By Judi McLeod Just as Fidel Castro became Cuba’s dictator when he and his guerrillas triumphantly entered Havana on January 7, 1959, President Barack Obama became America’s dictator on Dec. 17, 2014. Swaggering into Havana dressed in army fatigues with his signature cigar, Castro claimed the island as his own. Like a thief making off […]
Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to build the country’s first mosque. Erdogan’s offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus. “Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178,” Erdogan […]
BY: Bill Gertz: Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week. Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will […]
Public Address/ZUMA Press/Newscom On this day 30 years ago, the Reagan Administration launched the successful liberation of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada. The military action was prompted by the coup and assassination of Grenada’s prime minister by Soviet- and Cuban-supported factions in his administration. A former British colony, Grenada had only recently gained independence […]
The Hong Kong government announced that it had allowed the former National Security Agency contractor to depart its territory, The New York Times reports. Snowden, 29, was the whistleblower exposing the United States government surveillance of internet and telephone communications around the world. He has as been charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property Snowden […]
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Alan Gross, the American-Jewish contractor who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, against the U.S. government, for whom he was working when he was arrested. Judge James Boasberg wrote in an opinion dismissing the case that federal law bars lawsuits against the government based […]
ALEJANDRO ERNESTO/EPA/Newscom What are we to make of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba? And can we really expect a better U.S.–Venezuela relationship now that Hugo Chavez is out of the picture? Wonder no more because we’ve got some answers in this month’s installment of the Heritage Libertad podcast. Joining us is The Heritage Foundation’s […]
Jay-Z responded to critics of his Cuba trip with a song called “Open Letter” and now “21 Jump Street” director Phil Lord has responded to the song with an open letter of his own, blasting the rapper for “being a bad artist.” Although Jay-Z’s Cuban excurision with his wife, Beyoncé, and both their mothers was […]
Venezuela’s government is flat-out lying to its people about cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez’s health, the country’s leading opposition figure charged Sunday. “The people are being told bald-faced lies about the situation the president is in,” Henrique Capriles, who lost last October’s presidential race to Chavez, said at a ceremony in Miranda state of which he […]
The detainees, many of whom are accused of plotting terrorist acts, could be moved to the USA, Obama officials say. The Obama administration is considering closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, its inmates many whom are Islamic terrorist could be sent to prisons in the US. “This demonstrates that if the political will exists, we […]
