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• A Canadian news anchor warns American gun owners

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• Correcting Reuters on the Cuban Adjustment Act

  Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter analyzes Reuter's report on the Cuban Adjustment Act and immigration reform:

  Correcting Reuters on the Cuban Adjustment Act Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
  (2) Everyone has the right to [...]

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• Amazingly, Castro’s “exiled” Minister of Imports (Alimport’s Pedro Alvarez) echoes Mariella Castro, Ana Belen Montes and Julia Sweig

  Genuine caption: Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Alimport CEO Pedro Alvarez embrace as a legislative aide to Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel looks on.

  As well known hereabouts, one of Stalinist Cuba's top apparatchiks for decades, Pedro Alvarez, made his way to the U.S. in 2011 and was whisked through [...]

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• Princess Mariela Castro’s Fairy Tale

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  Appearing in tomorrow's El Nuevo Herald, cartoonist Garrincha shares a fairy tale from Cuba's princess, Mariela Castro:

  Translation:

  - Mariela Castro has some heroic tales that her modesty has prevented her from sharing in the past.

  - Mariela says that Juana was under siege from enemy bombs and someone in the government [...]

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• Alabama ‘humanitarian’ proud of his Cuba visits and his ‘people-to-dictatorship’ contacts

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  It does not take much effort to demonstrate what a complete and utter failure President Obama's policy of allowing Americans to vacation in Cuba to engage in "people-to-people" contacts has been. One only needs to look at the record-setting repression that took place this past year in Cuba where dissidents [...]

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• Elitist New York Times takes a swipe at Sen. Bob Menendez

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  Unless you subscribe to their liberal and elitist world view, the New York Times doesn't care what party you're in.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  The NYT's Elitist Bias Against Menendez

  The New York Times' editorial board claims it wants U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to relinquish his post as Chairman of [...]

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• Defending U.S. democracy programs for Cuba

  Jose R. Cardenas in today's Miami Herald:

  Defending U.S. democracy program for Cuba

  Towards the end of the recent Senate confirmation hearing of the newly minted Secretary of State John Kerry, presiding Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, made a point to secure his former colleague’s public support for official U.S. programs that [...]

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• Reports from Cuba: THs ‘Twisted Humans’ – The Creation of a Dictatorship to Humilate Their People

  By Angel Santiesteban-Prats:

  THs “Twisted Humans” – The Creation of a Dictatorship to Humilate Their People

  The situation of Cubans under the oppression of the Castro dictatorship does nothing but get worse day by day.

  The complicity of the world’s governments, whatever their political orientations may be, is unexplainable and unjustifable.

  In Cuba, [...]

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• How American tourists will set Cuba free

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  If you follow the logic of President Obama's "people-to-people" contact policy towards Cuba, it is American tourists visiting the island and interacting with Cubans who will eventually bring democracy to the nation and help its people rid themselves of the tyrannical dictatorship of the Castro family.

  Now, you may very well [...]

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• Cuba’s New Counterrevolutionary Passport

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  From Guamá, Cuba's new counterrevolutionary passport (my translation):

  NEW: The Counterrevolutionary Passport With the goal of guaranteeing equality for all its citizens, the "revolutionary government" will provide a variant of the Cuban passport for the citizens who are different:

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