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• What are you doing right now?

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  I'm grilling a T-bone and two ribeyes while enjoying the holy fluid of Ireland.

  How about you?

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• What’s left of the Latin left?

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  An interesting article on the Latin American left in The Financial Times:

  What’s left of the Latin left?

  As Chávez’s death focuses attention on the economic failings of radicals, pragmatists are proving more successful

   

  Three weeks before Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday, Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s best-known pro-democracy blogger, landed in [...]

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• We Have Met the Enemy…

  Why am I not surprised?

  MSNBC unquestionably has the largest liberal viewer base of all news networks, and 78% of their viewers think that "targeted killings of American citizens on U.S. soil" is OK.

  These are probably the same morons who agree with the ACLU when it [...]

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• More vultures on parade

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  Some more images of the vultures that gathered in Caracastan yesterday.  Wouldn't want to leave out anyone's favorite aura tiñosa....

  Imagine how much the world would have changed for the better if an 8.9 earthquake had brought down the ceiling at this very moment

  past and present court jesters of Brazil,' [...]

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• Hugo Snow White Chavez: inoculated and embalmed

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  The humor of Lauzan:

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• GOTCHA–AGAIN! (coffin below WAS EMPTY!)

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  According to Spain's newspaper ABC:

  (with a pretty good record on this matter, let's admit--and let's thank professor Tres Fotutos for always bringing them to our attention--and especially for making me look like some kinda "expert" on Canadian TV--when all I'd done was to hurriedly read his' [...]

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• Photo of the day – Solidarity and Libertad in Norway

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  Rosa Maria Paya, a Cuban dissident and daughter of slain opposition leader Oswaldo Paya, poses with Norwegian youth who stand in solidarity for liberty in Cuba (via Zoé Valdés):

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• In Cuba, International Women’s Day was brutal

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  Via Notes From the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  International Women's Day in Cuba: On International Women's Day 2013 in Cuba a woman is spitting up blood due to a beating  administered to her by a male state security agent on the morning of March 7, 2013 for a nonviolent demonstration she had [...]

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• Vultures of a feather flock together

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  Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran pay their final respects to Hugo Chavez

  When two of the world's worst dictators show up at your funeral and stand at attention by your casket,  and receive loud cheers, you've got to admit that you belong to a very special' [...]

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• Sen. Ted Cruz hopes Fidel and Raul Castro will soon follow Hugo Chavez

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  At the U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC luncheon yesterday, Ted Cruz, the Cuban American senator from Texas, gave a great speech about how lucky many of us were to grow up in freedom thanks to the courage and sacrifice of our Cuban parents. Val and I had the privilege to be [...]

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