Stories about Breaking News from August, 2006
Cuba: Anti-government posters appear
Marc Masferrer links to a CubaNet article stating that anti-government posters appeared in the city of Santiago de Cuba, bearing the messsages “Fidel, you have finally arrived at your end,”...
The week that was in Bahrain
After almost a month of continuous bombing, most of Bahrain's bloggers have strayed away from covering Lebanon and Palestine and turned their attention to home affairs – except for Sabbah,...
Cuba: More links
The Latin Americanist posted another list of links to various news sources commenting on the Cuba situation early this afternoon.
Cuba: Further mistreatment of journalists and “internet apartheid”
Marc Masferrer posts a couple of links to further instances of mistreatment of journalists attempting to cover the situation in Havana and republishes an article demonstrating the existence of “internet...
Cuba: Foreign journalists barred
Cuba Libre Digital (ES) and Ya No Mas (ES) have published a report stating that “at least six” foreign journalist have been barred from entering Cuba. According to the report,...
Cuba: Fidel in High Spirits
Writing from Venezuela, Daniel Duquenal pokes fun at Fidel Castro's opening sentence of a message to the Cuban population (available in its entirety (ES) at Juventud Rebelde) assuring his good...
Cuba: Fidel's location
On the basis of “information received directly from Cuba,” Fort Worth, Texas-based Dr. Eloy González identifies the location where Fidel Castro is said to be hospitalised.
Cuba: New message from Fidel
Zenia reports from Cuba (ES) that “a message from Fidel was read at 645pm — Cuba time — during the information round table on Televisión Cubana, in which he made...
Cuba: Not so fast, Miami
“Those rejoicing in the streets of Miami could do well to rethink their jubilation,” says Curzon as he posts an excerpt from a profile of Raúl Castro, the brother of...
Cuba: Some anti-Castro links
“As the hemisphere’s worst-ever dictator slides into death’s embrace, the mainstream media sweetly qualifies the Monster of Havana, one of the century’s worst tyrants, as a ‘maverick’ and other crap,”...
Cuba: CNN on Fidel
Babalu Blog weighs in on the CNN coverage of the Fidel Castro situation in two posts, one calling CNN the “Chávez News Network”, and another in which “the ‘internet’ expert,...
Cuba: Castro links
The Latin Americanist posts a valuable set of links relating to the Castro situation, including one for a few anti-Castro jokes.
Cuba: FidelWatch
The Miami Herald's RSS feed is buzzing today with reports of Miami's Cuban community and their anticipation of the death of Fidel Castro, in light of Castro's announcement yesterday that...
