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New photos of the corpse-in-chief meeting with the Chinese president

Nov. 18 - The Chinese press published photos today of China's president Hu Jintao with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Castro looks a lot thinner than in previous photographs taken in June of this year.

Jintao visited Cuba before traveling to Venezuela.

Last BTTR plane sold to raise money for Cuban and Haitian hurricane relief

Nov. 18 - The last plane belonging to a famed search-and-rescue group that helped Cuban rafters make it safely across the Florida Straits was sold this month to help the people of Cuba and Haiti recover from a brutal hurricane season.

Brothers to the Rescue founder and President Jose Basulto decided to sell his own plane -- the one that escaped a Cuban government MiG attack in 1996 -- to fund humanitarian aid missions to Cuba after hurricanes Gustav and Ike earlier this year.

A check for $100,000 -- the final price for the twin-engine, 1970s Cessna Skymaster 337H -- will be presented at a news conference Tuesday to the Sisters of Charity in Miami, which regularly sends food and medicines to be distributed by individual travelers, churches and religious groups inside Cuba.

The buyer: Benjamin Leon, founder and chairman of the board of Leon Medical Centers, who flies his own planes. But he didn't buy the plane for travel purposes. ''He has other planes that are better than that one. He certainly doesn't need it,'' Basulto said. ``He is doing it out of the goodness of his heart.'' The Miami Herald

Children of medical defectors become hostages of Fidel and Raul Castro

Nov. 18- Several Cuban doctors who defected after being sent overseas to do slave work for the Cuban regime, are planning to denounce in an international court that the Castro brothers have kidnapped their children and refuse to allow them to leave the island to join them, even though they have received visas from the United States that would allow them to come here.

In Cuba, doctors and other professionals become slaves of the Cuban government after they finish their education and cannot refuse to go to Venezuela, Bolivia, Namibia or any other place where the Cuban regime wants to send them.

The Cuban regime receives hard currency and pays its slaves a small portion of the salary and pockets the difference. And to make sure that they would not leave, the Castro brothers keep their children hostage.

This is what the useful idiots refer to as "free education" in Cuba. It costs you your freedom and it could cost you your own children, but to these hypocrites who defend the brutal regime in Cuba it is "proof" of the great benefits that the Castro "robolution" has brought the Cuban people. The Miami Herald

The Christian Science Monitor: Cuban slaves in Curacao

Nov. 18 - Olivia Ocampo well remembers the night the two Cuban workers came to her house in January 2005. Exhausted and afraid, they had escaped from the premises of the nearby Curaçao Drydock Company, where they said they and some 100 other Cubans had been forced to work 112 hours a week fixing ships for three cents an hour.

Ms. Ocampo approached the police and government authorities in Willemstad, the capital of the Netherlands Antilles, a Dutch dependency in the southern Caribbean, but "they just wanted to push all the trash under the carpet and say that everything is fine," she said.

But last month, a federal judge in Miami ordered the shipyard to pay the workers and one of their colleagues a total of $80 million in damages, after finding it had conspired with the government of Cuba to force them into what was, in effect, slave labor.

"These types of violations are not out of the ordinary for the Cuban government," says Tomas Bilbao of the Cuba Study Group in Washington, which helped the workers bring their suit. "What's surprising is that it happened in a dependency of the Netherlands, a country known for its interest in human rights."

The three men testified that they had been sent to Curaçao to work off Cuba's multimillion-dollar debt to the Curaçao Drydock Company, a private company whose largest shareholder is the government of the Netherlands Antilles. Their passports were seized at the airport and they were rarely allowed to leave the shipyard complex, and only in groups with a minder. They typically worked 15 days in a row and when off-duty had to watch Fidel Castro's videotaped speeches. More

Cubans lack everything, but maintain their good sense of humor

Nov. 17 - Shortages of food and building supplies in Cuba after three hurricanes have brought out some residents' sense of humor about the country's lack of abundance.

Even before Hurricane Paloma unleashed more than 140-mile per hour winds along Cuba's southeastern coast, many Cubans joked they already knew the sequence of the storms that battered the island in the past three months -- first came Gustav, then Ike and now No Hay, Spanish for ``there isn't any.'' No hay plantains. No hay pineapples. No hay sufficient amount of construction supplies to dole out for all those looking to rebuild and repair their homes.

So what exactly is left? ''We still have our sense of humor,'' quipped Carlos Humberto, a silver-haired man in his 60s who rents rooms to tourists. The Miami Herald

Where is the blockade?
Nov. 15 - A U.S.-Cuba trade group said the island has spent a record $536 million for American agriculture goods during the first nine months of this year, surpassing all yearly amounts since 2001.

But the Castro government and its foreign puppets will continue to talk about the US "blockade."

All the $536 million was paid cash in advance, which is the only smart way to conduct business with the Castro brothers.

Shooting Michael Moore extended for a fourth week until November 20!

Video of the devastation caused by Hurricane Paloma in Santa Cruz del Sur

The last known photo of dictator Fidel Castro

Nov. 10 - According to the website of the Russian Orthodox Church, this photo of the Cuban dictator was taken last October 20 during the visit of Vladimir Mijailovich Gundjaev, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad to Cuba.

The Cuban press didn't release any photos when the meeting took place. Russian Orthodox Church

Michael Moore's classmate films a response to `Sicko'

Oct. 24 - Michael Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko, which portrays a group of patients from the United States receiving diligent medical attention at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana, has prompted an unauthorized sequel that premieres Friday in Miami-Dade.

Kevin L. Leffler, an accountant and university professor who grew up in Michigan and went to high school with Moore, embarked on his own cinematic adventure as a counterpoint to his former classmate.

His documentary, Shooting Michael Moore, is an 80-minute analysis of the conduct and premises touted by Moore. In Shooting Michael Moore, Leffler contrasts the scenes of the American patients being attentively cared for in the Havana clinic with images of Cuban citizens seeking care at the same facility being turned away.

The dialogue between the hospital's receptionists and dissident physician Darsi Ferrer and his journalist friend Jaime Leygonier, who request appointments for MRIs, was captured with a hidden camera, and shows a reality far removed from the scenes in Sicko.

Leffler's documentary is currently being shown at the AMC Theater in the Mall of the Americas, 7795 W. Flagler St.

''Moore's behavior is malicious and hypocritical,'' said Leffler, 51. ``For those of us who have followed his footsteps during these years, his falseness about the Cuban health system and the deplorable state of medical services that Cuban nationals receive shouldn't surprise us.'' The Miami Herald

On his first visit, he was able see the real Cuba

An e-mail and a photo from a reader who just returned from his first visit to Castroland: "My God, I have just returned from my first visit to Cuba. I am SO sorry for what Fidel Castro has done to this beautiful country and people. I visited a hospital in his home town of Santiago and could not believe my eyes, it was disgusting. I could never imagine my parents or family having to endure a night in that shithole with cockroaches. What has this man done to this beautiful country and people? I thought S. Africa was bad enough but the real poverty and what I saw defies description, I was truly angered , frustrated and really saddened. F.C should be ashamed of himself. I cannot sleep without thinking of all those poor people left to their own devices, hardly any food, vegetables, fruit. I saw the REAL Cuba as I have a Cuban friend but I am sure most tourists do not even have a clue what is happening there. 20 Oct 2008.T.T"

On October 11 we updated our Find my friend page

Please check to see if someone is looking for you or if you can help any of those who are looking for family and friends

The Telecinco video about child prostitution in Cuba
On October 3, a Spanish TV station, Telecinco, showed a new documentary about child prostitution in Cuba.
The documentary shows that this has become a huge and profitable business in Cuba, involving school teachers, police officers and members of Castro's security agencies.
It is a very sad documentary, showing how Cuban teachers and police officers cooperate with those who visit Cuba for sex tourism.
Girls as young as 12 years old have been raped, according to the documentary.
YouTube originally had this video available, but later took it off
It is now available at the website of Union Liberal Cubana Double click on the video image to make it bigger (In Spanish)

Our readers react to the letter from the Canadian "humanist" Feedback

Obama nation's first "pioneros"?

Any similarities between these children “pioneros” of Obama-nation

And these of Chávez’s Venezuela

And these others singing “Guantanamera, Fidel, Fidel” in Castro's Cuba

Is not pure coincidence, it is scary as Hell!

Children should not be used as instrument of politicians, and much less of dictators or those who are aspiring to become one.

Click here to see a slide presentation with over a hundred photos taken in Cuba after the hurricanes

When you click on the image it tells you where it was taken and during which hurricane

While Cuban mothers cannot find medicines to give their sick children after hurricanes Gustav and Ike....

...... and the dictatorship keeps telling the Cuban people that it cannot supply the medicines or food that they need because of the "American blockade," the Cuban regime keeps offering help wherever they can get free publicity.

Here is a report in today's Kingston Chronicle, a Jamaican Newspaper: "The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba has the honour to inform the decision of the Government of Cuba to supply 2.5 tons of medicines to the Government of Jamaica for the victims of the Tropical Storm Gustav. The humanitarian assistance will be arriving to NMIA in a TU-204 plane, at 08:30 hrs next Wednesday September 24, 2008. The flight shall continue to Haiti at 10:30 hrs of the same day, in order to also carry humanitarian aid to that sister nation."

Now, expect to see a barrage of stupid comments and press articles about the "generosity" of the Cuban regime. Kingston Chronicle

Let's take a break
Let's take a break from all the bad news about the hurricanes that hit Cuba and the world's economic crisis and enjoy this video of Raul Castro made by El Veraz.

Tyrants really hate to see people making fun at them. Click here

Sept 18 - Click here to see photos of Banes after the Hurricane, sent to one of our readers by his relatives in Cuba

Video of the destruction caused by Ike in Holguin and Gibara

More photos showing how the Castro brothers have destroyed one of the world's most beautiful cities

Click here

A look at Havana before the Castro brothers destroyed it

Our good friend, "Myself," has put together two videos and dozens of photos of Havana B.C. Before Castro).

The second video is about "Calle 23" (23rd. Street) also known as "Havana's Broadway."

Click here to see the videos and here to see the photos

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