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• BREAKING: Magnitude 5.6 quake near Guantanamo

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  Just saw this on Drudge:

  HAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo in eastern Cuba, on Saturday and was felt in the island's second city of Santiago de Cuba.

  A spokesman at the Guantanamo base said no damage was reported there.

  In Santiago de Cuba, [...]

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• A day late and a dollar short

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  Editorial from the local accessory after the fact, The Miami Herald, on the Black Spring anniversary:

  Cuba's brutality

  OUR OPINION: World leaders should back peaceful protesters

  In a democracy, people can disagree. They can march to protest their government, they can chastise their elected officials in public forums, they can walk down [...]

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• Tea Party in Coral Gables

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  Thanks to my buddy E who snapped the photos, and afternoon Tea Party In Coral Gables:

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• A friendly reminder for the weekend

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  Vote "NO" to the Socialist takeover of health care...

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• Solidarity

  Getting support and solidarity from folks like this makes all the work worthwhile.

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• This guy ate it!

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  This is just BAD ASS!!!

  Just. Totally. Awesome.

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• Romeo, Romeo, where forth art thou, Romeo?

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  From the Senate hearings on the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte for the Ambassadorship to El Salvador:

  “Between 1982 and 1994, I was romantically involved with a Cuban American. It was a romantic relationship. In the course of that relationship, he had some contacts with the Cuban [...]

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• Reflections of the Cuba Expert

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  Here at Babalú, our readers were reminded that yesterday, March 18th, was the anniversary of one of the many dark moments in Cuba's history as an enslaved nation: The Black Spring of 2003. We posted stories and links that analyzed and retold the story of the plight of 75 Cuban [...]

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• Reflections on the Revolution in America

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  From Victor Davis Hanson: "Reflections on the Revolution in America."

  These are exciting though scary revolutionary times, akin to the constant acrimony in the fourth-century BC polis, mid-nineteenth century revolutionary Europe, or — perhaps in a geriatric replay — the 1960s. This is an era when the fundamental assumptions of [...]

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• Thank you, Babalú

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  A big, fat thank you to Babalú and to Cuban bloggers here in the U.S. for helping me reconnect with my Cuban cousin, blogger Regina Coyula, of La Mala Letra.

  Read the rest of the story over at My big, fat, Cuban family.

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