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• After Food, What Most People in Cuba Are Talking About

  By Ivan Garcia:

  After Food, What Most People in Cuba Are Talking About

   

  God willing, before spring of 2013 arrives, Ernesto, thirty-five years old and the owner of a small confectionery business in the Havana neighborhood of Santo Suárez, will probably be able to travel to Madrid. He will stroll along the [...]

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• After massive wave of arrests and repression, EU sees ‘a postive evolution in Cuba’

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  After witnessing a monumental increase in the Castro dictatorship's repression, arrests, and the murder of dissidents in Cuba, the European Union now says it sees "a positive evolution" on the island.

  Via EFE on Fox News Latino:

  EU to explore new bilateral accord with Cuba

  European Union foreign ministers agreed [...]

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• Photo of the day — Cubans are everywhere

  From the Facebook page of our good friend Marc Masferrer, proof that Cubans are everywhere; even in the soup...

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• What is a ridiculous question?

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  When a "journalist" engages in a non-sequitur with the sole purpose of tripping up a Republican politician.

  By now you've probably read plenty about Senator Marco Rubio's GQ interview in which, out of nowhere, the interviewer asks Rubio how old he thinks the earth is.

  GQ: How old do' [...]

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• The Cuban-American Vote

  Our good friend Tania Mastrapa Ph.D. pokes more holes into the Democratic party's wet dream that Cuban Americans are becoming less conservative.

  Via the Selous Foundation:

  The Cuban-American Vote

  An Obama official inaccurately described Cuban-American voting patterns as currently more similar to that of other Hispanics. Not only are their voting patterns [...]

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• Disaster relief, Castro style: let’s raise prices on everything!

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  The religious web site Patheos has posted an appeal for aid to hurricane-ravaged eastern Cuba.  This appeal promises to bypass government agencies, which, as we Cubans know, love to collect money and use it for purposes other than disaster relief.   The appeal, while genuinely aware of the [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Cuban vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura delivers a message from dictator Raul Castro to a special envoy from the murderous Syrian dictatorship who arrived in Havana this past Monday (my translation):

  "I reiterate the support of the Cuban government for Syria's right to sovereignty and self-determination without foreign interference."

  H/T Punt [...]

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• Cuba’s vaunted health care — The envy of any third-world country

  The following video shows the interior of a hospital that is part of Cuba's vaunted health care system. The same system Castro sycophants like Michael Moore are constantly touting as the envy of the world.

  After seeing this video, one thing becomes clear: The Castro health system is certainly the envy [...]

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• Cuban dictatorship blocks phone number where dissidents report human rights abuses

  Many of our readers are familiar with the website Hablalo Sin Miedo, which provides a phone number that Cubans on the island can call and leave messages describing the human rights abuses of the Castro dictatorship that are later transcribed and posted on the website for the entire world [...]

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• Reforms in Cuba… Castro style!

  All the "Cuba Experts" agree: With its much ballyhooed reforms, the brutal and repressive dictatorship in Cuba is moving towards allowing more economic freedom for the practically non-existent private sector on the island. And just how will these reforms be carried out? But of course, under the watchful eye and [...]

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