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• More than dialogue

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  It is quite disturbing and surprising that there are still some out there who truly believe it was diplomacy and dialogue initiated by the Spanish government that convinced the Cuban dictatorship to agree to release 52 prisoners of conscience. It is also disturbing, but in this case not surprising, that [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  From an AP article addressing the :::GASP::: inefficient communist work style where five employees of the state stand around watching one employee work.

  
  "It's a common sight in communist Cuba. Here, nearly everyone works for the state and official unemployment is minuscule," [...]

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• Oye, pero mira ques este Oil ESS-pill en Louisiana esta del CARAJO!

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  Everyone's been loading up down here--ESS-Pill or no ESS-Pill.

  Redfish on the half-shell, Marta! You fillet it from the backbone--but leave the skin and scales on . Place fillets scale-side down on grill, baste with butter, Adobo, Mojito and Worcestercertercescescescesterscester -shire sauce, mojito mixture....The guests are [...]

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• Just a little reminder of who we have to defeat on November 2

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  "The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party":

  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said: “All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear [...]

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• The manipulation continues

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  The manipulation being carried out on Cuban prisoners of conscience by Cardinal Jaime Ortega on orders from the Cuban dictatorship continues. Sigler Amaya has obtained a humanitarian visa from the US to come here and receive medical treatment for the barbaric damage done to his body by Castro thugs during [...]

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• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Digs Simon Bolivar … No, He Really “Digs” Him

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  Since Obama seems to be mirroring Hugo Chavez in everything else, I'm wondering which American "hero" he'll decide to have dug up:

  CARACAS – Venezuela exhumed the remains of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar on Friday and will test them to see if he was poisoned [...]

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• Don’t cave to Cuba’s games over political prisoners

  An editorial from Ambassador James Cason in the Sun-Sentinel.

  Don't cave to Cuba's games over political prisoners

  By James Cason

  In 2003, Fidel Castro sentenced to long prison terms 75 dissidents Amnesty International said had not advocated any kind of violence. At the time, I was the chief of the U.S.' [...]

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• The stink translated into English

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  The Herald's Juan O. Tamayo has a report on Cardinal Jaime Ortega's secret visit to Washington D.C. on a mission to lobby for the Cuban dictatorship.

  Cuban cardinal visited U.S. before prisoner deal

  The State Department confirmed reports that Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega was in the U.S. just days before he [...]

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• Presidents to the Left of me, Dictators to the Right…

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  The AP's Havana bureau has its nose to the grindstone:

  "With Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez at his side, the former Cuban president (Fidel Castro) took questions for more than 90 minutes ......The former Cuban leader stepped down — first temporarily, then permanently — following emergency intestinal surgery in July" [...]

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• La Reina de Salsa 1925 – 2003

  Hard to believe she's been gone seven years.

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