Castro Appears in First Post-Surgery Interview

Via the BBC: Cuban TV shows Castro interviewCuban President Fidel Castro has appeared on TV in his first interview since undergoing surgery 10 months ago. In the recorded interview, the 80-year-old was seen in a tracksuit and looking relatively healthy. The question on everyone's mind is, of course: can't they give the man something to wear other than a tracksuit? ...

New Video of Castro Released

Via the BBC: Cuba shows new images of CastroCuban TV has shown brief video images of President Fidel Castro meeting the head of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nong Duc Manh. [...] These were the first video images for four months. He is shown in a tracksuit, standing, and appearing less frail than in previous official images - and fit enough to give ...

Castro Update

Cross-posted from PoliBlog: Via the BBC: Castro almost 'fully recovered'Cuban President Fidel Castro has almost completely recovered from the stomach surgery he had last year, says the head of the country's national assembly. Speaking in a US TV interview Ricardo Alarcon gave no indication of when the Cuban leader might return to power. But he said Mr Castro was over the worst ...

ANSWER Backed by Castro?

Smash infiltrates the ANSWER anti-war rally and comes away thinking the socialist front group may be sponsored by Fidel Castro.

Romney Bungles Castro Quote in Miami

Mitt Romney used a famous line from Fidel Castro in support of a "free Cuba," creating a minor stir with a Miami audience. People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami. But when he mistakenly associated Fidel Castro's trademark speech-ending ...

Castro Reportedly in Grave Condition

Fidel Castro may finally die. Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in "very grave" condition after three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, a Spanish newspaper said Tuesday. The newspaper El Pais cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Maranon hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid. The facility employs surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to ...

Americans Favor Re-Establishing Ties With Cuba

A new Gallup poll shows that two-thirds of American favor renewing diplomatic ties with Cuba. This isn't particularly surprising: Over the past 32 years, a majority of Americans have consistently said they support establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba, with the exception of one poll conducted in 1996. So, there is longstanding, overwhelming, bipartisan support for changing our Cuba policy. ...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is Still Not Dead

Val Prieto reports that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is, so far as he knows, not dead.

Another Symposium of Denial

While Holocaust deniers from all over the world are enjoying the hospitality of Tehran, National Review Online is having its own symposium of denial, only here they're whitewashing the terrorist regime of Augusto Pinochet. Of the six participants, only one person, Thor Halvorssen, actually had the strength of character to condemn Pinochet for his crimes. The rest praise ...

Hugo Chavez Flunks Economics

In this article about Hugo Chavez pledging to offer oil to poor Americans at a deeply discounted price comes this little gem. Chavez is seen by some as the biggest problem to emerge in Latin America since his hero, Fidel Castro, seized power nearly a half century ago. And it all has to do with oil and Chavez's repeated threats to ...