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• Photo of the day — The lion starves tonight

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  Via Café Fuerte, we see that the lions at a zoo in Camaguey, Cuba seem to be suffering starvation alongside the Cubans on the island:

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• Celia Cruz to be honored at largest Cuban festival in U.S.

  Via NBC Latino:

  Celia Cruz to be honored at largest Cuban festival in U.S.

  Sandra Castro may be a Colombian-American with a successful pet-sitting business, but she also spends half the year preparing for one of the biggest festivals in the country, which she helped to found.   Now in its third [...]

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• Quote of the day

  Oswaldo Payá on the Cuban church during an interview with Italy's LA STAMPA newspaper in March of this year (my translation):

  "The Cuban church has abandoned us."

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• Castro’s European hostages “confess”

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  “I braked because I saw the hole and the sand. I lost control of the car because we had entered an area with gravel. ... No vehicle hit us from behind...I ask the international community to please focus on getting me out of here and not use a traffic [...]

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• Allen West: ‘Cuba is looking for a new sugar daddy’

  Michele Kirk at BIZPAC Review:

  Allen West: 'Cuba is looking for a new sugar daddy'
  

  Congressman Allen West responded with concern to an audience question about a possible Russian naval base in Cuba at Friday’s monthly town hall meeting.

  “We have a soft underbelly right here in the United States [...]

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• The Olympics: Remembering Munich … Or Not

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  Every Olympics (summer or winter) NBC treats us to the background stories on the athletes participating in the games. Sometimes I get the feeling it's a rub-your-nose-in-it-you-selfish-decadent-Americans tone, mostly when it deals with an athlete from a foreign country. (If I had to hear the heart-tugging story of orphaned and [...]

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• Cambio

  Garrincha in CUBAENCUENTRO:

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• News flash: Castrolandia’s ruling elite find unique solution to bladder control issues

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  This is what happens when those who run your country are all old men and adult diapers are hard to find.  Look under the seats for the answer. [...]
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• Cuba’s European Hostages

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Update on Castro's European Hostages Here's the latest on Angel Carromero and Aron Modig, the Spanish and Swedish survivors of the car crash that claimed the life of Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Paya:

  - Carromero has been transferred to the Department of Technical Investigation of the [...]

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• Executions in Cuba: Over five decades of death

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  The video below shows the Castro dictatorship in 1959 doing what it does best: indiscriminately doling out death. More than five decades later, not much has changed. The Cuban regime continues to kill indiscriminately, only now it does so with a little more sophistication with mysterious illnesses and staged automobile [...]

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