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• Cuba “Expertise!!!”–(from the Brookings Intitution this time)

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  "As the guerrilla army made its triumphal entry into Havana and the infant revolution shifted leftward, a hallmark of its anti-imperialist ethos became the loudly proclaimed nationalizations of the U.S.-based firms that had controlled many key sectors of the Cuban economy, including hotels and gambling casinos, public utilities, oil" [...]

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• Senator Marco Rubio marks Human Rights Day on the Senate Floor

  Rubio: “I think what's important today, on December 10th, on Human Rights Day, is to take a moment and understand that the cause of human rights is not a partisan cause. It's not even a nationalistic cause. It is a human cause that requires each and every one of us [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen: Responsible Nations Must Stand in Solidarity with the Victims of Human Rights Abusers

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  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

  For IMMEDIATE Release – December 9, 2012

  Responsible Nations Must Stand in Solidarity with the Victims of Human Rights Abusers, Ros-Lehtinen Says International Human Rights Day Recognized Monday

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the [...]

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• Hyper-pirates of the Caribbean snag another hostage

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  Uh, oh.  We know what this poor guy and his family are up against.  A British citizen, with a British passport, detained in Cuba for a minor technicality (He was born in Castrolandia long ago, and failed to purchase a Cuban passport from the Ministry of Piracy).   Vast [...]

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• An open letter to the Nobel Committee for Literature

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  Via Enrisco:

  An open letter to the Nobel Committee for Literature by exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu:

  Berlin, November 25, 2012
  An Open Letter to the Nobel Committee for Literature
  Ladies and gentlemen of the Nobel Committee for Literature,

  As an exiled Chinese writer, I understand that my personal feelings cannot be [...]

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• International Human Rights Day in Cuba 2012: A look back

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  International Human Rights Day in Cuba 2012: A look back

  The past year has continued to see a deterioration in human rights in Cuba. It began in January with the terrible news that Wilman Villar Mendoza, another prisoner of conscience, had died while [...]

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• The mythical Cuban American support for Obama

  I guess a lie worth telling is a lie worth repeating...

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  AP's Sloppy Reporting on Cuban-American Electorate The AP's Miami bureau has a sloppy story today regurgitating the same narrative about the "changing" Cuban-American electorate.

  We've literally seen variants of this story since The New York Times first' [...]

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• Unserious people

  Bill Whittle says it all:

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• Photo of the day — Fidel on Ice

  A piece by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino displayed at Miami's Art Basel:

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• The best of Art Basel

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  Hipsters descended on Miami last week as the annual Art Basel festival of art exhibits took place. I went to a couple of events but the best piece I saw was this, fidel castro in a Coca-Cola cooler. Nothing would be more appropriate in a post castro Cuba than to [...]

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