When President Obama "normalized" relations with communist Cuba nearly one year ago, it was expected among Americans that normalization … Opposition groups have widely criticized the pope's decision not to meet with them during his Cuba trip. … More on that from AP: Pope Francis flies to eastern Cuba on Monday for the next leg of his pilgrimage after having met with both…
"Challenge the Cuba Lobby at your peril. … “Does this mean you have to go to Cuba and arrest Castro or just shovel more $ into Little Havana?” … Many of the people running Cuba in 1962 still run it today.…
That we launch missiles from Cuba?!”
“Apparently.” … So much for the media/academia/Hollywood fairy-tale about JFK “standing up to the Russians in Cuba!” … (Prior to Castroism, by the way, Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., mostly from Europe.)…
Authoritarian regimes such as the Castro dynasty in Cuba or Iran's theocracy do not receive much criticism from the pope for their … capital punishment, which in America is mostly reserved for first-degree murderers, not the perpetrators of thought crimes as in Cuba…
EACH YEAR, the United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning the US economic embargo on Cuba. … Yet on the General Assembly resolution, I would defend an abstention, even though I strongly oppose Obama's Cuba policy.…
This situation has been developing over the past few weeks, but what's new is the revelation Cuba is helping the Russians carry out … "There’s a complicated history between the United States and Cuba. … Cuba partnering with the Russians in a blatant undermining of U.S. interests? I'll leave you with this: …
During the mid 1960s rock music was frowned-upon in Castro’s Cuba, as a “yankee-imperialist” subversion. … Actually, for a rocker, Mick Jagger is rather late in the game with his Cuba visit. … When in 1979 Fidel Castro invited Stephen Stills to perform in Cuba, the famous Woodstocker could hardly contain his elation.…
When the Soviets secretly put nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962, President John F. … The ships turned back at the last minute, and the Soviets ultimately withdrew their missiles when the U.S. pledged not to invade Cuba … Syria is not in our own backyard, as Cuba is, but America's failure to counter Russian interference in the Middle East nonetheless…
Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” … Today all of these countries leave Communist Cuba in the dust, with much lower infant mortality rates. … Juan Felipe García, MD, of Jacksonville, Fla., interviewed several recent doctor defectors from Cuba.…
It’s called socialism.For example, Cuba pays its doctors the equivalent of $67 a month and nurses $25 – sums that must be far below … Cuba also lends doctors to other countries – roughly 50,000 a year, including 30,000 in Venezuela. … Although the government doesn’t say how much it pays its doctors on foreign soil, it is clearly less that what Cuba collects from the…
bellowed Jesse Jackson while arm in arm with Fidel Castro himself in 1984 upon one of his classic Democrat pilgrimages to Stalinist Cuba … Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” … A couple years ago The Washington Post ran an “in-depth” article (by Nick Miroff) on an islet off the southwestern coast of Cuba called…