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• ‘I hope Raul gives me a passport’

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  In not so many words, from our friends at Guamá:

  Translation:

  Rafael Correa: "You now what? I'm going to write you a letter of invitation."

  Fidel Castro: "I hope Raul gives me a passport. He denied Hugo his passport to Venezuela."

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• The Greatness of Reinaldo Arenas, the vulgarity of Richard Blanco

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  By Zoé Valdés (my translation):

  The Greatness of Reinaldo Arenas, the vulgarity of Richard Blanco

  Richard Blanco

  Richard Blanco has various things in common with Ricardo Alarcon, and it is not just his queerness – as he himself publicly describes his homosexuality – but something more along the lines of a name. [...]

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• José Martí: ‘Looking at you, kid’

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  The art of Geandy Pavón:

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• Cuba behind the wheel: Fulton Armstrong & Co.

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  Our good friend Tania Mastrapa, Ph.D. at the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research:

  Cuba behind the wheel: Fulton Armstrong & Co.

  Fulton Armstrong, ardent defender of Ana Belen Montes a convicted spy for Cuba, was a staffer to Senator John Kerry at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

  Senator John Kerry, [...]

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• U.S. residents become second largest source of tourism in Cuba in 2012

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  According to a report in Café Fuerte, U.S. residents have become the second largest group of tourists to Cuba, second only to Canadians. The increase is an obvious result of the Obama administration's Cuba policy, which relaxed travel restrictions to the island for American citizens and Cuban Americans with [...]

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• The ongoing and ever-increasing repression against dissidents in Cuba

  Since the press has abdicated its duty to report the truth and continually ignores reality in Cuba, it cannot be said or reported enough.

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Violence increases against dissidents in Cuba (Part 1)

  Violent arrest of Jorge Vazquez Chaviano in the month of January, 2013.

  Between the days of January [...]

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