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• Carlos Eire: Confessions of a Cuban exile who becomes a wayward historian

  
  
  

  Carlos Eire discussing his latest book, "Waiting to Die in Miami" at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, Thursday, April 21 as part of the George Washington Forum on American ideas, politics and institutions.  It's fabulous, revealing, instructive, and heartbreaking. Take tissue.

  Thank you Carlos for sharing [...]

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• Totally Tubular Twitter: May The Schwartz Be With You

  
  
  

  Okay ... Okay, I held off of this kibbles and bits story for the most part, but I'll toss it out there now.

  Over the long holiday weekend the very mouthy, rude, and most times anti-social Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY-D) made the blog news (not to' [...]

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• Brigades to Kill a Cuban

  
  
  

  By Luis Felipe Rojas:

  Brigades to Kill a Cuban

  
  

  Photo: Luis Felipe Rojas

  Recently, the Cuban government has been quite busy trying to find justifications.  The death of Juan Wilfredo Soto in Villa Clara, the beating of various Guantanamo natives from the Tabio-Ramirez [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen Disappointed at Spain’s Treatment of Former Cuban Political Prisoners

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  NEWS

  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

  http://foreignaffairs.house.gov
  

  For IMMEDIATE Release

  Ros-Lehtinen Disappointed at Spain’s Treatment of Former Cuban Political Prisoners

  Calls on Spanish Government to Fulfill its Commitments

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs [...]

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• The Even Lesser Antilles

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  From our friends at Guamá:

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• Ros-Lehtinen Says That As The Cuban Tyrant Raul Castro Celebrates His 80th Birthday On Friday, The Cuban Nation Faces More Repression & Hunger

  
  
  

  PRESS RELEASE

  May 31, 2011

  Ros-Lehtinen Says That As The Cuban Tyrant Raul Castro Celebrates His 80th Birthday On Friday, The Cuban Nation Faces More Repression & Hunger

  Washington, DC – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the upcoming 80th birthday [...]

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• Quote of the day

  
  
  

  Ernesto Hernandez Busto from Penúltimos Días on Carlos Saladrigas' comments in an interview regarding doing business with the Castro regime:

  "He says, '[w]e will invest in Cuba when all Cubans have the same right, and when all Cubans who live in Cuba will be able" [...]

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• Cuban exiles in Madrid pay tribute to Pedro Luis Boitel

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  Prominent Cuban exiles in Madrid paid tribute to Cuban martyr Pedro Luis Boitel. Via El País (my translation):

  Cuban Exiles in Madrid pay tribute to dissident Pedro Luis Boitel

  The biography of the poet and student leader who died in 1972 was presented

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• “Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…same as it ever was!”

  
  
  

  
  From CubaHeadlines today:

  Carlos Saladrigas’ (Cuba Study Group) group includes influential and high-net worth Cuban Americans, such as Goldman Sachs fund manager John C. McIntire y Salazar, sugar tycoon Alfonso Fanjul, and César Álvarez, president of law firm Greenberg Traurig.

  From [...]

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• Iranian tyranny borrows a page from the Castro tyranny playbook

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  It should not come as a surprise to anyone that the Iranian tyrannical dictatorship is borrowing a page from the Cuban tyrannical dictatorship's playbook:

  Iran Vows to Unplug Internet

  Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national [...]

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