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• Cuba Nostalgia 2010 – What you’re missing.

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  Just a few photographs to give you just a taste of Cuba Nostalgia this year:

  Dulces like Abuela used to make:

  Great Cuban artists - like our good friend Tony Mendoza - hard at work:

  I could literally spend all afternoon shooting and uploading [...]

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• Cuba Nostalgia 2010: Day One

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  Val, Alberto, and I are here listening to Beny Moré, open and ready to meet and greet the convention attendees.  As has become an annual ritual, Abe stopped by to lend a hand and brought a colada to share.  Now all we need are pastelitos.

  When you stop by, [...]

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• Hello, Dalai…

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  You're so swell, Dalai
  Now I know what I have known for all along
  You're just a red, Dalai,
  'nother red, Dalai,
  I'm just wonderin'
  What the hell your
  Chicom bosses think of you!

  And the madness continues, folks. The Dalai Lama says he is Marxist.

  “(Marxism has) moral ethics,' [...]

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• Orlando Zapata Tamayo LIVES in DC

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  The Cuban Interests Section In Washington DC, as I type this, May 20th, 10:25 PM:

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• Blood, sweat, and more blood at Cuba Nostalgia

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  Today, I had the honor of spilling blood for Babalu at Cuba Nostalgia 2010.

  As Val and I struggled to put together the Babalu booth, I experienced the first injury of this year's Cuba Nostalgia event when the metal structure gouged an enormous chunk of flesh off [...]

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• Marco Rubio’s Comments on Cuba’s Independence day

  Poignant:

  On this 108th anniversary of Cuban Independence, we honor the patriots who took Cuba’s initial steps toward freedom. The spirit and values that drove Cuba’s Independence movement still live on among Cuba’s pro-democracy leaders who courageously risk their lives each day in defense of Cuba’s founding principles.

  Those principles of freedom [...]

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• Liberty or tyranny?

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  Today is "Everybody Draw Mohammed" Day. Here is a four-minute video manifesto about free speech and those who would kill us for exercising it:

  Here's a great, great piece by Zombie on Pajamas Media that explains why we are doing this; here's Mark Steyn's take on today; and' [...]

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• Cuba Nostalgia 2010

  This year's Cuba Nostalgia Convention officially starts in a little over 24 hours and I'm already beat. Don't know how we've managed to do about 1 months worth of planning and prepping in less than two weeks.

  We hope to have a good time like we do every year and' [...]

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• May 20, 1902

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  The dream of a Cuban republic began on this day 108 years ago. It ended on January 1, 1959.

  Escudo de la Republica de Cuba

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• Illegal in your own country

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  Apparently a CNN reporter has fallen off the proverbial yuca truck and come to the realization that among the myriad of freedoms denied the Cuban people by the dictatorship, the freedom to travel within your own country is one of those.

  Cuban migrants illegal in their own country

  Havana, Cuba [...]

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