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[sakka.livejournal.com]

"HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's communist government has signaled a crackdown on black-market satellite dishes used by citizens to get news and views from its arch enemy, the United States, nine days after ailing leader Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished power to his brother...

Many who get black-market U.S. television watched with astonishment as exiles in Miami danced in the streets when they heard on July 31 that Fidel Castro had undergone surgery...

While Cuban coastal communities have been told to scan the skies for a U.S. invasion that Washington has assured Cubans it will not stage, Cuban authorities continued to organize neighborhood rallies in support of the Castro brothers.

The half-million-member Communist Youth Union and other student organizations wished Castro a rapid recovery in a letter published by the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

French actor Gerard Depardieu added his name to a list of 400 international personalities, including leftist commentator Noam Chomsky and South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who signed a statement against U.S. interference, Granma said."

From here.

Um...yeah...communism...rocks?

I will have to break the news about Depardieu to my mother; he is one of her favorite actors!