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• Reports from Cuba: Prison Diary XX. With his mouth sewn shut and smeared with excrement, a young man demands his rights

  By Angel Santiesteban-Prats in a Cuban prison cell via Translating Cuba:

  Prison Diary XX. With his mouth sewn shut and smeared with excrement, a young man demands his rights

  I found myself, like most of the time, writing on my bed when I heard the call, “Political, Political”; and they came [...]

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• A conservative conception of universal human rights

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  A conservative conception of universal human rights

  “All the races of the world are men, and of all men and of each individual there is but one definition, and this is that they are rational. All have understanding and will and free choice, as [...]

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• Shocking surprise: Cuba produces less food than ever

  SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE !!!!!

  Well, never mind the sensationalist headline.  Only the likes of Gomer Pyle would really be surprised.

  Nothing new here, but it's worth noting:  As has been the case since 1959, when the Castro royal family assumed control of the island formerly known as Cuba, agricultural production in [...]

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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

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  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

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  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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