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• A “perfect” excuse to crush the opposition in Caracastan?

  Round 'em up Saddamito.  Move 'em on, head  'em up, move 'em out.... straight into pens and the slaughterhouse.  You have the perfect excuse now, and your bosses in Havana will give you great instructions on how to pull it off.  Good thing you've gone there, to perform proskynesis' [...]

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• Government of Chile says it will confront Cuba’s Raul Castro for harboring terrorists

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  I am not sure how far they will go, but at least one country in Latin America has the gumption to take a shot at the neighborhood bully.

  Via the UPI:

  Chile to confront Cuba over terrorists

  SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The government of Chile says it will challenge the [...]

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• The People’s Republic of America

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  “We, the people”

  President Obama’s second inaugural address was all about the “We” as in “We, the people”… An unusual thing for a president often labeled as a narcissist due to the liberal use of “me” and “I” in his speeches. He used the word 63 times by my count. [...]

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• Cuba’s Christian Liberation Movement demands independent investigation into death of its leader

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  CLM reiterates demand for independent investigation into deaths of Oswaldo and Harold

  "Today, six months since the deaths of my father and Harold Cepero, remains the certainty of two full lives, free, dedicated to love." - Rosa Maria Payá Acevedo, twitter, January 22, 2013

  Declaration of [...]

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• Arturo Lopez-Callejas (“Artie Levy” to you!)–The Castro family’s Fredo

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  Arturo Lopez-Callejas ("Artie Levy" to you!) calls the Developement Alternatives Inc. memo mentioning Babalu a "declassifed U.S. government document." (in the comments section of The Havana Note) Jose Cardenas sets him straight:

  Correction. That is not an official U.S. document -- declassified or otherwise -- that you [...]

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• Passport?

  The humor of Villazán at Guamá:

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• Hillary on Causes for Benghazi Attack: “What Difference Does It Make?!?”

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  Yep, she said that...

  So, according to the woman who pushed an innocent video-maker out front as the blame for the Benghazi attack and murders, and then had to climb out over the landslide of mounting evidence to the contrary, the reason we were attacked is not important.

  Well, I wonder [...]

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• Vindicated…sort of.

  The Roberts ruling doomed Obamacare...that was my argument back in June of last year.

  Well, kind of.

  Every right-wing pundit from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh cried treason and attacked Roberts for what some called his "peace in our time" decision, while I argued that Justice Roberts' opinion' [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Our good friend Zoé Valdés in an interview at Punt de Vista, which is run by another good friend of ours, Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall:

  "I have no use for projects nor am I interested in being part of a project that continues to try and reconcile with the dictatorship" [...]

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