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• Go back to your room!

  The humor of Garrincha at Martí Noticias:

  - "Is it true that if I talk good about you guys you'll let me open a business in Cuba?

  - "Of course, dummy. Isn't that true Raul?"

  - "But of course; you can count on it."

  - "Who was that man?"

  - "No one! Go back [...]

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• Property Rights in Cuba where there are no rights and there is no property

  As Cuba prepares to build a luxury golf resort on the island with clubs and residences for the exclusive enjoyment of foreigners and their hard cash, Cuban American attorney, Jose Manuel Palli, who is not a "hardline intransigent" Cuban exile by any stretch of the imagination, explains how according [...]

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• Photo of the day – Ungrateful Cubans

  A fleet of rickety boats and homemade rafts that once carried ungrateful Cubans who could not appreciate the benevolence and magnanimity of Cuban dictator Raul Castro collect in Islamorada in the Florida Keys (via KeysNet.com):

  By KEVIN WADLOW
  Officers Janette Fernandez Costoya and Sebastian Dri check a fleet of Cuban [...]

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• High-ranking Castro dictatorship official dies

  They may outlive American presidential administrations and mysteriously survive for decades, but none of Cuba's heinous and criminal rulers will ever outlive the Grim Reaper.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Another Senior Regime Official Dies

  Cuban state media has announced the death of senior Castro regime official, Jaime Crombet, 72.

  Crombet was a member [...]

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• Cuba: Independent journalists under siege and kidnapped

  Being an independent journalist in Cuba is a dangerous profession. They are all subject to surveillance, harassment, beatings, and imprisonment with practically all of them having suffered some or all of these violations of their human rights. News and information is the Castro dictatorship's biggest enemy, and they do their [...]

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• Canadian businessman awaits verdict from Cuban mafia court

  The mafia that completely controls Cuba, the Castro crime family, runs a very organized international crime syndicate that even sports its own "courts." For a Canadian businessman who once enjoyed a very profitable business relationship with the Castro crime family, he is now at the mercy of one of their [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen: Yet again, Castro dictatorship ranks among worst for respecting fundamental freedoms

  Yet Again, Castro’s Dictatorship Ranks Among the Worst of the Worst for Respecting the Fundamental Freedoms of its Citizens According to State Department Religious Freedom Report, Says Ros-Lehtinen

  "Those who find themselves in one of Castro’s gulags because of their faith are simply one of many who bravely call for democracy" [...]

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• Reports from Cuba: Graffiti and Scathing Flyers

  By Eugenio Leal in Translating Cuba:

  Graffiti and Scathing Flyers

  Graffiti, a term that comes from the Italian “graffio” meaning “scratch,” has existed since the dawn of humanity. We see it in the cave paintings of Lascaux, in France. Our ancestors marked the walls with bones and stones and left us [...]

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• And now, for something completely horrifying…

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  ....and for a few details on one of the few things that Barack Obama supported enthusiastically as a state senator, and still wholeheartedly supports....

  .... and, yes, there is also a Cuba angle.....

  Former abortionist urges Congress to outlaw late-term abortions

  Dr. Anthony Levatino is a pro-life physician from New Mexico but, before having [...]

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• Why golf is a revolutionary pursuit in Castro’s Cuba

  The Economist turns logic on its head and explains why the game of golf is a "revolutionary pursuit" in Castro's Cuba:

  Why is playing golf a revolutionary pursuit in Cuba?

  AFTER the 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro denounced golf as a "bourgeois" hobby. Though he once played a round with Che Guevara, the [...]

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