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• The united veto in the ‘Another Cuba’ campaign

  A must-see video from Cuba:

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• Daddy’s girl

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  Two very different Cuban women with very different fathers, from our friends at Guamá:

  Payá's girl - Daddy's girl

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• Juan “Johnny” Clark leaves us

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  Juan Clark, 1940-2013

  The heartbreaking news just reaches us from friend Fernando Marquet that yet another member of his freedom-fighting Band of Brothers known as Bay of Pigs veterans passed away this morning in his Miami home.

  Juan "Johnny" Clark, a professor at Miami-Dade college, authored an indispensable book on [...]

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• Today at 6:00 PM: Angel Santiesteban gives a presentation from Cuba

  Via Translating Cuba:

  Angel Santiesteban, Scheduled To Go To Prison February 28th, Will Give a Presentation at Estado de Sats on the 27th

  Zone of Silence
  Presentation and lecture by Ángel Santiesteban

  Wednesday 27 February at 6:00pm.

  You can send text messages of support to the writer at:
  53716460 53233726

  You can follow the [...]

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• Raul Castro’s ‘Jeckyll & Hyde’ act

  The humor of Garrincha in El Nuevo Herald:

  Translation:

  "Comrades, we need to change. If we don't change, we will sink. Now, repeat after me: Chaaaange..."

  Poof!

  "Beat the Ladies in White and throw Angel Santiesteban in prison!"

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• Hump Day Insanity: ‘The Kind of Madness We Haven’t Seen in a Long Time…’

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  They say it's not the fall that kills you ... It's the sudden stop at the end. Take some Dramamine because I believe we are about to hit Barack bottom.

  What the democrats and the liberal/leftist MSM in this country has not been able to do to destroy the GOP, [...]

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• What if… the U.S. ended the Cuba travel ban and the embargo?

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  University of Miami's Dr. Jaime Suchlicki from the Institute for Cuba and Cuban American Studies:

  What If... the U.S. Ended the Cuba Travel Ban and the Embargo?

  Lifting the ban for U.S. tourists to travel to Cuba would be a major concession totally out of proportion to recent changes in the [...]

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• So who’s pushing Yoani Sanchez’ invite to the White House?

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  "Sweet dreams are made of this...Travel the world and the seven seas
  Everybody's looking for something
  Some of them want to use you."

  The petition to petition President Obama to invite Yoani Sanchez to the White House was created by Elvis Fuentes, curator of New York's Museo del [...]

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• Cuba: Diaz-Canel, groomed by the Castro dictatorship

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  Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Castro brothers' "flavor of the day" as successor to their repressive totalitarian dictatorship, was apparently a very carefully groomed product of the Cuban dictatorship machine.

  Via the Los Angeles Times:

  Cuba's apparent successor to Castro was carefully groomed

  Miguel Diaz-Canel climbed through the ranks of communist Cuba, serving in' [...]

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• Canada gives Cuba’s dissidents the silent treatment

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  Another sterling example of how well Canada's policy of engagement with the Castro dictatorship works to promote democracy and the respect for human rights in Cuba.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Canada Gave Dissidents Silent Treatment

  Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird talked a big-game before heading to Cuba last week.

  Prior to leaving, Baird's' [...]

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