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• New year, new faces in U.S.-Cuba policy

  Guillermo Martinez in the Sun-Sentinel:

  New year brings new faces to lead on U.S.-Cuba policy

  To those who follow U.S.–Cuban relations closely, 2013 may be a box full of surprises. Who knows what is inside?

  Cuban officials are probably delighted with the nomination of Sen. John Kerry, D.–Mass., to be Secretary of [...]

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• Widespread public aspirations for freedom in Cuba ‘inevitable’?

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  Ernesto Hernandez Busto from Penúltimos Días makes an interesting observation regarding Yoani Sanchez's claim in an editorial in El Pais that the economic "reforms" of the Castro dictatorship will lead to inevitable widespread aspirations for freedom in Cuba (my translation):

  Yoani Sanches says in El Pais: "The principle fear" [...]

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• Cuban anarchists claim to be victims of repression by the Castro dictatorship

  Not even Cuba's anarchists can catch a break from the repressive and brutal Castro dictatorship.

  Via Punt de Vista (my translation):

  Cuban anarchists claim to be victims of repression

  In this statement, the Cuban anarchist movement denounces the repression and persecution they are being subjected to by the Castro regime. They [...]

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• Judicial action against Raul Castro planned in Chile

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  Via Martí Noticias (my translation):

  Judicial action against Raul Castro planned in Chile

  According to the internet site "biobiochile.cl," Chilean party officials of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and National Renovation (RN) are looking into either filing judicial action against Raul Castro or ordering him to answer questions when he visits [...]

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• Upcoming visit to Miami by Castro regime agent of repression denounced

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  A press release from Cuba's Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (my translation):

  Upcoming visit to Miami by Castro regime agent of repression denounced

  Audio: [youtu.be]

  Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey, January 2, 2013: Activist Yoan David Gonzalez Milanes, a Cuban opposition member of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Front for Civic [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen to join Congressional Rules Committee and chair Foreign Affairs Middle East Subcommittee

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  PRESS RELEASE

  January 2, 2013

  With Speaker Boehner Appointing Ros-Lehtinen To Rules Committee, Congresswoman Says She Looks Forward To This New Opportunity To Serve South Florida & Our Nation; Ileana Is Also The Chairman Designate For The Subcommittee On The Middle East Of Foreign Affairs Comm.

  Washington, DC – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [...]

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• What’s the old saw about the inmates and the asylum?

  Voting Drives In State Hospitals Will Continue.

  The director of [North Carolina] state facilities for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled said his department will continue to offer annual voter registration and voting assistance for patients and residents. He also said that while efforts are made to notify patients’ guardians [...]

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