Before Castro News Today

A brief meditation: The image above is from Seville, Spain. Cuba used to have processions like this one. I'm old enough to remember the throngs in the streets, the floats with life-size images of Christ's passion. Good Friday in Cuba B.C. (Before Castro) was the most religiously intense day of the year. All stores were

Before Castro destroyed the Cuban economy with "hope and change," the island enjoyed a lot of prosperity with an economy that would produce a middle-class and educated people. Let's check out Cuba before Castro: In the 1950's Cuba was, socially and economically, a relatively advanced country, certainly by Latin American standards and, in some areas, by

From our Bureau of Parasitic Failed States with some assistance from our Bureau of Communist Capitalism Yikes! Another store that will be off limits to most Cubans, made possible by a foreign investor that has been partnering up with Castro, Inc. for over 25 years, with the aim of raking in dollars from the Cuban

From our Bureau of Top Sugar Producing Nations Turned Into Starving Sugarless Totalitarian Hellholes By Socialism Once upon a time, B.C. (Before Castro) Cuba was the Sugar King of the world. Sugar and Cuba were as synonymous as Cigars and Cuba, or Rum and Cuba, or Mambo and Cuba, or Cha-Cha-Cha and Cuba, etc .

From our Wonders of Socialism Bureau with some assistance from our Wonders of Communism Bureau …

Eugenio Martínez, Last of the Watergate Burglars, Dies at 98 A hero to exiles from Castro’s Cuba, he was the only person other than Richard Nixon to receive a presidential pardon in the scandal. Eugenio Martínez being escorted by U.S. marshals from a Washington courthouse after his arraignment in the Watergate burglary in 1972. He was one of five burglars whose crime set in motion the downfall of a president.Credit...Wally McNamee/Corbis, via Getty Images Published Feb. 2, 2021Updated ...