Does anyone know how it feels to want freedom so badly that they would risk everything to try to escape their homeland not knowing if the Cuban Coast Guard or the sharks will kill you before you reach freedom..
Ten-year-old Juan Mario Gutiérrez’s 1994 death is case No. 8500 in the newly released database.
After more [...]

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Cuban born Super Hot Latina Mayra Veronica first became noticed on Univision’s Don Francisco Presenta where her role as, wait for it, the model with the voluptious body caught the attention of major US magazines. Appearing in, among others, Smooth, King, Edge Magazine, Maxim and was chosen as the Cover for FHM’s Exclusive Collection Book. [...]

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Fidel Castro the lefts favorite “dictator for life” has done a Putin. He has set precedent for the next hand picked “dictator for life.” 50 years seems enough,”then the younger generation will take over.”If only Hugo Chavez was available and not so busy with his own revolution Fidel could just pass on his legacy [...]

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When you break it down Fidel Castros real fear is those he must take off the streets. He really fears his own people.
The jailed Dr. Oscar Biscet is becoming the public face of the island’s dissident movement, more so after President Bush on Monday gives him in absentia the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom award. [...]

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Behind the scenes it looks like American Officials are preparing for a massive number of refugees to seek asylum at Guantanamo.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The U.S. military has expanded plans for a pop-up tent city to shelter migrants in case of a Caribbean boat crisis, spending more than $55 million to prepare [...]

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“And then Che’ executed them all even the youngest ones and secured my Dictatorship for 50yrs. You can do the same my son and remember in America there are many useful idiots especially in Hollywood and Washington D.C.”  Fidel reading a story and giving his son some advice.
 

Cuba’s state media on Sunday [...]

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Illustration by Robin Eley
You may say Hillary is not a Latina. But if she wants to [...]

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At least 28 people were killed and 73 were injured in Cuba’s deadliest accident in years Saturday after a train slammed into a bus, state television reported. “In this fatal accident, as of (2200 GMT) 28 people have been killed and another 73 [...]

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Jorge Perez marketed Miami as a condo haven for rich South Americans. Now Florida’s real estate hangover has him looking for riches in South America.
Jorge Perez vividly recalls the day he was forced to flee Cuba. He was 10 years old, and his dad, a businessman who had worked for Eli Lilly & Co. [...]

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In his native Argentina, Che was recently voted the country’s greatest ever historical and political figure, yet.
With the 40th anniversary of the Worlds most beloved Stalinist death, you can bet there will be fighting words being thrown in all directions. Here’s a piece from The First Post.
When we look at the iconic [...]

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HAVANA - The United States issued only about 15,000 of the 20,000 emigrant visas it had agreed to issue to Cubans during the last fiscal year, American authorities said Monday, and they blamed Cuban officials for the shortfall.
Cuban authorities have not allowed the American mission to fill 11 job openings, all typically held by Cuban [...]

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 Who knows what to believe. Info out of Cuba is mostly propaganda.                      This story is from the Sun Sentinel. They call it a Frank assessment…ok

Vice President Carlos Lage delivered a frank assessment of his country’s economic future during a closed-door speech Saturday that was later [...]

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and Spain on Saturday took a big step toward mending relations by signing a broad agreement that re-establishes cooperation halted in 2003 after Havana jailed 75 dissidents.
Spanish International Cooperation Minister Leire Pajin said the deal includes support for small business, the environment, food security and joint efforts in other countries [...]

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Net Worth $1.8 billion
 
Source Real Estate, Self made

Argentinean-born son of Cuban parents started out as urban planner; moved into low-income housing development. Met partner, Stephen Ross ; cofounded Related Group of Florida 1979. Built affordable housing 1980s, later switched to high-end condo construction. Has constructed 55,000 apartments in Florida since 1982. Recently smacked by [...]

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Cuban authorities on Thursday detained and then released Marta Beatriz Roque, the island’s most prominent political female dissident, following a protest at the Justice Ministry, Roque told AFP. Government security agents took Roque to her house and released her, the dissident told AFP.
Roque [...]

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The father of a 5-year-old Cuban girl at the center of an international custody battle did not abandon or neglect her, so he should get her back, a judge ruled Thursday. Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen said she would not immediately return the girl to her father, Cuban farmer Rafael Izquierdo, who wants to take [...]

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It’s a typical weekday morning at Versailles. Most of the tables are occupied. The chatter among patrons is at its customary decibel level, competing with the clacking of utensils in the kitchen. Waitresses in tight green uniforms yell out instructions in Spanish as they tend to orders and race around the sacred Cuban restaurant.
Seconds later [...]

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The Cuban delegation at the U.N. seems a little sensitive.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Cuba’s foreign minister walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in protest of President Bush’s speech in which he said the “long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end” on the communist island.
The Cuban delegation later issued [...]

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Cuba expanded its military presence abroad, spending millions of dollars in exporting revolutions; deployments reached 50,000 troops in Angola, 24,000 in Ethiopia, 1,500 in Nicaragua, and hundreds more elsewhere. In Angola, Cuban troops, supported logistically by the U.S.S.R., backed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in its [...]

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