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• Raul with Pope watching–and otherwise

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  A NCE (Non-Cuba-Expert) might suspect that the 2nd pic shows a tipsy Raul--finally rid of the Pope and surrounded by his own lackeys--unwinding after a few snorts of rum and making sport of his public reverence for the Pope minutes before.

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• Will Cuba do the right thing with Alan Gross?

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  Judy Gross, the wife of the American aid worker being held hostage by the Castro dictatorship, Alan Gross, in the Washington Post:

  Will Cuba do the right thing with Alan Gross?

  There is nothing more agonizing than losing a loved one. The pain is made all the [...]

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• Ché: A symbol of hope and freedom

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• “Fidel Castro is a Bad*ss!” Squeals Bill Maher while agreeing with Guillen

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  Bill Maher piles on Miami Marlin’s Ozzie Guillen!.....His defense, that is.

  Ah yes, the old, the tried and "true": “he defied those Yankee bullies! He foiled their gazillion assassination attemps!...What a Badass!”

  And you will never guess what else Maher touched upon!...and you [...]

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• No ‘Hope & Change’ dance in Latin America

  
  
  

  Our good friend Silvio Canto Jr. on President Obama's plunging popularity in Latin America:

  Nobody is dancing the "Hope & Change" in Latin America anymore

  We learned today that disenchantment with Pres BO has now spread south of the border:

  "Ahead of the president’s trip to the Summit of the" [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  On the Chilean website The Clinic, Patricio Fernandez addresses the comments supporting the Castro dictatorship made by Chilean communist student leader Camila Vallejo after her visit to Cuba (my translation):

  "The thing is that what is going on in Cuba is not a joke, Camila, at least" [...]

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• Our Dear, DEAR “Latino” Brothers and Sisters–AGAIN!

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  Canada and the United States have vetoed a proposal at the VI Summit of the Americas that would have allowed the Castro dictatorship to participate in future gatherings of the hemisphere's democracies.

  Ah!...that heart-warming ethnic solidarity at work--as always!

  Unreal

  (Aw, come on Humberto, you can always
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• Continuing commentary on the Ozzie Guillen controversy

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  Our good friend Carlos Frias in the Palm Beach Post:

  This offense of Ozzie's is too deep

  For four days I've been asked what I think about this Castro/Ozzie Guillen fiasco.

  Four days I've spent answering emails and Facebook messages, responding to ignorant Twitter posts and private notes.

  They [...]

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• “We Should Never Have Believed Them” … Well, Yeah.

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  I guess some people actually need to be hit by the meteor in order to believe it's actually coming...

  Stanford Prof. Joel Brinkley, who also worked for the NY Times at one time, is apparently one of those people who now opines, "Islamists in Egypt, Libya," [...]

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• Free Andres Carrion Alvarez NOW!

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