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• 76 Trombones and all that…

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  I get a lot of invitations to speak about Cuba.   Every now and then, one of these invitations pushes me over the edge.

  Here is an email exchange worth sharing with Babalu readers.

  I am leaving out all proper names to shield the terminally naive from unfair exposure.   After [...]

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• Latrine-America’s new emissary to the world

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  "Here's the list, and we only plan to execute about one thousand..Har..Har--Har!" (Raul Castro laughs for a Life Magazine story in Jan. 1959.)

  But hey? If "Christ's Vicar on Earth" and the ex-President of "The World's Most Powerful Nation!" along with "The" [...]

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• Latrine America and the Mulatos

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  Juan Abreu in his Emanaciones #1315 (my translation):

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  My friend Victor likes to refer to Latin America as "Latrine America," and the truth is that after watching the spectacle of CELAC in Chile, you would be hard pressed to find a more appropriate name. What I would have liked [...]

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• Happy birthday, 55,000,000 dead babies, from the wonderful progressive movement

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  Just when we think the left can't go any lower, they prove us wrong.

  On a related note.:

  Opponents of abortion demonstrated in Washington on Friday, marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that decriminalized abortion.

  The demonstration began in the cold at about noon,' [...]

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• Respecting or disrespecting historical fugures

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  Paying homage requires a synchronization of the organization presenting the award with the work of the person being honored. To do otherwise would be the selfish utilization of the achievements of historical figures for causes that they fought against or disagreed with while they were alive.

  For example, it would [...]

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• José Martí: ‘Others are able to: We Cannot’

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  On the birthday of the great José Martí, the father of Cuban independence, we thought it appropriate to share with our readers one of his most powerful essays translated by our good friend Diana Arteaga, which appeared on Babalú in July of 2011.

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  The words of the Cuban apostle José Martí [...]

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• Time for some name changes down South

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  The current meeting of CELAC proves once and for all that it is time for the world to acknowledge some significant name changes down south.

  First and foremost, Cuba should be referred to as Castrolandia or Castrolonia or Castrilla, or Castrogonia, or some other name that reflects the fact that [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Colorado Mountain College professor Bob Gumbrecht on leading a group of students on a trip to Cuba, because everyone should have a chance to visit and savor the misery, repression, and death wreaked upon the Cuban people by the Castro revolution before it is too late.

  “Things are changing so [...]

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• So what (or who) is “behind” Jeff Flake anyway?

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  From The Miami Herald yesterday:

  With such a powerful job, (Alimport head Pedro) Alvarez would have been routinely briefed by Cuban intelligence on his U.S. contacts, their weaknesses and any misbehavior that could be exploited in price negotiations, Intelligence Directorate defector Juan Antonio Rodríguez Menier wrote in [...]

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• Those lucky Venezuelans

  The humor of Garrincha at Martí Noticias:

  Translation:

  "Look at this... Venezuela still has no head of state..."

  "I'm jealous..."

  ' [...]
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