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• One step forward, two steps back

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  From Deutsche Welle, a rare (honest) assessment:

  Cuba: A look back at five years of Raul Castro

  Cuban President Raul Castro wanted to update socialism when he took up office, but, five years on, little has changed. Change is not expected after Sunday's elections with 612 Communists running for 612 [...]

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• Some Disney animation magic to wash away the crap we deal with

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  Man cannot live on politics alone...

  Beautiful.

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• ‘Next year in Cuba,’ someday perhaps

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  Despite the somewhat misleading title of this Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Cuban American Vanessa Garcia, many of the thoughts and dilemmas regarding travel to Cuba she expresses here are shared by many American Born Cubans, like myself.

  Breaking the family embargo

  Someday, I will make 'Next year' [...]

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• Cuba prepares for ‘election’ by holding military exercises on the island

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  Today, millions of Cubans will head out to the polls to exercise their right as stipulated in the nation's Marxist constitution and vote for those who will represent them in the country's National Assembly. There are a total of 612 seats in Cuba's parliament, and today, Cubans will choose among [...]

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• Victor The Cat Says “You Can’t Fool Me!”

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  Many individuals are celebrating the recent changes that Dictator Raul Castro has implemented in Cuba -- the lifting of the travel restrictions for ordinary Cubans being at the top of the list. My son’s Stephen’s cat, Victor, thinks otherwise.

  Let's not forget that many of these changes are escape valves [...]

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• French ‘Spider-Man’ to scale Fidel’s personal hotel in Cuba

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  A French daredevil, Alain Robert, who has dubbed himself "Spider-Man" for his notorious scaling of skyscrapers throughout the world, is in Havana to perform his latest feat: Scaling Fidel's personal hotel.

  What was that you said? You didn't know Fidel had his own personal hotel? Well of course he does! Fidel' [...]

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• Payá “accident” update: European survivors about to challenge Castrogonia ?

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  Angel Carromero

  Carromero and Modig may soon shed their muzzles 

  The Spanish newspaper El Confidencial reports that Ángel Carromero is about to accuse the Castro regime of forcing his car off the road and of causing the deaths of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, both of whom – according to Carromero– [...]

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• Dante Fascell on U.S.-Cuba Policy

  Vanessa Lopez in Cuba Focus, from  UM's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies:

  Dante Fascell on U.S.-Cuba Policy

  Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell honorably served the United States through his distinguished career in the House of Representatives. Fascell’s tenure in the House as one of Florida’s Representatives lasted from 1955 [...]

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• Tyrant takes up leadership of ‘democratic body’ CELAC: Ironic yet predictable

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  In the New American, Alex Newman discusses the ironic yet predictable development where a brutal dictator, Cuba's Raul Castro, takes over the leadership of CELAC, an organization supposedly beholden to the principles of democracy and freedom.

  Communist Cuban Tyrant Raul Castro to Lead Latin American Bloc [...]

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• Quote of the day

  After the Cuban Catholic Church lamented the possible loss of young Cubans due to the migratory "reforms" of the Cuban dictatorship, Periodico Guamá had this response (via Facebook - my translation):

  "The Catholic Church is worried that young people will leave Cuba. Besides worrying about getting your property" [...]

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