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• The trials and tribulations of a Cuban dictatorship business partner in the U.S.

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  After years of profiting off the misery of the Cuban people through chummy business partnerships with the Castro dictatorship, Miami's "Air-Charter Queen," Vivian Mannerud, is going through a rough patch of luck. But when your entire business model revolves around doing business with the most brutal, most repressive, most murderous, [...]

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• Cuba democracy programs run by U.S. improving, says GAO

  Juan Tamayo in the Miami Herald:

  U.S. government report says America’s Cuba democracy programs have improved

  A U.S. Government Accountability Office report sees some improvements in Cuba democracy programs.

  An exhaustive review of Washington’s controversial Cuba democracy programs gave the U.S. Agency for International Development a passing grade but noted that the [...]

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• So why is Yoani Sanchez traveling to Brazil? (Read on:)

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  President Raul Castro's economic reforms "have whetted the appetite of Cubans" who now want more, opposition blogger Yoani Sanchez said in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper Thursday.

  "I am not naive about the changes in Cuba, about the small economic adjustments which Castro introduced," the prominent Cuban dissident, who [...]

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