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• Chavez Death Watch: Breaking the Bad News Gradually

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  From the BBC:

  Officials in Caracastan admit that their Idol ain't doin' so well.  Drip, drip, drip.... little by little they are preparing the nation for a replay of the death of the arch-Caudillo in 1975: Generalisimo Francisco Franco.

  Hugo Chavez's 'breathing problems persist'
  
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is' [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen: Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism Reaffirms Regime’s Long Standing Threat to U.S. National Security Interests

  PRESS RELEASE

  February 21, 2013

  Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism Reaffirms The Regime’s Long Standing Threat to U.S. National Security Interests, Says Ros-Lehtinen
  

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding Cuba’s designation as a State [...]
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• Reports from Cuba: Military Counterintelligence Threatens Independent Journalist Again

  By Ivan Garcia:

  Military Counterintelligence Threatens Independent Journalist Again

  In recent days a very concerned neighbor approached me to warn me about an investigation by special services. “We have been watching him for some time,” the official told the neighbor. This is nothing new.

  According to neighborhood sources Military Counterintelligence (CIM) has [...]

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• Cuban prison and torture victim Dr. Oscar Biscet dares contradict “Santa Yoani de los Sanchez”during her world tour

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  From Human Rights activist and Castro-torture victim Dr Oscar Biscet regarding the U.S. sanctions known as El Bloqueo:
  

  "Lifting the (Cuba) embargo will only fortify (Cuba's) dictatorial regime...I don't say this because I'm obstinate, but simply because my life keeps demonstrating that I'm a good position to know..." [...]

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• Why do we need guns?

  Because history tends to repeat itself, and we need to be ready for it when it does.

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• Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy: What remained unsaid…

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  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy: What remained unsaid…

  If one is the last speaker at the end of a long day of panels, and speeches followed by question and answer sessions then the need to balance the desire to relay information with [...]

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• Liberate us from ‘The 2,’ and we’ll give you ‘The 5′

  A Special Sedition from our friends at Guamá:

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• The “Victims” That are Being Ignored in the ‘Gun Control’ Debate

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  Columbine survivor Evan Todd has penned an open letter to Barack Obama concerning the current push for even more gun control regulations and laws:

  Mr. President,

  As a student who was shot and wounded during the Columbine massacre, I have a few thoughts on the current gun debate. In regards to [...]

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• Amir Valle: Cuba doesn’t matter. Or we still cannot cry victory… yet!

  Via Amir Valle's blog, A Titulo Personal (translation by Regina Anavy):

  Cuba doesn't matter. Or we still cannot cry victory... yet!

  I’m sorry….I can’t cry victory only because (finally!) Yoani Sánchez, Eliécer Ávila, Rosa María Payá  and others who, of course, will do it in the next months, now can travel' [...]

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• Obama administration negotiating ‘something for nothing’ with Cuba’s dictatorship

  The Obama administration is apparently driving a hard bargain with the Castro regime in Cuba as it tries to convince the despotic dictatorship to take something from the U.S. in return for nothing from them.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Another 'Quid Pro Nihilo' for Castro?

  If a report in The Boston [...]

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