Beware of the dog...err... the Cuban diplomat -UPDATE

On Saturday May 22nd, the Cuban consul in Norway (who happens to be the wife of the Cuban ambassador in that country) bit the hand of a Cuban-Norwegian young woman who was filming a protest in front of the consulate. The girl, Alexandra Joner, is a Norwegian singer are dancer, born to Cuban parents.

The protesters, a small group of people dressed in white, where holding hand-made signs demanding freedom for Cuba's political prisoners. YouTube Exhibit #1 here. (H/T to Marc, via Twitter - @marcmasferrer)

Stay classy, communist b%$#&! -- no pun intended ;-)

Apparently, this is not the first rabid incident involving the furry couple that are supposed to be acting as representatives of Castro's diplomacy...

UPDATE: an audio file with an interview of the bitten girl's mother, Barbara Joner, in Spanish, via Punt De Vista.

Garrix has an easy-to-read graphic explanation of Cuba's School of Foreign Relations best practices on recruiting:

Vet's Office: "...it's from the Cuban Embassy... they want to check if we can deworm two of their officials..."

Let's see... we need an assistant for the consul, two embassadors... *

Canine Division: So... were you also called by Minrex? *

* MINREX= Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores / Office or department of foreign relations.

Welcome to Cubazuela! - or is it Venecuba?

Keep your anticommunism radars well oiled and running, because that (stuff) is hitting the ceiling fan:


Hugo "Monkey" Chavez, Venezuela's communist-dictator in the making, ordered in his Sunday radio "show" that all members of the Venezuela's United Socialist Party (PSUV) should start studying Marxism if they wanted a guaranteed victory int he elections.

Yes, you read correctly. Waving a "Communist Manifesto" in his hands, he ordered them to study Marxism. (Spanish version only, so far)
My very own free translation of the money quotes:

"... there are lazy people who never grab a book" and prefer the soap operas and other electronic hobbies, instead of getting themselves ready for the XXI Century Socialism. " (Or is Dr. Utopia bashing you for spending your money in Vegas?... never mind... confused Cubanita over here)

"We shouldn't have a single candidate, not even a member of the PSUV that has not read Karl Marx, Rose Luxemburg, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.He added and emphasized that "it would be a tragedy" if the PSUV doesn't keep the majority now has in the unicameral National Assembly. "

This idiot can not even come up with a communist crap of his own making; he is limited to recycling the same anti-West, anti-USA rhetoric that Castro has been force-feeding in the tropical gulag for 50 years.

I'm really sorry to beat the dead horse but, to my dear Venezuelan friends, I need to pose the same question, one more time: so Chavez was not communist, he was not going to mess up Venezuela the same way Castro messed up Cuba, no way! That will no happen in Venezuela!

Yeah... sure... whatever...

By the way, back home those studies, scheduled for all members of the communist party and aspiring members enrolled in the Youth Communist Union, were called "círculos de estudio" or "círculos políticos".

You know, in case Venezuelans are interested in becoming familiar with the new terminology. You betcha Chavez mono-neuronal brain will not be able to come up with his own title.

Just sayin'...

PS - My BF, Venezuelan herself, always goes beyond her pacifism and offers the ultimate solution: on single bullet, straight ahead to the mole.

Cross posted at Iron Curtain Patriots

RIP, Orlando Zapata Tamayo

Since yesterday afternoon, when the buzz on Twitter alerted me of the death of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo - after eighty something days on hunger strike - I've been trying to come up with a post up to the height of this brave young man.

But I am sooooooo mad (to use a PG audience language) , that it's been really hard to come up with a decent post to honor him. Twitter has been my best scapegoat since the news broke up.

Right there I saw the coverage of his death going viral, right there I received the request of followers that do not read Spanish trying to support us, right there we were able to uncover the communist cyberbrigade that castro's thugs call in full mode to discredit the independent reports from the island.

(Those that, hiding in Havana's IT college server, call us "worms" and try to put the blame on us, when they are twittering wearing masks in their avatars.)

It is also throught Twitter that we have been able to follow the transit of his body from the Forensic Institute in Havana to his hometown of Banes, Holguín, East of Cuba. And, trust me, we have seen (or read) it all.

The Cuban government got into a full mode operative, including the interruption of the cell phone signals because they know they can not block Twitter, and they needed to block the information within Cubans in the island. They also surrounded Zapata's house in Banes, in a effort to avoid a massive protest. And several dissidents were arrested also to prevent them from attending Zapata's funeral and visitation.

Zapata Tamayo was 42 years old. Single and without children. He was arrested before the Black Spring of 2003, merely for advocating for human rights for all Cubans. A peaceful dissident - no terrorrism or weapons were ever involved. A Christian and religious man. Recognized by Amnesty International as prisoner of conscience... during his hunger strike to protest the mistreatments he consistenly recived in the Kilo 7 prison in Camaguey, he was denied water for 18 consecutive days. Then they took him to the hospital when they knew he was gonna die.

They did with Pedro Luis Boitel in the late sixties.
They did with Zapata Tamayo yesterday.
They have blood in their hands, as Pong cleary puts it, right in the eve of the second year anniversary of the change of crown.

I can't help to repeat myself over, and over, and over:

Mandela, OEA, UN, EU, Obama, Black Congressional Caucus, singers of "We are the World", Juanes and so many other useful idiots that have been coddling with the communist tiranny for years: WE ARE YOU?!

For an entire recap:

Marc, at Uncommon Sense, has it all in English.

Babalú Blog posted the lousy statement from Obama's State Department.

Penúltimos Días has constant updates in Spanish.

Aguaya has also been covering the news in Spanish, in her blog and Twitter.

You can follow the news in Twitter:
#OZT
#Orlando Zapata Tamayo
#Zapata
#FreeCuba
I changed my Twitter avatar to use his picture. We did it for Neda.
We can do it again.

Several Cuban exiles tried to honor him with flowers in front of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid, Spain. Libertad Digital has this video:



I'm royally pissed off.
I don't know what to write.
I've tried several times now to see the videos smuggled out of Cuba with Orlando's mother comments. But I haven't been able to finish. I just can't.

What can one write about such a criminal assasination?

There are only two sure things:
First, mothers are not meant to bury their children. We are not meant to do that. WE ARE NOT!
Second, justice might be slow, but she always shows up. And payback is a damned b%$#&.

Venezuela: students protest against socialism

Despite the MSM silence on what's going on in Venezuela, for the past several days, students in Caracas has taken the streets to march against socialism. Yes, against socialism.

With no weapons and sporting signs that read "Students without weapons", they have been marching for libertad - the freedom that Monkey Chavez socialist power grab has been taking away from Venezuelans, at the same time that sinks in misery and failed economic policies what once was one of the richest countries in Latin American.

See the story in images here, via Noticias24:

 LIBERTAD (Freedom), that what says in this girl's arm.

"Students without weapons"

The National Guard sporting chains with hooks to repress the students protests, as published in the Venezuelan newspaper "El Nacional".

For more information on the marches, check George's coverage at The Real Cuba.

The "in-your-shoes" reflection is a must.

Sould we, in America, learn from young and un-armed students? Probably. Not taking freedom for granted is always a good idea. The minute one fall asleep, a commie wanna be will try to rise to take it away from you.

In the worst case scenario, will something similar happen in our universities. I, honestly, highly doubt it. The majority of the universities in the United States have become campuses for marxist and leftist indoctrination.

Just look at the resumen of the "historian" that recently died.

Foreign policy lesson for Obama

Brought to you by el maestro Pong.

"Yes, Mr. President, the Iranians did it"
"We're gonna have to increase the sanctions against them."

Chavez loads on Russian missiles

Venezuela's Hugo "Monkey" Chavez publicly said today that he bought thousands of Russian missiles and its rockets launchers, because Colombia and the United States are going to attack and invade him and his kingdom.

Whatever weed Evo Morales is shipping him from Bolivia must be good or tampered; it is obviously damaging the scarce neurones Chavez has left.

Why do I find this tune so familiar?

Oh, wait! I'm Cuban born, under castro's plantation. And as far as my memory can go back on time, we always have to be prepared for the invasion from the americanos.

It is so surreal, that even a few weeks ago the slave-owners were trying to entertain the masses, yet again, with the same kabuki theater.

The stupidity of these crap of human beings - not to be more explicitly accurate - knows no limits. Back there in Cuba, and myself living a few feets from the shoreline, WE dreamt with the americanos. It was just like; OK, I just want them to get here, pronto!

I had a friend that used to say: "The only thing I really want is to have the americanos getting in here, now!. I need them to get rid of this communist crap that is killing us over time. I can even put a sign on my front door: Marines, mi casa es su casa".

The dictatorship efforts to deviate people's thougths from real life needs, hunger, misery, lack of freedom and repression knows no limits. The trully believe our brains were removed the minute we were born under their dark communist rule.

And just a while ago, a Venezuelan friend tells me story of a relative of her that recently told her: "You know what, I don't care to be called the most unpatriotic person in Venezuela; I just want the marines to get here, now!".

Coincidence? Don't think so.

Meanwhile, Emperor-to-be Obama is amused seing the unicorns flying over the east garden of the White House, barking at the wrong - or was it bowing at the wrong king? - and drooling over Hopenhagen.

Picture of the Year

Huevos hondureños (Honduran balls) for sale.

As recently seen at a rally against comunistoid Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua.

'Nuff said.

(Vía Babalú Blog & The Real Cuba)

I can't help to wonder if we shouldn't start importing some of those "huevos" to the US itself...you know, in case need them to defend our Constitution in the near future...

FYI, thanks to those Honduras huevos, communist-in-the-making ousted ex president Zelaya (I am telling you that hat has seriously damaged the guy's brain) has been cornered and the Honduras Congress, by majority, voted against restoring him in the presidency.

See? The effectiveness of the Honduran huevos...

Agreed with Ziva on the money quote. It is for our children that we have to stand up against these communist thugs and their wannabe cronies all over the world:

"My vote is a lesson for anyone who pretends to perpetuate himself in power. My vote is so that my son can look at me and say 'Dad you defended democracy," said Antonio Rivera of Lobo's conservative National Party."

Vas bien, Honduras

Hondurans voted today, and their votes screamed "NO" to Chavez and his communist thugs. Go elsewhere with you pseudo-socialist and colonial goals, monkey!

A few hours ago, the Liberal Party candidate conceded and Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, from the Conservative Party - a graduated from University of Miami, BTW - was proclaimed the winner of the presidential elections.

A tiny nation that has given a heck of a lesson to the evil axis of socialism that is has been brewing in Latin America, with help of castro, chavez and et al.

And the same message goes to Obama and his socialist cronies in the US, who first stuck all their feet in their mouths and some more, and then had to wait for several "official" reports to realized what everybody was saying ad nausea um: Hondurans are following their Constitution, there was no coup and castro, chavez & Co are trying to get hold of the country.

It was a mostly peaceful election in a country that won't accept the label the label of banana republic anymore - not even coming with the pressure of the US President.

The only idiot sycophant trying to say different was - guess what - Zelaya. I say that huge hat is blocking the already severely reduced neurone capacity the guy has... he is getting close to Biden, as to see who talks more nonsense.

As usual, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, at the WSJ, has masterfully summarized the crucial role these elections played, and the lessons to learn from the Hondurans.

For a more "insider" view, go to La Gringa's Blogicito.

As to who is Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, well, time will tell. At the end, the first step taken by this small country to side with the rule of law is what really matters. For that, Felicidades, Honduras! Y buena suerte!

Quote of the Day

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - your hot spot news for the week - is being dismissed from left, right, and everything in between; brought to you but no other than his own sycophants at msnbc.com.

The golden nugget is:

"I'm not sure what the international community loved best; his waffling on Afghanistan, pulling defense missiles out of Eastern Europe, turning his back on freedom fighters in Honduras, coddling Castro, siding with Palestinians against Israel, or almost getting tough on Iran." GOP Rep. Gresham Barrett - who is running for governor of South Carolina

And the crash-course to get your own NPP, courtesy of conservative columnist Tommy De Seno, is:
1-Party
2-Go to meetings
3-Skip church
4-Release federal funding (Americans taxpayers monies, in case you didn't know from where federal monies come) to pay for abortions in foreign countries
5-Party some more

Go ahead! Start this weekend your very own path to the Nobel Prize!

Twisted priorities

Move over, Gandhi. Your intentions - or efforts - were never good enough.


By now every single living cell on planet earth has been awakened with the news that Obama won the Peace Nobel Prize.

Nope, we're not in April. And you better don't laugh, otherwise, you could be red-flagged as terrorist - what if you are an Independent or Libertarian, but you're laughing anyway?

My first reaction? Wait a minute, I haven't drank enough Cuban coffee yet, my brain is not fully alert, I need another...

Then the simple logic of a thinking human brain kicked in, and I posted in Facebook: "... and what exactly has Obama done for peace?". Let's say that I could gladly use three examples, you know, just to keep the tradition.

Later on the news were reporting the Nobel committee purportedly said the award was not exactly for anything Obama has done, but for his intentions. Really?

A Chinese dissident and an Afghan women’s rights activist lost out to that. And the Iranians who took out the streets to defend their elections didn't even make it to the finals.

Mahatma Gandhi was nominated several times to the Nobel Prize, including the year that he was killed. But he never received it. Ergo, I can't get past the sick, twisted priorities that I am seeing around us lately...

Just another example of the uselessness of the Nobel prize. Really wanna do something for peace? Try anything, BUT the Nobel Prize. Where is Kanye West now?

Being in office for, like 11 months, my most conservative math estimate tells me that Obama was proposed to the award after being at the WH for, three weeks?

Which intentions or efforts were materialized by then, other that your standard politician's campaign promises (something, that, by the way, haven't changed that much either).

And, apparently, I am not the only one with this line of thoughts. Norwegians had made a political statement for someone they HAVE NOT to deal with, at least directly. That is, en pocas palabras, a lot of audacity.

On top of that, the laureate wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10 million Swedish crowns (1.4 million dollars or 878,000 pounds). I know; ACORN, stop worrying about being de-funded!

For those out there saying they are just happy because the crazy right wingers are irritated - which also proves my theory of the uselessness of this theater - I will answer just one thing:

I am not irritated.
I am just LMAO!

PS: my mother, with her endless sabiduría, only said "De buenas intenciones está lleno el camino hacia el infierno." [The way to hell is also paved of good intentions.]

UPDATE: the Nobel Prize as a certificate of political correctness, people's endless obsession with falsehood and more reactions.

Me? Don't you worry about me!
I've told you; I am still laughing at this endless stupidity.

More on Honduras...

First course in the table?
Just take a look at Zelaya's supporters in the streets of Honduras, courtesy of this AP photo.

With that image and the fact that Honduran wannabe dictator Zelaya was has been caught in the act with computers holding info on election results on a referendum that never took place... what else would you need for a royal indigestion?

The MSM keeps silent: as of Monday July 20th, 2:30MT, no major news outlet has anything in English about it. An inconvenient truth?

After reading about it at American Thinker, I tracked it back and noticed that Alberto de la Cruz has been on it, over there at Babalu Blog, since Saturday, when he first found it in Spanish.

Hey, news people out there! Need a translator with journalism background?
I'm freelancing! Jeez! I could even volunteer!
(Check the report in Spanish, from the Catalan newspaper on Saturday, here)

Oh, boy, I DO second this motion!

Poster of The Year, courtesy of José Reyes, over there at Cubanology.

For our English speaking readers, the sign reads:

"Honduras is the example for the world. We don't have oil nor dollars, but we've got balls".

'nuff said.

PD: Can someone, please, page POTUS and his entourage? Should we extend the message to the Americans still blinded by The One?

Tell me who your friends (or your posters) are...

or whose' face do you wear in your hat, or your T-shirt... and that will say it all.

Honduras has become the last pro-democracy bastion in Latin America.

And, believe it or not, the Obama administration has chosen to side with the Chavez-wannabe that wants to destroyed all the leaps the small country has made towards democracy and the rule of law.

Hondurans are outraged with Obama position - yes, that same president that decided he couldn't "meddle" in Iran's conflict when thousands of civilians were being killed while protesting the stolen presidential elections.

They feel America has betrayed them, and I - personally - can not agree more.

For a very long time the US has been hitting hard Latin America's power grabs, "banana republics" and so on. But now, when it has the chance the side with democracy, what have we got? Shame on you, Mr. President.

Shame on you.

Super H/T to Babalu Blog

Slapping POTUS' face; no speeches needed

Sign reads: We are not Chávez's puppets)

This photo says it all. It's from El Nuevo Herald article on the interim government decision to suspend some constitutional guaranties in order to regulate protests.

Rolando Dubon, congressman from the Liberal Party - Manuel Zelaya's own party - explains (my own translation):

"This is being done (because) there is a risk that there are many people from other countries in Honduras, and there is the concern that they could try actions against the citizenry and the new government," although he didn't gave more details about the presence of foreigners.

People I know with relatives in Honduras have been telling me that it's vox populi the fact that many Venezuelans are organizing protests pro-Zelaya in Honduras territory.

And knowing myself who Chávez and his thugs coaches on public demonstrations are ... should I connect the dots?

The Drudge Report posted this Reuter's story on Honduras resisting pressure from everywhere - including the US administration - to allow Zelaya's return. Double standard, anyone?

Crash course notice

Could we forward this crash-course on the events in Honduras to POTUS, please?

IMHO, a little bit of education on the topic wouldn't be harmful...

At least a post it note, delivered via Gibbs, with a summary blurb about this "democratic coup"?

It's like knocking in a stone-deaf's door - maybe they are too busy hiding ACORN scandals, naming Czars and ousting IG's that have discovered the putrid smell of the current administration ways to do business?

Aaaggg!

Honduras: Let's set the record straight, shall we? UPDATED

As I’ve mentioned before –countless times – the former MSM, a.k.a. SRM, is not telling the whole story about the events that unfolded in Honduras last week.

One more time, they have been in the tank with the wannabe dictators of Latin America and their Kool-Aid drinkers lovers in the rest of the world; POTUS included – despite babbling Castro saying it was a “yanqui coup”, go figure!

Similarly to the protests in Iran, this time Twitter and the Internet have played the best role reflecting the events in Honduras. Fausta’s Blog has an excellent coverage and updates on the events. (H/T to Babaly Blog)

So, for the sake of accuracy, let’s say it: what happened in Honduras, was not, technically, a military coup. It was a presidential coup.

It was Manuel (Mel) Zalaya, Honduras' democratically elected president, who tried to overstep the Constitution, calling to a referendum to perpetuate his mandate. (In case you were wondering who are Zelaya’s lifestyle coaches: Hugo “Monkey” Chávez, the Castro brothers and the entire leftist claque that blooms in Latin America under Venezuela’s petrodollars and Cuba’s brainwashing machine.)

Assisted by Chávez, who did the same in Venezuela, Zelaya wanted to call a “survey” to change the terms for the presidential seat. According to Honduras’s Constitution, a referendum is legal, but it can not be unilaterally conducted by the president; it has to be called by a special constitutional group (constituyente) created by Congress.

When Congress and the Honduran Supreme Court told Zelaya this, and ruled his attempt as unconstitutional, the boy got mad and promptly, Chávez printed out the ballots in Venezuela and flew them to Honduras in a Venezuelan air force plane.

They did start the process in some points of the country and when the Supreme Court noticed Zelaya defied its ruling, issued an order to the Honduran Army to stop the process, to take custody of Zelaya and to deport him from the national territory.

Think about this:
What would have happen in the US if the current president decides to call a referendum to eliminate presidential terms, the Supreme Court issues an order telling him not to do so and he continues to pursue his objective? Impeachment and destitution, at least, right? - Well, I hope.

Putting the last nail to the coffin, Obama's administration, one more time, lost a golden opportunity to show what they truly should stand for. Well, actually, I guess he did a clear statement, on the opposite direction.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady weights in for WSJ, both in English and Spanish. Links to her column in English has been passing on Tweeter since late Saturday night.

Some might see unfortunate that the army got involved, but again, they did it following orders from the Supreme Court.

At the same time, the country must return to its constitutional order and democratic goverment ASAP; if not, they run the risk to have all these efforts to preserve the rule of law completely wasted.

On the other hand, Hondurans in the US are expressing support to the Supreme Court ruling and their homeland Constitution, and they want to drawn the negative stories about the incident.
A Honduran man that moved to US 15 years ago has the golden quote:

"We're all energized,'' said Mauricio Andino, who moved from the country's capital, Tegucigalpa, 15 years ago. "We're a little country showing the world that we will not stand for communism, and we will not be bullied by what any of those other communists have to say about us."

Unfortunately, Andino’s priority seems to be missing from OAS’s agenda – after all, Inzulza owes his post to Chavez and they’re all in bed with longest communist dictatorship in the region. Let's say it is more or less the same thing that is happening with the wicked priorities’ list of the current US administration.

UPDATE:
Charles Krauthammer, On The Corner at NRO, has an excellent crash-course on how and why Obama and his administration should re-examine their assumptions.

Also at NRO, Mona Charen asks "Did someone say coup?", and provides more background on Chávez dirty games to throw Venezuela in the abyss of socialism.

Following the day in Iran

Iran: another day, another protest, more people injured, votes still disappeared.

Penúltimos Días is keeping up with the updates - some intros are in Spanish - of the events.

Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho's link with the doctor who assisted Neda during her last minutes of live stands on the list. On his blog, Coelho has revealed the identity of the doctor. It is, certainly, a story fit for a novel.

An eyewitnesses described a massacre near the Iranian Parliament - via Michelle Malkin.

And BBC put together an interactive map of today's protests.

Update on "The unavoidable parallel"

An English version of the essay "Why the Iran's Revolution Matters to Cuba", by Ernesto H.B (Penúltimos Días) is posted in RealClearWorld. Have at it.

Gateway Pundit is following the Iran's saga with photos of the brutality against protesters. Unfortunately, Val is right: in Cuba there has never been protests like this, where people are willingly taking risks for their freedom or their fellow countrymen.

Two months ago, I had higher hopes to the contrary. Unfortunately, I just learned I was dead wrong.

How can I explain it? Cubans have been broken down by a Machiavellian combination of repression, brainwashing, censorship and sense of hopelessness. Sadly, it is so bizarre and cruel that one can only realize it when you are able to escape that hellhole.

They are just walking the walk because nothing has happened so far that could erase their existence from the face of earth.

It might sound fatalistic and it might be a generalization where a lot of exceptions could exist; but it is what you read in their faces. Eyes don't lie; trust me.

That's the sad picture in the faces of the average Cubans, while standing in the P-3 bus stop, in the line to get the daily bread, while walking in the sidewalks... and I, honestly, still have a hard time understanding...

Broken down.
And it breaks your heart when you see it, up close and personal.

Looking out through my (Microsoft) window

It's a window that gives you a whole lot bigger picture of things going on out there that what anyone would want to digest in a 48 hours period.

The green avatar for Neda is everywhere in the net. She is being called the Angel of Iran. She was a beautiful young woman; what a terrible loss. The voice of The Green Revolution.

The constant feed of the events going on in Iran. Go here (06/22) here (06/23) for a multi-language round-up. Another protest is being planned for tomorrow.

Having lived in Libya and being familiar with the culture and set of values of this part of the world, I am concerned that it is going to be a bloodbath.

Thanks to Tweeter - one more time - we learn about contrasts.

Iranian dissidents are taking on against POTUS soft "I do; but I don't" stance - and we can not blame them.

Meanwhile, Iranians of all ages are being killed and/or injured in the protests.

In the Old Continent, Ernesto posts the third part of his thoughts on why Cubans should pay attention to what is happening in Iran: because at the end, it's about the same; about individual freedom struggling with fanaticism, censorship, repression, the adoption of double standards in order to survive, and the survival of the individual under a totalitarian regimen.

On the other hand, the exiled son of the late shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, has issued a warning. If POTUS is not listening, well, it could be just because he doesn't want to.

Before closing my window, very timely, I just found this story about a little president who wasn't there...

There are days when the view from my computer's little window it is simply too overwhelming. In order to keep some mental sanity, a lock down time must be established.

This tired Cubanita it out.

Have at it!

Tarea / Homework:

A que le temen mas los dictadores? / What dictators are afraid of the most?

I just received these photos via email. I'm being told they belong to a publicity campaign put together by the German agency Ogilvy & Mather (Frankfurt, Alemania), for the International Society for Human Rights.

An image - or an instant Tweet or Internet post - is, one more time, worth more than thousands words.