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• Yoani Sanchez Gets Passport and Will Travel Out of Cuba

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  Update to Alberto's previous post.

  (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, received a passport on Wednesday under the island's new, freer travel law and said she would go abroad soon, after years of being denied that right.

  Sanchez' case was viewed as a test of the Cuban' [...]

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• The U.N.I.P.C.C.’s Warm and Fuzzy “Climate Change” Data

  Eh ... I mean, "What difference does it make?", huh?

  A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

  The report -- which is [...]

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• Sen. Rubio meets with new Commander of SOUTHCOM, Gen. John Kelly

  For Immediate Release

  Wednesday, January 30, 2013

  RUBIO MEETS WITH NEW COMMANDER FOR U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND, GENERAL JOHN KELLY

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, the Ranking Member of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, met today with General John Kelly, who was recently installed as the commander for U.S. Southern [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen: Stand in solidarity with Ladies in White, support their bid for Nobel

  PRESS RELEASE

  January 30, 2013

   

  Stand in Solidarity with the Ladies in White for Their Dedication to Promoting Human Rights and Freedom in Cuba By Supporting Nobel Peace Prize Nomination, Ros-Lehtinen Says

   (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, made the following statement on [...]

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• Hate to say it: told you so…. no “reform” in Castrogonia is ever for real

  Angel Moya with the Damas de Blanco

  Didn't take long for a story like this to surface, did it?  Passport applications are being accepted in the Castro Kingdom, but passports are being denied.

  The only good news here is that AP is actually carrying this story.  Let's see if they keep' [...]

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• Getting “Lucky”

  And so 2013 is starting out pretty good for the Cuban regime: [r]aul gets to be the president of something called CELAC, Chavismo seems to be entrenched in Venezuela, guaranteeing the flow of oil subsidies to the island prison, Obama starts his second term, nominating John Kerry for State [...]

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• New Bill to Ban Cuban-Trained Doctors from Practicing in Florida

  More coverage on the new legislation via Sunshine State News:

  Bill Prohibits Cuban-Trained Doctors from Practicing in Florida

  Sen. Rene Garcia, R- Hialeah, and Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., R- Hialeah, have introduced companion bills in their chambers that would prohibit Cuban-trained physicians -- particularly if a U.S. citizen -- from practicing in the [...]

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• Selling Cuba’s Pig in a poke

  No one knows better than pro-Castro pundits and "Cuba Experts" how hard it is to sell the notion that doing business with the criminal Castro dictatorship is a good thing. But bless their hearts, they dutifully keep trying to sell us that Cuban pig in a poke.

  Buried at the almost [...]

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• Gun Control Mentality: Mental Illness vs The Irrational

  When the Second Amendment supporters begin to win the heated gun control debate the insatiable gun control opposition throws down the "mental illness" card. Fine and good. I agree. People diagnosed with mental illness or mental deficiencies should not have guns. We can argue all day how if a [...]

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• What is Raul smoking?

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  The humor of Garrincha at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:

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