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• The Socialist Life in Cuba – No eggs, but they have passports

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  Scenes from The Socialist Life at Guamá:

  Translation:

  "This month they didn't give us any eggs!"

  "But they are giving passports."

  See more images of Cuba's socialist life HERE.

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• “Back in the USSR … You don’t know how lucky you are, boy … Back in the USSR”

  Stalin did it. Mao did it. Castro did it. Chavez did it. Obama's former advisor Anita Dunn said it had to be done. And it is being done 24/7 with this administration. All fascist socialist/communist governments must disarm the mouths/minds and hands of the people they intend' [...]

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• Senator Rubio: RIGHT on ALL issues!

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  To cut through the BS: During this administration greenie-weenie activists (i.e. Environmental "Experts") have gotten too influential with their greenie-weenie government cohorts. These type of people are professionally (and temperamentally) irked by the type of people who love to fish. These latter folks are too reminiscent of those tacky [...]

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• Cuba: ‘No tenemos ni papa’

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  The humor of Santana in El Nuevo Herald:

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• In Spain, the truth starts to come out about Paya ‘accident’

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  Fabiola Santiago in The Miami Herald:

  In Spain, the truth starts to come out about Paya “accident”

  At long last, Angel Carromero has broken his silence from the confines of his negotiated parole status in Spain.

  He was the woozy-eyed Spanish political activist seen from Havana on a prosecutorial videotape issuing an [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Cuban American writer Esteban Fernandez comments on Yoani Sanchez and her world tour (my translation):

  "Someone said to me: 'Who do you think you are that you would dare criticize this patriot?' And I replied asking who the hell is Yoani Sanchez and what makes her untouchable? Who am I?" [...]

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• Chavez Death Watch: And now for something not so different

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  Here we go again...this  damn rollercoaster won't stop....

  Nicolas "Saddamito" Maduro, president de facto of Venenozuela has announced that Hugo Chavez is undergoing more chemotherapy treatments.   This contradicts two other news stories that surfaced this week:

  1.  He was brain dead for two months and died last week (according to' [...]

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• Another trip to Cuba, another ‘people-to-dictatorship’ exchange

  You'd think I would get tired of debunking all these "cultural exchange" trips to Cuba by Americans, which are really nothing more than people-to-dictatorship exchanges. But when they make it this easy, I simply can't resist.

  My comments in brackets on Northwestern College's symphonic band's visit to Cuba:

  Northwestern College Symphonic [...]

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• Who Speaks for the People of Cuba?

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  Elliot Abrams at the Council for Foreign Relations:

  Who Speaks for the People of Cuba?

  Last week the Castro brothers announced the name of the man who, they said, will succeed Raul Castro when–or if–he retires at the end of the new five-year term as president to which he has just [...]

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• No end in sight for harassment and repression in Cuba

  Via the Institute for War & Peace Reporting:

  Cuban Groups Say No End to Repression, Harassment As well as formal detention, the authorities employ mobs to intimidate their critics. By Camilo Ganga - Latin America Dissidents in Cuba continue to be subject to arrest and harassment, human rights defenders say.

  The non-government Cuban Commission [...]

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