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Raul Castro

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Hugo Chávez's Six-Song Deathbed Playlist

    ​Among the most politically polarizing figures in modern times, Venezuelan "president" Hugo Chávez has had the rare distinction of sharing the worldwide stage with other high-energy luminaries like Muammar Gaddafi (d. 2011), Kim Jong-il (d. 2011), Evo Morales, Fidel and Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Castro, Chavez Make Top Ten List of World's Worst Dictators

    ​We just usually read Parade magazine for Howard Huge cartoons and "Ask Marilyn," but the magazine actually keeps a somewhat frequently updated list of the world's worst dictators. For the first time this year, Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez made the top ten list.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Herman Cain Heading To Versailles This Week To Pretend He Cares About Cuban Issues

    A candidate making a pit stop for cafecitos at Versailles isn't exactly hot news, even for a guy improbably still leading the GOP after a month fending off more sexual harassment accusations than Gene Simmons' tongue. The Cuban landmark is such a de facto stopover for White House wannabes, the regul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Raúl Castro's Daughter Joins Twitter, Quickly Calls Opposition Bloggers "Parasites"

    TwitterA rare war of words is raging in Cuba.An hour after joining Twitter, Mariela Castro -- president Raúl Castro's daughter and possible successor -- promptly got into an all-out digital girl fight with Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez.Castro called Sánchez and other opposition bloggers "despicab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Lady Gaga's A Very Gaga Thanksgiving: Ten Celebrities That Should Never Do a Holiday Show

    Will Lady Gaga wear a turkey dress?​Lady Gaga just announced her new holiday special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. The show will air on ABC on Thanksgiving day, November 24, and will feature Tony Bennett and Katie Couric. If that's not bizarre enough, Gaga is set to perform "White Christmas" and chef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Castro Legalizes Property Sales, Miami's Exiles Eye Long-Lost Family Homes

    ​For fifty years, all Cuban property sales have been strictly under the cigar-stained thumbs of Fidel and Raul Castro -- until today. The regime announced that starting next week citizens can own up to two houses, move without government approval, and buy and sell their houses. Some experts see a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Cubans Can Buy and Sell New Cars, Raul Castro Says

    ​Say farewell to the most enduring image of the time bubble the Castros have built around Cuba: the kinda charming fleet of jerry-rigged '50s American cars clogging Havana's streets, held together with not much more than duct tape and hope.For fifty years, the regime has forbidden most Cubans from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Fidel Castro's Birthday Present: A Big Transsexual Wedding

    ​Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhil ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    Cuba's new entrepreneurs ponder their future

    ​Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Obama Needs to See "Significant Changes" Before Normalizing Relations with Cuba

    President Obama has rolled back some of the strictest policies regarding Cuba, including easing travel restrictions and allowing for more remittances. Though, in an interview with Univision this week the president made clear that he will not normalize relations with the nation until Cuba makes "sign ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Cuba Running So Low On Coffee Castro Orders Chickpeas Mixed Into Grounds

    ​Cuba was once among the world's great coffee exporters. Nowadays it's running so short on beans and importing so much joe to feed the nation's cafecito habit that Raul Castro has ordered state roasters to mix coffee beans with chickpeas to save cash.Mmmm, the bitter, chickpea-infused taste of com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Hugo Chávez Calls Cuban Reforms 'Refreshing'

    walksydneystreets.netRefreshing! Like Cuba's economic reforms​Over the past decade, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has become the Cuban government's number one supporter. His oil subsidies help keep the embargoed island afloat and, in return, he welcomes Cuban doctors to Caracas's poor, inner-c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Bay of Pigs 50 Years Later: Miami Mourns, Cuban Gov Celebrates - But for How Long?

    via Wikimedia CommonsBay of Pigs Memorial in Little Havana.​They landed silently in the pre-dawn darkness: small groups of armed men seeking to overthrow Fidel Castro and his young government. Then everything went wrong. Two days later, the mission was in flames.This Sunday marks the 50th annivers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Miami's Hardcore Castro Foes Won't be Watching Party Congress

    ​While much of the world will be focusing on Cuba's Communist Party Congress when it kicks off on the island Saturday, one group seems to care less what happens during what is being billed as a turning point for the totalitarian regime. At Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, ground zero for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Fidel Castro Quit as Communist Party Leader Five Years Ago, Just Bothered to Let Everyone Know Now

    ​Facing failing health in 2006, Fidel Castro transferred his presidential title and duties to his brother Raúl, but it was thought he still held onto his power as chief of the Cuban Communist Party. In a newspaper column published today, though, Castro revealed he resigned that post five years ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Cuba To Teach Youngsters About Taxes With World's Most Boring Video Game

    ​There's one hitch in Fidel Castro's plan to lug the Cuban economy closer to capitalism by laying off 500,000 state workers so they can start private businesses: None of these people have ever paid taxes before.So how to teach a new generation of Cubans that government tithes come hand-in-hand wit ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2011

    A look ahead: predicting 2011 headlines

    ​There's one hitch in Fidel Castro's plan to lug the Cuban economy closer to capitalism by laying off 500,000 state workers so they can start private businesses: None of these people have ever paid taxes before.So how to teach a new generation of Cubans that government tithes come hand-in-hand wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    A Look Ahead: Riptide Predicts 2011's Biggest Stories

    ​Any two-bit news rag can tell you what happened yesterday. But it takes a truly great publication -- one advertising Asian table massages in its back pages -- to predict the future. We donned our swami's cap and stared long and hard at our 2011 calendar until we started hallucinating. This is wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Latin American Round-Up: Hugo Chávez Gets Decree Powers, Raúl Castro Gets Depressed

    Cheer up buddy. I've got decree powers!​Hugo Chávez won't be making any Obama-like compromises in 2011. The Venezuelan National Assembly is expected to pass a ley habilitante today that would allow the bombastic president -- best known for his twitter histrionics -- to pass laws by decree for 12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Maggie Rodriguez Fired from CBS's The Early Show

    ​It's not a good year for veterans of Miami local news who've gone national. There was of course Rick Sanchez's total breakdown, and Katie Couric's continued ratings troubles at the CBS Evening News. Now it seems that Miami-native and CBS 4 alum Maggie Rodriguez has been fired from her gig as a co ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    Thomas Wenski: Archbishop Easy Rider

    ​It's not a good year for veterans of Miami local news who've gone national. There was of course Rick Sanchez's total breakdown, and Katie Couric's continued ratings troubles at the CBS Evening News. Now it seems that Miami-native and CBS 4 alum Maggie Rodriguez has been fired from her gig as a co ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    Archbishop Thomas Wenski: Tea Party conservative and church radical

    ​It's not a good year for veterans of Miami local news who've gone national. There was of course Rick Sanchez's total breakdown, and Katie Couric's continued ratings troubles at the CBS Evening News. Now it seems that Miami-native and CBS 4 alum Maggie Rodriguez has been fired from her gig as a co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Archbishop Wenski Says the Church is "Winning More Space" in Cuba, but Not Enough For Castro to Stop Intercepting his Phone Calls

    floridacatholic.orgArchbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski​For a moment last night, it looked as if Thomas Wenski was in over his head. As the Archbishop of Miami stood beneath a giant mural of Cuban history in the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, he stumbled over his normally flawless Spanish. "Today, C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Cuba To Lay Off 500,000 State Workers While Growing The Private Sector

    Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2010

    Castro’s Cash Flow

    Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Dissident Adrian Leiva Drowns While Trying to Sneak Back into Cuba

    ​Cuban dissident and political activist Adrian Leiva has drowned after trying to sneak back into Cuba aboard a boat, the Miami Herald reports.Leiva left Cuba for Miami in 2005, but wanted to return. He tried to re-enter Cuba legally but was denied by the government. After a three-month stay in 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Cuba Begins Experimenting With Capitalism, or Something Vaguely Resembling It

    ​Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2009

    Miami-based National Circle of Journalists from Cuba can't find a recipient for its award

    ​Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>

  • News

    October 1, 2009

    Cuba's black market moves online with Revolico.com

    ​Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

    Spies in the Magic City

    The Supreme Court will decide whether to reconsider conviction of the Cuban Five.

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Raul Castro Will Trade Political Prisoners for Cuban 5

    Cuba's imprisonment of political dissidents has long been a point of contention between the island nation and Miami's exile community. So it comes as a surprise that Raul Castro is willing to let them go."These prisoners you talk about -- they want us to let them go? They should tell us tomorrow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Spicoli Brokers Obama-Castro Gitmo Hookup?

    No, that headline is not just a hallucination brought on by the tryptophan-induced haze you've been stumbling around in since stuffing that turducken down your gullet yesterday.It's just, quite simply, the strangest post-Thanksgiving news on the planet. Somehow or another, Sean Penn, the liberal wun ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Miami Loses

    Residents passed the amendment to ban gay marriage.

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election Day: Downtown Miami Shores Low on McCain Supporters

    Residents passed the amendment to ban gay marriage.

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Miami Loses

    Of course, Tuesday's presidential result made history. And we celebrated. But all is not well.

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Newsweek: Forget the Cubans. The Other Hispanics Rule!

    Of course, Tuesday's presidential result made history. And we celebrated. But all is not well.

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    Finally Florida

    A rogue state meets presidential candidates who pine for its fickle heart.

  • News

    January 18, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of January 18, 2007

    "How is it that Carlos Rios has a phone?"

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Press Time

    With Fidel on his death bed, journalist Carlos Otero is more critical than ever

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    Waiting for Him to Go

    Castro’s Cuba brims with hushed anticipation, and paranoia

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2006

    Ding-Dong! The Dictator Is Dead

    Castro’s Cuba brims with hushed anticipation, and paranoia

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    Castro’s Cuba brims with hushed anticipation, and paranoia

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    A New Enemies List

    Fidel is making a list, checking it twice; if you're a Cuban exile, he's going to decide if you've been naughty or nice

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Dialogue: The Final Frontier

    When trade sanctions, bluster, and a few bombs don't work, you gotta try something else

  • News

    February 15, 2001

    Carlos Cruz's Second Act

    In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

  • News

    November 28, 1996

    In Havana, Telling It Like It Is

    In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    In Havana, On Drugs

    As faith in the revolution sinks to new lows, kids in Cuba are getting high

  • News

    May 18, 1994

    The Man and the Microphone

    In the turbulent and often virulent world of Spanish-language radio, two things are certain: Fidel will be the debate, and Tomas Garcia Fuste will prevail

  • News

    February 17, 1993

    The Look of a Warrior

    Tony Bryant is a black militant, a hijacker, a survivor of Cuban prisons, and a Castro-hating commando. And don't you forget it.

  • News

    November 21, 1990

    Cuba Over and Out

    Tony Bryant is a black militant, a hijacker, a survivor of Cuban prisons, and a Castro-hating commando. And don't you forget it.

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