• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Hottest Comment Sections Blogs

• A daring rescue in Cuba

  Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Orestes Lorenzo Perez's daring mission to rescue his wife and two kids from Cuba. He did the unthinkable: He took off in a plane from Key West and landing on a seaside road in Cuba, picking up his family and speeding back to the [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 20, 2012, 12:00pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Sometimes you just have to show them in pictures…

  [...]
  From Babalú Blog at December 20, 2012, 11:51am in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Quote of the day

  Berta Soler, leader of Cuba's peaceful human rights women's group the Ladies in White, on the group's determination to continue and grow their struggle for freedom and democracy regardless of the Castro regime's violence and brutality (via Twitter):

  "If they throw us to the floor, we will get up.  It" [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 20, 2012, 10:37am in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Forbidden Voices

  A trailer for a new documentary titled "Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution With a Laptop" staring  Yoani Sanchez from Cuba, Zeng Jinyan from China, and Farnaz Seifi in Iran.

  [...]
  From Babalú Blog at December 20, 2012, 9:22am in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Diaz-Balart Calls for Release of U.S. Veteran Unjustly Imprisoned in Mexico

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

  December 19, 2012

  Diaz-Balart Calls for Release of U.S. Veteran Unjustly Imprisoned in Mexico

  Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), and other members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, calling for their leadership [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 20, 2012, 8:34am in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Coming soon: exit taxes for those leaving insolvent states

  We Cuban-Americans are often ridiculed when we mention the similarities between the discourses of the modern American left and the revolutionary left of cold war Cuba and the Soviet Union. The truth is that the pie in the sky rhetoric is a little softer in America but the goals are [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 19, 2012, 10:03pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Another fallacious ‘End the Cuban Embargo’ editorial

  Joel Brinkley pens another fallacious "End the Cuban Embargo" editorial in Politico filled with inaccuracies and quotations by Castro dictatorship defenders presented as "Cuba Experts." How can you argue for the lifting of sanctions against the Castro dictatorship when you do not even know which U.S. president initiated it [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 19, 2012, 2:38pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• ‘My reforms are moving along quite well’

  The humor of Garrincha:

  Translation:

  "My reforms are marching along quite well."

  "Let's go! March! One-two-three...!"

  [...]
  From Babalú Blog at December 19, 2012, 1:25pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• The spirit of Christmas prevails

  For fifty-nine years, residents of the city of Santa Monica, where I grew up, enjoyed the annual Santa Monica Nativity Scenes displayed during the Christmas Season at Palisades Park. After a messy battle with the usual atheist suspects, fighting threats of lawsuits, and untenable compromises,the city finally [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 19, 2012, 1:22pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate

• Ros-Lehtinen: The U.S. Must Counter the Iranian Regime and Its Proxies’ Influence in the Western Hemisphere

  NEWS

  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

  For IMMEDIATE Release - December 18, 2012

  The U.S. Must Counter the Iranian Regime and Its Proxies’ Influence in the Western Hemisphere, Ros-Lehtinen Says

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke today in favor of [...]

  From Babalú Blog at December 19, 2012, 1:19pm in Cuba

  Share  |  Rate