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• You Can Check Out Anytime You Like…

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  Yoani Sanchez in Foreign Policy:

  You Can Check Out Anytime You Like...

  Why the Cuban government's new law relaxing travel restrictions isn't what it's reported to be.

  HAVANA — "Will the last to leave turn off El Morro," goes a popular Cuban joke. The witticism, which refers to the famous lighthouse' [...]

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• Freedom House condemns arbitrary arrests in Cuba

  Via Freedom House:

  Freedom House Condemns Wave of Arbitrary Arrests in Cuba

  As the world’s eyes were turned on the U.S. election, Cuba’s regime unleashed a wave of arbitrary detentions, arresting 20-25 dissidents on November 8 and 9, as they were on their way to an organizing meeting for a campaign [...]

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• The crime ‘nobody’ committed

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  In Human Events: "J.P. Morgan and the crime nobody committed":

  The Wall Street Journal on Monday reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission “doesn’t intend to charge any individuals in its planned enforcement action against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. for the allegedly fraudulent sale of mortgage bonds, according to [...]

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• A mystery revealed

  While we were all busy discussing how and why all predictions of a Romney win were off, we failed to realize that the most important prediction of all was coming true.

  Nothing follows.

  Seriously.

  Nothing...follows.

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• Down with the BLOCKade

  The humor of Lauzan:

  Translation:

  "Down with the blockade, damn it!"

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• Good choice there, Latinos!

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  Latino poverty rate climbs to 28%:

  While Latinos are gaining in political clout, they are also falling down the economic ladder, new Census numbers show.

  Latinos poverty rates climbed to 28 percent after the census reconfigured its algorithm to take into account medical costs and government programs. The Hispanic poverty level [...]

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• Another Cuban American done good story

  We never get enough of these...

  Via Fox News Latino:

  Our American Dream: West Point's First Cuban Refugee Grad, a Life of Science and Beyond

  In the way that one thing leads to another so that, looking back, “another” seems inevitable, Manuel Gonzales found himself standing at a podium in Orlando, Florida, [...]

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• Midnight in America

  We got it bad and that ain't good:

  Yes, it's midnight again in America.

  Obama, in fact, is the only president other than Herbert Hoover to preside over an economy that shrank in real terms during his first term. And Hoover, as I recall, was not re-elected. Roosevelt's margin of electoral' [...]

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• Reaping the whirlwind

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  Unexpectedly! Good job, there, PA and OH!

  [...] From the Department of Labor press release this morning:

  In the week ending November 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 439,000, an increase of 78,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 361,000. The 4-week moving average was 383,750, [...]

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• Thought of the day

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  Cuban independent journalist Ivan Garcia on the celebrations that took place in Havana when Barack Obama won reelection:

  "It was not only Barack Obama’s supporters in Chicago’s Democratic party circles who celebrated the close victory over his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, with champagne. Though without as much rejoicing, the club of" [...]

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