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• Has Cuba become a Toxic waste dump for Lexington Institute benefactor, Sherritt International?

  
  
  

  
  Sherrit CEO Ian Delaney chumming it up with business chum

  From Lincoln Diaz Balart:

  "The Canadian Mining company Sherrit International has long been extracting Nickel from Cuba's Holguin province and transporting it to Canada for processing. I" [...]

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• “They tried to make me go to rehab but I said ‘no, no, no’”

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  The fundamental change is happening. We are in trouble. But the biggest trouble we are in is more than half the elected class, all the way to the top, refuse to recognize they have a problem ... an addiction that they refuse [...]

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• Snapshot of Fidel Castro’s criminal rise to power

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  Testimony of Rafael Lincoln Diaz Balart, Fidel Castro's former brother-in-law, before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee hearing on the Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean.

  Excerpts from the May 3, 1960 hearing, keep in mind that Mr. Diaz Balart answered the [...]

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• Archbishop Meurice: A Freedom Fighter

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  The Herald's Myriam Marquez on Archbishop Pedro Meurice Estiu:

  Cuban archbishop a freedom-fighter with one weapon

  I expected to see this giant of a man when I met Pedro Meurice Estiú at his office in Santiago, Cuba, nine years ago. But the “Lion of the East,” [...]

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• Quote of the day

  
  
  

  Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antúnez" on the vicious attacks by the Castro dictatorship on the Ladies in White:

  "They are beating women on the streets. Dialogue and rapprochement cannot be an option with these oppressors."

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• The ‘Monkey of the Andes’ returns to Venezuela

  
  
  

  Simian prince and second coming of the "Monkey of the Andes," Hugo Chavez, returns to Venezuela:

  Chavez Returns to Venezuela

  CARACAS—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return home on Saturday after completing the first stage of chemotherapy in Cuba.

  Mr. Chavez's arrival at Maiquetia airport outside [...]

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• On this date in history

  
  
  

  July 24th, 1961: A hijacker commandeered an Eastern Airlines Electra en route from Miami to Tampa, forcing it to fly to Cuba.

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• Another Cuban clergyman fired for speaking out against Castro dictatorship

  
  
  

  Jose D. Ferrer reports from Cuba via Hablalo Sin Miedo that another pastor has been fired by his church's hierarchy for speaking out against the Castro dictatorship (my translation):

  Message from José D. Ferrer regarding Pastor Lorenzo Rosales who was expelled from his church 8:11 [...]

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• Dozens of Cuban opposition members arrested, Pastor’s home surrounded by Castro military

  
  
  

  Via DIARIO DE CUBA (my translation):

  Dozens have been detained in Santa Clara in conjunction with the eviction of Pastor Yordi Toranzo

  Dissidents are reporting via social networks that there have been dozens of detentions in Santa Clara in the last hours as part of a [...]

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• ‘I’m watching you’

  
  
  

  PayoLibre.com is reporting that former Cuban prisoner of conscience Pedro Argüelles Morán received a phone call at his home in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba on July 19th from a man who identified himself as Juan Brunet. The call from a [...]

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