03/30/2010 Cuban Images Speak Louder Than Words

For many years, the government-orchestrated protests were good enough to fool some of the world some of the time. All over the planet, many fools actually believed that the Cuban people loved their government so much that they would run out of their ...

03/02/2010 His Death Has Many Culprits

A Cuban political prisoner starved himself to death last week to protest against the human rights violations of the Castro communist dictatorship, but don't expect the kind of world outrage and condemnation that would have followed if this tragedy had ...

01/26/2010 Cuba's Jose Marti: His Legacy Lives Here

Editor's Note: This is the 18th part of an ongoing series, "America's Hidden Hispanic Heritage." To read previous columns in the series, go to http://www.MiguelPerez.com. You may have listened to his verses in the old Cuban ...

11/24/2009 Ready To Surrender

At a time when a human rights organization is charging that Raul Castro is just as ruthless as his brother Fidel, when Cuban political prisoners are on the rise, when dissidents are being assaulted by government goons on the streets of Havana, a ...

10/20/2009 From Cuba With Courage

She is an outstanding writer, a great political analyst, a popular blogger and an award-winning journalist. But those are not the best adjectives to describe Yoani Sanchez. Courage is what makes her different. After all, writing,

09/29/2009 In Cuba Concert, Even the Audience Was Staged

They were told that the Cuban government couldn't be trusted — warned by thousands that there was no way that outside promoters could stage and control a massive music concert under a very repressive communist dictatorship. But Juanes and ...

08/25/2009 Peace Without Freedom?

When the Colombian pop singer known as Juanes announced that he would take his music to Havana's Plaza of the Revolution soon to perform in a "Peace Without Borders" concert, I had some soul-searching to do. Surely it happened to most of my ...

08/04/2009 A Dose of Cuban Reality

For those who still had naive illusions about changing Cuba by befriending a couple of old tyrants, Raul Castro offered a dose of reality Saturday. "I wasn't elected president to return capitalism to Cuba or to surrender the revolution,&...

06/09/2009 Let's Give Clinton Some 'Credito'

MIAMI — In Havana, the government-controlled press claimed the communist dictatorship had scored a "historic victory" at the Organization of American States meeting in Honduras last week. But here in Little Havana, USA, from the Cuban-...

04/28/2009 Fidel Being Fidel

Just when America's useful fools were getting ready to sing "Kumbaya" with Cuba's Castro brothers last week, just when they thought they had heard from Raul the kind of conciliatory remarks they never had heard from Fidel, that's when they ...

04/21/2009 Castro's Trojan Horse

Cuban dictator Raul Castro says he is willing to talk to the United States about "human rights, press freedom, political prisoners — everything" — and everyone is biting, hook, line and sinker! We are so eager to see ...

04/07/2009 Americans Surrender in Havana

We don't hear them calling for Cuba's freedom or for at least a little less repression. We don't see them trying to meet with Cuban dissidents or making an effort to visit political prisoners. We don't see them seeking free elections. They are ...

03/10/2009 When the Truth Becomes an Obstacle

In Congress and in the media, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was being treated as an obstacle last week. He was telling the truth about Cuba, the land of his ancestors, but sometimes, for some people, the truth becomes an obstacle. One news ...

12/23/2008 What Are We, 'Amigos' or 'Imperialistas'?

They choose to overlook Cuba's 50 years without free elections, free speech or freedom of the press. They refuse to see the dissidents rotting in jail or drowning while trying to escape from the communist island. They shamelessly align themselves with ...

04/08/2008 Cuba's 'Changes' Amount To Nada

Just as America's "useful fools" were beginning to buy the smoke and mirror changes that appear to be taking place in Cuba, out comes a new report condemning the communist island for multiple human rights violations. The changes are ...

02/26/2008 Obama Is Naive About Havana

Just as the ruthless regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro declared that it was gasping for its last breath of air last week, Sen. Barack Obama shamefully was sending oxygen to Havana. In his most recent debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton, only ...

11/06/2007 A Cuban Movie Proposal

As the world's leftists keep celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's death and keep selling him as the ultimate champion of a people's revolution, I keep thinking about my friend Carlos Barberia. When you talk to ...

10/23/2007 The United States of Cubazuela

Just when you thought the clown who rules Venezuela couldn't be any more bizarre or say anything more absurd, out comes President Hugo Chavez with yet another amazingly preposterous statement. It happens at least once a week. He is the shock ...

09/04/2007 The Lawyer Becomes the Accused

For more than 10 years, ever since Florida attorney Magda Montiel Davis was caught on video kissing Fidel Castro and expressing admiration for the Cuban dictator, she has been persona non grata in Miami's Cuban-American community. And now that ...

01/16/2007 Sheehan Leads Delegation of Hypocrites

As they traveled through Cuba, on their way to protest against the detention of al-Qaida suspects at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo last week, American peace activists displayed the hypocrisy of their cause. To get to Guantanamo, they had to ...

12/26/2006 Back From Cuba, With Nada

A U.S. congressional delegation just went to Cuba, got absolutely no concessions from the Castro communist dictatorship, and still they had the gall to come back and tell us that the next move is up to Washington. Excuse me? Why? Did the ...

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