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• Prayers…

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  Former Vice President Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant today...

  Former GOP Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia, a spokeswoman said Saturday evening.

  In 2010, Cheney had a left ventricular assist device implanted for treatment of [...]

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• Hugo Chavez has only about 9 months left to live, thanks to his Cuban doctors

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  According to one Venezuelan physician, Hugo Chavez stands no chance of surviving his cancer.   And the care he has received in Cuba has been "disastrous."

  Dr. José Rafael Marquina, a Venezuelan physician who resides in Florida was interviewed yesterday by the Spanish newspaper ABC. The subject was [...]

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• Why Cuban exiles don’t take America’s freedom for granted

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  Louise Obrien in the Miami Herald:

  Why Cuban exiles don’t take America’s freedom for granted

  Without the Cuban diaspora, Miami would be a very different city.

  Before Castro’s revolution, Cubans represented just 2 percent of Miami-Dade County’s population. By 2010, they’d grown to 34 percent —numbering only slightly fewer [...]

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• Of Popes and Potatoes

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  Yoani Sanchez in Foreign Policy:

  Of Popes and Potatoes

  Can Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Havana offer any hope for the Cuban people?

  January 1998 was a moment of discovery and creativity, of unprecedented scenes and audible prayers. John Paul II visited us, and in the Plaza of [...]

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• Cuban American NASCAR owner threatens to withhold donations if pope visits Cuba

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  Via the Miami Herald:

  NASCAR's Sabates threatens to withhold charity if pope goes to Cuba

  WASHINGTON -- The outspoken part-owner of a NASCAR team that includes driver Juan Pablo Montoya wants Pope Benedict XVI to rethink his visit next week to the communist island of Cuba.

  Felix Sabates, who [...]

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• Three winners from American Thinker

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  The always excellent American Thinker has three superb, thought-provoking essays I'd like to share with all of you.

  "The Awful Parallel" By Mark Walker

  Winston Churchill wrote a memoir about World War 2 , the personalities, circumstances and events leading to the outbreak of the war. His review' [...]

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• The Papal Visit to Cuba: Let the dance begin

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  After Pope Benedict XVI indirectly went after the Castro dictatorship when he criticized Marxism in Cuba during his flight to Mexico yesterday, the Cuban regime immediately stepped up to join the pope in another tiresome diplomatic dance:

  Cuba will listen with respect to Pope Benedict XVI [...]

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• Human rights organizations demand end of repression and release of political prisoners in Cuba

  
  
  

  Amnesty International:

  Amnesty International Calls on Cuba to Release Journalists

  The human-rights group is seeking the release of dissident brothers Antonio Michel and Marcos Maiquel Lima Cruz, who were imprisoned at Christmas for singing a subversive rap song.

  Human Rights Watch:

  Cuba: Halt Repression in Advance of Pope's Visit

  (Washington,DC) [...]

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• Conscience against Castro

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  From the Wall Street Journal:

  Conscience Against Castro

  Cuba tries to silence a dissident ahead of Pope Benedict's visit.

  The Castro brothers have given a homework assignment to Benedict XVI. On Thursday morning, days before the Pope is due to visit Cuba, Havana's political police delivered a summons to [...]

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• Cuban dissidents suffer violent beatings and arrests ahead of papal visit

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  The level of violence and repression by the Castro dictatorship against Cuban dissidents has increased exponentially in recent days as the Cuban regime desperately tries to quash any plans for public protests during the visit by Pope Benedict XVI beginning March 26, 2012.

  In Havana, Cuban human rights [...]
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