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• A Few Minutes with The Student

  
  
  

  By Luis Felipe Rojas:

  A Few Minutes with The Student

  I saw him two times in my life.  The first time was in Placetas.  I can’t remember if it was at the house of [...]

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• Cuba: Don’t ask, don’t go to prison

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  Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter has a post on how asking questions in Cuba gets you thrown into prison:

  Cuba: A place where asking questions can lead you to prison

  "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes" [...]

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• Reina Luisa Tamayo does not want to be sent to Arizona

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  El Nuevo Herald confirms that the U.S. is planning on sending Reina Luisa Tamayo to Arizona instead of Miami. In an interview with the paper, Reina Luisa states she wants to stay in Miami with the Cuban exile community, and that [...]

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• Corruption in Castro’s Cuba

  
  
  The Real Cuba

  The Real Cuba on the rampant corruption in Castro's Cuba:

  Cuba, rampant corruption

  A single mother, Ruth Salomon Escobar, narrates how his daughter was arrested by Cuban police and how she was injured when a woman officer smashed her head against [...]

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• A Castro blogger suddenly discovers she is a slave

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  Although they exist in relative anonymity, the Castro regime has an army of bloggers and trolls that spend 24 hours a day posting and spreading Castro propaganda on the net. Few people pay any attention to these soldiers of misfortune since all they do is [...]

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• Hialeah to honor Cuban American soldier killed in Afghanistan

  
  
  

  On Memorial Day the city of Hialeah will honor Army Sgt. First Class Ofren Arrechaga, a Cuban American soldier from Hialeah who was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan on March 29th. Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and [...]

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• Cuban independent journalist and blogger Luis Felipe Rojas detained by Castro dictatorship

  
  
  

  Luis Felipe Rojas, an independent journalist and blogger in Cuba, was able to get a message out on Twitter before security agents of the Castro dictatorship arrested him in Guantanamo, Cuba.

  Translation: "Being detained now at police check point" [...]

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• Cuban opposition leader Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera beaten by police and missing

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  Diario Las Americas is reporting that Cuban opposition leader Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera was brutally beaten and knocked unconscious by Castro security agents before taking her into custody on May 25th. As of today, her whereabouts are unknown.

  My translation:

  Opposition Leader on [...]

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• Castro dictatorship arrests 17 dissidents

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  The wave of repression continues to take its toll on the opposition in Cuba as Radio Martí reports that 17 dissidents were arrested by the Castro dictatorship.

  My translation:

  Guillermo Fariñas, Librado Linares  and 15 other opposition members arrested

  The opposition members were arrested as they peacefully [...]

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• Competing governing philosophies

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  Obviously, there is only one real winner -- and it ain't liberalism: "What Texas can teach us" by Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner.

  If you want to see a place where the private sector in America has been booming and generating jobs, you should' [...]

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