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• Feliz Dias de las Madres

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  Here's hoping you all share a happy and loved filled Mother's Day today' chock full of hugs and smiles and kisses and all those good things that mothers are experts at. And of course, cyber carinos to all those wonderful Moms out there. May you enjoy your special day surrounded' [...]

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• Feliz Día de las Madres

  I want to wish a happy mother's day to all the moms out there in the Babalú family--contributors, readers, fans, and even the haters, too. Mother's Day is a special occasion and to commemorate it we bring you a wonderful poem written by Mercy Lastre.

  The poem comes via [...]

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• 21st Century Socialism

  Venezuela annual inflation rate hits 30 percent.

  But that will be remedied soon now that Chavez has assigned 200 aides to manage his Twitter account.

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• Another arrest in Cuba

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  On Friday, Reporters Without Borders denounced the arrest and imprisonment of yet another independent journalist in Cuba. Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias was arrested on April 23rd and is still awaiting to see what charges the state police will bring against him since they have yet [...]

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• All Orwell, all the time

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  Privacy? You don't need no stinkin' privacy!

  Republicans’ privacy concerns stem from the new information-gathering authorities the bill would give to the federal government, allowing it collect any information, including records from Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) and the addresses of depositors, from any financial institution at any time.

  One such entity, [...]

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• A legend passes

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  After battling cancer for a year, Francisco Aguabella succumbed suddenly to the disease this morning, Fri, May 7, 2010.

  From the bio at his website: 

  Legendary Conguero Francisco Aguabella first left Cuba in the 1950's to perform with Katherine Dunham in the Shelley Winters movie "Mambo" filmed [...]

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• Marco Rubio on US/Cuba Policy

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  When would you approve of lifting the economic embargo against Cuba?

  Rubio: When Cuba joins the rest of the civilized world in how it treats its people. That is freeing political prisoners, it means free and fair elections. They can choose any form of government they like, but they have to [...]

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• American Leftists’ heads exploding in 3… 2… 1…

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  In a shocking admission during an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia, Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Republic, admitted that the USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship responsible for the murder of millions of Russian citizens.

  President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that [...]

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• The recovery is in full swing!

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  Which is why the unemployment numbers spiked to 9.9%.

  The U.S. added 290,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in April, but unemployment as a whole rose to 9.9 percent as 805,000 people began returning to look for positions in the workforce.

  I think I'm getting the hang of this Newspeak...
  

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• Under pressure

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  Life as a Cuban slave is tough, regardless of what the elitist on the left and the useful idiots might say. Prospects for escape are few for Cuba's 11-million+ slaves who are kept against their will on an island prison roughly the size of Pennsylvania and surrounded by treacherous, shark-infested [...]

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