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• Rosa Maria Payá calls for the end of ‘political apartheid’ in Cuba

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  Via ACIPrensa (my translation):

  Rosa María Payá calls for the end of 'political apartheid' in Cuba

  Rosa Maria Payá demanded that the government of Raul Castro end all political and ideological discrimination that exists in Cuba. A true change, she says, requires the recognition of human rights as proposed in Project [...]

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• More than 170 dissidents arrested in Cuba over the weekend

  While analysts and pundits have spent the last few days contemplating the "changes" and new political appointments announced by dictator Raul Castro in Cuba this past weekend, the weekend was just like every other weekend for Cuba's opposition: repressive, violent, and brutal. Under orders of the Castro dictatorship, jackbooted squads [...]

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• Cuba: Building collapses in Havana, two persons trapped

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  Punt de Vista is reporting that another building has collapsed in Havana, Cuba, leaving two people trapped under the rubble, one of them a 15-year-old boy. The building was located in central Havana on Arsenal street.

  Unfortunately, these types of tragic events have become all too common in Cuba as [...]

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• FIU to award Yoani Sanchez, new White House petition calls for her to meet with White House and Senate

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  Via the Global Post:

  Yoani Sanchez to be awarded FIU Medallion of Courage

  Miami, Feb 23 (EFE).- Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez will receive on April 1 in Miami the Florida International University Medallion of Courage, which is awarded "to recognize individuals who pursue or defend a noble cause at a personal" [...]

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• Cuba: TV Martí covers the case of persecuted writer Angel Santiesteban

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  Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with TV Martí regarding the ongoing persecution and repression of Cuban writer Angel Santiesteban by the Castro dictatorship:

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• Senate confirms Hagel the Bagel as Defense Secretary

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  Rome didn't collapse because of a single bad decision, but rather out of thousands of them.   No wrong turn can make a mighty superpower go off the cliff' [...]

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• The Cuba terrorism two-step

  Jose R. Cardenas in Foreign Policy's Shadow Government:

  The Cuba terrorism two-step

  Floating policy trial balloons is longstanding Washington custom. Not so common is when that balloon gets blasted out of the sky by the "senior official" leaker's own administration. That's what happened last week when the Boston Globe reported that, [...]

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• Image of the day – Ñangaras on parade

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  Outside the Cuban Interests Section in Washington D.C. this past Sunday: Ñangaras on parade.

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• Quote of the day

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  The sycophancy messily dripping from this quote provided by "Cuba Expert" (or analyst, or scholar) Phil Peters regarding Cuban dictator Raul Castro is simply breathtaking. You have to give credit where credit is due: Not everyone has the talent and ability to be this servile. Congratulations, Phil! Te la [...]

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• A trip down Memory Lane with Cuba “Experts”–OOPS! we mean: “Analysts” –OOPS!–we mean: “Scholars”–OOPS again!–we mean: “Specialists!”

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  From NPR's expert and scholarly and analytical program MARKETPLACE specializing on the Castroite succesion dated Jan. 18, 2008:

  "In March, (2008) Cuba's National Assembly will name Cuba's president and Cuba experts uniformly predict that for the first time in'" [...]

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