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• “Dean Rusk” still hell-bent on protecting Castroism

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  (above)The Best and Brightest!

  Sec. of State of the time Dean Rusk is widely credited with prevailing upon JFK to cancel the crucial 2nd and 3rd air strikes prior to the Bay of Pigs landing that would have wiped out Castro's Air force. This' [...]

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• Cruz Control and Powerless DiFi

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  Have you heard about how that horribly ignorant, misogynist upstart freshman Sen. Ted Cruz made veteran Sen. Dianne Feinstein feel patronized during their exchange yesterday in the Senate on her current attempt to take away our right to own guns by picking, choosing, and chipping [...]

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• Faithful to Fidel

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  A profile of the Castro dictatorship's operatives in Mexico by Carlos Puig in The New York Times:

  Faithful to Fidel

  MEXICO CITY — In a country with barely any Internet access, the activist Yoani Sánchez has managed, with a blog and a Twitter account as her only tools, to tell the [...]

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• Cuba: Without truth, there is no reconcialiation or peace

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  Rosa Maria Paya:

  Translation:

  "To have reconciliation and peace, the entire truth must be recognized"

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• Maduro’s training wheels

  The humor of Garrincha in El Nuevo Herald:

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• An evil little man

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  No need to preface this one.  Michael Moore is at it again, displaying his colossal feeble-mindedness.  In the process, this evil little man reveals the fundamental misanthropy that guides all leftist thinking.

  Feeble-minded filmmaker in hot water

  From Fox News

  Filmmaker Michael Moore’s suggestion that showing crime scene photos of the children [...]

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• ‘This is how people live in Cuba’: Video captures critical housing situation on the island

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  “This is how people live in Cuba”: Video captures critical housing situation on the island

  This video, filmed and edited inside of Cuba by members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), capture the current housing and living conditions in the country,  providing various testimonies of everyday [...]

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• Photo of the day – If Yoani is cheap, how much cheaper are you?

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  Today's Photo of the day was taken by Tracey Eaton at the arrival of Cuban blogger and dissident Yoani Sanchez in New York City.

  The accusation against Yoani in the sign held up by a Castro dictatorship operative raises an important question: If Yoani is "cheap" to buy, how much [...]

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• Paya family denounces Spanish government’s efforts to silence witness of dissident’s assassination

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  Via Spain's El Semanal Digital (my translation):

  Family of Oswaldo Paya denounces 'pressure' on Carromero from Spanish government to 'stop talking'

  The family of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died last July in an auto accident in southeast Cuba, has denounced the Spanish government's efforts to "pressure" the director of New [...]

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• Sometimes, they just don’t get it

  Google, is an incredibly shortsighted and rather stupid decision, has decided to shutter Google Reader on July 1 of this year.

  Google is a leviathan in web services and I have to use a few of their services out of sheer convenience. Reader was one of them. (I hate their mail [...]

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