President Raul Castro, who succeeded Fidel, his elder brother, is taking a bold step forward by authorizing free change surgeries to qualifying Cuban citizens as part of the Cuban health-care system. Sex change operations are quite expensive.

Cuban doctors trained with physicians from Belgium to learn how to perform the sex

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A parody of a ballot from Cuba's recent so-called "elections."  The ballot was smuggled out of Cuba by a hungry rafter who took a bite out of it.  It includes notes from both Fidel Castro and Raul Castro.  Funny political satire about one of the Western Hemisphere's worst dictatorships.

Here

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Will Castro's resignation as head of the Cuban government affect the ability of US citizens to get a hold of highly desired Cuban cigars? We don't know yet but with any luck Cuba will gradually head in a different direction and the embargo will end. But, for now, how can one get a good Cuban cigar in the United States? Is the

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Blog reactions and news about communist dictator Fidel Castro calling it quits. Fidel Castro had been dictator of Cuba for nearly half a decade. But this morning, sources from Cuba are reporting that Fidel Castro himself has written an open letter that is in fact his resignation from office. With Castro's age and health ai

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Shoot Down, the documentary on the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue Cessnas by Castro’s supersonic MiG fighter jets (which we blogged about back in August), premieres today to a limited, invitation-only audience in Miami. I couldn’t make it–I aggravated an already bad leg injury which I’m currently nursing at home (not to

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