Echo Park March in Support of Ladies in White

A lesson for Honduras

Don't ever let it get to the point that defending your freedom will put you in jail.

The Courage To Be Free: Tribute to Cuban Democracy Activists from National Endowment for Democracy on Vimeo.

Panfilo de Cuba - canción original

El fracaso del médico de la salsa

Manolín el PhD de la salsa, escribe acerca de su fracaso en el infierno (Miami). Los 3 de La Habana se presentan exitosamente en Los Angeles.

In case you missed it (lo que hace falta es jama)

¡...así dice el jumao!

Mayo 1

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, comiendo mierda y rompiendo zapato. No vemos en la plaza.

La Cuchufleta

La Cuchufleta
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1 de Mayo: Pégale a las ollas

Por el derecho que todo cubano pueda viajar sin tener que tirarse en una balsa.

Checos fueron detenidos en Cuba

Cada vez que oigo mencionar algo relacionado con Checolosvakia me acuerdo de un cantico que cantabamos cuandos niños, este iba algo así:

"una metralleta, checa, checa, checa, a Cuba se respeta." Sinceramente, aunque lo cantaba en coro con los otros niños, cuando era más inocente, hoy me da asco. Y más asco cuando aparecen historias de esta índole, donde en Cuba arrestan a dos checos por haberse reunido con disidentes cubanos. Tal vez esto es to que temían los cobardes y asquerosos miembros del Congressional Black Causus.

On Jan 12, Czech nationals Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik were arrested in Ciego de Avila, 300 km southeast of Havana. Pilip is a co-founder of the right-wing party Freedom Union and a member of the Czech Parliament. Jan Bubenik was a student leader during the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and a former member of parliament.

The two Czechs met with dissidents Roberto Valdivia of the Comite Cubano Pro Derechos Humanos and Antonio Femenias, an independent journalist. Valdivia and Femenias denied the Czechs gave them money or any subversive materials.

Lea el resto aquí.

Not funny, I lived this.

Via Bunnyfun Kitchen:

Langosta y carne de res prohibida en Cuba

Sure why not, where is it?

A CNN poll:

And 71 percent of those polled said that the U.S. should reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, while 27 percent opposed such a move.---->

But do they know where Cuba is? They can't even find Louisiana on a map.

You are a che guevera t-shirt wearer

This video from an Australian band called The Clap. Tell me what you think. Are they making fun of the che t-shirt wearing idiots that don't even know who the guy is, but think he is "cool?"

What if...

This gem from QBA TV:

La Verdadera Valiente

We are Twittering

We are now on Twitter...great for those of us who can only write one sentence per day.

Banned Funny Toyota Commercial (too risque)

Me dedico solo a pintar

Before Felipe Perez Roque, there was Roberto Robaina. Robertico picked up the phone to take a call from a AmericaTeve reporter and asked to comment on the recent purges under castro II. The only answer the frightened Robaina would give is "me dedico solo a pintar."

Keep the receipt

H/T: OXC9

One last time

About one hour ago I dropped my 82 year old mother at the airport. She is traveling from the West coast to the East coast and then onto Havana. This will most likely be her last trip, her last chance to see her only surviving sibling, her youngest sister, and her last chance to see the country where she was born. The airline tagged us with and additional $95 for excess luggage, which was filled with coffee bags, aspirins, vitamins, eye glasses, toilet paper, shoes and clothing, and God knows what else. When my mother returns, the only thing that she will bring back is her passport.

I gave her a digital camera and asked to take tons of photos, I don't even care it is of a dog taking a crap. As long as it is a Cuban dog. I know her, she will most likely not take any photos; in her own words "para qué, a quién le gusta ver miseria y desgracia."

Mami, le pido a Dios que te lleve y te traiga sana y salva.