Reporter Sean Penn Arrives in Cuba to Interview Icon Fidel Castro
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com 10/26/2009 — Hollywood leftist Sean Penn arrived in Cuba today to interview his “revolutionary icon” Marxist dictator Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair magazine. It’s doubtful if Penn will bring up Castro’s brutal human rights record during ...

Human Rights Watch
hrw.org 19 days ago — Cuba remains the one country in Latin American that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. The government continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, long- and short-term detentions, mob harassment, surveillance, ...

Is Cuba coming to its senses?
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 10/14/2009 — Sounds like Raul has a better grasp on the limits of government action then does our President and his Party. I guess Cuba is suffering from the curse of Michael Moore. Cuba gives 'socialism lite' a try as recession deepens Frances Robles The Miami Herald Cuba's workplace cafeterias are ...

High Level U.S. Diplomat Meets With Chavez
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 24 days ago — He's promising the Venezuelan madman he'll soon be meeting with Barack Obama, so I'm assuming he's now the de facto Secretary of State while Hillary Clinton is off negotiating the return of the Honduran thug to power.Sean Penn, the Hollywood star who ...

Fidel Castro
miamiherald.com 9/7/2009 — frobles@miamiherald.com More than 4,000 were killed by Fidel Castro's firing squads. Many others lost their lives fighting for and against him. Some drowned trying to leave Cuba. The exact body count is elusive, but experts who keep track of those ...

Cuba gives 'socialism lite' a try as recession deepens
mcclatchydc.com 10/14/2009 — Cuba's workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn't get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are rumblings that one of the stalwart vestiges of the revolution -- the ration booklet -- has ...

Reign of terror in Cuba
babalublog.com 18 days ago — The detention and beating of Yoani Sanchez and friends is business as usual for the Castro brothers. Their so-called people’s revolution has in fact been a half-century reign of terror against the Cuban people. Bombings , executions , hijackings , ...

Chavez: American deal with Columbia means war
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Sean Penn heads to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro: report
news.yahoo.com 10/26/2009 — AFP/Getty Images/File Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn, pictured in March 2009, flew to Cuba hoping to

UN-believable - Bart Hinkle
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(AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 29 days ago
AP - UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to condemn US trade embargo on Cuba.

U.N. votes against U.S. embargo on Cuba for 18th year — Reuters: Politics 29 days ago
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to urge the United States to lift a nearly half century-old economic embargo against Cuba, making its now ritual call amid some easing of U.S. ties toward the ...

U.N. votes against U.S. embargo on Cuba for 18th year (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 29 days ago
Reuters - The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to urge the United States to lift a nearly half century-old economic embargo against Cuba, making its now ritual call amid some easing of U.S. ties toward the communist-run island.

U.S. Embargo on Cuba Again Finds Scant Support at U.N. — NYT > Politics 29 days ago
The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the American trade embargo against Cuba, reflecting that little has changed despite an expected shift under the Obama administration.

AP Interview: Cuba FM says ready for talks with US (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 29 days ago
AP - Cuba is willing to hold talks with the United States "on any level," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday in conciliatory remarks aimed at the Obama administration.