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• June 12, 1987

  I was so pissed off and preoccupied with "The Letter" that I totally forgot to check my history calendar, where I found this:

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• Cuban dictatorship releases Ariel Sigler Amaya

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  The Cuban dictatorship released a prisoner of conscience today, but not before they robbed him of his health and turned him into a paraplegic. Ariel Sigler Amaya was one of the 75 brave dissidents arrested during the Primavera Negra and while in prison, he was subjected to the brutality [...]

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• We should just shut up

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  From El Nuevo Herald comes this declaration:

  "Hay una serie de personajes en Miami que ayudarían enormemente si se callaran la boca porque no nos ayudan'', dijo el viernes a El Nuevo Herald el disidente y economista Oscar Espinoza Chepe, residente en la isla.

  Let me translate,

  "There are some personalities in [...]

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• To every Jew who has ever supported fidel

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  To the liberal/progressive Jews who support fidel and co., how does this feel?.

  "The hatred of the State of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they wouldn't hesitate sending a million-and-a-half men, women and children from that country to the crematoriums in which the Nazis exterminated millions of Jews'" [...]

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• They write letters…

  While 74 "prominent dissidents" in Cuba were busy writing letters dictated to them by Carlos Saladrigas and the Cuba Study Group to the US congress appealing their slave master's case, the European Union has decided that their common position towards the Cuban regime will remain in place. Despite a [...]

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• An act of desperation

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  Regarding the now famous letter of the 74 put together by Saladrigas etal:

  Do not think for one millisecond that this letter in "support" of lifting travel restrictions to Cuba has anything to do with the freedom of the Cuban people, helping Cuba's political prisoners and prisoners of conscience or making [...]

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• a quick note: Interesting New Twitter Page

  

  I think this new and interesting twitter link would be very beneficial for all to join. I'm not much of a Twitterer but I feel that by posting on the US Interests Havana-Cuba Twitter Page you would be more instrumental in letting them know what is' [...]

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• The Saudis gives Israel clear skies

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  The Sunnis hate the Jews, but they hate the Shia more...

  Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

  In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round [...]

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• The 74 — The Plot Thickens

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  I knew I smelled a rat...

  More evidence is turning up that the infamous letter from the 74 dissidents was a product of anti-embargo proponents here in the US and not the dissidents on the island.

  Via Penultimos Dias, via Emilio Ichikawa, via Ninoska Perez-Castellon's radio show yesterday, "Ninoska" [...]

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• The 74 — Initial Analysis

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  It is still too early to determine whether the letter released yesterday written to the US Congress, which was supposedly signed by 74 prominent Cuban dissidents, is a fraud or authentic. Capital Hill Cubans reported this morning that they were able to confirm some of the signors were not aware [...]

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