CUBAN AMERICANS SECTION - Havana Journal
By Varela | Progresso Weekly
The American monster created to topple the Castro government by supplying a propaganda alternative to the Cuban people – Radio and TV Martí – was spawned during the Cold War.
The funny thing is that, in Miami, RTV-Martí is called “the Martí Bottling Company.” (We Cubans look for humor even in funeral homes. We say: “Look how much rouge they ladled on the stiff.”)
“The bottle” is a Cuban euphemism for “sinecure,” meaning a cushy job that requires little or no work. And “the bottle” is a way to make a living that we inherited…
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ROBERTO KOLTUN | EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF
Back in July, Corinna Moebius opened a store that sold locally produced crafts with the hope of drawing in some of the hundreds of tourists that visit Little Havana each week.
The tourists never came, though, and her savings began to run out.
So, after just two months Moebius decided that next week she’ll close Bordercross, her cultural shop at 1333 SW Eighth St.
“My passion is this neighborhood,’‘ Moebius said. “But I just can’t compete with the tourist trap up the street. The tourists just don’t walk down here.’‘
The past decade…
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By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Miami Herald
original title: Suit by spy’s ex-wife could stop flights to Cuba
All direct U.S. flights to Cuba may be halted if the ex-wife of a Cuban spy wins a lawsuit to garnish money that South Florida charter companies pay in fees to Cuba, lawyers in the case said Monday.
Ira Kurzban, attorney for the charterers, said he filed a motion Monday to dissolve the writs of garnish by Ana Margarita Martinez, and asked U.S. Judge Frederico Moreno for an emergency hearing.
The eight charter companies, all based in South Florida, have stopped making…
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By John McArdle | CQ-Roll Call
(original title: Florida 25: More Than Just an Open Seat)
With the November forecast ominous for Democrats, some factions within the party are watching to see how aggressive the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will be to put Florida’s 25th District seat in play.
Noting the opportunity to poke a big hole in the GOP alliance with Cuban-American voters, many party insiders are openly advocating that the DCCC should invest the effort.
But that’s easier said than done when the party will be devoting almost all of its available resources to protecting Democratic seats.
The…
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Kathleen A. Hughes | Wall Street Journal
My husband Dan’s family fled Cuba in September 1960, almost two years after Fidel Castro took power, leaving behind a beautiful, modern home and most of their possessions. His parents, Daniel and Delia Bethencourt, an engineer and architect, had designed and built the house in Havana.
I always found it odd and surprising that no one in the family seemed to know what had happened to their house. The revolution abolished private property, but who was living there? I wanted to visit Cuba, mostly out of curiosity, but learned the hard way that…
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BY LESLEY CLARK AND BETH REINHARD | Miami Herald
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a passionate defender and architect of legislation to strengthen the U.S. embargo against Cuba, announced Thursday he won’t seek reelection to Congress.
The Miami Republican made the announcement at a news conference at Florida International University.
Diaz-Balart indicated last summer that he was interested in leaving the House, where he has served since 1992, saying he was ``seriously considering’‘ a request from Gov. Charlie Crist that he consider being appointed—temporarily—to the Senate.
Word is his brother, Mario Diaz-Balart, will run for Lincoln’s seat—a safer Republican district. That…
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By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Miami Herald
The U.S. government’s Cuba democracy programs are all but paralyzed, facing political, safety and bureaucratic hurdles that critics and backers agree could end up halting their more aggressive features.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which doles out much of the money, has not requested new funding proposals since March, and groups that run the programs complain they have little money left.
Powerful Democrats in Congress are vowing to block the more ``provocative’‘ programs, and the Obama administration is hinting it may halt a key part of the programs that Cuba brands…
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Vanguard Correspondent Adrian Baschuk travels to the last remaining Communist state in the western hemisphere to see how hard life really is there and investigates whether or not there exists any possibility of regime change.
Jorge Moreno, a Miami resident and third generation Cuban exile, is in front of the camera with the video starting in Little Havana talking about his heritage and planned trip to Cuba. The camera follows him from the Miami airport to the Jose Marti airport in Havana where his journey through daily life in Havana gives the viewer an excellent look into life in Cuba.…
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BY GERARDO REYES | El Nuevo Herald
Fifty-one years after a hijacked airliner plunged into the dark waters of a Cuban bay, killing 14 people onboard, the man who has been portrayed as the lead suspect now living in Miami will not be prosecuted under federal law, unless new evidence emerges.
Citing the passage of time and fading evidence, the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami said Thursday it will not be able to make a case against Edmundo Ponce de León in what was the first international hijacking from the United States.
``The allegations in this matter are more than…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Mr. Claver-Carone of CapitolHillCubans.com posted this article today:
Profit$ in Anti-Sanctions Advocacy?
Are anti-sanctions lobbyists, activists and interest groups profiting from their advocacy?
Last week, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana and U.S. Congressman Howard Berman of California wrote an opinion editorial in the Miami Herald calling for the unconditional lifting of tourism-travel sanctions towards Castro’s Cuba.
On the very same day, the price of the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA) jumped 4%. This fund holds about 100 companies—both foreign and U.S. based—that should benefit economically (in conjunction with the Castro regime) from the lifting…
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