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• Pope’s Visit Unleashes a Wave of Terror in Cuba

  
  
  

  
  "Oye pero Mira que a esos cabrones de Breitbart le encanta JODER!"

  Not that Cubans don’t live under a constant reign of terror, but according to samizdats recently smuggled out of Cuba, repression has cranked up. Castro’s KGB and STASI- tutored regime is carefully preparing for [...]

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• Vatican says it’s only concerned for the poor in Cuba

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  The Vatican has released a statement that its criticism of U.S. economic sanctions against the Castro dictatorship (which exclude humanitarian items such as food and medicine) is based on its concern for the poor in Cuba:

  The cry of the poor: Pope may criticize U.S. embargo of [...]

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• Ché, Fidel, and their Marxist-Leninist Flap-doodle

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  A very interesting and quite entertaining review of Fidel Castro's memoir of Ché Guevara by Daniel Kalder in the Guardian:

  Dictator lit: Castro's clunking Che memoir

  Interested in the insider's view of Che Guevara by his comrade-in-arms Fidel Castro? I wouldn't look for it here if I were' [...]

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• Two human fetuses imported from Cuba

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  You have no choice but to file this one under WTF?

  Via NBC6 Miami:

  Women Traveled With Human Fetuses From Havana

  Neither woman was charged

  Two human fetuses were found in a jar carried by two women at Miami International Airport, according to Miami-Dade spokesman Roy Rutland.

  The women were returning [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Cuban dictatorship defender Julia Sweig says what we have been saying all along:

  “‘Partnership’ is not a bad word to describe it. Raul Castro and Cardinal Ortega have a very productive working relationship that has benefits for society, the Cuban government and the Catholic Church.”

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• Home stretch for Pope petition signatures

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  I want to take a moment to thank all of you who have signed the One Cuba petition to Pope Benedict XVI, which asks that he make time on his trip to Cuba to meet with human rights activists, independent journalists and other civil society leaders [...]

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• Cardinal’s action clouds Pope’s visit to Cuba

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  A must-read from Andres Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald:

  Cardinal’s action clouds Pope’s visit to Cuba

  Pope Benedict XVI’s three-day visit to Cuba starting Monday will begin under a cloud: human rights groups are appalled by Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega’s decision to call the police to evict peaceful [...]

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• The Freedom Collection at the George W. Bush Presidential Library

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  President and Mrs. Bush to launch Freedom Collection

  DALLAS—On Wednesday, March 28, the George W. Bush Presidential Center will host a special event to launch the Freedom Collection, a groundbreaking effort to document the struggle for human freedom and democracy around the world. President Bush and Mrs. Laura [...]

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• Hope for Cuba

  
  
  

  Humberto posted a link to this late last night, but here is the video from an American Enterprise Institute conference on Cuba titled Hope for Cuba: The Papal Visit, Summit of the America', and Cuba's Future held yesterday in Washington D.C.:

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• Another Galway city newspaper shows more courage than the Irish Times

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  Yesterday, we brought you the news that the Galway Advertiser, a local paper in Galway, Ireland, courageously published a letter from Yale professor and Babalú writer Dr. Carlos Eire denouncing the proposed memorial to Ché Guevara in that city. A letter that was originally sent to [...]

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