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• MONDAY IN MIAMI: Ros-Lehtinen To Attend Unveiling Of The Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Boulevard On Coral Way & 32 Avenue

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  MONDAY IN MIAMI: Ros-Lehtinen To Attend Unveiling Of The Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Boulevard On Coral Way & 32 Avenue; Ileana Says Dr. Biscet Personifies Struggle Against Castro Regime & She Is Honored To Participate

  Miami, Florida – On Monday December 10th at 11:00 am, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) will [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Esperanza Aguirre, president of the People's Party in Madrid, call on Spaniards to commit to the democratization of Cuba and “take on” the dictatorship of the Castro brothers (via dfwcatholic.org).

  “I want to say very loudly and clearly that for the citizens of the western countries, for all the [...]

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• Headline of the Day

  Today's Headline of the Day is brought to you by the Latin American Herald Tribune:

  Miami Man Guilty of Smuggling Birds from Cuba After 16 "Negritos de Cuba" Found in His Pants [...]
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• The absurdity of the Obama administration’s Cuba travel policy

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  Capitol Hill Cubans neatly sums up and exposes the absurdity that is the Obama administration's Cuba travel policy:

  The Absurdity of "People-to-Castro" Travel

  One of the most deceptive -- albeit perhaps well-intentioned -- aspects of the Obama Administration's Cuba policy is its so-called "people-to-people" travel.

  As we've long-stated, the current "people-to-people" trips' [...]

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• News flash: Charlie Crist clambers aboard the good ship Lollipop

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  As the dean of American intellectuals --Gomer Pyle -- might have said: Surprise, surprise, surprise ! Who could have ever seen this one coming?

  Ex-Florida Gov. Crist says he's joining Democrats

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —

  Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected the state's chief executive as a Republican and then ran [...]

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• Cuba: Former prisoners of conscience released after arbitrary detention

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  Former prisoners of conscience released after arbitrary detention

  Following a night in jail, former prisoners of conscience tweet about their detention and release

  
  

  Librado Linares (left) and Ivan Hernandez Carillo (right) freed

  First the good news, Sayli Navarro, the daughter who tweeted last night [...]

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• Cuba dictatorship blocks international phone numbers offering lifelines to dissidents

  The Miami Herald's Juan Tamayo:

  Cuba blocks calls to phone system used by dissidents

  MIAMI — The Cuban government is blocking calls to U.S. and Spanish telephone numbers once described as a 911 service for dissidents - a system they could use to swiftly report abuses to supporters abroad.

  Hablalo Sin Miedo [...]

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• Pay no attention to the dictators behind the curtain

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  It is impossible NOT to notice that most of the major news bureaus with "reporters" in Castrolandia have been very busy in these past few weeks, whipping up feel-good stories about the island slave plantation.   All of these "reports" are as sunny as the Cuban beaches visited by [...]

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