Hope in nothing is not hope. Four years ago Americans founded their hopes on nothing and got nothing. We can only hope that they have learned one lesson since then: failure has no color. Or, rather, it comes in all colors and all combinations thereof.
You can't whitewash failure with rhetoric; you can't hang curtains of hubris around it; and you can't stamp a new expiration date on it. Failure is final.
One must be shameless beyond the common type, indeed, shameless beyond any previous conception of what shameless means, to betray the hopes of millions and yet expect them to sanction that betrayal and embrace that failure.
The only thing that would be even more shameless is a people that surrenders its future because it cannot or will not learn from its past.
We Cubans, of course, are the resident experts on that subject.
One would think that if nothing else we would be an object lesson to the world. But no; our failure, as much ours as imposed upon us, is denied by the same people that do not acknowledge Barack Obama's. They regard Fidel Castro as a boon unto our country and all nations, and we must pay with our grim realities for their fond illusions.
If Barack Obama is re-elected president today, the same fate awaits this country: to be a byword for failure without even the pity that failure amounting to national suicide should inspire.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Willard "Mitt" Romney for President
The best thing that can be said about Barack Obama's presidency is that, horrible as these last four years have been, they could have been much worse if the prospect of re-election had not contained to some small but still significant degree his socialist tendencies and radical agenda. Were he re-elected, however, he would not labor even under this restraint and we should see "the hope that failed" fail again, with still more calamitous consequences for this country and the world. We have no great faith in the constancy of Mitt Romney's conservative principles; but even admitting that he is something of a chameleon, his colors, at this moment at least, are not a cause of concern to us, as we have less apprehension of possible apostasies than rampant heresy. If this seems a half-hearted endorsement of "Mitt" Romney, it is not. I have never desired anything more in my life than his election, if not for the good that it will do then for the good that it will not undo.
I have no illusions, however, about what Romney's election would mean for the future of Cuba. As he demonstrated 4 years ago when he spoke to a gathering of Cuban-Americans in Miami and concluded his prepared remarks with Castro's cry of "¡Venceremos. Patria o Muerte!," Mitt Romney may be on our side but he knows nothing about our history or about us. Still, even that is better than someone who knows all the wrong things and has no respect for our struggle. The cancellation of the annual Cuban Independence Day celebration at the White House, and the failure to mark in any official way the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, which was this country's first Vietnam and will not disappear from history because it is ignored or denigrated, carry far deeper symbolism than Romney's fatuous gaffe because they represent an attempt to erase the collective memory of our two countries' shared history, which is the prelude to rewriting that history with the villains as heroes and the heroes as villains.
This, ultimately, is Barack Obama's intention. It may not be his personal obsession; but it is certainly that of the advisers who have steered his Cuba policy over the last four years and made the U.S. an active partner in promoting regime conservation in Cuba. By eliminating all restrictions on cash remittances and facilitating (even promoting) U.S. tourism to the island -- a "stimulus" package worth more than all of Cuba's exports combined -- the Obama administration has in effect circumvented the trade embargo, which cannot be rescinded until Communist Cuba has met certain conditions stipulated in U.S. law, which it has not and never will. This Obama stimulus actually has worked if strengthening the hand of Raúl Castro, the sham reformer, was its object, and whether it was or no such has been its effect: it has emboldened him to undertake the biggest crackdown on dissidents since the inception of the Revolution, culminating in the assassination of their most prominent leaders. For the consolidation of Raulism in Cuba, which resulted in these human rights outrages, Barack Obama shares the responsibility and should be held accountable.
Now for some real politik. Every Republican president from Nixon to Bush II -- including Ronald Reagan -- initiated secret talks with the Castro regime aimed at "normalizing" relations with an abnormality, which failed not because the U.S. did not negotiate in good faith but because it expected the other side to do likewise, having assumed, incorrectly, that since Communist Cuba had the most to gain in the bargain, it would be at least as accommodating as the U.S. which, by the mere act of engaging in such negotiations, had already signalled its disposition to be duped. But as every man believes that he is too smart to be duped, it is inevitable that Mitt Romney too will reach out to Communist Cuba, and just as inevitable that he too will fail. Barack Obama would not fail because there are no conditions that he would insist upon or concessions that he would not make. Negotiations carried forth upon such terms cannot fail to succeed: there has never been a capitulation that did not succeed. Because we don't want these negotiations to succeed and are confident that they won't succeed if a Republican is president, we are endorsing Willard "Mitt" Romney.
I have no illusions, however, about what Romney's election would mean for the future of Cuba. As he demonstrated 4 years ago when he spoke to a gathering of Cuban-Americans in Miami and concluded his prepared remarks with Castro's cry of "¡Venceremos. Patria o Muerte!," Mitt Romney may be on our side but he knows nothing about our history or about us. Still, even that is better than someone who knows all the wrong things and has no respect for our struggle. The cancellation of the annual Cuban Independence Day celebration at the White House, and the failure to mark in any official way the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, which was this country's first Vietnam and will not disappear from history because it is ignored or denigrated, carry far deeper symbolism than Romney's fatuous gaffe because they represent an attempt to erase the collective memory of our two countries' shared history, which is the prelude to rewriting that history with the villains as heroes and the heroes as villains.
This, ultimately, is Barack Obama's intention. It may not be his personal obsession; but it is certainly that of the advisers who have steered his Cuba policy over the last four years and made the U.S. an active partner in promoting regime conservation in Cuba. By eliminating all restrictions on cash remittances and facilitating (even promoting) U.S. tourism to the island -- a "stimulus" package worth more than all of Cuba's exports combined -- the Obama administration has in effect circumvented the trade embargo, which cannot be rescinded until Communist Cuba has met certain conditions stipulated in U.S. law, which it has not and never will. This Obama stimulus actually has worked if strengthening the hand of Raúl Castro, the sham reformer, was its object, and whether it was or no such has been its effect: it has emboldened him to undertake the biggest crackdown on dissidents since the inception of the Revolution, culminating in the assassination of their most prominent leaders. For the consolidation of Raulism in Cuba, which resulted in these human rights outrages, Barack Obama shares the responsibility and should be held accountable.
Now for some real politik. Every Republican president from Nixon to Bush II -- including Ronald Reagan -- initiated secret talks with the Castro regime aimed at "normalizing" relations with an abnormality, which failed not because the U.S. did not negotiate in good faith but because it expected the other side to do likewise, having assumed, incorrectly, that since Communist Cuba had the most to gain in the bargain, it would be at least as accommodating as the U.S. which, by the mere act of engaging in such negotiations, had already signalled its disposition to be duped. But as every man believes that he is too smart to be duped, it is inevitable that Mitt Romney too will reach out to Communist Cuba, and just as inevitable that he too will fail. Barack Obama would not fail because there are no conditions that he would insist upon or concessions that he would not make. Negotiations carried forth upon such terms cannot fail to succeed: there has never been a capitulation that did not succeed. Because we don't want these negotiations to succeed and are confident that they won't succeed if a Republican is president, we are endorsing Willard "Mitt" Romney.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
GENERAL INDEX
- 2009 (18)
- January (17)
- Barack Obama: The End of Hope for Cuba
- Val's Birthday Present
- Notable & Tardy: Henry's "Nightly Prayer"
- Highlights of RCAB: The Rescue of "Elenita"
- The Next U.S. Ambassador to Cuba
- A Celebration Without a Victory
- On the Day that Fidel Castro Dies
- The "First African-American President" and the "First Cuban-American President"
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Punishing the Cuban People for Castro
- Notable & Risible: Bush as the "First Cuban-American President"
- The Weblog Awards
- Castro and Obama: Practicing Genocide As Statecraft
- Save Yoani From Val's Trap
- Parsing The New York Times (Part 2)
- Babaloo's Waterloos: A Pardon For Felipe Sixto
- Parsing The New York Times
- 50 Years and Counting
- January (17)
- 2008 (467)
- December (31)
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution"
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 35th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Review of ""Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution"
- The New Scrooges
- Christmas Posts
- Why Did Castro Win?
- Is Val Prieto Yoani Sánchez's "Blog Grandfather?"
- What Obama Has Learned from the Cuban Revolution
- Val to Bush: "My Father Thanks You, My Mother Thanks You and I Thank You"
- "Silent Val" Prieto
- The Shoeing of George Bush
- All the Lies that Fit in Print (Part 3)
- The Silence of the Lamb
- Val Prieto and POTUS
- Will Val Prieto Be At Least the "Man" that Yoani Sanchez Is?
- George Bush Hosts Bloggers Summit
- All the Lies that Fit in Print (Part 2)
- All the Lies that Fit In Print (Part 1)
- The New York Times' Reportage on Cuba: All the Lies that Fit in Print (Prologue)
- On the Anniversary of Antonio Maceo's Death
- Mr. Prieto Goes to Washington (Part II)
- Guest Post: The Hour of Anti-Americanism Has Arrived
- Caroline Kennedy Inherits Hillary's NY Senate Seat
- And One Strikes Back
- The Winter of Another Patriarch
- How to Handle Cuba's Creditors
- Another Castroite Joins Obama's Cabinet
- "Hello, Central, It's Obama"
- Yoani Under Fire
- "Black Sheep of Exile" is Back
- The Cuba Time Travel Project
- November (21)
- Second Cuban On the Way to Sainthood
- The Simian Congress
- Rice Defers to Obama on Iran
- Thanksgiving for Cubans
- Sean Penn and Brown Dicks
- "Che" Guevara's Statue in Central Park
- George Bush's Parting "Gift" to Cuban-Americans
- What Matters Now Is the Republican Reaction to the Nominations of Holder and Craig
- The Cuban Elections of 1958: The Real Story
- Hercules and Hylas
- Mexicans Will Be the First to "Test" Obama
- When Truth Is Castrated: Babalú Confronts the Next Fours Years
- Is Barack Obama's Win a Victory Against Racism? Val Thinks So
- The Bell Does Not Toll for RCAB Alone
- Notable & Reminiscent: "Whose house? Obama's House!"
- Definition of an "Arrepentido"
- Obama & Babalú: Perfect Together
- 75 Days Left of Freedom in America
- IT'S McCAIN IN A LANDSLIDE!
- Madelyn Dunham (1922-2008) R.I.P.
- The Death of Western Civilization?
- October (23)
- A Contribution to the Devil's Dictionary
- Babalú (Temporarily) Reaches 10,000th Post Milestone
- CANF's Jorge Más Santos Endorses Barack Obama
- Quo Vadis America?
- Of Soap & Fishing Rods: RCAB's Last Post About Val...
- Of Red Flags and Silver Linings: RCAB's Last Post About Henry
- Throw Grandmother Under the Train
- The Mexicans' "No Cuban Foot in Mexico" Policy
- Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
- What Obama Has In Common with Marx Besides Ideology
- The Next Election May Signal the End of Democracy in America
- Tonight's Presidential Debate
- Columbus Saw a Mosque in Cuba: Now It's the Muslims Who Discovered America
- Columbus Day
- On the 140th Anniversary of "El Grito de Yara"
- Anatasio Blanco Survives Fatal Comments at Babalú
- Barack Obama: The Stranger Among Us
- Who Will Be Responsible If Barack Obama Wins This Election?
- RCAB: Linked to Rick and Alex
- The Last Days of RCAB and the Cuban-American Blogosphere
- Notable & Quotable: "Didn't I Eat Lunch There Yesterday?"
- The Unsinkable Sarah Palin
- Castro's Pressure Cooker Is At Full Throttle While Babalú's Barely Hisses
- September (34)
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Charity for the Poor Versus Charity for the Rich
- Celebrity Compatibility with Fidel Castro
- Marc Másferrer Resigns from Babalú
- Strange But Strangely Accurate: Compatibility of Fidel Castro and Paul Newman
- The McCain-Obama Debate: Speaking of Shallow Impressions
- Humberto Fontova and Anatasio Blanco Take Opposite Sides on Remittances
- Castro Steals Tuna from Cuban People and Babalú Rejoices
- The Coast Guard Kills Another Cuban at Bush's Orders
- Notable & Opportunistic: "¡Viva Cuba Libre!"
- Blood & Famine Will Bring Freedom to Cuba, Says Babalú
- Are Remittances the Same as Paying Castro Ransom?
- The Trial of Marc Másferrer Continues
- Babalú Forms United Front with Castro Regime Against the Cuban People
- Deconstructing Henry Gómez's "Perverse" Attack on Marc Másferrer
- Babalú Continues Auto-da-Fé Against Marc Másferrer
- RCAB News: An Unexpected Visitor from Cuba
- Val Prieto Visits RCAB for the Last Time
- Babalú Silent on Val Prieto's Greatest Triumph
- Val Prieto's "Victory" Over the Cuban People
- The Schism at Babalú Over Remittances
- A Meeting of Minds
- Our Country Is Dying: "Apártame Este Cáliz"
- "How Is Your Aunt Marta, Lincoln?"
- Do Remittances Benefit the Cuban People More Than They Do Castro?
- Val Prieto to The New York Times: Cuban Hurricane Survivors Don't Need Money
- The Enigmatic Death of Abel and Celia Hart
- Babalú to the Cuban People: "Let Them Eat Cake"
- Notable & Despicable: "Gorki Is No Havel"
- On the Provision of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba
- 75th Anniversary of "4th of September 1933"
- Sarah Palin's Speech
- The Galveston Hurricane (1900): How Cuba Nearly Saved the U.S. from the Worst Natural Disaster in Its History
- Cleaning-Up the Back(b)log
- Meet Fidel Odinga
- August (34)
- Blog Review: Along the Malecón
- A Brief History of BUCL
- Gorki Is Freed
- The Cuban Revolution's One Undeniable Success
- About Gorki and "Our Best Years"
- Babalú's Deleted Post About Gorki
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-2008)
- Beacon Street Irregular is Out
- "Open Letter to Pablo Milanés and Other Cuban Musicians Concerning the Arrest of Gorki Aguila"
- From Black Sheep of Exile: Gorki Is Arrested
- Fidel Blasts Miami Mafia for "Sabotaging" Cuban Athletes at Olympics
- Anyone But Mitt Romney, Please
- Obama Picks Biden
- Notable & Unexpected: "Pressure Cooker" As a Kitchen Appliance Not a Metaphor
- CNN Reporter Discover His Jewish Roots In Cuba
- Fidel Gets the "Homer" that He Deserves
- Cuban Santeros Join Fidel Castro's Spirit to a Ceiba Tree
- Nothing to Cheer About in Beijing for Cubans
- Whether the Georgian Republic or Posada Carriles, Betraying Allies Is the New American Doctrine
- The Miami Herald Perpetuates Anti-Cuban Stereotypes
- Submitted for Your Consideration
- The Christian Science Monitor Reports the End of Socialism in Cuba
- Myriam Márquez: The Cloning of Ana Menéndez
- What If the National Enquirer Is Also Right About Obama?
- Fantomas Saves Gorillas from Extinction
- The Beijing Olympics: Berlin In Our Times
- Peligrosidad American Style
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Castro's Pet Author Lends His Nobel Credentials to Marxist Cuba (1988)
- Is American Democracy Imperilled by Barack Obama?
- The Importance of Disappearing
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), R.I.P.
- Fidel Rewarded for the Defection of Cuban Athletes in Edmonton
- The Marriage of Fantomas
- RCAB Hacked This Morning
- July (30)
- Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Is Up for Reelection: "Remember Elenita!"
- Honoring the Revolution's "Martyrs"
- A Leftist Blogger Slams Babalú And We Are Not Amused
- Notable & Larcenous: Fidelismo Sin Fidel
- Another Babalunian Weighs In On the Question of Cuban Balls
- Notable & Ballsy: Defending a Nation of Heroes
- Fantomas Returns to The Madhouse
- Notable & Emasculating 2: "Cubans Have No Balls"
- Will Henry Now Stop Merchandising "Che" T-Shirts?
- The Prime of Reverend Al Sharpton
- Henry Catches Fire in Australia
- Posthumous Blog Review: Estancia Cubana
- Fidel Castro's First Resignation
- Babalú's #1 Friend
- A Question from Ms. Calabaza About Babalú's Flag Desecration
- Controversial Cartoons in the New Yorker and Babalú
- Eliezer Aronowsky's Tribute to the Cuban Flag
- Babalú's Deletes All Comments on "The New Cuban Flag"
- Babalú Makes a Present to Me of Its Readers
- Babalú's New Flag
- Cuban Flag Desecrated at Babalú
- Spain's New "Law of Return" Lambasted in Racist Cartoon in "Granma"
- An Observation from Sr. Cohiba
- Tío Val Cuenta Cuentos (Uncle Val's Tales)
- Jesse Helms (1921-2008), R.I.P.
- Thomas Jefferson: "All Men Are Created Equal" Was Never a "Self-Evident" Truth to Him
- Babaloo's Waterloos: The Old Stand Bys
- Notable & Emasculating: Cubans Are "Cowards"
- The Real Enemies of the Cuban People
- A Musical Interlude
- June (36)
- Val Tries Again to Write a 5th Anniversary Post
- Are Cubans "Resentful" & "Unforgiving?" Carlos Alberto Montaner Thinks So
- Babalú's Fifth Anniversary
- Bigotry Against Anti-Castro Cuban Gays at Babalú
- Fidel Eulogizes Yet Another "Comrade" He Killed: Salvador Allende
- Cuban Church Condemns Gay Rights Day March
- Enigma: Crip or Blood?
- Another Seemingly Meaningless Post By Val Prieto
- Is This Guy an Episcopalian?
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes III
- Elián Is Still a Victim
- Elián's Never-Ending Saga
- Fidel Castro Is Now Deaf and Mute
- Notable & Not Me: Babalú Admonished on Babalú for 2nd Outing of Killcastro
- Well, One of Them Is Enjoying It Anyway (And Not the One We Would Expect)
- The Second Outing of Killcastro
- The Father of José Martí
- Will Freedom Come to Babalú Before It Comes to Cuba?
- Will Babalú Be the "Lastest with the Leastest" When Fidel's Death Is Announced: That is Val's Dread
- RCAB News: The U.S. Department of Justice Visits
- The Supreme Court Ends the Other Tyranny on Cuban Soil
- RCAB News: A Visit from the Vatican
- Notable & Unbelievable: "I Know What Newt Thinks Better Than Newt Does
- Cuban-American History 901: The Virginia Ham
- Subcomandante Henry
- Mr. Prieto Builds His Dream House
- A Bout With Gout
- U.S. History 901: America's Black Presidents
- Reflections on the Puerto Rican Day Parade
- Notable & Surrealistic: Henry Louis' Performance Art
- Yoani Endorses Obama and Val Endorses McCain
- Barack Obama: The Son that Bill and Hillary Never Had
- Advice for McCain As He Embarks on His Crusade to Save America from Its Domestic Enemies
- American History 901: How to Steal an Election
- Notable & Unforeseen: Henry Gets It
- On the Fine Art of Judging Cubans
- May (31)
- Obama Quits Church
- Obama's "Message to Fidel"
- The Damas de Blanco Reach Down to Obama
- What, No Drug Tests?
- The Meltdown at Babalú
- Notable and Always Despicable: Starving Cubans Without a Pressure Cooker
- Fidel Castro Endorses Barack Obama
- Blog Review: "Cuba 21"
- A Rare Treat for "Sunday Funday"
- What Was Missing in Obama's Speech? Fidel
- Cry Me a River, Val
- Of Crabs and Men
- Veinte de Mayo
- The May 20th Speech that Matters
- Will Cuba Ever Be Free Again? (Part II)
- On the 113th Anniversary of the Apostle's Death
- Will Cuba Ever Be Free Again?
- Notable & Quotable: Gay Marriage Debated At Babalú Apropos of Obama
- The Bellman Never Rings Twice Except at Babalú
- "Good-bye Miami!" and "Hello Cairo!"
- Ana Menéndez is Leaving Miami for Lebanon
- A "New" Poem By José Martí Written for His Sister to Present to Their Monther on "Her Day"
- Change at the Top at Babalú
- A Petition on Behalf of 220 Cuban Political Prisoners
- The Rise and Fall of the United States: The Final Chapter
- Prime Minister Offers Welfare to Jamaican Students in Cuba
- Finally, the "Breakout Post" at Babalú! ¡Ándale! ¡Andale!"
- No Food, No Freedom and No Sex Equals Freedom for Cubans, Says Val
- Why There Has Been No Successful Revolution to Overthrow Castro in 49 Years
- Notable & Prophetic: Obama Reaps What Wright Sowed...
- Word(s) of the Day
- April (55)
- The Nightly Tally
- Barack Obama Refuses to Denounce Rev. Wright
- The Promise of Barack Obama
- Joe Papp's Cuban Odyssey
- Notable & Naive: No, Monica, We Are All "Cuban Nationals"
- Jaime Cardinal Ortega: The "Dorian Gray" of Cuba
- Notable & Hypocritical: Two Birds of a Feather that Don't Fly Together
- What Now, Babalú?
- Notable & Sadistic: Val Says, "Let Them Eat Goldfish"
- The Rarest Thing Happened Today: A Debate Broke Out at Babalú
- Is Babulú Dead Again?
- Round 8 With Henry (He Says "¡No más!")
- Raúl Is Taking the Rice Out of the Mouths of Cubans
- Round 7 With Henry
- The Vatican's Unholy Alliance With the Castro Regime Has Its Roots in Pederasty
- The Nightly Tally
- Round 6 With Henry
- Shielding Pedophiles and Defending Communists, the Pope's Mission in America
- New Kultur Commissar Joins CAP
- Round 5 With Henry
- The Bay of Pigs: The "Fiasco" that Wasn't a Fiasco
- Round 4 With Henry
- Round 3 With Henry
- Round 2 With Henry
- A Visit From Henry to RCAB (Round 1)
- Breaking News!!! Henry Louis Gómez Endorses Raúl Castro's "Reforms"
- Notable & Almost Quotable: Helping Henry Make Sense
- Of Toasters and Cubans
- The Death and Rebirth of "Cuban-American Pundits"
- The End of the Story
- Notable & Quotable: The Root of the Problem
- The Nightly Tally
- The Chivato and the Procurer
- Babalú's "Magnificent Cadres" Are In Disarray As Yet Another Dissenter Breaks Ranks
- Question of the Day
- The Two Things that Threaten to Destroy Babalú Sooner Than Later
- Notable & Regimented: A Lament for Lost Conformity
- Good News: Castro Is Nearer to Death
- Henry Is "Just a Man," He Says
- Henry Baits Me About Gandhi and Gets Hooked
- Pillaging the Frozen Assets of the Cuban People
- Does Cuba Have the Government It Deserves?
- Quo Babalú?
- Notable & Optimistic: Cubans Have "Substantial Disposable Income"
- Killcastro's Family Is Safe (For Now)
- "See No 'Che' Evil, Hear No 'Che' Evil"
- Drinking at Our Springs and Detoxifying from Babalú
- Potts and Kettles Are Both Prieto
- Potts Calling the Kettle Black
- Bringing Ice to India: Or, Is a Novelty a "Reform?"
- Killcastro Tells the Inside Story of His Outing
- The Villa Valentina
- At 2:47 AM: "A Call For You. He Says His Name Is 'Val'"
- Their Worst Enemy: Babalú's Self-Inflicted Defeat
- Val Plays the Fool to Hide the Villain
- March (46)
- Guest Post: Killcastro Speaks to RCAB
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Its Putrid Carnival
- Babalú's Disappearing Lies
- Notable & Ironic: Cuba's "Obscure" Provinces
- Notable & Quotable: "Where Are You, My Enemy?"
- Vana Banned from Babalú
- Henry the Caricaturist
- Sr Cohiba Joins Babalú
- Important New Developments in Killcastro Affaire
- "El Chivato Val Prieto Comedy Bashin' Hour"
- Bunker Babalú
- An Apology from Val?
- Killcastro Responds to Val's Aggression on His Family
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Val Prieto Condemns Himself
- The Many Colors of Val Prieto
- Congratulations to "Black Sheep of Exile"
- Spring Break at Babalú
- The Birth of RCAB: Its Foundational Documents
- Notable & Fascinating: Is Henry the Easter Bunny?
- What Easter Means to Cubans
- The Pope Condemns Violations of Human Rights (in Ancient Rome)
- A New Addition to Our Blogroll: "Obalesque"
- Notable & Cretinous: Cubans Have Enemies in Their Backyard, Too
- Notable & Absent: What Val Knows About History
- Notable & Indifferent: Henry Shows How to Be a "Winner"
- The 5th Anniversary of Cuba's "Black Spring"
- Cubans Too Have a Bit of the Blarney
- A Chance for Bush to Be a Good Samaritan of Deeds
- RCAB's First "Righteous American Award"
- Tibetans Rise Up Against Communist Rule
- The Pope Invents 7 New Deadly Sins
- Notable & Delusional: Val Claims "Blog Children" in Cuba
- Notable & Marie Antoinette-ish: "Let Them Eat Pan con Bistec"
- Notable & Shameless: Más Labia de Bush
- Zapatero Wins Spanish Elections
- Babalú Praises George Will's Bigotted Attack on Cubans
- The Good Samaritan of Words
- "Mambo Watch" Calls It Quit
- Quo Vadis?
- Notable & Cosmopolitan: Babalú Embraces Haute Culture
- Notable & Disillusioned: Henry Dumps Obama
- Communist Cuba Has a Blog Devoted to Cooking
- Notable & Brave: As Only Words Can Be
- A Note to Our Readers
- The "Esquire" Article that Rocked Cuba in 1936
- February (73)
- John Paul II and "Che" Guevara Honored In One Monument
- Notable & Cheap: "Promise Us $2 Billion, Raúl, and We'll Call It a Deal"
- The Robber Barons Were Never This Greedy
- What the Moneo Affaire Can Teach Babalú
- Notable & Cretinous: George Moneo Grovels
- William F. Buckley and I
- Notable & Declamatory: Henry Tells Us What "It's About"
- The Old Babalú is Back (Not that We Are Celebrating)
- Notable & Long In Coming: Civil War Erupts At Babalú
- Notable & Still Apropos: The Catholic Church vs. Cubans
- Notable & Laudable: Condemning Tyranny in Cuba
- FLASH!!! George Moneo Has Resigned Or Been Ousted from Babalú
- Notable & Apocalyptic: George Moneo Predicts End of Western Civilization
- "Habemus Tyrannus!"
- Fidelito: The Lite-Horse Candidate
- El Grito de Baire
- Notable & Grotesque: Political Animal Compares John McCain to Jeffrey Dahmer
- Notable & to the Point: Fidel Castro Should Be Dead
- Is Castro's So-Called "Resignation" A Ruse?
- Notable & Proud At Last: Michelle Obama
- Notable & Ivied: Frederick Douglass and "Nas" Show the Way to Obama
- Fidel's Retirement Causes Canadians to Lament Their Support of Him
- Notable & Exposed: "How Great Was My Fidel!"
- What If Hitler Had "Retired" Like Fidel
- Fidel Relinquishes the "Presidency" of Cuba
- The Truth About Barack Obama Finally Revealed
- The Babalunians Go on the Vaudeville Circuit
- Next Year's "Presidents Day" May Be Different
- "Che" Guevara: The Importance of Being Earnest
- "The Economist" Sets Up Academy at Babalú
- Barack Obama: Jesus Also Had Woolly Hair
- Obama and ChicagoAnswer
- Claudia Fanelli Joins Babalú's Staff
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Henry Is Now Suggesting that Obama Is Reagan's Organic Heir
- Fidel & Henry Agree: McCain's Not "Ethical" Enough to be President
- Barack Obama Gets Daniel Ortega's Endorsement
- Henry: He Can Pick a Loser, But He Sure Can't Pick a Winner
- Notable and Ominous: Carter Is Going Up One Notch
- Henry to McCain: Will You Please Oblige Me and Die
- Babaloo's Waterloos: FLASH! Henry Discovers that Obama's Campaign is Run by Commies
- Notable & Bathetic: Henry Pleads With Obama
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Fanning the Flames of Xenophobia at Refugee Blog
- "Little Gator" Takes a Bite Out of Henry's Ass In Val's House
- The Che-Obama Connection (Courtesy of Killcastro)
- Notable & Vindictive: Ain't Gonna Happen, Vulture
- Babaloo's New Oath of Allegiance
- Glad to Be Able to Keep a Promise to George
- "ConeheadCon" Strikes Again
- Notable & Hard to Swallow: McCain Is Leading
- Notable & Predictable: Henry Praises Ron Paul
- Still Obsessed With Obama's Youth and Repulsed by "U-G-L-Y" McCain
- Fred Thompson Endorses John McCain
- Cuba Art: How the Revolution Broke It In and Harnessed It
- Does McCain Excite You?
- And Val said "Stop!" And They Stopped
- Mitt Romney: Gone Like His Father and Hopefully Never to Return
- Notable & Lonely: Babalú's Voice of Reason
- Babaloo's Waterloos: When Ideology Trumps Common Sense
- OK, Here Are My Thousand Words For Today
- Notable & Maybe Final : George Moneo Quits the Republican Party (Again)
- Notable & Resigned: Henry Ends 33-Year Career As a Political Animal
- Notable & Dignified: Israel's U.N. Ambassador In a Dual with Castro's
- Notable & More Inverted: What Does Henry Want In a President?
- Emilo Estefan Comes to the Rescue of Stranded Balseros
- The Solution to the "Migrant Problem:" Let Robots Pick the Fruit
- Notable & Inverted: Now Henry Thinks McCain Can't Win Because He's "U-G-L-Y"
- Notable & Desperate: Henry Loves the "Huckster"
- The Truth About "Shoot Down:" It's About Payback, Not Truth
- Notable & Prideful: Henry Is Now an "Official Writer"
- Hillary Ist Nicht Hitler
- Why John McCain Is Unbeatable
- Notable & Desperate: How Would You Like to Write a Guest Post on Babalú?
- Why Cuban Exiles Supported McCain
- January (53)
- Notable & Poetical: "With Rue [Val's] Heart is Laden"
- Something for All to Consider (Yes, that Means You)
- Nobody Philanders Like Newt
- Notable & Puerile: "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To"
- Giuliani Got What He Deserved In Florida
- The Best Choice in the Florida Primaries Today
- On the 155th Anniversary of José Martí's Birth
- Notable & Quotable: JFK Jr. Endorses the Clintons Posthumously
- Caroline Kennedy Anointed Al Gore As JFK's Successor
- Just Like Her Daddy and Worse
- "¡Gracias, Michelle!"
- Babalú Shoots Down Another Comment
- The Republicans Snub the Cuban-American National Foundation
- Mitt Romney's Ten Biggest Gaffes
- Notable and Sycophantic: Bush Did It Because He Loves Us
- Henry Muses
- Val Prieto Receives an Invitation from Archbishop Theodore McCarrick
- Notable & Still Unforgettable: Pope John Paul II Praises Che Guevara
- Is There a Mole On Granma?
- Good-bye, Fred
- Happy Birthday, Val
- Notable & Quotable: The Theory of the Pressure Cooker
- Notable and Machiavellian: McCain and Henry Agree, Send Cubans to Hell
- Notable and Haughty: Henry Takes Credit for RCAB
- Cubans Are Not Even Cubans on Cuban Territory
- Bacardís for Giuliani
- Tonto Says Good-Bye to the Lone Ranger
- Who Is the Biggest Anti-Cuban Xenophobe in the Race (You'll Be Surprised)
- Note to the Cuban Archive Project: There Are No "Common Prisoners" In Cuba's Jails
- Henry Defeats Evolution
- The Miami New Times "Honors" the Bay of Pigs Veterans
- The Continuing Saga of Mitt Romney, Mexican Anchor Baby
- Henry the Backslider: Still Warming the Pressure Cooker
- Salon Coddles the Tyrant Fidel Castro and Defames Cuba's Freedom Fighters
- Notable & Undecided: A Dilemma Easily Resolved
- Fred Thompson Eats His Bistec Empanizado
- Obama Needs This Like He Needs Another Cigarette: "Muslims for Obama '08"
- Notable and Darwinian: The Evolution of Henry Gómez
- CodePink Protests Posada Carriles in Miami (All Four of Them)
- Ron Paul: "Where's My Hood At, Where's My Hood At?...
- What Happened to Henry on Christmas Eve?
- Guess Which Presidential Candidate Was a Mexican Anchor Baby?
- Notable & Commendable: Henry Gómez on the Side of the Angels
- Mike Huckabee: "Suffer the Little Children to Suffer"
- Barack Obama: The Future Is the Past
- Cuban-American Voters: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- 500th Post
- Notable & Odd: Future Performance As an Indicator of Past Performance?
- Henry Gómez & George Moneo for Bill Richardson (By Default)
- Notable & Fanatical: Val Oils Up GW Again
- Notable & Scabby: Scrap the Unions
- Cuba's Santeros Issue Their Annual Predictions: "It's the Climate, Stupid, It's the Climate"
- A Remarkable Discovery: Less of Me Is More
- December (31)
- 2007 (493)
- December (58)
- Happy New Year!
- Val At His Best
- "To Cling to Power, Or Not to Cling to Power, That Is the Question"
- Wickets and Guayaba
- How to Stop the Wanton Killing of Cubans on the High Seas
- RCAB's Funniest Posts for 2007
- Herald Watch Is Watching You
- How the Torch Will Be Passed: Or, Cuba and Its "Two Parties"
- Notable & Historic: The Seed of an Obsession
- Los Tres Reyes Magos (The Three Kings)
- Cuba Issued the World's First Postage Stamp Depicting Santa Claus
- Forgiveness
- A First for the MSM: A Non-Biased Article About Cuba and Cuban-Americans
- Ron Paul Stirs Mutiny in the Babalunian Galaxy
- Notable & Inflated: Henry the "Economist" and Val the "Architect"
- Notable & Hilarious: Val Accuses Us of "Condescension"
- Notable & Ironic: Fidel Is "A Cuban X-Man"
- Killing Oscar Biscet With Love
- Tancredo Is Out
- Notable & Quotable: "Blog-Eat-Blog-World"
- Prospects Not Good for the "Happy Blogger"
- The Miami Herald Gives Rick What He Didn't Want
- Poor, Poor Alex (formerly of Stuck On the Palmetto)
- If You Never Read Anything Else on Cuba, Read This
- Who Shall Succeed SotP As South Florida's Most Visible Blog?
- Rick's Defenders and Apologists Gather to Mourn Stuck on the Palmetto's Demise
- Notable & Quotable: A Proud Enemy of Rick's
- FLASH!!! Stuck on the Palmetto Is Dead
- Babaloo to Its Readers: Shut Up!
- Fort Lauderdale Officer Fired for Playing Bagpipes on Taxpayer's Dime
- Scotland the Brave
- Stopped on the Palmetto: Ruminations on Rick
- Notable & Unprophetic: One of Us Was Leaving, Anyway
- Far Away and Long Ago at SotP
- With Bagpipes: Ricky, We Hardly Knew Ye (And What We Knew We Didn't Like)
- Meditations of Hamlet Prieto
- A "Critique" that Requires Your Attention
- Notable & Optimistic: BUCL's "Fine Work" Foments Protests in Cuba
- The Spain of the Catalan Ladies Is Martí's Spain
- Will Cuba Lose Its Canadian Sex Tourists to Kenya?
- Val the Abolitionist vs. Henry the Slaver
- Notable & Late in Coming: Henry Gómez Learns the History of Man
- Blogs Sobre Cuba (300 Links to Cuban Blogs)
- University Students Re-Assume Historic Role As the Vanguard of All Cuban Revolutions
- On the Anniversary of Antonio Maceo's Death (1896-2007)
- Cuban Memorial Day: Remembering the Heroic Defenders of the Republic
- Mitt Romney: The Buck Stops With the Landscaper
- A Last Observation on the Elenita Case
- "What Can You Do for Me, Baby?"
- Notable & Venting: Henry Among the Freaks
- Well, This Is Nice
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Shilling for the Republican Party
- Fidel Castro: No Elections in the Interest of Fairness
- The Real Results of the Venezuelan Election
- Babalú Brands Castro's Victims as the "The Cuban Problem"
- A Prophet
- The Bellman Tolls the Death of Democracy in the Americas
- Heredia's "The Exile's Hymn"
- November (49)
- And Shall the Fishes Have No Vote In Venezuela?
- The Precolombian Rites of the Babalunians
- Quotable & Reprehensible: Alex of SotP Mourns Freedom for Elenita
- In Elenita's Case, Freedom Wins
- Venezuela to Go on "Castro Time"
- UN Rapporteur Jean Ziegler: On the Art of Not Giving Offense to Castro
- What Do Henry Gómez and Fidel Castro Have in Common? The Exploitation of Elián González
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- The Castro Regime Exploits a British Woman Disabled in Cuba
- Human Rights Activists Detained in Cuba After House Invasion
- Juventud Rebelde Hails Metrosexuality in Cuba
- Notable & Redundant: Still Beating Old Rocinante
- Notable & Suicidal: RCAB Makes Him Want to Kill Himself
- The Canadian "Herbert Matthews" Returns to Cuba 47 Years Later
- Barack Obama Admits to Drug Use: "Kids, You Can Be Me, Too
- Fidel Castro's Heritage
- The RCAB Responds to the Rebirth of BUCL
- "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
- Díaz-Balart vs. McGovern: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates It Wasn't
- A New Poll of Cubans Shows Their Rejection of the Castro Regime
- For the First Time, Hispanic Surnames Among the Top in the U.S.
- Should We Cheer for Cuban Athletes At International Competitions? Only If We Revel in Their Degradation
- In Happier Times the Seeds of Discord Were Sown
- Notable & Ominous: "I Don't Want the King to Kneel Before Me"
- Notable & Inevitable: Fidel Calls Zapatero a "Coward
- Barry Bonds: Reviving the Salem Witch Trials or Castro's Purges
- "Dignidad Ante Dinero": 82% of Spaniards In Favor of Severing Relations with Chávez's Venezuela.
- Notable & Risible: Castro Excoriates Spanish Colonialism and Warns Chávez to Beware the Ides of November
- Aznar as Chávez Sees Him (Can You See This Picture)
- Chávez Threatens to Nationalize Spanish Banks In Venezuela: Sounds Familiar?
- Notable & Pedantic: Cubans Are Now "Cubands"
- Oscar Corral: The Return of The Prodigal
- Notable & Deranged: Venezuelans, It's Already Too Late
- Notable & Expendable: The Veep and The Creep Opine
- Notable & Unmanned: Hugo Chávez Reponds to Royal Rebuke
- Chávez Is Given the Raspberry at Ibero-American Summit by Spain's King and President (While Castro Is Cheered Wildly)
- Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
- Notable & Quotable: Cuba is Exporting the Best and Consuming the Worst (As Usual)
- Blog Review: El Güicho Crónico
- Fred Thompson Shoots Himself in the Foot (And Cuban "Suitcase Bombers" Have Nothing To Do With It This Time)
- Another Satisfied (Foreign) Customer of Cuba's Health Care System
- What is the Answer?
- Notable & Demonic: A Disagreement at Babalú on Whether Cubans Should Commit Collective Suicide
- The 1936 Berlin Olympics Redux: Or When In China Do As the Chinese Tell You to Do
- Jimmy Carter Filler: His Biggest Secret and Greatest Claim to Fame
- A Prayer to Blessed Fray José López Piteira
- Stuck on the Palmetto's Rick is Deleting Posts and Cannibalizing His Readers
- From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Alicia in Wonderland (1987)
- Alicia Alonso: The Cuban Sphinx
- October (60)
- Cuban Ambassador Puts On Fashion Show In Jamaica to Mark "Cuba Day" There
- Notable & Reprehensible: Liberty Is Not for All, Says Ron Paul
- Oscar Biscet Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen Stopped Dead in Her Tracks By Appellate Court.
- Notable & Quotable: A Message to Al Gore
- More Horrible Than You Imagined: The Poetry of Jimmy Carter
- Notable & Quotable: A Hipster Blasts Val & Henry
- "Saint Louis" Redux
- Notable & Quotable: George Bush's Contribution to Bilingual Education.
- First Cuban Martyr, Fray José López Piteira, Beatified in Rome Today
- Blog Review: Claudia4Liberty
- RCAB News: We are #1 in France
- Why Father Félix Varela Has Not Been Elevated to Sainthood and Never Will Be
- Anyone Leary of Jimmy Carter's "Leary UFO?"
- Of "Che" Guevara's Hair and Napoleon's Penis
- Fierce and Fiery Me
- Notable & Stupid: Did You Know "Granma" Ignores the Opposition
- Notable & More Delusional Still: "Patrick Henry" Prieto Rides Again
- Notable & More Delusional: George Bush Is the Greatest "Cuban" Patriot
- Notable & Delusional: "How Rare Was Your Presidency"
- Notable & Quotable: When Popularity Supplants Humanity
- The Last Quackeries of a Lame Duck President
- Notable & Stupefying: Antonio Maceo Demoted to Colonel by Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen
- Blessed Fray José López Piteira, Catholic Martyr and Cuban
- The Voyage of the "St. Louis" (1939): FDR's "Hour of Infamy"
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen Seeks the Spotlight Again
- An Art Exhibit Worth Seeing
- Castro and Stalin: Parallel Lives
- Notable & Delusional: Jimmy Carter Could Have Done for Cuba What He Did for North Korea
- "Miranda Returns:" Hugo Chávez's Debut as a Sponsor of the Cinematic Arts
- Blog Review: Cuban-American Pundits
- Venezuelans Shatter Glass Monument to "Che" Guevara
- Blog Review: The "26th Parallel"
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen Awaits Her Report Card
- Castro's Peon Wants to Rewrite U.S. Laws to Favor the Purposes of Tyranny
- Notable and Ominous: Cuba and Venezuela Melding
- Fidel & Hugo: Two Song and Dance Men
- Notable & Quotable: What Spaniards Really Think About "Che" Guevara
- Spaniards in Solidarity With Cuba
- Carlos Victoria (1950-2007) RIP
- Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Cuban Dissidents Again Ignored
- Query
- Social Progress Under Castro: The Lie that Will Not Die
- A Selection of Quotations by José Martí (Translated Into English)
- The Communist Party in a Post-Castro Cuba
- Ex Post Facto Laws Are Unconstitutional
- Christopher Columbus Was a Cuban
- Notable & Diabolical: "Che" Compared to St. Francis of Assisi
- Cuban Shorts
- Another Cuban-American Blogger Comes to Elenita's Defense
- Ready for Some Really Bad News?
- Judge Cohen: The Little Girl Is Lying
- Now Judge Cohen Officially Banishes the Truth from her Courtroom
- A Letter to Florida Governor Crist Appealing for Elenita's Life
- The New Republic Takes on Val Prieto
- More Fabricated Evidence Exposed and the "C Word" Banned from Judge Cohen's Courtroom
- "Who Is Elenita Going to Sleep With In Cuba?"
- Notable & Delusional: Don't Sully Castro's Pristine Legacy
- The Americanization of Val Prieto
- Elenita's Fairy Tale: Grimm Was Never This Grimm
- September (68)
- Notable & Nationalistic: You Go for It, Jesús!!!
- What Judge Jeri B. Cohen Should Take to Bed Every Night
- Does Henry Want to Resurrect the Undead BUCL?
- Henry Gómez Crushed: Newt Gingrich Will Not Run in 2008
- Linked, Unlinked and Relinked: RCAB and Uncommon Sense
- Notable & Quotable: They Also Are Traitors Who Only Stand and Wait
- Notable & Variable: Well, Well, Henry
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen's Decision: We Should All Want "Marginal" Fathers
- Alfonso Chardy is the New Oscar Corral
- Babaloo's Waterloos: The Mark of "Cain"
- Guantánamo Naval Base, Playground for Pedophiles
- Ana Menéndez Psychoanalyzes Cuban Exiles
- "Che's" Children Are Fasting for Ramadan Like Good Muslims
- Notable & Quotable: Marc is Sorry, Too
- What Creature Do I Despise the Most in the World?
- Ana Menéndez & Robert Molleda: The Hag and the Gelding
- "We Love You, Val, Even If You Are Completely Unreliable
- Notable and Inspirational: What Eduardo Chibás Has to Teach Val Prieto
- Notable and Delusional: Henry Claims Val Never Said "Fidel Is Dead"
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Val Admits that Fidel Is Not Dead, Claims to Have Been "Duped Again"
- Mamey Banned From Babalú After Refusing Teabagging Request from Henry
- Notable and Hateful: No Mercy for Children Who Straggle from Castro's Knee
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Friday's Scheduled "Fidel is Dead" Announcement Preempted by New Video
- Notable and Hateful: No [Cuban] Child Left Behind
- The "Elenitas" Keep Multiplying
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen Just "Hates It; Hates It; Hates It"
- The Re-Conquest of Florida
- Is Fantomas on the Grassy Knoll?
- Tostones pa' los tostados
- Babalú: The Blog of Repetitions
- No "Common Criminals" in Castro's Jails
- The Same Old Tired Hypothetical
- Cuba's Political Prisoners: Forgetfulness Is Never Acceptable
- Is Fidel Castro Dead? Babalú Again Has the (Wrong) Answer
- Can Val Measure Up to Porfirio Rubirosa?
- Val Prieto Sues for Peace in Babalú-Palmetto Blogwar
- Notable and Quotable
- Rick the Prick Visits
- Babalú: Deleting Its Way to Sanity
- Henry Gómez Tries to Drag Me Into the "Babalú-Palmetto War
- The Real Parents — Joe and María Cubas
- Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Gets Her Man (Off)
- Wonderful News: Joy Abounding!
- Henry Gómez Liberates Red China
- White Dade R.I.P.
- The Bay of Pigs Museum on Biscayne Bay
- Henry Gómez: Elián's Return to Cuba Helped Elect George W. Bush and Saved Western Civilization in the Aftermath of 9/11, As Was God's Plan
- Censorship and Class at Babalú on September 11, 2005
- The Saga of Babalú's Henry Gómez & Alex of SotP
- Are You Sure, Henry?
- Elián's Father was "Adopted" Too
- El Bitongo
- The "It" Girl
- The Guajiro Hamlet: Rafael Izquiedo
- Henry Gómez Feels Compassionate Today
- Is Oscar Corral In Cabaiguán, Cuba?
- First Anniversary of Oscar Corral's "Miami Moonlighters" Story
- The Babalunians' Fear of Me Is My Strength
- "The more I read about this case ... " the less of an idiot you will be
- The Last Redoubt of Magical Realism: Judge Jeri Beth Cohen's Courtroom
- Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), R.I.P.
- Babaloo's Waterloos: A Poll Mocking the Suffering of an Abused Cuban Child
- No Common Sense at Uncommon Sense
- By Their Scars You Will Know Them: The Ordeal of Elenita and Her Brother
- Babalú and Stuck on the Palmetto: Birds of a Feather
- Vox Populi, Vox Dei
- Sticking by his Sugar Daddy
- Ten-Part Series on "Che" Guevara's Life to Air on PBS Affiliate "V-Me" TV
- August (69)
- Vote in the Name of God!
- The Prince of Darkness or The King of Fools?
- Castro's Lawyers Kurzban & Davis Face Disbarment iin Cubas-Izquierdo Custody Battle
- The Pot Calls the Kettle Prieto
- Senator Larry Craig's Dalliances in Castro's Boy Brothel
- Sumner Welles: When Public Men Commit Private Acts in Public Places
- Cui Bono: The Unasked Question in Judge Cohen's Courtroom
- One Man's Obsession: The Smugglers Who Risk All to Free Castro's Slaves
- "Fellow Cubiches: I Come To Chastise Val, Not to Praise Him"
- Fidel Castro Undergoes Tracheostomy
- Elena Pérez: Her Life As a Mother and a Mistress (Or, Chasing Cod in Cabaiguan)
- When Shall We Know that Fidel Castro Is Dead?
- The Death of Fidel Castro Redux
- Letter to Elena Pérez: Birth Mother of the Cuban Refugee Girl
- Joe Cubas: Castro's Worst Nightmare (and Henry's)
- A Peculiar Kind of "Conspiracy" and a More Peculiar Kind of Conspiracy Theorist
- From the Tellechea Digital Archives: Carl Hiaasen and Jesús Díaz Battle Over the "Miami Moonlighters" Story
- RCAB News: The British Are Coming!
- The Cuban-American Misfits Review: Of Dead Blogs and Other Irrelevancies
- A Judas Gets the Judas Kiss
- CubaVerdad: A Valuable Internet Archive
- From the Tellechea Digital Archives: Oscar Corral's "Martí Moonlighters" Story Revisited
- A Crash of Titans and the Truth Prevails
- Enrique Rubio (aka "Fantomas") Is "John Longfellow"
- The Sun-Post's Rebecca Wakefield Polishes Oscar Corral's Apple
- Reflection on Fidel Castro's Death
- Martí and Fidel: The Apostle and the Pharisee
- Val Prieto Wants to Give Raúl Castro the Business
- The World Awaits With Bated Breath: "The Tellechea Hour" on the Fantomas Blog Radio Show
- All You Ever Wanted to Know About Oscar Corral But Didn't Know Where to Ask
- Deserving of the Pulitzer for Best Cartoonist
- The Miami Media's Reaction to the Oscar Corral Affaire
- "Che" Guevara's Progeny to Fly Argentine Way
- RCAB News: The U.S. Coast Guard Makes the RCAB a Port of Call
- Fidel Castro's Double in the Time of His Moribundity
- Fidel Castro Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
- RCAB News: What the Hell? "Knight-Ridder?"
- Ah, Poor Henry Misses Me at Herald Watch
- Judge Jeri B. Cohen: Love Child of Janet Reno and Doris Meissner
- RCAB News: Cornering the Market on Oscar Corral
- El Nuevo Herald Buckles to The Miami Herald While Granma Comes to Oscar Corral's Defense
- A Poll for the Ages
- Beyond the Babalunian Pale!
- Discussion of Oscar Corral Affaire Banned at Babalú
- A Message to Prieto
- Corgiguy Protests RCAB's Treatment of Oscar Corral
- Oscar Corral: Rescuer of Lost Souls
- Schadenfreude: Oscar Corral Gloats About Arthur Teele Jr.'s Downfall
- Yamilet López: The Girl Whom Oscar Corral Propositioned
- Oscar Corral's Alleged Homosexuality: Slander or Libel?
- Regarding Val Prieto's "Public Service Announcement"
- The Worst Babalú [Faux] Radio Hour to Date
- Oscar Corral Deletes Comments Critical of Him at "Miami's Cuban Connection"
- Re Oscar Corral: Is Prostitution a "Victimless Crime?"
- Oscar Corral and the Divine Finger
- "In Miami's Fair City/Where the Girls Are So Pretty"
- What "American-Cuban" Bloggers Really Think About "Eliana"
- The Poor Little Cuban Girl that They Call "Eliana"
- Henry Gómez at the Review of Cuban-American Blogs
- Val Prieto At the "Review of Cuban-American Blogs"
- The RCAB's Proud History: "Babaloo's Waterloos"
- The RCAB's Proud History: The Coinage of "Babalunians"
- Words of Reassurance to the Cuban Boxers from Fidel
- Angels Who Smuggle Men to Freedom
- The Real Brazil Shows Its True Colors
- George Moneo Proposes to Use Condoms to Kill Off His Blogger Enemies
- Insanity, Homoeroticism and Xenophobia on "The Babalú Radio Hour"
- Important Alert: Announcement Forthcoming
- A Debate Over "Cojones" At Babalú
- July (52)
- Babalú's Real Agenda: The Annexation of Cuba to the U.S.
- A Visit from Joe Papp
- You Cannot Love Cuba and Hate Cubans
- Babaloos' Waterloos: "Some Spaniards Are OK"
- The Babalunians Are Running Scared as Their Numbers Plummet
- Val Asks His Readers to Guess His Position on the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy"
- Would Val Remodel Sting's 27 Bathrooms?
- A Dialogue With Andy
- On the Art of Making Val Prieto Work for Me
- "I'm a Cocksucker, Don't Ya Know?" Yes We Do, Val.
- The Cuban American Misfits Review
- Babalú: The All-Purpose Blog
- An Exchange Between Castro and Our Editor
- Do You Know Who This Man Is?
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Dancing With "The John Birch Society"
- On Babalú's Disdain for the New Refugees
- Victory?
- Steve Klotz: A True Friend of the Cuban People
- Unfunny Joke of the Day
- The Truth In Season
- They Say I Waste My Time And Squander My Talents
- Cubamania: How Acquainted Are You with Pure Evil?
- The Final Days of Babaloo Are Here
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Has There Been a Coup at Babalú?
- Val Praises Fidel's "Charisma" and Moneo Calls Him "One of the Smartest Politicians Who Ever Lived"
- Observation Re Babalú
- "Mambo" Watch "Honors" the Victims of the "13th of March" Tugboat
- Madhouse for the Stupid and Obnoxious
- Tocororo Speaks Again
- Another "Lost" Post by Tocororo
- A New Low in Babalú's Decline
- Tocororo Libre Died A Hero
- The Madhouse
- BUCL (2007-2007)
- BUCL's Last Hurrah
- Lady Bird Johnson (1913-2007)
- BUCL Is Killing Babalú
- 2 For 2
- Dissent Comes At Long Last to Babalú
- A Chimera in the Sky
- Tocororo Libre (1974-2007)
- El Grito de "Versailles"
- At the Birth of a New Word: "Babalunian"
- BUCL's Bizarreries to End at Versailles Restaurant
- My Favorite Daily Affirmation (by Val Prieto)
- Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Be So Bad After All
- ஹொசே மார்த்தியின் எளிய கவிதைகள் - முன்னுரை
- Has the Bubble Burst At Babaloo?
- "The Babaloo Radio Hour" Honors Johnny Carson on Independence Day
- Henry Explains Fred Thompson to Us
- No Cuban Exile Has Ever Burnt an American Flag
- Abortion Is in Retreat All Over the Land
- June (46)
- The BUCL Belt: Henry's Imagination Strikes Again
- Fred Thompson: Cuban "Immigrants" Are Suitcase Bombers
- George Moneo Wants and Needs Val-idation.
- Emilio "Millo" Ochoa (1907-2007)
- Val Prieto's "Apologia Pro Babaloo"
- Cuba: Island Paradise, Island Prison
- Lyndon Baines Johnson: Our "Statue of Liberty"
- BUCL Again
- Raúl's Backside: Attention Must Be Paid
- RCAB's Review of "SiCKO"
- "Henry, Henry Aldrich!"
- The "Sin" of Cameron Díaz
- Killcastro Attacked by Cyber Terrorists from Cuba
- The Long-Awaited and Much-Requested Fantomas Review
- The History of The Cuban Republic, Part II (1940-1958)
- From the Tellechea Archives: Nadia's Defection Signalled Ceausescu's End (1990)
- George Oils Val
- Henry's Grapes of Wrath
- BUCL's Siren Song
- The Real Olympics
- The Mind of the "Minder"
- Vilma Espín Is Dead: One Down and Two Bastards to Go
- "Please, pretty please with sugar on it."
- Martí's Father
- Regarding Yesterday's Monster Post
- Fantomas Brought to the Carpet
- The Babaloo Radio Hour Pays Tribute to Me
- Val Goes After the Younger Generation
- Val Visits for a Second Time
- Anita Snow the Hunger Artist, or The New York Times' "Snow Job"
- The Best of Manuel A. Tellechea
- Cuba y Puerto Rico son...
- You're NOT Going to Believe This!
- The Babalú Radio Hour: A Review
- Monomania Valentina: Or, How Well Do You Know Val Prieto?
- More Like Tony the Tiger
- And He Will Go Gently Into that Dark Night
- Babaloo's "Boo Boos"
- New Times Names Oscar Corral "Best Commie Spy" in "Best of 2007" Issue
- The "Today Show" Goes to Cuba
- Cuba es ...
- An Interesting Discovery
- NBC Is Going to Cuba to Praise Castro, Not to Bury Him
- La Raza
- An Important Notice Regarding the Artist Formerly Known As Val Prieto
- Is There Anything At All in Henry's Mind On Any Day
- May (47)
- And From the Peanut Gallery...
- Since He Was 7
- The Rain in Spain Still Falls Mainly on the Plain
- RCAB's "Campaign to Liberate Spain from Socialist Explosion
- Black Sheep of Exile: A Review
- Springtime at Babaloo: Love Is In the Air...
- BUCL and The Black Legend: Using Racism to "Liberate" Cuba
- From the Tellechea Digital Archives: An Exchange On Property Claims in Cuba
- The Real Val Prieto Exposes Himself As Ana Menéndez's Pimp
- A Brief History of the Cuban Republic (1902-1952)
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Public Vandalism in NYC Caps BUCL's Spanish Boycott
- BUCL Leader Henry Gómez to Vanquish the Real Academia Today
- "BUCL Up, It's Gonna be a Bumpy Ride"
- Not Just White Roses
- 48 Years Ago Today Fidel Castro Said:
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Spain "Forced Religion" on Cubans
- The Russians Admit It: Martí Has Defeated Marx, Lenin, Mao and Xiaoping, And Will Defeat Castro
- May 20, 1902: Cuban Independence Day
- Martí the Blogger
- May 19, 1850: Birth and Baptism in Fire of the Cuban Flag
- May 19, 1895: Death of José Martí at Dos Ríos
- Henry Gómez Accuses Spaniards of "Exploding Cubans
- Liberals that Reviled Cuban Exiles for "Dancing on Castro's Grave" Do a Jig on Falwell's
- Henry Gómez Comes to Posada's Defense (Sort Of)
- Arthur M. Schlesinger: The Devil in Mr. Kennedy
- Is Babalú Becoming Less Babaloo?
- En Passant
- Mariana Grajales de Maceo
- Cuba's Al Gore: Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart
- From the Tellechea Archives: Spain's Senate Awards Gold Medal to Fidel Castro (1988)
- Topics for Future Posts on Posada
- Is Posada Carriles a Hero?
- Absolved Again As His Enemies Never Will Be
- A Revolution Breaks Out And Nobody Notices
- From Granma: More Toilet Humor
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Val Prieto Philosophizes On the Meaning of Being All Wet
- Spanish Parliament More Concerned With Protecting Apes Than Cubans
- FLASH!!! African Jet with 114 Aboard Crashes
- RCAB News Update: The Chinese Are Monitoring this Blog
- Finally These Bozos Take a Principled Stand
- "The Most Serious, Systematic Revolutionary of Modern Times"
- RCAB Blog News: The Partial Abortion Post
- From the Tellechea Archives: David Letterman Does Cuba
- BUCKLE But Don't Tighten Your Belts
- Fidel's First Anal Emergency (1987)
- The Old Fart In the Plastic Bubble
- The New Corgiguy Blog
- April (42)
- "¡No Más! ¡No Más!"
- One Month and Counting
- The Last Days of Babalú?
- BUCKLE
- An Exchange on the Future of Cuba
- "Ode to the Cuban Flag" by Bonifacio Byrne (1898)
- Val and His Shadow Strolling Down the Avenue
- Babaloo's Waterloos: The Miami Herald Speaks for Henry Gómez On Posada
- Babysitting the Beacon School Bitongos
- Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
- The Wrong Reporter For the Posada Story
- Oscar Corral: The Man Without Principles
- Remembering Elián on the Anniversary of His Abduction
- Katie Couric Wants to be a "Relatively Intelligent Person"
- William F. Buckley and Me
- Mr. Prim and Mr. Proper
- Posada Carriles Is Free
- A Chip Off the Old Block
- No More Babies to be Drawn and Quartered in U.S.
- From Our Ambassador Down Under
- A Cuban At Virginia Tech
- The "Fiasco" that Wasn't a Fiasco
- Michael Moore Does Cuba — Again
- Babaloo's Waterloos: Raiding the "Enemy's" Camp
- "Legend of Old Cuba" Joins Estefans' 90 Millas Album
- We Who Genuflect
- Babalú Commandment #2: Do Unto Others But Not Unto Me
- Val Prieto Learns and Unlearns His Lesson
- The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- Common Sense is Better than Uncommon Sense
- All Are Welcomed In My House
- Linked Today, Unlinked Tomorrow
- An Easter Wish
- Groundswell of Support for Posada Carriles at Babalú -- Dignity Carries the Day
- Drums Are Beating at Babalú
- "Babaloo.com"
- Babalú Inaugurates "Estefan-Free Radio"
- The RCAB Telephone Hour — Tonight and Every Tuesday (or Wednesday, as the case may be)
- The Disappearing "I'M A COCKSUCKER, DON'T YA KNOW" Post on Babalú
- Val Prieto Visits
- Killcastro Welcomes Us to the Blogosphere
- ¡Viva Ziva! The Moral Conscience of Babalu Blog
- December (58)
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