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• Yoani Sanchez: Like us, just another Cuban

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  The brouhaha that ensued yesterday after Yoani Sanchez told a group of Brazilian elected officials that she believes the U.S. should release the five Cuban spies currently serving prison sentences for espionage and murder so the Castro dictatorship can end its campaign for their freedom and save money has for [...]

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• Cuba’s Women of Courage

  The list of women in Cuba who display inspiring and incredible courage in confronting the brutal Castro dictatorship are not limited to the ones the international media chooses to cover. In actuality, there are hundreds of women who endure harassment, beatings, violations, and imprisonment in the name of liberty and [...]

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• “That’s a joke, son!–a JOKE!–HAR-HAR!!” ( Yoani walks back her “Free The Cuban 5″ quip)

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  "At no time in Brazil did I ask for the liberation of the five members of (Castro's) Ministry of the Interior. I was using irony to make the point that if they were freed then Cuba would save $millions she wastes in the "Free the Cuban Five" campaign'" [...]

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• For Cuban defector, his dream of freedom has come true

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  Via HispanicBusiness.com:

  Cuban Defector Alonso: 'My Dream Is Coming True'

  A Walmart, of all places, the embodiment of Americana and commercialism, is where Cuban soccer player Osvaldo Alonso found freedom five and a half years ago. He will never forget that terrifying, lonely afternoon, and says it has driven him to [...]

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• Sen. Marco Rubio Meets with Israeli PM Netanyahu

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  Heh. The water bottle goes global.

  That’s one way (maybe the only way) for Marco Rubio to make sure his visit to Israel gets covered by the Water-gate-happy media. Bumping water bottles with Bibi: total “career-ender.”

  On a helicopter tour with the IDF.

  More @ [...]

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• Fidel’s YoYo

  The humor of Garrincha in El Nuevo Herald:

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• Female blogger and Castro critic attacked by demonstrators during speech!–forced to cancel others over security concerns!

  Happens all the time folks. Just ask Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, Michele Malkin, etc.--who face it repeatedly and have been forced to cancel multiple speeches.

  Your own humble and hardworking servant here has yet to make a college speech where he WASN'T denounced' [...]

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• Yoani Sanchez calls for the release of five Cuban spies imprisoned in U.S.

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  In a meeting today with Brazilian legislators, Yoani Sanchez called for the end of U.S. sanctions against the criminal Castro dictatorship and the release of five Cuban spies currently serving sentences in the U.S. for espionage and the murder of four innocent Americans.

  It is not a surprise Yoani Sanchez would [...]

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• Cuba Study Group calls on President Obama to circumvent U.S. law and lift sanctions against Castro dictatorship

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  When you think about it, the advice given to President Obama that he circumvent U.S. law and lift sanctions against the criminal and repressive Castro dictatorship by Carlos Saladrigas' Cuba Study Group and the Council of the Americas is not all that audacious. President Obama has more than shown his' [...]

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• Photos of the day

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  Photographs of Cuba in 1963 by Henri Cartier-Bresson depicting the Marxist totalitarian dictatorship of Fidel Castro:

  See the rest HERE.

  H/T Penúltimos Días

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