Crossing the Hard Line

As we reported yesterday, El Foro Patriotico Cubano y la Asamblea para la Sociedad Civil Martha Beatriz Roque’s organization in Cuba , signed a document to work together to achieve a free Cuba.

The Miami Herald’s headline:

DEMOCRACY IN CUBA
Cuban exiles, dissidents sign plan
Hard-line Cuban exile organizations worked with dissident groups in Cuba to implement a democracy action plan.

Hard Line? So I read further . The “hard line” refers to those exile groups that refuse to negotiate with the current tyrannical regime in Cuba. I thought they were referring to Alpha 66, Omega 7 and Commandoes F-4.

The Five Point Plan:

• Freedom for all political prisoners and an end to harassment of all kinds to internal
opposition.

• Installment of a transition government that establishes democracy in Cuba, that respects human rights and offers the following freedoms: economic, press, religion, to associate, to assemble and to protest peacefully.

• Establishment of a constituent assembly that provides a new constitution submitted to a popular vote.

• Recognition of political parties and multiparty elections.

• Reestablishment of the rule of law, making sure that ``every Cuban is protected
from whimsical decisions that could lead to social discontent"


English Article Here

Notice the Nuevo Herald Article bt the same reporter doesn’t have the “linea dura” qualifier in the headline.

Spanish Here

A Different Approach , The Chech's in the Mail

Czech-Cuba trade increases despite diplomatic tension

As most Cuban-Americans know, the formerly communist Czech Republic has been at odds with the Communist Cuban regime because of the political pressure it has exerted on the Cuban government to move towards a democratic model and to observe human rights.

Rather than cut its economic ties to Cuba, dpa, the Grman Pres Agency reports that, the Czech Republic has increased its exports to Cuba by 57% last year.

The Chech Republic exports motorcycle parts milk products, beer and power-plant supplies to Cuba in exchange for rum and cigars.

Article Here

Here we go Again?

UPDATE: 4 dead, just heard on the Radio that the plane was registered to a Yankee Pitcher?!?! Cory Lidle who was supposed to be piloting it.

Small Aircraft Crashes Into NYC High-Rise
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

NEW YORK — A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, raining down debris on Manhattan and unleashing what witnesses reported was a gigantic fireball, police said.
The aircraft struck the 20th floor of a building on East 72nd Street, said Fire Department spokeswoman Emily Rahimi. Witnesses said the crash caused a loud noise, and burning and falling debris was seen. Flames were seen shooting out of the windows.

Fox news is reporting 2 are dead. People are trapped on the 39-40th floors

The address of the building is 524 E. 72nd Street — a 50-story condominium tower built in 1986 and located nearby Sotheby's Auction House. It has 183 apartments, many of which sell for more than $1 million.

PLAN PARA RESTABLECER LA DEMOCRACIA EN CUBA

De la Nueva Cuba:

La verdad es que Marta Beatriz Roque es una leona.

El Foro Patriótico Cubano y la Asamblea para desarrollar la sociedad civil en Cuba han presentado a legisladores estadounidenses un plan para restablecer la democracia en Cuba. El proyecto contempla la instauración de un Gobierno de transición, la convocatoria a elecciones pluripartidistas, la libertad incondicional de los presos políticos y el fin del "hostigamiento de todo tipo a la oposición interna". Los grupos de exiliados piden, además, el establecimiento de una Asamblea o Congreso constituyente que permita promulgar una nueva Constitución tras celebrar un referéndum popular.

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View from a different window

Those of us who have been personally affected by the tyrant of Havana will always find it difficult to look at the effect his regime has had on the world and how the world sees Cuba objectively.

Most outsiders that talk to Cubans seem to walk away thinking we're obssessed, dillusional paranaoid and extreme as they change the subject and give you "the smile".

I found an article on Mercopress Alan Stoga, president of Zemi Communications, that gives an interesting perspective on the tyrant.

An excerpt:

Fidel's real significance is that he put Cuba, a speck of a country with no natural resources, onto the global geopolitical map and kept it there for five decades with nothing more than the strength of his own will. No one else has accomplished anything remotely similar in the modern era.

It does not matter if Raul Castro holds onto power, is succeeded by a junta or even — eventually — by a democratically elected government. Cuba's significance in global and regional politics will die with Fidel.

"A speck of a country": ouch!

"nothing more than the strength of his own will"--and all that he stole form the Cuban people and multinational corporations and the bizillion dollars the soviets and others dumped into their communist beachhead?

Well , no, this guy isn't really auditioning for a job at the Herald. He's historically challanged but makes some interesting geopolitical observations.

Helms Burton Task Force

MIAMI -- The Bush administration announced the formation of a new law enforcement task force that will finally start putting some teeth into enforcing the violations of trade and travel s imposed by the U.S. on Cuba. The task force plans on prosecuting violators that do business with Cuba in violation of regulations that govern commercial business, money laundering and illegal travel.

The associated press theorizes that the revived efforts to enforce existing US laws are merely a way for the Bush administration to buy the Cuban-American vote:

“it also comes about a month before U.S. elections where Cuban-American voters in South Florida _ most of them fervently anti-Castro _ form an important Republican Party constituency.”

The Miami Herald hasn’t weighed in on this “controversy” yet, but my guess is that in keeping with its tradition of ethical journalistic practices and canine “metaphors” that it will say that the republican party is either throwing those yappy Chihuahuas a bone to keep them quiet or throwing those rabid right wing dogs some raw meat.

I would suggest to the GOP, that if they wanted to buy the Cuban American vote, that they get rid of the wet/dry foot policy, or better yet SEND A MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE INTO HAVANA! But I digress.

U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta is quoted as saying that this time ``we intend to enforce these laws aggressively.'' And ``The purpose of the sanctions is to isolate the Castro regime economically and deprive the Castro regime of the U.S. dollars it so desperately seeks ''

The task force consists of an amalgamation of agents from the FBI, Treasury, Homeland Security and Commerce Departments. It was not clear if ALPHA 66 or the Commandos F-4 were providing any logistics.

The Helms-Burton Law dictates that the sanctions on Cuba have to stay in place until multiparty Cuban elections are planned, political prisoners are released and both Castro brothers are out of power or Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.

10 de Octubre

Hoy, 10 de octubre de 2006 se conmemora El Grito de Yara, El empezar de la guerra de independencia cubana.

Hoy, 10 de octubre de 2006, la Asociación de Veteranos Cubanos-Americanos llaman a los miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias a “propiciar un cambio total en Cuba, dándole la oportunidad al pueblo a que pueda elegir su propio destino mediante elecciones libres y multipartidistas, supervisadas por organismos internacionales”

Esta no es la primera llamada a los militares profesionales en Cuba para que hagan lo que es mejor por La Patria y por el pueblo cubano. Hasta funcionarios de EE.UU. han hecho la misma llamada y han reiterado que los Miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Cubanas son reconocidos como profesionales disciplinados que deben proteger al pueblo cubano.

Sin las fuerzas armadas, la tiranía cubana no puede hacer su voluntad y mantener al pueblo cubano sumiso y cautivó. Así es, que me uno a esta llamada a los miembros de las Fuerzas Revolucionarias Cubanas para que cumplan su deber de honor a La Patria. También llamo a los militares profesionales a que se acuerden de que su primer beber es el de proteger al pueblo cubano y a La Patria.

El futuro de La Patria esta en las manos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba no en la elite tiranía. Usen su poder para un nuevo amanecer.

¡Que Viva Cuba Libre!

Via La Nueva Cuba :

Nosotros, los directores y miembros de la Asociación de Veteranos Cubano-Americanos (CAVA), ex-miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas de los Estados Unidos, queremos dirigirnos a ustedes, miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba (FAR), y del Ministerio del Interior (MININT) conscientes de que estamos viviendo un momento histórico para nuestro pueblo, del que tanto ustedes como nosotros formamos parte.

Han pasado ya mas de quince años del derrumbe del comunismo en la ex-Unión Soviética y en los
países de la Europa Oriental, provocado por el fracaso de una doctrina por la cual dieron su vida tantos cubanos que fueron a morir a tierras extrañas, sin obtener nada como recompensa por sus sacrificios. Ni uno solo de esos pueblos ha optado por reinstaurar un sistema que solo les trajo miseria y opresión.

Sin embargo, continúan siendo ustedes el principal soporte de un régimen compuesto por una elite que pretende ignorar las lecciones de la historia y perpetuarse en el poder a costa de los continuados sufrimientos de nuestro pueblo, victima, a pesar de la propaganda del régimen que pretende
demostrar lo contrario, de la escasez de alimentos, de viviendas y de tratamiento medico adecuado, además de negárseles las libertades mas fundamentales garantizadas por la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, de la cual Cuba es signataria.

Queremos también recordarles que son ustedes los que tienen que encarar la triste realidad de que los extranjeros tengan mas derechos en Cuba que los propios cubanos, teniendo prioridad en la imentación, el transporte, las playas, y el disfrute de todas las otras ventajas que nuestro país les brinda y que sin
embargo, tanto a ustedes como a sus familias se les niega. Ustedes, que fueron al África supuestamente a defender el derecho de los africanos a librarse del ignominioso sistema de "apartheid" y el traerle la libertad a esos pueblos, Como pueden sin embargo apoyar la discriminación y la falta de libertades de su propio pueblo ?

La elite que los manipula para defender sus prebendas les habla del futuro, y ese futuro nunca llego, viviendo ustedes ahora el resultado de la política de un régimen parasitario y corrupto, que ha
destruido nuestra economía, y lo que es peor, nuestros valores morales y éticos.

Hermanos oficiales, clases y soldados de las FAR y del MININT: este es un momento histórico para propiciar un cambio total en Cuba, dándole la oportunidad al pueblo a que pueda elegir su propio destino mediante elecciones libres y multipartidistas, supervisadas por organismos internacionales.

Ustedes, debido a la preparación y disciplina, constituyen probablemente el sector que mas se beneficie de una economía de mercado, que les permita participar en la economía del país, no solamente para el beneficio de unos pocos como ocurre ahora, sino para llevar el bienestar a sus padres, sus esposas y a sus hijos.

La hora de las decisiones ha llegado, y las decisiones son bien simples:

O continúan apoyando a un sistema corrupto que esta en sus etapas finales y que se enfrenta a los legítimos deseos del cubano "de a pie", o se convierten en el elemento del cambio que exige nuestro pueblo, y que se puede resumir en una palabra: Libertad.

Que sus hijos no tengan algún día a mirarles a los ojos y culparlos de sus penurias. Hermanos, no mas promesas vacías...El futuro es ahora.

No vamos a osar el decirles como o cuando deben actuar, ya que cada uno de ustedes tiene que tomar esa decisión de carácter personal. Lo que si queremos decirles es que pueden contar con el apoyo de nuestra organización en el momento en que acepten la premisa, de que las Fuerzas Armadas
de la Republica de Cuba deben su lealtad a su pueblo, y no a un grupo de hombres, y puedan solicitar nuestra ayuda desinteresada.

La Patria les reclama su actuación.

Que Dios los ilumine para que tomen la decisión correcta.

Por la Junta de Directores y los miembros de la Asociación de Veteranos Cubano-Americanos (CAVA),


Rafael
G. Crespo

Presidente

Real Americans

From The Miami Herald:

ALASKA
Some Alaskans prefer cold to Chávez's oil

Many Alaskans have refused free heating oil from the Venezuelan government as a sign of their patriotism.

In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the
lightly insulated plywood homes, many villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the nation's highest.

And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president ``the devil.''

and this gem of a quote:

Dimitri Philemonof, president and chief executive of the association, said accepting the aid would be ''compromising ourselves.'' ''I think we have some duty to our country, and I think it's loyalty,'' he said.

Article Here

Hatuey would be proud.

Castro's Anti-Semitism Cover-up

Things are status quo on the lwestern front as the left looks the other way on Castro's anti-semetic ways, but Myles Cantor at Front Page Magazine.com blows Castro's cover in two articles. Wether you are a Jewban or a friend of Israel, these exposes are a must read:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Cuban Shame

It is proper to condemn anti-Zionism in countries like Venezuela that support Iran’s neo-Nazi regime. It is also very strange that the Wiesenthal Center has been conspicuously silent about Latin America’s most anti-Zionist country that praises Hezbollah and Iran: Cuba.

Perhaps ignorance explains the Wiesenthal Center’s silence, though the Castro regime has flagrantly demonized Israel for decades and supported its enemies. One would think an organization that monitors Latin America might have noticed this.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23744

The New California?

It seems that Cuban-born Australian journalist, writer, blogger and freedom fighter Luis M. Garcia has his work cut out for him down under. The South Australian teacher's union journal believes that the Cuban education model would be an appropriate model for Australia to follow. Crikey!

According to The Australian, the AEU journal praised the class sizes, the free education and the well trained teachers of Cuba's educational system as well as raving about the 100% literacy rate.

Apparently, the Miami Mafia is also well known in Australia because Dan Murphy the journal’s editor has this to say :

"It (the article) doesn't shirk away from other issues like requiring teachers to reinforce communist values. But it's not a piece of propaganda out of Miami; it overs other facts you don't strictly get."

According to the Australian, Murphy’s research into the Cuban educational system consisted of a meeting Gilda Chacon, a trade union official from the Cuban Federation of Workers. She visited Adelaide in July a guest of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union where Murphy was previously employed. But its not a piece of propaganda out of Havana.

In a letter to the editor in the same journal a gentleman by the name of Craig Greer had this to say:

"If Cuba is a dictatorship, then I'm ready to be dictated to."

The Australian, in an effort to inject some journalistic sanity in the article interviewed fellow blogger Luis M. Garcia for the article. He added the following:

Cuba's education system was "heavily politicised" and not an example Australia should follow.

"The purpose of education (in Cuba) is not just to teach how to read and write and understand complex issues but essentially it has become a defender of the Castro regime,"

The Australian Pioneers?...I hope not!

Article Here
Garcia’s Highly Recommended Blog Here

Am sorry con esquiusmi

Después de la puercada de Tom Fiedler en llamarnos “Chihuahuas”, Yo como muchos Cubanos le mande un correo electrónico a la compañía McClatchy.

Hoy recibí una contesta como estoy seguro que también recibió todo el que respondió al llamado de nuestro honor a pedir por la cabeza de Fiedler.

La carta es un “am sorry con esquiusmi”.

La carta empieza asi:

As the new owners of The Miami Herald, we want to join in the apologies that have been extended for mistakes and missteps there, and to ask you to give us the time and opportunity to show what our ownership will mean.

Vaya, tirándole el muerto a Knight Ridder el Viejo dueño del Herald.

En si, no es nada que trae mucha esperanza de que al fin el Herald empiece a respetar a nuestra comunidad.

Pero, añadiendo la carta a lo que escribió Pablo Alfonso en el nuevo Herald:

“en horas de la tarde del viernes el presidente y editor de Miami Herald Media Company, David Landsberg, nos recibió en su despacho para conversar del tema. Asistimos el colega Wilfredo Cancio y yo. Estaban presentes en la conversación Vanaver y Beatty.

Aceptamos el compromiso de estos ejecutivos, su palabra de honor, de que en los días por venir esas necesarias aclaraciones serían claramente establecidas. Nos pidieron unas semanas, un voto de confianza.”

Pueda ser que MaClatchy tenga toda la intención de empezar a arreglar el daño que El Herald le hizo a los periodistas Cubanos y al exilio. Vamos también a ver si aclara por que Corral publico el absurdo y calumnioso articulo en primer lugar.

Veremos…….

From USA Today:

Fidel Castro 'is not dying,' brother says

HAVANA (AP) — According to the AP, Raul Castro, acting Cuban “President”, says that his brother, Fidel Castro, Cuban Tyrant and colossal failure, is not dying, but recovering from an illness.

The AP quotes Raul Castro as saying: "He is not dying like some of the press in Miami is saying. "He is constantly getting better."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-10-08-cuba-castro_x.htm

Raul made his remarks at the closing of the Children’s Congress for Pioneers of the Revolution or the CastroYugend.

With the careless joy and optimism typically expressed by school children worldwide the Pioneers issued the following statement:

"To Bush and his followers, we say stop being foolish, and that they are truly a bunch of cockroaches," "Don't mess with us, because the pioneers are also ready to defend the Revolution."

How sweet!

Anyway, I don’t know what “Miami Press” Raul Castro reads, unless he’s going over to Babalu which is a blog published out of Miami by an architect. The “Miami Press” that I read (as I hold my nose) spends most of its time attacking the “cockroaches”. Only here, in the United States, people are much too sophisticated to resort to entomological name-calling to insult their ideological opponents like an immature ten-year old member of the Pioneers for the Revolution would. The Miami Press prefers canine “metaphors” to make its point. Cubans here are called rabid dogs and Chihuahuas.(hyenas and jackals may follow in subsequent editorials)

The only “press” report that has suggested that the tyrant is on his last legs, (as an aside, Cubans would say: en sus ultimas afietadas or last shaves, but that wouldn’t apply to the tyrant because he has a beard-just digressing), came from Time. They reported he may have terminal cancer and thus would not return to power. Way to go out on a limb there!

Interestingly, Raul Castro, (ok, I hate having to type his whole name out so, henceforth, Raul Castro is ReCastro) does not deny the report that Castro has cancer. ReCastro merely denies that he is dying. That, in Cuban Newspeak, means that the tyrant does indeed have cancer, but that his death is not imminent. ReCastro doesn’t deny the other important part of the story either. According to the Time piece, Castro would not return to power because of his illness. ReCastro can only say that the tyrant has a phone next to his bed and that he uses it more and more each day. That’s a telling statement. Again, in totalitarian Cuban Newspeak, that means the gig is up for the tyrant.

Noticia Urgente

La revista semanal estadounidense Time reporta de que según oficiales del gobierno de EE.UU. El dictador cubano Fidel Castro Ruz, 80, sufre de un cáncer terminal y de que no volverá al poder.

En otras noticias, la revista semanal Newsweek ha declarado de que se ha descubierto un mar entre España y África. Fuentes en ambas costas informan de que puede ser el mítico Mar Mediterráneo.

Update: Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother and annointed heir to run the Cuban Plantation/Concentration Camp is reported as saying that his brother is not dying.

In related news: Val Prieto at the Babalu blog tramautized a bunch of his readers on Friday by stating the obvious. Mr. Prieto callously posted that the Cuban Tyrant might be dying. The news upset some of Castro's more enlightened and sensitive Cuban-American fans who staged a weekend long whine-and-sobathon over at Babalu. ...moron this later.....

Update:whine-and-sobathon still going on.

Stealth Cessnas Evade Cuban Defenses

A $78,000 Cessna 172 was stolen from an airport in Marathon, FL (that’s in the Florida Keys).

Now, this plane turned up a few days (Friday) later in Veradera, Cuba (no clue where this is and I'm too lazy to open up google earth)after having landed there with "mechanical problems".

But, the following Wednesday the Cuban government said that there was nothing wrong with the plane. The plane was allegedly stolen (hey, innocent until proven guilty unless you’re last name is posada) by some dude named Randall Franklin who calls himself Feil, but everyone knows him as Randy.

Now I’m just wondering. Was that a stealth Cessna? Didn’t the crack Aerofueurza Rebelde or whatever goofy but very official sounding name they call themselves notice that a plane straight out of the belly of the Empire ruled by the Devil Himself was landing in their country?!?

What kind of totalitarians are these? Totallycluelessterians? This is really getting bizarre. Go fast boats pick up escaping Cubans at will, Cessnas land in Veradera. Next thing you know, people are gonna catch on that they’re clueless and start ignoring them. Take to streets and demand toilet paper.

Yes, toilet paper. There is no toilet paper in Cuba. After 47 years of promises and programs and mobilizations and trainings and demonstrations and 7 hour speeches, there still isn’t any toilet paper!

Maybe the Cessna pilot was in reality a CIA mercenary toilet paper smuggler who was on a secret mission to corrupt the Cuban youth with some decadent toilet paper?

Update: El Zorro informs me that toilet paper is available "sometimes" but that it is one ply.

Prejuicios

¡Hay La Vida!

Cuando me mude para el sur de la Florida después de titubear en el frió norteño por mas de 30 anos, (coño, me cago en su madre, ¿como se pone una puñetera “ñ” sin tener que insertar un símbolo?), me encontré con El Nuevo Heráld. Sin leerlo me reí de ese periódico. En mi arrogancia de cubano americanizado solamente pensé que este “periodiquito” no era más que una pobre imitación del Heráld. Y nunca lo abrí. Para un refugiado sofisticado que hablaba el ingles mejor que la mayoría de los americanos, pensé que seria perder el tiempo en obtener las mismas noticias mal trasladadas.

Cuando empecé a escribir en este blog y especialmente cuando paso lo que paso en El Heráld/Nuevo Heráld., me encontré pasando mas tiempo visitando y refiriéndome a la edición electrónica del Nuevo Heráld. Y me he dado cuenta que me cague fuera del tibor con esta publicación. El Nuevo Heráld. No es como el Heráld., es mucho mejor. Los reportajes, los periodistas son tremendos. Son del calibre de los reportajes que acostumbro de leer en El Wall Street Journal, no el Heráld. o El Sentinnel.

Así que es con cierto orgullo que le digo adiós a mis prejuicios y arrogancia contra la prensa que se publica en español

Aqui no pasa Na

La postura del régimen es “Aquí no ha pasado nada” un Bluff

Después que la administración de George Bush publicó el Plan de acción post Castro, sacaron al viejo del poder para comprobarles a los yanquis y a la Mafia de Miami de que en Cuba manda Castro aunque Castro no este mandando.

Si los estadounidenses no hubiesen anunciado tal plan, es probable de que el régimen Cubano nunca hubiese anunciado la enfermedad del tirano. La sucesión tiránica en Cuba fue solamente una reacción a la acción Americana. Un movimiento de fichas. ¿Pero, de quien es tablero?

La actual tiranía que gobierna, solamente son ladrones sin vergüenza. Todos se jiné terrean por el dollar. Por favor, pónganse a pensar. Si una lancha rápida puede ir a Cuba a recoger a gente que pagan por escaparse, quiere decir que las defensas guarda costa ya no sirven o que alguien se vendió.

Si un militar se vende para dejar a los cubanos que escapen, quiere decir que también se le venden a la CIA. La CIA tiene mucho dinero a su disposición. El hombre nuevo guevarista es materialista y oportunista y tiene su precio. Estas lanchas rápidas que sacan a cubanos de Cuba, también llevan un cargo a Cuba.

El plan post Castro de Bush se pondrá en efecto tras la muerte del tirano. Por eso es se han dado un golpe de estado profiláctico, pero les sigue el pánico de lo que va a pasar cuando Castro estire la pata. Vamos a ver que ficha mueven los dueños del tablero.

Communist Morons in Moron

Imagine if you will being stuck in Moron .Imagine being held prisoner there with virtually no hope of getting out. Imagine having a child with diabetes and not being able to get the insulin your child needs to LIVE because the Moron who runs your country doesn't care about its people. Imgine the Moron that runs your country stealing all of the Country's GNP and investing only a meager portion back into the country. And, Imagine, the majority of what he puts back into the national coffers going to repress you. Imagine that all the stores and all the pharmacies in Moron are all owned by the same Moron. Imagine, then, that when you complain about the Moron who is responsible for your misery, that you get thrown in jail by the Moron police and fined 400pesos. Imagine that 400 pesos is probably 40 month's worth of wages paid to you by the same Moron .
A bad Twightlight Zone episode? No, thats the nightmare that is life in Cuba.

Imagine , then, that after having gone through this misery an scapee from this Cuban nightmare goes abroad and tries to tell the people he meets about the Moron that runs Cuba, and the other Morons abroad say "but the Cubans have free aducation and Healthcare." that's the Twightlight Zone

FROM CUBA

Mother arrested after complaining at pharmacy

MORON, Cuba - October 4 (Tico Morales, APLA / www.cubanet.org) - María Rosales was arrested, held for 24 hours, and fined 400 pesos after protesting at a pharmacy that couldn't supply the insulin her 6-year-old daughter needs to treat her diabetes.

Rosales went to the pharmacy assigned to her in the town of Peonía, near Moron, at eight o-clock in the morning on Monday, with a doctor's prescription. Pharmacy personnel told her they didn't have any insulin, and referred her to another pharmacy.

Rosales went to the second pharmacy and waited her turn in line. When pharmacy employees informed her that they had run out of insulin, Rosales broke down crying, protesting the lack of medicines and blaming the government for the problem.

Pharmacy administrators called police, who took Rosales to a Morón police station, fined her 400 pesos for disorderly conduct and held her until the next day.

Meantime, her husband Evaristo, seeing she didn't come home with the medicine, took the girl to the hospital, where doctors attended to her.

No GAS for YOU , One Month

The gas nazi has a new friend. His new friend is nuclear threat nazi. So poor little dictator has been nazi gets pushed aside. Ouch!

According to Reuters, PDVSA which is Chavez's oil company is not exporting any unleaded gasoline to Cuba in October. Now, that's bad news for the typical Cuban household who usually have a half-ton pick-up truck for the husband and an Expedition or Suburban for the wife. Oh wait that's the Miami-Mafia. Sorry, I get them confused. They're both so chihuahua like I can't tell them apart.

Anyway, the stoppage has been confirmed by ship brokers in the United States which is currently under the Satanic rule of the Devil himself.

But here's the wierd part . The ship brokers and traders where surprised becasue PDVSA had just made a deal to deliver a 38,000 tonne tanker to IRAN late in October in an oil-for-equipment barter deal. I wonder if Kojo Anan gets a cut. Wait that was oil for food.

"The whole scenario doesn't make a lot of sense," said a trader in the United States. "Venezuela usually prioritizes Cuba above the rest."

I know this sounds like I'm making the Bolivarian President of Venezuela sound like a greedy, traitor for giving Fidel's gas to Wassishisnameimajad or that I'm trying to drive a wedge between the lovebirds.I know it sounds like some more Radio Marti Chihuahua Bark, but it aint.

Check it out for yourself

We Report....You err Make Up Your Own Mind

There's this:

Havana, October 5 (Prensa Latina)
Cuba, the tourist destination annually chosen by millions of people in the world, is not an option at present for US citizens thanks to Washington´s obsessive hostility against the Caribbean island.......The White House alleges the security of the US people as pretext, while Cuba asserts that the truth is the long-dreamed of desire, including of prior US administrations, supported by anti-Cuban groups: submission and annexation

BUT ....There's this:

A nine-year-old Vernon, B.C., girl who has allegedly been forced to stay behind in Cuba after her mother got in trouble with the law may not be able to get much help from Foreign Affairs. Dunia Garcia, 25, a Cuban-born permanent resident of Canada, says her daughter, Amanda, was notallowed to return home with her after an August visit to Cuba. Yesterday, Catherine Gagnaire, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs, declined to say what role the government is playing in getting the girl home. Ms. Gagnaire said Canada has little influence on cases involving citizens of Cuba. Cuba does not recognize dual citizenship and anyone born in Cuba is considered a Cuban citizen while in Cuba. Ms. Garcia said Amanda is "doing fine" and staying with relatives in Havana. Ms. Garcia was charged with assault after an incident with a police officer. After being released, officials ordered her daughter to stay behind to ensure the mother would return to the country to deal with the charge.

WE REPORT. YOU DE...ERR... MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND

Metaphorically, A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words