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• Update on Repression in Castrogonia

   

  Yes, those people-to-people tourist junkets are really working to improve openness, tolerance, and democracy in the Castro Kingdom.   Yeah.  Sure.   Ask anyone who lives there.

  Report from Hablemos Press: political arrests and human rights violations, January 2013

  Havana, 4 February 2013    ...  go HERE for original Spanish [...]

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• Déjà vu in Caracastan

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  In 1961, it was the Soviets building rocket bases in Cuba. The Kennedy administration ignored reports from Cubans and did nothing. Then came October 1962.

  Today it is the nuke-obsessed Iranians doing the same in Caracastan.

  As George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

  Scary [...]

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• More Cuba “Expertise” and “Scholarship”–from the WSJ’s and CFR’s Max Boot this time

  In his spanking new Bestseller, Invisible Armies, Jeane Kirkpatrick (emphasis mine) Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations and WSJ contributror Max Boot describes Che Guevara's famous Battle of Santa Clara:

  "Three bloody days of street fighting ensued that recalled (Giuseppe) Garibaldi's Redshirts" [...]

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• My Man in Havana

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  Miriam Abrahams at Tablet Magazine:

  My Man in Havana

  When we fled Cuba in 1962, my uncle stayed. He died 50 years later, without ever explaining his decision.

  My uncle died recently in Havana.

  I knew a few things about him: He was an atheist, an idealist, clever, quiet and serious, tall and [...]

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• The Freeze Is On in Argentina

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  Price freezes usually result in major price hikes once they are lifted...

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation.

  The price freeze applies to every product in all of the nation's largest supermarkets — a [...]

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• North Korea and Cuba: Not so different

  Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of Eric Schmidt, one of Google's founders, accompanied her father and Gov. Bill Richardson on a trip to North Korea. She took some amazing photographs and amongst her many observations documented on a site she created, this one in particular sounds eerily familiar:

  It's impossible to [...]

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• 21st Century Chicago’s Murder Rate Worse Than “The Roaring 20′s” Capone Era

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  Right now Chicago has some of the nation's strictest gun laws, with more legislation constantly in the works, and leads the country in murder rates. Fully "automatic" assault weapons are currently banned in the USA, and have been since the mid-1980s. During the Capone era "Tommy guns", [...]

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• New Times: Miami’s Top 10 Cuban Restaurants

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  The Miami New Times has published their picks for Miami's Top 10 Cuban Restaurants. Although I agree with many of their choices as being Top 10 caliber, I was disappointed to see Rio Cristal on Bird Road and 98th avenue was missing from their choices. Not to disparage any [...]

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• Photo of the Day – Resistance

  Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto, uses his body as a canvas to commemorate Oswaldo Payá, a hero who fought for Cuba's freedom before being murdered by the Castro dictatorship last year.

  Title: Resistance
  Series: My Body
  Artist: Danilo Maldonado
  Media: Flesh and Bones
  Size: Variable

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• Guess who’s coming to Yale?

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  Hint:  he represents everything beloved by so-called progressives, and his very presence reifies the extinction of the great Latrino nuisance, that is, of the traditional Cuban exile community.   Another hint: he loves the unicorn-riding Messiah.

  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Two inaugural poets will be at Yale University for [...]

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