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

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  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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• For Castro supporter Fulton Armstrong, even John Kerry is too committed to democracy

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  Pulling off a seemingly impossible feat, Fulton Armstrong has managed to position himself to the left of John Kerry on the issue of democracy.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Fulton Unhappy with Kerry's Commitment to Democracy

  It seems that Fulton Armstrong, the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer known for a career of finding [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Today's Quote of the Day from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Latin America could very well be the Quote of the Day for Cuban exiles every single day for the last 54 years:

  “Unfortunately there is still a dictatorship in Cuba, but we expect it to end' [...]

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• Cuba: Harold Cepero and the 33rd birthday he will never celebrate

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  If it were not for his assassination by the Castro dictatorship, Cuban dissident and human rights activist Harold Cepero Escalante would have celebrated his 33rd birthday yesterday. But alas, his murder along with Oswaldo Payá last year ensured Harold would never live to see this day.

  But we will not forget [...]

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