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• Captain Nemo Blizzard 2

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  I wanted to post a photo of my elf and flamingo totems, but they are now totally buried.  The elves light up in the dark, and about two hours ago, only the tops of their heads were still visible.  I couldn't get very close either.   So, there they' [...]

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• Cuba: Nine human rights defenders murdered, thousands of arrests

  A press release from the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance:

  Cuba: Nine human rights defenders murdered, thousands of arrests…

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  MEDIA RELEASE

  Cuba: Nine human rights defenders murdered, thousands of arrests, beatings and raids since Raul Castro has led the regime in Havana

  MIAMI, Feb. 7, 2013. Assembly of [...]

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• Image of the day – Castro coming to America

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  Get ready folks, the "rebel spirit" of Venezuela's Castro Rum is coming to America!

  H/T Zoé Valdés

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• Sen. John Kerry goes on the record regarding Cuba policy

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  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  In the Congressional Record from then-U.S. Senator John Kerry's (D-Mass.) confirmation hearing for U.S. Secretary of State:

  Question from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.):

  Since December 2009, the Cuban government has been holding an American development worker, Alan Gross, hostage for helping the Jewish community in Cuba get [...]

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• Captain Nemo Blizzard

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  Yeah.  This is it.  Nemo, the perfect storm.

  It was supposed to change to rain here along the Connecticut coastline, at least for a while, but so far it's been snowing steadily.  Just a couple of inches in the past three hours, but the real storm is forming out at [...]

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• The ever so equine Mariela Castro

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  From our friends at Guamá, the ever so equine princess of Cuba, Mariela Castro, looks like...

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• The End of the Latin American Left

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  Alvaro Vargas Llosa in Foreign Policy:

  The End of the Latin American Left

  Will Hugo Chávez's revolution die with him?

  The exact condition of Hugo Chávez continues to be a Churchillian riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The Venezuelan president, who won his third reelection last October and has been [...]

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• They write letters…

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  B.L. Larson writes a letter to the Star Phoenix in Saskatoon, Canada commenting on a recent column published in the paper extolling the virtues of Cuba's health care system and how Canada should emulate it:

  Key fact ignored

  Mark Lemstra's column Prevention-focused Cuban model offers lesson (SP, Jan. 31) was interesting, [...]

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• Cubans keep breaking Canadian hearts

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  Canadians love to vacation in communist Cuba. They frolic on the beaches, dance in the clubs, and some of them bring home a souvenir from their island slave plantation adventure in the form of a Cuban wife or husband. And that is when Canadian hearts start breaking...

  Via The Star [...]

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• Cuban regime denies passport to another Cuban dissident

  Surprise, surprise... In spite of the magnanimity of dictator Raul Castro's new policy that supposedly now allows all Cubans to travel, yet another dissident has been denied a passport by the regime and is forced to remain in Cuba.

  It turns out Cuba's "new" migratory policy continues to look a lot [...]

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