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• Zut alors! It looks as if Gerard Depardieu will be able to live in France after all.

  Major socialist setback!

  Zee time has come for Socialist president Hollande to pout.  Beeeg time.  It looks as eef zee French judges have deesplayed more common sense than zee chief executive, and perhaps also more sense than zee U.S. Supreme Court did  in regards to Obamacare.

  Let's see where this leads. [...]

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• Monkey see, monkey do

  Evo Morales is forging ahead with his seizure of private firms in Bolivia, in keeping with the paradigm established by Fidel and Hugo.  This time the victims are Spanish.  Now, if only the same logic behind this major theft were to be applied to the Melia Hotels in Castrolandia...

  Bolivia [...]

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• The morbid (and offensive) obsession with swimming from Cuba to the U.S.

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  Only God knows how many Cubans have lost their lives in the Florida Straits trying to escape the island prison of Cuba. Nevertheless, there seems to be some morbid (and offensive) obsession with foreigners wanting to swim from Cuba to the U.S. as if the countless dead in those waters [...]

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• Questions swirl as Carromero is transferred to Spanish prison

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  Carromero arrives at the Segovia penitentiary in Spain

  Two officials of the Popular Party went to visit Angel Carromero at the Segovia penitentiary yesterday.  Both spoke to the press.

  Esperanza Aguirre, the leader of the Popular Party in Spain says that under Spanish law Angel Carromero is not a criminal, despite [...]

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• Hunger Striker Demands Immediate Release of Alan Gross & Eduardo Arocena

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  A press release from Gualdo Hidalgo at Cuba Confidential:

  Hunger Striker Demands Immediate Release of Alan Gross & Eduardo Arocena

  /EINPresswire.com/ Gualdo Hidalgo, Latin Heritage Foundation Executive Director and former Cuban political prisoner, starts a hunger strike demanding from United States and Cuba governments the immediate release of Eduardo Arocena and [...]

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• ‘Laws Are for Little People’

  The infamous Leona Helmsley, tax evader, convict, real estate mogul, and known by her appellation, the "Queen of Mean," once famously declared that "we don't pay taxes ... only the little people pay taxes..." It seems this attitude is pervasive among a certain class of Americans who think they are entitled to be treated differently because they' [...]

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• Political assassinations, propaganda, and ransoms: Just another day in Cuba World

  Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero

  From the little we know regarding the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Harold Cepero and prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá in a mysterious car accident earlier this year, there is little doubt, if any, the Castro dictatorship was involved. It is not like the Cuban regime [...]

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• Venezuelan government leadership back home… in Cuba

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  The entire contingent of leaders who currently control the Venezuelan government are back home at their headquarters and the new capital of Venezuela, Havana, Cuba. Fidel and Raul Castro welcomed Venezuela's vice president and their newest marionette, Nicolas Maduro, to Havana where he joins them and his fellow puppet, Hugo [...]

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• Facts and Stinking Facts

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  The Sacramento Bee: "California gun sales jump; gun injuries, deaths fall"

  And, about those armed school teachers...

  Kasey Hansen, a special education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, says she would take a bullet for any of her students, but if faced with a gunman [...]

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• 2012: The year of repression in Cuba

  Journalist Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall details the violent wave of repression unleashed in 2012 by the brutal Castro dictatorship against thousands of peaceful opposition activists.

  Read the article (in Spanish) at Martí Noticias.

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