Happy Super Bowl Weekend From Cuba Companioni

From John O' Donnell Rosales And I, we hope everyone has a fun and safe Super Bowl Football weekend, to enjoy with their friends and family.

Alabao Sea Santisimo!

Back In A Black Out The Flying Monkey & The Mummy In the Dark

Blackouts and energy rationed In Venezuela, reminiscent of past and ongoing Cuban energy catastrophes , have left both batty dictators In the dark.

That's Hugo "the flying monkey" Chavez & Fidel "the mummy" Castro for all you "Momos" out there.

Maricio Carone has more at Capitol Hill Cubans - be sure to visit on our sidebar everyday.

"President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela's energy crisis, drawing criticism Wednesday from opponents who say that the communist-led island is notorious for its own electricity woes.

The socialist leader announced that Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes had arrived on Tuesday to head a Cuban team advising Venezuela on its efforts to reduce energy consumption."

Ramiro Valdes, a former Cuban Minister of the Interior, who was widely feared for his brutality and ruthlessness, could surely teach Chavez many things about repression. But about energy?

NOTE TO OPPONENTS OF U.S. POLICY: There is no U.S. embargo towards Venezuela. Therefore, next time you look to blame sanctions as the culpirt of Cuba's woes, remember Chavez's Venezuela.

Ali Van Van y Los 40 Caraduras

Hat Tip Agustin Blazquez -- Article by Pepe Forte

 In Spanish a penetrating condemnation of the lackey Castro Regime band Los Van Van their leader Juan Formell and his son A Killer Musician who are scheduled to play Miami at the end of this month 31 Januery 2010.

An Extract:

"Juan Formell y su orquesta se presentan en Miami, Florida, el 31 de enero del 2009. Es la segunda vez que lo hacen desde 1999. Sólo quien desconoce el honor, como Formell, toca en un lugar que desprecia. Pero lo hace por mortificar y por las ventajas materiales y monetarias que la presentación le significa. Castro, junto con la destrucción física de Cuba, ha generado una selecta casta de espíritus abyectos de la que Juan Formell es uno de sus integrantes más prominentes.

Cuando se es un descarado —que habla o actúa con descaro, sin vergüenza o recato, según definen más o menos todos los diccionarios de Castellano—, se carece de dignidad y se opera en pro de un objetivo, no importa qué, sin el más mínimo sonrojo. Hay naciones, como Japón, que se erigen sobre una zapata de honor. En vergonzante contraposición hay hombres, como dijo Martí, penosamente carentes de decoro…

Un descarado. Eso es Juan Formell.

 

Van van… yo sé que van van…
Así como Hitler y el propio Castro son genios, Juan Formell posee un gran talento musical. Hace más de 40 años, luego de separarse de la orquesta del maestro Elio Revé, Formell fundó el Changüí y, al borde de 1970, creó Los Van Van, cuyas primeras presentaciones tuvieron lugar en En Vivo, un programa meridiano de lunes a viernes en la televisión cubana que animaba Germán Pinelli. La orquesta se llamó Los Van Van en un acto de suprema lisonja a uno de los fracasos personales más grandes de Castro, la Zafra de los Diez Millones, que pretendía producir la aberrantemente inalcanzable cifra de 10 millones de toneladas de azúcar. Dos de las frases oficiales de la propaganda gubernamental para la campaña rezaban, “palabra de cubano: los diez millones van”, y “de que van, van”. Como era costumbre en los combos de la época, el tom-tom de la batería de la orquesta decía “Los Van Van”, acompañado del dibujo de unas cañas de azúcar. Formell y su orquesta cantaban una canción oda a los Diez Millones, cuyo estribillo repetía, van, van, yo sé que van,van..".

Conversa Cuba Radio Franc Pais and the 26th of July Movement History with Professor Emeritus Jose Pepin Alvarez

On blog talk radio's Conversa Cuba Companioni

The three aliases of Franc Pais, the doomed Revolutionary leader of the Cuban urban underground group known as the 26th of July Movement.Whose name Is taken from the date of Fidel Castro's failed attack In 1953 of the Moncada military barracks In Santiago de Cuba

Professor Jose Pepin Alvarez joined us along with a spontaneous call from Agustin Pais the second and of the three Pais family brothers , all members of the group M-26-7 In descending order of Franc, Agustin and Josue) On a Cuban history show that Included his recent book about Franc Pais, the National Directorate leader of The 26th of July Movement - together with some history of Cuba's agricultural economy and It's status before and after Castro Communism.

Pais Funeral procession Santiago de Cuba 1957

Co Host John O'Donnell Rosales and I were joined by Pr. Pepin Alvarez and Agustin Pais, the only surviving of the three Pais brothers this past Thursday Night 28 Jan 2010 (The 157th Anniversary of Jose Julian Marti's birth 1853).

On another Special Session of Cuban History On Conversa Cuba Companioni Covering Cuba From All Angles

Franc Pais after his last gun fight with police On the streets of his native Santiago de Cuba 30 July 1957

Marti Images Poetry and Paradoxes

Hat Tip Ziva and our cousin Val at Babalu

"The first duty of man is to think for himself"

"If you see a hill of foam
It is my poetry that you see:
My poetry is a mountain
And is also a feather fan.
My poems are like a dagger
Sprouting flowers from the hilt:
My poetry is like a fountain
Sprinkling streams of coral water.
My poems are light green
And flaming red;
My poetry is a wounded deer
Looking for the forest's sanctuary.
My poems please the brave:
My poems, short and sincere,
Have the force of steel
Which forges swords"


Jose Julian Marti y Perez "El Apostol" was born Jan 28 1853 Havana Cuba & died at Dos Rios (confluence of the Contra-Maestre & Cauto Rivers) Cuba May 19 1895 at 42 years of age.

At 16 he was sentenced to 6 yrs hard labor for an article blasting Spanish oppression In the publication La Patri Libre .

Later In 1871 he was exiled to Spain and Latin America (Guatemala and Mexico)-

Returning to Cuba after the ten years war 1868-1878 He's Detained for conspiring against the Spanish - again he's deported landing In New York Jan 1880. There he wrote" Here one can breathe freely liberty is the basis, the shield,the very essense of life".

Exile In the United States of America would be the place from which Marti did his most profound political and literary work which Inspires to this day.

In New York Exile Marti also founded "modernismo" a literary movement that pushed the Spanish language poetry into the mainstream of the 1800's.

His literary transformation was richly Ironic In that his "modern " poetry rested In medieval classics from Castile Spain, the soul of the madre patria he spent his life fighting.

In 1890 Marti wrote from New York's Catskills mountains his Versos Sencillos.
Upon which one critic wrote Marti with his use of the simple Spanish 8 syllable verse line " unlocked the secrets of ancient romances"

In final Irony Marti, the man who changed poetry In Spanish, did so while In Exile In the English speaking world.

Venezuela roiling In protest to Incoming Chavez Castro Marxism

From Fausta's blog for full story and links on the latest In Latin America.

Fausta's Radio Show can also be heard by scrolling down our sidebar and Is part of our Featured Radio show buttons. Be sure to listen later.

Dr Darsi Ferrer beaten while handcuffed In Cuban Gulag

Update 2-4-2010 Via Ziva - ¨Mensaje a los intelectuales y líderes del movimiento negro en las Américas que condenan el racismo en Cuba¨ Aqui

Dr.Darsi Ferrer seen here In a photo from a past beating

Via Payo Libre for full report with links In Spanish

Noted Afro Cuban civil & human rights leader Dr. Darsi Ferrer was beaten on Sunday 24 Jan 2010  while handcuffed by Cuban regime "reeducator" Luis Felipe Betancourt In Valle Grande prison Havana Cuba, where  He's been detained,tortured and abused since 21 July 2009, that's over 6 months without trial accused of having 2 sacks of cement without a receipt. Surreal!

Sons of Spanish American War Veterans Cuba Libre Camp 172. Radio Show

Cuba Libre #172

Welcome to The Sons of Spanish American War Veterans, Cuba Libre Camp #172.

The Sons of Spanish American War Veteran's was founded 1937.

We welcome descendant's of U.S. Spanish American War Veteran's (1898), The Philippines Insurrection (1898-1902), and The Chinese Boxer Rebellion (1900).

We also welcome descendant's of The Cuban Liberation Army (Ejercito Libertador Cubano), as well as Philippino's and Puerto Rican's who aided the U.S. Militarily.

We also have a Ladies Auxillary, for our Camp, for any women who wish to assist us, in our endeavor's. We hope you enjoy our show on BTR, and hope you join, The Sons of Spanish American War Veteran's, for more information, on joining feel free to contact me at SonsSpanAmWar@Hotmail.com, also feel free to check out our Camp website at www.SSAWV172.BlogSpot.com

United In Hate The Left's Romance with Tyranny & Terror

Via Ziva's Insightful Blog for Cuba for full postIn a Related article The Real Cuban Mafiosi

New Book by Jamie Glazov an extract below:

"In rejecting his own society, the believer spurns the values of democracy and individual freedom, which are anathema to him, since he has miserably failed to cope with both the challenges they pose and the possibilities they offer. Tortured by his personal alienation, which is accompanied by feelings of self-loathing, the believer craves a fairy-tale world where no individuality exists, and where human estrangement is thus impossible. The believer fantasizes about how his own individuality and self will be submerged within the collective whole…
As history has tragically recorded, this “holy cause” follows a road that leads not to an earthly paradise, but rather to an earthly hell in all of its manifestations".

Cuban Hospital Patients Found Frozen to Death : Castro Criminal Negligence Showed No Mercy For Mazzorra 's Hypothermia Victims

On our last radio show 18 Jan 2010 Discussing Haiti and Latin America we also relayed the news  from various sources on the Cuban blogosphere Including the gruesome report of at least 26 victims of hypothermia In the notorious psychiatric hospital  named Mazzorra In Havana Cuba. Now new reports Provided In Spanish In the updated links Indicate as many as 56 Cuban hospital patients In 2 more Cuban health facilities may have perished by freezing to death In the tropical health paradise of Castro's Cuba.

To Date (1-25-2010) almost two weeks after the first findings (1-12-2010)  no public announcement or acknowledgment  from either Raul nor Fidel Castro or anyone else within the Castro criminal cupola been given regarding this sickening story . Nor has any apology officially recognized this depravity against the most defenseless of human beings.

Novo: 1-24-2010 Las cifras pueden ser más altas tal vez 56 muertos en varios hospitales en La Habana Cuba la storia via Desde Cuba 

Novo: 1-21-2010 Vigilia en Regla por los fallecidos en Mazzorra Aqui

An extract of  post by Yoani Sanchez of Generacion Y -  Full post here

"Since the nineties, with the coming of the Special Period, the diversion of resources showed no mercy to Mazorra. The residents of nearby streets were well stocked through a black market in blankets, food, clothing, towels and medicine coming from the hospital. Those admitted there thought it was part of their everyday suffering—like in the film Gaslight—with the light bulbs missing in most rooms. Everything indispensable was stolen and no one noticed the broken windows, the clogged toilets, the broken beds. This time there was no journalist authorized to portray the misery.

Man Responsible for these chilling deaths and the systematic criminal negligence In all Cuban Apartheid Hospitals.
Jose R. Balaguer Cabrera - Minister of Cuban Health  - Member of  Communist Politburo -  Personal  friend of Raul Castro

.."The official press could not hide, however, the deaths of 26 patients—some say the true figure approaches 40—from hypothermia and the illnesses associated with neglect. They left this life on a cold day in January, while huddled together, body upon body, without the power to avoid this end. The cunning, for their part, built houses with the dividends from theft and thought no one would ever detect their embezzlement. Today, those responsible in the hospital are being investigated amid a police deployment to keep away the curious. No pictures have come out, but I’m tormented by the idea of how much they have come to resemble, in their helplessness, those patients whose faces we see in the photographs from the past". More

Ousted Honduran Leader Granted Safe Passage to Dominican

Via  the Associated Press Mojo Wire:

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —  Dominican officials say a deal has been reached with Honduras' president-elect granting Manuel Zelaya safe passage to the Caribbean nation.
Presidential spokesman Rafael Nunez says the agreement would let the ousted Honduran leader go to the Dominican Republic after Honduran President-elect Porfirio Lobo takes office on Jan. 27.
The agreement was signed Wednesday by Lobo and Dominican President Leonel Fernandez.
Zelaya was toppled in a June 28 military-backed coup and flown into exile. But he later sneaked back into Honduras and holed up in the Brazilian embassy.
Nunez said that Zelaya would travel to the Dominican Republic together with Fernandez as a guest of the Caribbean nation.

Afro Cuban Doctor & Dissident Guillermo Farinas to Raul Castro: Trade Ariel Sigler for Me

Guillermo "Coco" Farinas A Doctor of Psychology seen above during one of his 20 hunger strikes this one a 7 month stint from 31 Jan 2006 to 31 August 2007 In which he lost 66 pounds. The man Is a true Cuban hero, an exceptional case study of both compassionate courage and defiant dissent.

In this case he's offering himself up In exchange for another presently Incarcerated Political Prisoner  Ariel Sigler Amaya  a former champion boxer now reduced , crippled and confined to a wheelchair by a vengeful regime hell bent on beating both him and his whole family down.

Extract below via Marc Mas Ferrer's Uncommon Sense for full story

"Fariñas made the offer after attending the funeral last week for Sigler's mother, Gloria Amaya. The authorities allowed a wheelchair-bound Sigler to also attend; Fariñas told Castro that he appeared be a "nothing but a corpse who could talk."

"I have the hope that there remains in you a sense of "magnanimity," wrote Fariñas, a Cuban army veteran who fought in Angola and received training in the former Soviet Union,..

The offer is another example of the selflessness that is a hallmark of Fariñas' personal struggle against the Castro dictatorship.

For example, in 2006, Fariñas went on a lengthy hunger strike, after the dictatorship's censors barred him from using the Internet to transmit his stories after the Miami Herald quoted him as criticizing the regime.

Fariñas quickly expanded his protest to demand that all Cubans have unfettered access to the Internet. Fariñas ended his protest before the dictatorship gave in to his demands, but he was successful in raising awareness about how the dictatorship's repressive ways had extended attempts to control the Internet"

Destroying Castro Myths: Franc Pais (not Fidel Castro) was the true leader of the 26 of July Movement

 
MARIA ELVIRA LIVE 08 08 2008

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Destroying Fidel Castro myths one at a time with  Maria Elvira and Professor  Emeritus Jose Alvarez , whose books, 20 years of research and personal experience as a member of the 26 of July Movement serve as key components In the recounting of these real events that occured during the hijacked Cuban Revolution.

In this segment Professor Alvarez explains how the 26 of July Movement was actually run by Franc Pais (1934-1957) from Santiago De Cuba, not the mythical phony Fidel Castro.

Also Detailed Is the financing of the 26 of July
Movement and how  the exceedingly well funded movement (one of If not the richest guerrilla movement on record) was robbed by Fidel Castro's criminal crew of chameleon like communist crooks.

Franc Pais was the actual  leader and  Natioanal Director of The 26 of July Movement, a fact obscured all these decades from the general public by Castro lies and manipulations.

The popular Pais only 22 years old when killed was already a natural leader. Civic, democratic and religiously minded, he was also both diametrically and philosophically opposed to Fidel Castro, and this fact was not lost on the sociopathic criminal Castro Ruz, who systematically used, abused then eliminated all rivals standing In his shadow, Including the Indomitable Santiaguero Franc Pais.

Castro used the astute and fearless leadership of Franc Pais and specifically the funds collected by  his 26 of July Movement - a sum conservatively calculated from over 400 reference texts - half of whose authors are still In Cuba - of 35 million 1959 dollars (today equivalent 250 million dollars)- an astounding figure barely glimpsing at the amount of money that was ultimately stolen and embezzled by Fidel Castro for his own personal use and degeneration from the Cuban nation.

Castro then as always a calculating, unscrupulous and wary Predator of any rivals, plotted against and then had Pais whacked on 30 July 1957. Using In Infamous treason, Vilma Espin ( Raul Castro's wife) to Inform police of his hideout, where he was later gunned down.

Meanwhile from the Sierra Maestra mountains  Castro cunningly utilized his relative safety (he didn't fight on the front) to further plot complete control from his rivals both In Cuba and In exile. From the La Plata encampment, Fidel Castro spewed calumny and propaganda on Radio Rebelde that were heard via a sophisticated relay chain of radio signal repeaters throughout Cuba, the Caribbean basin and even extending Into South America.

This Surprisingly  fact shows that not only were Fidel Castro's lies heard across the Cuban Archipelago & Caribean basin but across the entire Americas.

Castro's mistress Celia Sanchez,Professor Alvarez explains, carried and secured a metallic box  that held the so called reserve funds, this was the cash that was both collected and extorted from the Cuban people not only to pay for both arms and ammo but also to bribe Batista commanders and to place full page propaganda adds in the American press such as the New York Times.

Many more details are cited by Professor Alvarez of the manipulation of these funds as well as all the other forms of help and aid Fidel Castro received from exile groups such as the signers of the Miami Pact.

Bottom line Is that Castro received massive aid from numerous sources Including other countries such as Haiti's Papa Doc Duvalier, which were hidden from the Cuban public, Fidel Castro then embezzled those funds for his own use and then betrayed all those who helped him Including the doomed Franc Pais through lies and terror.

Finally Fidel Castro Ruz was not the fearless leader of legend who fought In the front lines, but Instead an Inveterate lier and conniving charlatan who has used a myriad of myths about his activities to hide his true depravity from the world.
 More Here

7 Cuban doctors detained, menaced and extorted In Venezuelan finally arrive In Miami

Testimonio de uno de los medicos Cubanos que fueron detenidos y amenazados nel aeropuerto de Maiquetia en Venezuela por agentes, que en parte, eran de Cuba.  Cortesia de  Medicina Cubana 

Update- See the  video  of Cuban doctors arriving to Miami from Venezuela after an ordeal with local and Cuban agents at Maiquetia airport  In Venezuela. The Cuban doctors 4 men and 3 women arrived safely after being detained.and threatened with deportation back to Cuba. They were released after paying a bribe of 5200 dollars to these thugs at the airport. The Cuban doctors had received entry visas from the US consulate In Venezuela as part of the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program . more