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• Cruise ship suddenly transformed into people-to-people Cuban adventure

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  They're all stuck in the Caribbean, adrift.  No air-conditioning.  Power blackouts.  Short on running water.  Backed-up toilets.  Rotting and dwindling food supplies.  Abysmal medical care.  No control over circumstances, or over the stench and heat.

  Can't flee.  Complaining is useless.  And the media doesn't care much about their plight.

  Yeah.  Welcome' [...]

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• Does the Castro regime oppose ALL use of Che Iconography? (an intransigent publishing saga)

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  Babalu's resident curmudgeon, Asombra, pointed out that this Gavin Turk guy (the artist who superimposed himself on the Che likeness that appearED in the Hotel W) got no grief whatsoever from Che's heirs for using his famous image while many others have. Interesting observation. So please indulge your humble [...]

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• In Venezuela, Plenty of Oil, Not Enough Food

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  Ambassador Otto Reich in the Wall Street Journal:

  In Venezuela, Plenty of Oil, Not Enough Food

  It's the old story: Socialist government interferes with the marketplace, and the result is scarcity.

  There are now reports of severe food shortages in Venezuela, including milk, bread, sugar, poultry, dairy products and cooking oil. Vice [...]

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• Radio Martí interviews Silvio Canto Jr.

  Via My View by Silvio Canto Jr.:

  My interview with Radio Marti

  We spoke with Radio Marti on Monday.  I was a guest on 'Mi gente", a show hosted by Orlando Gonzalez Esteva.  We discussed my reasons for writing the book and the story of moving to Wisconsin.

  It was a'" [...]

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• Another magnificent rant

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  I come across a large amount of reading material every day thanks to my RSS reader and Twitter. Form time to time I discover beautiful little gems of punditry. Such is case today from a blog called The Sacred Cow Slaughterhouse. It is a brilliant piece that, in 1,735 words, dissects [...]

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• Comment of the day

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  A comment left by Frederick Stebbins on the Miami Herald's Naked Politics blog story about Ché Guevara glorifying portrait hanging at the W Hotel on South Beach:

  Why aren't other members of the gay community as offended as I am about this disgusting tribute to one of the most infamous' [...]

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• Yet MORE U.S.-Cuba “Cultural Exchanges”

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  “Friedship and Cultural Exchange with Foreign Counties are our most effective propaganda” (Soviet KGB Document)

  A new, two-year project to promote an arts partnership between the United States and Cuba was announced Tuesday by the Joyce Theater Foundation and the Brooklyn Academy of Music....The program begins this month with [...]

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• They write letters – Congressional Edition

  After their ill-advised decision to hang an artist's self-portrait glorifying the murderous psychopath Ché Guevara, the manager of the W Hotel in South Beach and the CEO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts had the honor of receiving letters from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:

  February 13, 2013

  Mr. George Cozonis
  General Manager
  W South [...]

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• Cuba’s Youngbloods comment on the Pope’s resignation

  The humor of Santana:

  Translation:

  "What an idiot... he resigned!

  "And he is so young!"

  " [...]
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• “R-E-S-P-E-C-T!”….are we starting to get it?

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  Think about it, amigos. From a Mercedes Benz CEO to a Marlins manager, and from Irish politicians to a South Beach Real Estate Tycoon--all recently coughed behind their hand and submitted to our protests (undoubtedly after multiple off-camera grimaces and eyerolls...but still)

  Would Fidel be "The Toast" [...]

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