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• Cuba: Antonio Rodiles released by Castro regime

  Cuban dissident Antonio Rodiles was released today by the Castro dictatorship after being held in prison for 19 days.

  Juan Tamayo via El Nuevo Herald (my translation):

  Cuban dissident Antonio Rodiles released after being detained for 19 days

  This Monday Cuban police released prominent opposition activist Antonio G. Rodiles, 19 days after [...]

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• Independent Journalists Live on the Razor’s Edge in Cuba

  By Ivan Garcia:

  Independent Journalists Live on the Razor’s Edge in Cuba

   

  Aini Martin Valero, independent journalist. The photo is by Gustavo Pardo and was taken from Cubanet.

  Every day when they go out to report or write some story about daily reality, invisible to official media, the murky Gag Law that can [...]

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• Cuba’s ongoing joke about the upcoming stupendous sugar harvest — Only Odebrecht is laughing

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  Forty-two years later, after proclaiming the 10-million ton sugar harvest in 1970 that fell woefully short, the dictatorship of Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba continue with the same tired joke:

  Cuba expecting higher sugar harvest

  Cuba began its sugar harvest this week with high expectations for output despite the devastation [...]

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• #Cuba — #FreeRodiles

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• Thanksgiving Terror from Fidel and Che

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  Furious at failing to start a worldwide nuclear war and incinerating millions of people 50 years ago last month, the bosom chum of “peace candidate” George McGovern tried again 50 years ago this month. In fact, the terror plot to incinerate and entomb thousands of New York holiday shoppers came [...]

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• Cuba hoping to benefit from possible Gross release

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  The University of Miami's Dr. Jaime Suchliki in the Miami Herald:

  Cuba hoping to benefit from possible Gross release

  Gen. Raúl Castro’s regime is considering a pardon for Alan Gross, the American USAID subcontractor arrested in Cuba in December 2009 and sentenced to 15 years in jail for distributing computers to [...]

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• Mark Steyn on our ‘Failures of Intelligence’

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  Mark Steyn in National Review Online takes on the recent intelligence failures that gave us the ever-wonderful "Arab Spring."

  Let us turn from the post-Thanksgiving scenes of inflamed mobs clubbing each other to the ground for a discounted television set to the comparatively placid boulevards of the Middle East. In Cairo, [...]

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• “Drudge Report” Headlines Nail Chicago Jesus and The Left’s Holy Land Under Him

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  Actor Jamie Foxx felt the unholy spirit move him to call out praises to his (and others) "Lord and Savior Barack Obama" at the annual Soul Train awards show...

  Oh, and for any apologists that will poo-poo this off as Foxx just being funny ...

  It ain't.

  Links to the other [...]

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• Virginia farmers seek to strike a deal with Cuban State Security

  The news report from the Washington Post attempts to portray the foray into Cuba business by Virginia farmers as just another business deal:

  Virginia finds trading partner in Cuba

  RICHMOND — Queen Victoria is said to have had a bite of an Albemarle Pippin and — poof! — away went the [...]

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• Res ipsa loquitur

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