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• Castro’s ‘reforms’ still do not allow Cubans to board boats

  Via Havana Times:

  Cuba Prohibits Its Citizens from Boarding Boats

  Even if they have passports and visas, Cubans can’t board cruise ships. Photo: Raquel Perez

  HAVANA TIMES — A few days ago I went to Guanacabibes Peninsula, in the extreme west of the country. It’s an unspoiled nature reserve where one can [...]

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• Louisiana Chamber of Commerce charmed by lack of Commerce in Cuba

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  I SWEAR I am NOT making this up:

  "When you discover Cuba, you will see it is untouched by commercialism. The only billboards extol the virtues of socialism or celebrate the long-past revolution and its heroes. There are no ads to entice you to purchase phones, soda, cars" [...]

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• Cuba releases video game glorifying the murderous exploits of Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara

  While Cubans are starving, living in crumbling buildings, and have no access to decent health care, the Castro dictatorship is busy investing its time and resources into creating a video game to glorify the murderous exploits of Fidel Castro and his gang of murderous thugs.

  Via SFGate:

  A ‘revolutionary’ new video [...]

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• Tampa Congresswoman calls for end of embargo, possibly planning trip to Cuba

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  Tampa Congresswomen Betty Castor may be planning a trip to Cuba in the near future after breaking with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-FL) and other prominent Democrats by calling for the lifting of sanctions against the murderous and repressive Castro dictatorship in Cuba.

  Via The Shark Tank:

  FL Democrat Breaks [...]

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• White House joins call for investigation into death of Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya

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  Via The Hill:

  Obama administration joins congressional call for probe into deaths of Cuban activists

  The Obama administration supports the growing calls for an international probe into the deaths of two Cuban democracy activists last year, the State Department said Thursday.

  The declaration follows growing pressure from Congress for an investigation into [...]

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• Cuban Bullies at the U.N.

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  The incomparable Mary O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal:

  Cuban Bullies at the U.N.

  More than a half century after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, the image of Fidel Castro in battle fatigues remains a symbol of the military dictatorship's machismo. But last week when Cuba's most famous dissident blogger,' [...]

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• Castro State Security brutalizes members of Cuba’s opposition and their families in Bayamo

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Once again, police lashes out against rapper, relatives and other activists in Bayamo

  Angel Yunier Remon and Jaqueline Garcia

  This past Thursday, 21st of March, political police agents raided the home of Lady in White Jaquelin Garcia, in Bayamo, beating all those inside (among them underage children) and [...]

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• Coast Guard intercepts 46 Cubans at sea trying to escape Cuba

  Isn't it amazing and quite telling that in spite of generous dictator Raul Castro's benevolent economic and travel "reforms," the Cuban people are still risking their lives on rickety rafts to navigate the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straits to escape the island?

  Via the AP in the Palm Beach' [...]

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• Yoani Sanchez arrives in Miami

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  Via South Florida's NBC6 News:

  Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez in Miami

  Sanchez has a full agenda but will be staying with her family while in Miami

  Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has arrived in Miami and will be making public appearances starting Monday.

  After arriving  Thursday, she met with Miami's Archibishop Thomas Wenski and [...]

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• Same-Sex Marriage Evolution: “That is what is at stake here … the right of definition”

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  Jim Treacher: If you espouse the same opinion on gay marriage as Barack Obama used to, before he "evolved," you're a bigot.

  But he wasn't.

  In May of last year during the 2012 campaign cycle Joe Biden looked to have forced Obama's hand on same-sex marriage. The White [...]

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