and some of the defendants, when Ruiz Poo reveals the truth.

Ruiz Poo was related to Reinaldo Ruiz, a Cuban-American who was arrested for drug trafficking in the 1980s. Ruiz had told the DEA that he had complete access to all Cuban airports and that he used to travel to Cuba all the time, where he would meet with Cuban authorities about the drug trafficking operation.

It is believed that when the Castro brothers found out that the Americans knew what was going on, they setup the farce known as the "Causa 1" where those who were ordered by them to conduct the drug operation were accused and sentenced, while Fidel, Raul and others in the high hierarchy of the Cuban regime proclaimed their innocence.

If this trial had taken place in a normal country, the lawyers who were allegedly defending the accused army officers, would have cross examined Ruiz Poo in an effort to prove what he had said, but not in Castro's Cuba. The "defense lawyers" kept their mouth shut for fear of what would happen to them if they did otherwise. Some of the accusers were shot and others, including Ruiz Poo, were sentenced to long jail terms.

And the two who were really in charge of the drug trafficking operation, Fidel and Raul Castro, not only continue to be free but also in control of the island of Cuba and the 11 million poor souls that live there.

Frontline video (Real Player required) in this video, an officer of the US Coast Guard explains how Cuba was allowing small planes piloted by drug traffickers to use Cuba's airport to move their drugs to the United States.

This video was part of a Frontline program on PBS.

Here is  a transcript of the entire program titled Cuba and cocaine and read more about the Ruiz Poo and Reinaldo Ruiz connection. The video mentioned above is also available on that page.

A Latin American president who was not afraid of Castro

Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez  was the president of El Salvador from 1999 until 2004 and a member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He majored in political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts, United States, and received a Master's in philosophy at World University. Flores then continued his education at Harvard University and at Oxford University in Great Britain.

During the 10th. Ibero-American Summit which took place in Panama in November of 2000, Castro, the only dictator that participated in that summit, accused Flores of harboring "terrorists" who wanted to kill him. Castro was accustomed to tell all kind of lies and make accusations during those summits and the Latin American presidents who were present never had the guts to answer back.

But Flores was different, he accused Castro of being responsible for the deaths of "thousands of Salvadorian citizens," of training guerrillas to try to overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America and of protecting terrorists. Look at Castro's face while Flores was answering him. Castro must have suffered his first intestinal crisis on that day.  Click here to see the video (In Spanish)

Look at this video

In April of 1996, when Hugo Chávez was in the opposition, he was asking the Venezuelan people to take to the streets and to begin a campaign of civil disobedience, because, as Chávez said then, "the power belongs to the people."

But now that Chávez is in power and he wants to become a totalitarian ruler like his Cuban mentor, he threatens the Venezuelan people who want to exercise their right to protest against his attempt to become Venezuela's ruler for life.

While in 1996 he was asking Venezuelan citizens to take to the streets to force the government to call for a referendum, he now sends his armed thugs to fire against young students who want to march in defense of free expression. This is the hypocrisy of dictators like Chávez and Castro. They want one set of rules for them, and another very different for everyone else.

Also, take notice of how skinny Hugo was 11 years ago . Since then, he must have gained at least 50 pounds. It must be because of his hard work in defense of Venezuela's poor and oppressed masses.

Click here to see the video (In Spanish)

Hugo Chávez is a liar, just like his master in Cuba

On January 8, 1958, one year before gaining power, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro told Enrique Meneses, a journalist for the French newspaper Le Figaro, that he was happy to hear that Dr. Manuel Urrutia was willing to become the provisional president of Cuba and that he himself had "no political aspirations."

Once in power, Castro named himself president for life and his brother Raul as his successor.

Almost 41 years later, on December 5 of 1998, one day before wining his first election, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez told UNIVISON reporter Jorge Ramos that he would relinquish power after 5 years; that he would not close any private TV stations because one current government TV station was enough and that no private company would be nationalized.

As we now know, Chávez has assumed total power; has closed private station Radio Caracas Television, is threatening to do the same thing to Globovision and has ordered the nationalization of several of Venezuela's most important industries.

Chávez also told Ramos that the regime in Cuba was a dictatorship, but he now wants to copy the same brutal system in Venezuela.

Click here to see the Chávez interview (In Spanish)

Fidel Castro's apocalyptic dreams

In this video, Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, tells of a conversation he had with Castro in Havana and how the Cuban dictator told him that he had asked Khrushchev to launch a nuclear attack against the United States, even though this would have caused millions of deaths in this country and the complete destruction of the island of Cuba.

This is the madman that has been ruling Cuba for almost 48 years and that, incredibly enough, still finds support among many people in this country. Click here

Cuba's great transportation system after 48 years of "rob-olution"

Video #1 get inside the "camello" anyway that you can

Video #2 the Ox-mobile

Che Guevara: Anatomía de un Mito

Protest in front of the Cuban embassy in Madrid

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Evo gets upset during a Jorge Ramos interview

The hypocrite Evo Morales tells Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos that "Castro is a democrat." When Ramos asks him if it is not hypocritical for a person like him, who benefited from a free election in his own country, to be in favor of denying the Cuban people the same right, Evo tells Ramos to stop asking him questions about Cuba and concentrate only in Bolivia. When Ramos asked him a tough question about Bolivia, the coward Morales got up and left in the middle of the interview. No wonder all these hypocrites cannot stand a free press!

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Hasta cuando by Rey Vikingo Click here

Cuban artists support the "I don't cooperate with the dictatorship" campaign

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Video of the demonstration in favor of The Ladies in White

At 12.00 local time on March 16, a delegation of activists and leaders of the Nonviolent Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. After a farce trial they were sentenced to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons. Click here

(H/T to Enrique for the link)

The contamination of the Almendares River

Tens of thousands of dead fish floating on the Almendares River Click here

Cuba la Isla del Peso

The sad life of the Cubans who don't have access to euros or dollars Click here

The rats below

The mighty power of a corporation influences the U.S. government and brings tragedy to an innocent child and everyone else in the way - using the Gold Rule of power, money and greed.

This documentary is the behind-the-scenes look at the shocking process and truly amazing players who came together to get a child placed into the hands of Fidel Castro. This is the story and participants the U.S. media cooperated to keep hidden.  Click here to see a 5 minute trailer

The complete video is available at www.CubaCollectibles.com under VIDEOS-DVD DOCUMENTALES

El unico soy yo

A video about Hugo Chavez's march toward The Totalitarism of the XXI Century (In Spanish)

The education  farce

How Cuban children are indoctrinated when they attend school

Part I  Part II

Cuba before Castro

Part I   Part II

Holiday Hell in Cuba: The video

Click here (Windows Media Player Required) to see the video taken by this English family who is now suing Thomas Cook after their dream trip to Cuba became the holiday from hell.

Elaine Old, 44, claims their luxury hotel made the family sick. She arrived at the resort only to find dirty beds, her toilet overflowing with human waste and food covered in flies.

Just three days into the four-star luxury break at the Brisas Guardalavaca Hotel, Holguin, Elaine and her family were left ill with a serious stomach bug. But things turned from bad to worse when their elderly mother, Dorothy, 76, was left needing emergency hospital treatment after she slipped on the wet hotel floor and broke her leg.

Mrs Old, of Ryhope, said: "I've never seen anything like it. The minute we walked into our rooms, the smell just hit us in the face. "We spent 13 days eating chips, egg and toast because they were the only things cooked in front of us. "Just before we left mum fell in the room because the floor was flooded. "She had a hairline fracture to her knee and was taken to hospital in a mini bus." More

Willy Chirino & Celia Cruz

Cuba que lindo son tus paisajes

Gloria Estefan "Cuba Libre" Televisión Española Special

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The truth about Cuba (La verdad de Cuba) Click here

The wife of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet showing a model of the cell where he is being held

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Fotos de Familia  Click here

How Castro lied to and betrayed the Cuban people: Paradise Betrayed

Metamorphosis of a dictator: Castro through the years

A video with many of the photos of The Real Cuba

Spain: Medicines for Castro but not for a Cuban mother whose son is dying of leukemia

While the Spanish government responded immediately at the request of medicines to treat Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, it has not responded the same way at the request of medicines for Cuban citizens. Noticiero Cuba, in Spain, has this video of a Cuban mother requesting medicines for her son who has leukemia and needs certain drugs that she has been unable to obtain in Cuba.

So far, the Spanish government has not responded to this mother's request.

Click here to watch the video (In Spanish courtesy of Noticiero Cuba)

La 'chivichana": Another great achievement of the Cuban Revolution

Forty-eight years after Castro left the Sierra Maestra mountains to become Cuba's absolute ruler; the owner of everything, and one of the world's richest persons, the poor people who live near the Sierra Maestra have invented the "chivichana" as a new mode of transportation.

What used to be a toy, is now used as an ambulance in case of emergencies. The chivichana is used by the local doctor to get to the hospital; for pregnant women to reach a hospital and deliver their babies; and for transporting all kind of merchandise. Remember when Castro promised the "guajiros" that they were going to have tractors with air conditioners? Well, now they have to say "Gracias Fidel" for the chivichana.

Click here to see la chivichana

"Nobody Listened"

Our friend Marena, administrator of the forum "Basta de Opresión" (Stop the Oppression), has posted an old but very powerful video that should be seen by anyone who is interested in knowing the reality of the so called 'Cuban Revolution.'
It includes interviews with several Cubans who spent more than 20 years in Castro's prisons; with the mother of Pedro Luis Boitel, an anti-Batista student leader who was later sent to jail by Castro and who died during a hunger strike; learn how Cubans are forced to participate in the regime's rallies; watch the beatings of innocent Cubans who wanted to leave through the Mariel boatlift and much more. Some parts are in English and others in Spanish with English subtitles.

Click here and then press on the arrow '>' to start the video

The real Cuba 2006: Click here

The lies of Castro: Click here

'Mecaniqueros' a video that shows what Cubans have to do in order to survive

'Mecaniqueros' is a French television production which shows what Cubans are doing to survive under the brutal regime that has been ruling the island for almost 50 years. The title comes from "mecanico", Spanish for "mechanic," and is a reference to those people in Cuba who can fix anything or, like it is shown on the video, create a light switch from an empty toothpaste tube and an empty spray can.
The 52-minute video also shows how the regime tries to prevent the Cuban people from earning any extra money. Castro's officials enter the homes unannounced and give heavy fines to any Cuban who has created a small business to earn a little extra money to supplement the meager slave salaries that they receive.
The video is in Spanish. Click here to see it

"Castro's Secrets"

Our friends at "Basta de Opresión" have posted the entire video "Los Secretos de Castro" based on interviews with several high officials of the Castro regime who later defected. In the video they discuss many of the illegal activities conducted under the direction of the Cuban dictator, including drug trafficking.

Click here to see the video (In Spanish)

For the first time on the Internet

Our friends at "Basta de Opresión" have posted the trial of Cuban General Arnaldo Ochoa, who was betrayed by the Castro brothers in 1989 and executed together with other high officers of Cuba's armed forces.

Ochoa  participated in the guerrilla war against Batista and later became a high ranking member of Castro's armed forces and of the Communist Party. Between 1967 and 1969, Ochoa was sent by Castro to train rebels in the Congo and later took part in an expedition into Venezuela to try to overthrow the democratically elected government of that country.

In 1975, Ochoa was sent to fight in a critical campaign against the FNLA in Angola. In 1977 he was named commander of Cuban Expeditionary Forces in Ethiopia under the command of Soviet General Petrov.

In 1980, Ochoa was awarded the title "Hero of the Revolution" by Castro.

Ochoa, together with two other close confidants of the Cuban dictator, Tony and Patricio de la Guardia, were later accused by Castro of being involved in drug trafficking and other illegal activities without his knowledge. Anyone who knows how Castro has ruled Cuba for the last 48 years knows it is impossible to do most of the things that Ochoa and the de la Guardia twin brothers were accused of doing, unless they had the approval of Castro and his brother Raul.

It is said that after a lengthy investigation, Washington was ready to come up with an indictment of the Castro brothers for drug trafficking. Someone informed Castro of what the Americans were planning and he came out with the farce that Ochoa and the others were doing this without his knowledge.

Here is the link to a 1991 Frontline program: Cuba and Cocaine 

Relatives and associates of some of the men who were executed have said that Fidel Castro visited Ochoa and the other people accused, while they were being held in jail before the trial began, and promised them that if they testified that everything that they did had been done on their own and without his knowledge and that of the Cuban regime, their lives would be spared and they would be later set free.

They went along, but as always happens with anyone who trusts the Cuban dictator, they were betrayed and Ochoa and several of the others, including one of the de la Guardia twins, were executed. The others were sent to jail.

Click here here to watch the video of the Ochoa trial. It is in English and some parts are in Spanish with English subtitles. Scroll to the middle of the page and click the "Play" button under each of the large five images.

Thanks to Lenny, of "Basta de Opresión," for the link

A video for Gore Vidal and other "liberals" in love with Cuba's fascist dictator

Our friends at "Basta de Opresion" have posted the documentary by Orlando Jimenez Leal and Nelson Almendros, "Improper Conduct," which should be seen by useful idiots like Gore Vidal who go to Cuba to criticize the United States, but ignoring what the Castro regime has been doing to the Cuban people for the last 48 years.

If they had been born in Cuba, people like Gore Vidal and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, another Castro lover, would have been sent to the labor camps at UMAP. Why? Because the fascist regime considered that all writers were homosexuals and that all homosexuals should be sent to do hard labor in order to "become men."

But writers were not the only ones who were considered to be "antisocial." Jehovah Witnesses, priests, hippies who had long hair or listened to music by Carlos Santana or the Beatles, were sent to the UMAP.  But today, you see useful idiot Carlos Santana wearing a che Guevara t-shirt, and the Cuban regime has even placed a John Lennon statue at a Havana park, for tourists to take pictures showing how "cool and fascinating" Havana is.   This documentary should be seen by everyone who honestly wants to know what the Hitler of the Caribbean has done to the Cuban people.

Click here to see the video