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• Move over Media with Havana Bureaus. Saladrigas ALSO hails him as “President” Raul Castro

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  "Because I have a Havana Bureau too, and must protect it."
  
  "Vas bien, Carlos"

  At the Heritage Foundation Conference today Carlos Saladrigas refers to the reforms by "PRESIDENT" Raul Castro. Please check it out at 1;32..;53 seconds

  Unreal

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• “Was It Over When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?”

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  Face-palm alert: Congressman Keith Ellison must have learned history from John "Bluto" Blutarsky...

  Or maybe the Congressman is taking Michelle Obama's advise and changing our history.

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• New York Times: Release Alan Gross

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  An editorial from the New York Times:

  Release Alan Gross

  When he was arrested in Havana in late 2009, Alan Gross, a subcontractor for the United States Agency for International Development, was helping Cuba’s Jewish community get better access to the Internet. A Cuban court last year found [...]

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• A Lesson from Ecuador

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  Jaime Daremblum at The Weekly Standard:

  A Lesson from Ecuador

  While international pressure helped save an opposition newspaper, free speech and democracy are still at risk.

  Like Hugo Chávez, Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa has used vast oil wealth to boost his personal popularity and camouflage the effects of his [...]

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• If Havana had a bishop like the one in Prague

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  If Havana had a bishop like the one in Prague... one can only dream of the possibilities.

  Czech bishop demands that Castro releases political prisoners

  Prague, March 20 (CTK) - Czech Bishop Vaclav Maly has written a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro asking him to release political [...]

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• Remarks by Mauricio Claver-Carone at today’s Heritage Foundation/Google Cuba event in Washington D.C.

  
  
  

  The remarks by Mauricio Claver-Carone at today's Heritage Foundation/Google Cuba event in Washington D.C.:

  Remarks by Mauricio Claver-Carone at today's event, "Cuba Needs a (Technological) Revolution" hosted by Google and the Heritage Foundation

  Thank you so much for the invitation. It's great to be here with all of you.

  Let' [...]

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• Dignitaries throughout the world call on Pope to stand against repression in Cuba

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  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Dignitaries Appeal to the Pope From the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy:

  Use Pope's Visit to Cease Repression, says Dignitaries

  "You are not victims," Pope John Paul II told Cuba's people during his 1998 pilgrimage. "You are and must be the principal agents" [...]

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• Senator Marco Rubio at the Heritage Foundation/Google Conference on Cuba today

  
  
  

  Senator Marco Rubio interviewed by Mary O'Grady from the WSJ at today's Heritage Foundation/Google Conference:

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• He was there…

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  From our friends at Guamá:

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• Better stated than most

  
  
  

  From Big Hollywood comes an essay by Oscar-winning Producer that tells it like it is about the bad decision Americans made in 2008, and the impending decision we are to make this year. Read it all.

  [...] Once again, our ears failed us. Our eyes failed us. [...]

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