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• Sink-Tank: The Self-Inflicted Wounds of NBC’s Political Agenda Labors

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  How bad is it? Univision beats NBC in the sweeps ratings...

  An already bad month is getting worse for NBC. For the first time in sweeps history, the network is projected to finish fifth in the key adults 18-49 demographic. That’s a crushing blow for NBC, which went [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen on Raul Castro’s retirement and the anniversary of the BTTR shoot down

  PRESS RELEASE

  February 22, 2013

  Ros-Lehtinen says, “It's not a matter of if, but when, the Castro brothers ultimately vacate power – but the real change in Cuba involves much more than the Castro brothers. If dictator Raul Castro states that he will retire in five years, there will still be no [...]

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• Ecuador’s president, suppressing the media

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  From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post:

  Ecuador’s president, suppressing the media

  THE LATEST bizarre twist in the drama of Hugo Chavez unfolded Monday when the populist ruler returned to Venezuela in the dead of night after two months of incommunicado treatment in a Cuban military hospital. Apart from a [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Yoani Sanchez clarifies her comments regarding the five Cuban spies currently serving prison sentences in the U.S. for espionage and first degree murder (Via Punt de Vista - my translation):

  "Allow me to make this clear, they [the five Cuban spies] received their day in court, it was a fair" [...]

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• Doing business with Cuba, Castro Style

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  The next time someone tells you that we should be doing business with the Cuban dictatorship, consider how dictators Fidel and Raul Castro like to do business. It is a simple formula with only four basic steps:

  Business with Cuba Castro Style

  Lend the Castro dictatorship money Castro dictatorship refuses to pay you [...]
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• Photo of the day – Rosa Maria Payá meets with Spain’s Jose Maria Aznar

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  Via Europa Press:

  H/T Zoé Valdés

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• Cuban dictator Raul Castro hints he is considering retiring

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  Cuban dictator Raul Castro dropped an unexpected hint today that he is considering retirement. This of course raises an important question: Was he being serious, or was this an attempt at irony?

  The AP via FoxDC:

  Cuba's Raul Castro mentions possible retirement

  HAVANA (AP) - Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised [...]

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• Ysn’t Yt Yronyc… don’t you thynk?

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  Some more YRONY from our friends at Guamá:

  "Keep writing until your mother gets here."

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• The Media branding of Yoani Sanchez kicks into high gear–So keep your eye on The Ball, folks

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  In brief: The Ball is the "embargo." The Terrorism listing is linked. Both constrict the Stalinist regime's jugular. Both worry the Castro regime above all else. With Hugo Chavez fading, the future of the financial flow through its jugular is making the Stalinist regime antsy. So a regime/media' [...]

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• Council of the Americas Inconvenienced by the Rule of Law

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Council of the Americas Inconvenienced by the Rule of Law

  Last month, U.S. President Barack Obama stated in an interview with New Republic:

  "I continue to believe that whenever we can codify something through legislation, it is on firmer ground. It's not going to be reversed by" [...]

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