Cuba's Leader

Source: history1900s.about.com --- 41 days ago
After several years of challenging Batista, Fidel Castro finally succeeded in ousting Batista from Cuba after two years of guerilla warfare. In 1959, Fidel Castro became the Leader of Cuba, a position he has held for over four decades. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
Hanoi, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) reaffirmed Tuesday its close ties with Cuba at a meeting between Political Bureau member Ho Duc Viet and Cuban Government Minister Ricardo Cabrisas. The PCV Leader, also member of the ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 33 days ago
Good morning. It's Tuesday. CNN says Hurricane Ike "skimmed along the southern coast of Cuba" early this morning. The storm forced nearly 1 million Cubans to flee their homes, according to the news channel. "Revolutionary Leader Fidel Castro proclaimed his country on 'combat alert' against the third massive storm to hit the island in as many weeks and what he portrayed as a heartless double standard that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid," the Los Angeles Times... ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 25 days ago
Ailing Leader Fidel Castro says Cuba has too much dignity to accept U.S. handouts and says it is hypocritical for America to ... ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 20 days ago
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began a five-nation tour Sunday with a stop in Cuba to visit ailing former Leader Fidel Castro. Photographs released by the Venezuelan government showed a beaming Chavez and Castro's brother, current Cuban President Raul Castro, embracing at Jose Marti airport in Havana. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 25 days ago
Ailing Leader Fidel Castro says Cuba has too much dignity to accept U.S. handouts and says it is hypocritical for America to offer $5 million in hurricane recovery aid. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 13 days ago
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his second whirlwind visit to Cuba in less than a week and met behind closed doors for two and a half hours with ailing former Leader Fidel Castro, state media reported Sunday. ...

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com --- 20 days ago
HAVANA: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba late Sunday to meet with former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, as Caracas's firebrand Leader sets out on a tour that includes China, Russia, Portugal and France. ...

Source: services.inquirer.net --- 38 days ago
HAVANA -- Cuba's longtime Leader Fidel Castro said Hurricane Gustav hit his country like a nuclear blast, and estimated it would take three to four billion dollars to cope with the emergency. ...

Source: www.newsbusters.org --- 6 days ago
The mainstream media is going through another one of their meltdown moments as they rush to defend Barack Obama from his relationship with American terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. (plural) John Stephenson of Newsbusters detailed CNN's supposed fact check that came in response to a speech that Sarah Palin gave where she did the job the mainstream media refuses to do by mentioning the words terrorists, relationships and Barack Obama in a single sentence while referring to the former Weather Underground leaders. In rushing to Barack Obama's defense CNN slipped the following into the end of their fact check: The McCain campaign did not respond Saturday to a request for elaboration on Palin's use of the plural "terrorists." Well excuse me, but why should they? If CNN doesn't know that Bernardine Dohrn was a Leader of the Weather Underground while they were bombing federal buildings and police stations why should the McCain campaign give CNN the legitimacy of a real news organization by providing a response? It may not matter to CNN that Bernardine Dohrn traveled to Cuba to meet with the North Vietnamese government in 1969 while Barack Obama's opponent was being held captive in a prisoner of war camp but it certainly is a point of interest that should not be covered up and downplayed by those that wish to sweep these facts under the covers out of allegiance to Barack Obama. The question about "plural terrorists" itself i ...

Source: www.star-telegram.com --- 10 days ago
By GENE TRAINOR HURST — The communist takeover of Cuba hit home for Alina Fernandez at age 3 when the cartoons she was watching on television disappeared and were replaced by "hairy people" shouting slogans. "Mickey Mouse vanished from the screen forever," Fernandez recalled. The estranged daughter of Cuban Leader Fidel Castro said Wednesday that her entire life has been intertwined in the revolution that she says continues today. And she does not expect much to change after her father’s death. Her uncle Raul Castro has taken over the government because Fidel Castro’s health has deteriorated. "It is amazing the way totalitarianism can absolutely control the bodies and minds of human beings," Fernandez told about 200 people gathered at the Tarrant County College Northeast Campus student union. Her talk, part of the college’s Hispanic Heritage Month program, was peppered with stories about the love affair between her mother and father, her escape from Cuba and the traumatic change that occurred after the 1959 communist takeover of Cuba. Roger Tate, 67, of Euless, was visiting the campus and said he was impressed by Fernandez’s candor. "It thought it was wonderful," he said. Who is Alina Fernandez? Fernandez was born March 19, 1956, the result of an affair between Fidel Castro and her mother, Natalia. But early on, she was raised by her mother and her mother’s husband, Orlando Fernandez, a cardiologist. Orlando Fernandez fled to the ...

Source: www.gainesville.com --- 25 days ago
Ailing Leader Fidel Castro says Cuba has too much dignity to accept U.S. handouts and says it is hypocritical for America to offer $5 million in hurricane recovery aid. ...

Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 24 days ago
Cuba, devastated in recent weeks by two powerful hurricanes, has too much dignity to accept aid from the United States, former Leader Fidel Castro said ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 21 days ago
Odds-on favorite Commentator easily out- classed six other competitors to take Saturday's $500,000 Massachusetts Handicap (MassCap) at Suffolk Downs. The MassCap is the second consecutive win for Commentator in the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" program. A two-time winner of the Whitney Handicap, Commentator stalked the pace set by 50-1 longshot Riversrunrylee in the 1 1/8 mile race. In the early going Cuba was running third and Won Awesome Dude was in fourth. Up the backstretch Riversrunrylee still set the pace as the 1-9 favorite pressed the Leader on the outside. On the turn for home Commentator, ridden by John Velazquez, took the lead and proceeded to run away from the competition. Finishing 14 lengths back in second was Won Awesome Dude followed by Cuba and Dr. Pleasure in fourth. Rounding out the order of finish was Volcanic Force, Beck and Call, and Riversrunrylee. The time for the 66th MassCap was 1:48.97 on a fast track. ...

Source: www.newsroom.ucr.edu --- 25 days ago
Cuban-American voters remain strongly Republican, conservative and opposed to easing sanctions on the Castro regime, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of Miami and the University of Exeter. But there is greater diversity on social issues, which may portend changing political allegiances once Fidel Castro is no longer Cuba’s Leader, they found. ...

Source: truemors.com --- 22 days ago
What keeps a Marxist in power for almost fifty years to the nagging chagrin of nine US presidents? How about a bedpost with enough notches to put Hugh Hefner to shame? An upcoming documentary on Cuba’s longtime Leader claims Castro slept with 35,000 women or “…one for lunch and one for supper…” for forty years. [...] ...

Source: www.dailypress.com --- 20 days ago
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) _ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began a five-nation tour Sunday with a stop in Cuba to visit ailing former Leader Fidel Castro. ...

Source: www.disinfo.com --- 33 days ago
A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament. The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported. The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects." It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers. It also said the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) logbook registered that the plane had traveled between US territory and the US military base in Guanta ...