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• Mr Chavez, you were NO Fidel Castro

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  (Dat last one is Castro with David Rockefeller, btw.)
  
  Hugo Chavez was an authoritarian bully, a narcotrafficker, a thief and a buffoon. He was also elected--if somewhat dubiously at times, [...]

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• Filibuster Muster

  Sen. Rand Paul (R- Ky) has been filibustering Obama's nomination of John Brennan as CIA head over the administration's recent declaration of having the unilateral ability to use drone strikes on [non-combatant] American citizens on American soil. Sen. Paul, along with others, are not satisfied with the administration's ([...]

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• Cuba: Dr. Biscet denied right to travel

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  It's wonderful that Cubans, or at least some Cubans, are now allowed to travel. Unfortunately, who gets to enjoy that benefit is not based on human rights, but by the arbitrary criteria of what best preserves the power of a dictator. According to Dr. Oscar Biscet's Twitter account, the Castro [...]

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• Bolivarian Gossipology

  Via the Latin American Herald Tribune:

  Bolivarian Gossipology

  By Tal Cual

  We have him monitored,” said last Sunday Venezuela’s Vice-President Nicolás Maduro, when he had Henrique Capriles Radonski, the current Miranda state Governor, followed by the national police as he took a trip to New York.

  In spite of the fact that a [...]

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• Hanging up the lice

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  The latest issue of Verde Orino from Guamá:

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• Hugo, you look marvelous!

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  The humor of Garrincha:

  Translation:

  "You look marvelous, Commandant Chavez. That Miami Mafia is always making things up!"

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• Venezuela is a colony of Cuba

  Juan Abreu in his Emanaciones #1351 (my translation):

  1351

  The Castros sucked everything they could out of Chavez and then shipped him back to Venezuela already dead. You only need to look at the face of Maduro to realize he is subnormal and the Castros must have video of him in [...]

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• ¡Mi amor!

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  Sean Penn is in mourning over the death of his comrade Hugo Chavez...

  The controversial leader had a slew of Hollywood heavyweights supporting him throughout his reign, with the most vocal two being actor Sean Penn and filmmaker Oliver Stone.

  "Today the people of the United States lost a friend" [...]

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• Image of the day – Idiot of the day

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  Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of students in Berlin that Americans have the "right to be stupid." I am sure he had Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) in mind when he made that comment.

  From the Facebook page of For America:

   

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• Cuba “Expert” Phil Peters hints that the grieving Rosa Maria Paya is a liar

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  The Mainstream media's favorite source on Cuban matters wrote the following a little over a month ago. The post was titled "Carromero Callado" (Carromero is silent) (all bold and italics by intransigent poster.)

  "A recent editorial (in Diario de Cuba) called on Spanish Partido Popular activist Angel" [...]

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