Regret or Blackmail ??

It seems that police in Brazil have found the two boxers who defected from their Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. What's interesting is that they want to return to Cuba. Iguess the Cuban government has threatend their families if they do not return back to Cuba. That is very typical of Cuba.

Two Cuban boxers who disappeared during last month's Pan American Games were found at a resort near Rio, where police say they partied and ran up an
exorbitant tab.

Now, a police inspector says, they want to go back to Cuba.

Two-time Olympic boxing champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara were found Thursday at an inn in the coastal resort city Cabo Frio.

"We still have to clear up the reason why they abandoned their delegation and now want to return," federal police inspector Felicio Laterca said. "Right now, they are only saying they are very dear athletes in their country and that's why they want to return."

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Soviet Union #2

Released today was a report from the University of Miami that says Venezuela is sending to Cuba annually $4 billion in oil shipments. That total is up $1 billion more than last year.

The value of Venezuelan oil subsidies to Cuba climbed past $3 billion in 2006 and could swell to $4 billion this year -- almost double current estimates, according to a University of Miami report to be released today.

Venezuela is propping up Cuba's troubled economy with shipments of 94,103 barrels of oil a day, experts at UM's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS) calculated, based on official Havana figures issued last week. That means Cuba last year got some $3.3 billion in oil products from Venezuela, up from $2.7 billion in 2005. Caracas has declined to explain the payment system, but experts believe Havana gets the energy assistance free of charge.

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Here are some more facts about the Cuba-Venezuela relationship.

Part 2: Humberto Fontova and CNSNews.com

Part 2 of the interview.

Cybercast News Service: In your book you talk a lot about the various companies that put Che Guevara's face and image on their products.

Humberto Fontova: Yes. AT&T, by the way, was selling cell phones with Che's image on them and, just last week, they yanked them, stopped selling them because we protested - we mounted a phone and email program against the company. AT&T apologized, saying the image should not have been there in the first place and then yanked the product. Target was selling CD cases with Che's face this past Christmas. We protested again, and they yanked the product.

Cybercast News Service: Do you think it's morally fair to equate the placement of Guevara's image on a product to placing Heinrich Himmler's image on a product or Levrenti Beria's image on a product?

Humberto Fontova: Probably not, only because of the ignorance. My guess is that 70 percent or 80 percent who buy Che's image and post it on their product - the product managers - have no idea who Che is. They have a vague idea that he was a cool, revolutionary guy, but they have no idea about what he really did. If AT&T
was telling the truth, it's a perfect example when they said "this guy's image shouldn't have been there in the first place." That confirms what I think. Most people who put the image on a product don't know all the details.

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Part 1: Humberto Fontova and CNSNews.com

Read part one of Humberto Fontova's interview with CNSNews.com. They discuss che guevara and his iconic portrayal by many including Hollywood personalities. Also, che guevara: the murderous thug, is a topic of conversation.

(CNSNews.com) - Che Guevara, who aided Fidel Castro in his rise to power in Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is today an icon of liberal culture worldwide. His picture and image adorn countless products, from posters to t-shirts to CD cases to bikinis.

Robert Redford made a 2004 movie about Guevara, "The Motorcycle Diaries," which won media praise and an Academy Award. Two more Guevara movies are due for release in 2008.

Yet the liberal-left and Hollywood are perpetuating myths, if not outright lies, about Guevara, according to author Humberto Fontova in his book, "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him."

Fontova discussed with Cybercast News Service his new book and what he describes as the real Guevara - the man who directly helped Castro put into place a communist regime responsible for at least 102,000 deaths and which has cycled 500,000 people through its gulag.

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castro Brother's At Odd ??

It seems like the castro brother's are not in full agreement on Cuba's policy towards the U.S. (evil empire). During the 26 de Julio speech, raul castro said:

''Whatever new administration emerges will have to decide if it will maintain the absurd, illegal and failed policy toward Cuba, or if it will accept the olive branch that we extended,'' he said. ``If the new U.S. authorities finally put aside their arrogance and decide to talk in a civilized manner, they're welcome. If not, we are willing to continue confronting their policy of hostility, even for another 50 years, if that becomes necessary."

Today, invisible big brother says from the deep layers of the Earth, in hell, that there will be no dialogue with the "evil empire",

"Let nobody come under the illusion that the empire, which carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction, will negotiate with Cuba," Castro said Wednesday in an article published by Cuban media.

If fidel is still involved in governmental decisions, then why is there such a huge misunderstanding between the brothers ?? Who is really running Cuba ?? Is fidel capable of make decisions ??

fidel castro KO'd By Intestinal Surgery

So what is it ?? Is he or is he not running the government from his rocking chair in the nursing home ?? I thought he was making phones calls and delegating duties from his hospital bed ?? Like we said all along, they are all full of shit !! They lied to all of you that believed it. Now, fidel castro says that the government will "march ahead without him." No shit !! I could have told you that awhile ago. Little by little we will all find out the complete truth about what the hell is going on in Cuba.

We started off being informed of his intestinal emergency surgery about 4-5- days later. It was labled a state secret. Now, we find out that the government will march with out him. Every few months the missing pieces of the puzzle are given to us.

Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday that Cuba is "marching ahead" without him at the helm, adding to the view of many Cubans that he is not coming back.

In a cryptic message to the country one year after bowel surgery forced him to hand over power temporarily to his brother Raul for the first time since Cuba's 1959 revolution, Castro said nothing about resuming office.

"I am being bombarded now with questions about when I will return to what some call power," he wrote in a column published on the front page of the Communist Party newspaper Granma.

"Raul, the party, the government and the mass and social organizations, led by the workers, are marching ahead guided by the unbreakable principle of unity," he said.

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