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• Toilet Paper and the Cubanization of Venezuela

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  Caracastan buys 50 million rolls of toilet paper, blames opponents of The Revolution for hoarding.

  It's almost too funny a milestone  to be considered a news item.   Yet, at the same time, it's also tragic.

  It's but another step in the ongoing Cubanization of Caracastan, and a reflection of events [...]

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• Spanish actors escapes ‘savage capitalism’ of Europe for the utopia of Cuba’s totalitarian paradise

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  Spanish actor Willy Toledo has announced he will leave Spain and its "savage capitalism" to seek refuge in the utopian paradise that is the Castro regime's Cuba.

  Actor Willy Toledo In Cuba: Thesp Renounces 'Savage Capitalism' of Spain

  Spanish actor Willy Toledo announced last week that he will move to Havana [...]

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• Fidel’s beard

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  In an interview with Edward R. Murrow back in 1959, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was asked by the iconic American journalist when he was going to shave his scraggly beard. The then young murderous tyrant confidently replied that he would get rid of the beard as soon as he [...]

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• Like Cuba, the people of Vietnam are throwing themselves to the sea to escape tyranny

  Vietnam is a favorite example for "Cuba Experts" in their attempt to illustrate how engagement and business with a totalitarian dictatorship can benefit the oppressed people of that regime. Of course, the opposite is true, as we have already exposed. Moreover, all our trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam [...]

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• Travel Warning for Vacationing Americans

  I just caught this report on Facebook and thought with vacation season upon us, I would pass it along...

  Concerned about the recent arrests of two vacationing Americans in the Turks and Caicos Islands on gun-related charges, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is calling for authorities in the British-dependent territory [...]

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• Cuba’s ruling crime family, the Castros, punish their rivals

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  For all intents and purposes, Cuba is run by a crime family. The Castro dictatorship operates like an international crime syndicate, engaging in extortion, kidnapping, money laundering, drug running, human trafficking, and a host of other crimes. And just like any other powerful crime family, they do not tolerate any [...]

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• For Cubans in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun

  Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo in Sampsonia Way:

  For Cubans in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun

  An Afrocuban writer pens an article about racism in the U.S. and loses his job on the Island.

  In March the Cuban columnist Roberto Zurbano published an article in The New York Times entitled “For Blacks in [...]

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• Images of the real Cuba and its violent dictatorship

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  These are the real images of Cuba and the so-called reforms of dictator Raul Castro: The increased repression and violence against Cuba's growing dissidence.

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  New images of police repression in Villa Clara

  Police agents in the municipality of Vueltas, Villa Clara province, repressed various citizens during the activities [...]

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• Cuban dissidents Berta Soler and Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez address the Oslo Freedom Forum

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  Cuban dissidents Berta Soler and Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez address the Oslo Freedom Forum

  2013 Oslo Freedom Forum Opens in Norway, Celebrating Five Years of “Challenging Power”

  OSLO (May 14, 2013)—The 2013 Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) opens today in Norway, bringing an unprecedented gathering [...]

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• Floodgate: “Go Big”, I Always Say … And Then Blame Somebody Else

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  The other day somebody made the comment to me that, the Obama administration must be keeping secret the fact an extinction event asteroid is headed for Earth and Obama is like some teenager maxing-out credit cards, trashing the joint, and partying like it's the end of the world.

  You' [...]

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