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• Do You Have a Spare 6:36?

  One of my favorite facts involves the American people vs the Congress in regards to lying, felonies and politics...

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• New Cuban migration law: The new Mariel Boatlift?

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  Guillermo Martinez in the Sun-Sentinel:

  New Cuban migration law causes questions, skepticism

  The anxiously-awaited new Cuban migration law went into effect Monday. Now the questions begin.

  Will Cuba allow doctors, professionals, and dissidents to take advantage of its new law, or will it still pick and choose who it allows the benefits [...]

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• U.S. government claims immunity against Alan Gross family lawsuit

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  Via Along the Malecon:

  U.S. claims immunity in Alan Gross lawsuit

  The U.S. government today declared itself immune from the $60 million lawsuit filed in November by American development worker Alan Gross and his wife Judy in connection with his 2009 jailing in Cuba.
  Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Lo wrote [...]

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• Arturo Lopez-Callejas (“Artie Levy” to you!) Director of Media Relations U.S. District, GAESA Enterprises.

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  The Lopez-Callejas cousins

  As well known hereabouts, and as thoroughly documented by Chris Simmons, the Castro clan's GAESA conglomorate pretty much controls every major business in Cuba, including all facets of the tourist industry.

  Raul's son-in-law Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Callejas, heads GAESA (at least for the time being.) [...]

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• A Cuban soap opera: Lifestyles of the rich and wicked

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  The 54-year-long soap opera that is the scandalous life of Fidel Castro and his family members in Cuba still has a few years to go before catching up to The Guiding Light's record 57 -year-long run. But although the Castro family may lag behind in longevity, it makes up for [...]

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• Scammers selling fake Cuban birth certificates to be sentenced

  It would seem the possibilities for profiting from the misery of the Cuban people are simply endless...

  Via the Miami Herald:

  Scammers to be sentenced for selling fake Cuban birth certificates to people seeking U.S. residency

  U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga is expected Friday to sentence members of a network who sold [...]

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• Obama maintains waiver protecting entities that traffic in stolen property in Cuba

  Unfortunately, Obama is not the first president to waive an important portion of the Helms-Burton law that allows citizens who have legal claims against entities that traffic in stolen property confiscated by the Castro dictatorship in Cuba to pursue them in court; both Clinton and Bush did the same. But [...]

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• Americans Must “Demand” Gun Control for “Change” to Come

  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, [...]

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