Subject: Fidel Castro

• Rewarding the Dictator

  February 22, 2007

• Castro Who?

  February 8, 2007

• Fidel? Dead Again?

  January 16, 2007

• Castro Is Dead. Or Not.

  August 24, 2007

• Cuban Political Prisoner Recognized

  November 5, 2007

• He's Back!

  February 22, 2008

• Fidel being Fidel: ex-dictator defends judge-kicking Cuban Olympian

  August 26, 2008

• BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE RADIO PERSONALITY

  May 13, 2004

• Why Is Fidel Hanging Out with Russian Orthodox Priests, Anyway?

  Fidel and Vladimir Gundjaev The haggard remains of Fidel Castro made headlines earlier this month for meeting with a Russian Orthodox priest in Havana. The story was newsworthy mostly because the meeting produced the first photo of the ailing Cuban dictator since early this summer. But a larger question remained: What the heck was Castro doing palling around with Russian Orthodox priests in the first place? In Slate today, Christopher Hitchens offers one possibility: Castro has spent a lif

  November 17, 2008

• Cuba Over and Out

  November 21, 1990

• To Air is Human

  November 21, 1990

• Get Me Rewrite!

  September 4, 1991

• Castro Is Totally Dying This Time, for Reals

  Hey, have you heard? Fidel Castro might totally be dying! Seriously, some guy who served Riptide a café cubano on Calle Ocho says his brother in Matanzas is tight with Fidel's chauffeur's third cousin who told him that Fidel is ALREADY DEAD.Hey, it's as reliable a source as any on the bearded one's health. And that hasn't stopped the Herald from running front-page stories yesterday speculating that Castro is close to kickin' the can and, today, clarifying that no large-scale party is planned if

  January 15, 2009

• Argentina Prez Says Fidel is Doing Fine

  Peronist Argentine President Cristina Kirchner had a face-to-face chit chat with Fidel Castro today, and told the Government's press agency that Castro seems to be in good health. This conflicts with recent front page news that Castro is near death. She also reports that Castro watched Obama's swearing-in ceremony. Kirchner didn't divulge Castro's opinion of our new Prez, but she personally finds him to be, "a sincere person and with good ideas."Kirchner, wife of former president Nestor Kirchner

  January 21, 2009

• Newspapers Planned Fidel's Death. Oops!

  For the past 30 years or so, Miami newspapers have prepared for Fidel Castro's death. Soon after I arrived at the Herald in 1989, I updated a lengthy obituary of the Cuban dictator that was kept on file at the newspaper. Even then, the article's author, Guy Gugliotta, had left the paper. We scrambled when there were reports of Fidel's death. A plan that involved somewhere in the neighborhood of three dozen reporters fanning out across Florida and Cuba was also regularly updated. We reviewed it.

  January 22, 2009

• The Man Who Would Be Fidel

  January 11, 1996

• Beat Up Castro Thugs and Hang with Corrupt Miami Cops in The Godfather II

  Unfortunately, Riptide is not on any free videogame press lists, but The Godfather II game comes out today. The advance reviews are favorable, but no one is claiming this is a better game than the Grand Theft Auto series (then again, what is?). In that game, however, you didn't get to beat any Fidel Castro-loving ass, did you? Players guide a character named Dominic (no, he wasn't in the movie) as he battles his way out of Cuba following Batista's resignation. We're not 100 percent sure, thou

  April 7, 2009

• House of Laughs

  Just the Funny finds a home for its comedy.

  January 31, 2008

• Bay of Pigs Vets Fight for Home

  Betrayed by the U.S. government and their own country, they want to be remembered.

  January 17, 2008

• The Greatest Generation

  August 16, 2007

• Our Favorite Son

  June 22, 2006

• Evil, Done Doggy-Style

  January 12, 2006

• Art Flicks

  April 28, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of August12-18, 2002

  August 12, 2004

• BEST PRANK PHONE CALL

  May 15, 2003

• Dialogueros

  April 10, 2003

• Dialogue: The Final Frontier

  February 20, 2003

• Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

  April 25, 2002

• Heretics in the House

  April 11, 2002

• Blowup

  April 4, 2002

• Incessant Static

  March 28, 2002

• Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

  December 20, 2001

• Spies in Miami, Commandos in Cuba

  July 5, 2001

• Carlos Cruz's Second Act

  February 15, 2001

• Rick ... or Red?

  June 1, 2000

• The Great Divide

  May 11, 2000

• Riptide

  December 16, 1999

• Welcome to the Bureaucracy:

  June 24, 1999

• Fidel's Kind of Flick

  December 3, 1998

• Twice Exiled

  November 12, 1998

• The Rise and Fall of Miamiland

  November 6, 1997

• The Fidel Fixation

  April 17, 1997

• Back on Top

  September 21, 1994

• The Man and the Microphone

  May 18, 1994

• Swine Flu in Cuba, Castro Has a Conspiracy Theory

  The fear over swine flu might be dissipating now that health officials are telling us the worst could be over, but one country has just experienced its first case: Florida's nearest international neighbor, Cuba. The Castro regime hoped to keep Cuba swine-flu-free by placing strict restrictions on travel from Mexico (note to people who wanted the U.S. to do the same thing: It's a Communist move), but a Mexican medical student studying on the island has now been confirmed to have the virus. Fidel

  May 12, 2009

• Castro Eats Hot Pockets

  Jacob Katel Que rico es capitalismo! Funny things happen when you set three alarms at two minute intervals on your cellphone and you snooze each one. High velocity REM sleep dreams.Two days in a row I dreamt I called Castro's office to interview him for Short Order.This morning I got through to his secretary. I thought she was an answering machine at first, but then she started responding to the message I was leaving ("Hola, habla Jake de Miami New Times calling to see if I can speak to C

  May 27, 2009

• Breaking News: Washington Couple Busted Spying for Cuba

  A former US State Department employee and his wife have been busted in Washington D.C,. spying for Cuba. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, worked for Fidel Castro for 30 years, according to an indictment handed down by the US Attorney General's office this afternoon. Myers had top secret clearance, prosecutors charge. He also had access to more than 200 classified reports. (I had that same access when I worked for the government back in the 80s, No big deal.) The couple personally m

  June 5, 2009

• Fidel Castro Rubs His Continued Existence in Perez Hilton's Face

  ​As GossipCop reminds us, today is the two-year anniversary of Fidel Castro's death. Well, the two-year anniversary of when Perez Hilton declared him dead, by doodling the word dead over the dictator's wrinkled forehead, in his trademark MS Paint white. Of course, a new photo of the former leader was released -- only the second of Castro this year. Fidel, pictured with Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, looks noticeably less deathly than previous photographs. And just to rub it in H

  August 24, 2009

• Fidel Castro Met with Perennial C-Lister Aubrey O'Day

  Fidel Castro apparently once took time out of his busy schedule of ruining Cuba to meet with reality contestant turned fame whore Aubrey O'Day. She came away from the encounter with the impression Castro was "brilliant."O'Day came to "fame" as a cast member on Diddy's reality show, Making the Band, and eventually got a spot in the pop group Danity Kane before being kicked out. She was stunt-cast in a Broadway play based on a movie. She posed for Playboy. She recorded a horrible cover of New

  September 2, 2009

• Castro Death Meter: Experts Estimate Fidel Is Now Only 63 Percent Dead

  Not that dead.​Could it really have been only January that Riptide, having gathered information from high-level sources within the Versailles Cafée waitstaff, declared Fidel Castro was "Totally Dying This Time, for Reals"?  Now it seems El Supremo is less dead than ever. Recent pictures show him outside, shaking hands with a Chinese parliament leader and wearing a dress shirt instead of the tracksuits he's been seen in since he fell ill in 2006. So either Castro has made a sudden resurge

  September 9, 2009