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• Talk, talk, talk

  There has been lots of talk of the Castro dictatorship loosening its iron grip, but unfortunately that is all it has been. While Cardinal Jaime Ortega attends meetings with Raul Castro and tries to convince Cubans and the world that he should not be judged by the decades of complicity [...]

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• Fariñas clarifies position: Liberate all of them

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  Guillermo Fariñas is one hell of a warrior, a modern day David armed with a will of steel and his very brave heart.

  From #OZT:

  Cuban independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas clarified that he will continue his already three month long hunger strike if the government of Raul Castro does not free [...]

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• John Galt lives

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  I came across a new blog titled Recycle Washington with a plethora of interesting articles written (or edited) by the mysteriously named "Savant Noir."

  "Gaia's Gurus" and "You thought we had a two-party system?" are very, very enlightening. He recently published John Galt's address to the nation [...]

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• “Cuba no longer actively supports armed struggle in Latin America and other parts of the world.” (Obama State Department)

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  “Cuba no longer actively supports armed struggle in Latin America and other parts of the world.” Unsurprisingly the free-market (but only regarding trade with Stalinist Cuba) and "non-partisan" (but skews 80 per in backing Democratic policies) Lexington Institute reports the above regarding a report by our crackerjack State Department.

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• A Cuba Nostalgia Gracias

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  I'm back at work today after four physically grueling and emotionally rollercoastering days. As is always the case, I'm still processing it all. Soaking it all up so when I'm an old man I can sit back in my rocking chair and think "Man, remember those old Cuba Nostalgia Convention'" [...]

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• Taking a bite out of the opposition

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  As Ziva posted yesterday, a member of the Cuban dictatorship's diplomatic mission to Norway decided to literally take a bite out of the opposition. The attacker, who according to news reports is the wife of the Cuban ambassador, crossed the street to where Alexandra Joner was standing and filming [...]

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• Mafiosos posing as diplomats

  On May 22 there was a worldwide march for human rights in Cuba, and where possible they were held in front of Cuban embassies.  This description of the protest in Norway from CNN's iReport , linked by Marc on Facebook, shows exactly the kind of criminal thugs the castro regime' [...]

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• Castro’s European Apologists

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  A great piece today on the Heritage Foundation's website takes on the fact that without enablers, the Castro dictatorship could never have lasted five decades. It is the complicit help of European countries that has helped prop up the Castro regime, which under normal circumstances would have folded decades [...]

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• Sights from this past weekend

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  FreedomForCuba spent a lot time with us at the Cuba Nostalgia booth and he was kind enough to email us some of the photos he took.

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• Cuba Nostalgia — The Day After

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  Last night our three-day session of (among other things) laughter, tears, dancing, emotional moments, meeting new friends, greeting old friends, eating too much, and drinking too much came to an end. By 10 pm last night, the halls of Cuba Nostalgia 2010 were empty, but our hearts and souls were [...]

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