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• Art imitates life in Castro’s Cuba

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  On her blog, exiled Cuban writer and best-selling author Zoé Valdés comments that there is no better description of Cubans and life on the island as Woody Allen's 1971 movie Bananas. After watching the clip below, one cannot help but agree this is truly a case of art imitating life.

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• Cuba’s criminal dictatorship loses another trademark challenge in U.S. court

  Within a few short years of Fidel Castro taking over Cuba, he had effectively stolen the entire island and took ownership of everything. And when we say everything, we mean everything: Private property, public property, residential homes, factories, farms, stores, food, radio and television stations, banks, trademarks and brand names, [...]

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• LBA stands up to unscrupulous Odebrecht

  Odebrecht, the enormous multi-billion dollar international construction and engineering conglomerate from Brazil may not have much in terms of scruples, but they do have more than a few friends in Miami-Dade County (most of them no doubt bought) wiling to support them. However, there is one important player in the [...]

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• Castro Kingdom implements a colossal number of reforms

  Reforms you can believe in....

  (From the Institute on War and Peace Reporting)

  Cuba: 500 Detentions in February

  Rights group also says political prisoner died after hunger strike.
  By Camilo Ganga

  Two Cuban human rights groups that report on arbitrary arrests recorded an increase in politically-motivated detentions in February compared with the [...]

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• The Undeniable Inability To Defend Your Indefensible Inhumane Position Against The Defenseless

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  It is what it is...

  Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.

  Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida [...]

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• The Absurdity of the “Gun Control” Language and The Assault on Our Intelligence

  Obama repeated the gun-control meme about his intended gun control laws once again yesterday while flanked by the families of gun violence victims (and with bobble-head "Shotgun Joe Biden" by his side), "If it saves just one life..." ... One? Just "one life"?

  How incredibly absurd that reasoning [...]

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• Douglas MacArthur has been vindicated

  From Reuters: "North Korea says to enter state of war against South Korea."

  So, sorry Harry. Doug was right, you were wrong.

  North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a continuing escalation of tough rhetoric against Seoul and Washington after coming [...]

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• Che’s Worst Nightmare Comes True

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  Yes.  The new man, the revolutionary, is no longer just a member of the party, el partido.  El hombre nuevo está partido, y lo que mas le interesa en un party.

  So much for revolutionary principles.  The Castro Kingdom is now being marketed as "a warm and friendly destination" for gay travelers [...]

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• Reports from Cuba: Sonia Garro and Ramon Munoz: A Year in Prison Without Trial

  By Ivan Garcia:

  Sonia Garro and Ramon Munoz: A Year in Prison Without Trial Freedom gives light, color, harmony, life to a dark dead society. Freedom-Democracy for Cuba.

  A year ago, while preparing the official pomp to receive Pope Benedict XVI, elite troops from the Ministry of the Interior violently assaulted the [...]

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• Latin Builders Association President on Odebrecht

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  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  LBA President on Odebrecht's Partnership With Castro

  Kudos to Bernie Navarro and the Latin Builders Association.

  By Bernie Navarro, President of the Latin Builders Association:

  Dear Friends:

  As President of the Latin Builders Association I was invited to participate in [Odebrecht's April 1st presentation of its Airport City proposal]. I [...]

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