First Cup 12.16.06 »
By Jim Lynch on Dec 16, 2006 in Congress, Cuba, First Cup, News, Politics | 2 Comments
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. ~ Alexander King
Category: Cuba
What’s Going On In Cuba? »
By Jim Lynch on Sep 29, 2006 in Cuba, News | Comments Off
Babalu Blog has this breaking story:
Reports from Cuba are that Cuban TV is showing the flag at half-mast and showing old footage from the start of the revolution.
Be sure to read the updates and the comments.
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What I Didn’t Post About Today »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 14, 2006 in Cuba, Israel, Lebanon | Comments Off
I had planned to post more today. I should have had the time. It just didn’t work out that way.
Of course the big news is the cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. To discribe this as fragile would be overstating reality.
Also in the Mid East is the story of the two FOX-TV [...]
First Cup 08.14.06 »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 14, 2006 in Al Qaeda, Cuba, First Cup, Israel, Lebanon, Radical Islam, War on Terrorism | Comments Off
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen
Blue Crab Boulevard Sanity? — “More Muslims have been saved from death in the past decade by the Western governments than by the Muslim governments. More Muslims have been killed by the [...]
Raul Appears? »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 13, 2006 in Cuba, News, People | Comments Off
Forgive me if I quote the whole story, but this is the shortest AP piece I’ve ever seen:
HAVANA - Raul Castro made his first public appearance since being named Cuba’s provisional president, greeting Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez at the airport Sunday.
I’m guessing that further details will be forthcoming.
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Birthday at Bernies? »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 13, 2006 in Cuba, News, People | 2 Comments
I guess he looks alive. He’s probably getting ready to take a little jog on his 80th birthday. The picture is just ripe for some fisking, photoshopping (if it hasn’t been already) or captioning.
State Department: Castro Seriously Ill »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 11, 2006 in Cuba, News | Comments Off
CNN is reporting this from the U.S. State Dept.:
The prolonged disappearance of Fidel Castro from public view indicates that the Cuban president is confronting “serious” health problems, a senior U.S. State Department official said Friday.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, briefing reporters, also said he believes that Castro’s attempt to turn over power to his [...]
The Legend of San Antonio María Claret »
By Jim Lynch on Aug 5, 2006 in Cuba | 2 Comments
The story of an obscure Cuban legend is being reported in today’s Miami Herald:
News of Fidel Castro’s illness has renewed interest in an obscure legend involving Cuba’s patron saint and her prediction to a priest 150 years ago that one day Cubans would be enslaved by a bearded young leader — who then dies during [...]
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