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• Just keep repeating it…

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  It can't happen here.

  It can't happen here.

  It can't happen here.

  Socialism works!

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• Reports from Cuba: The Unreality of a Slogan

  By Fernando Damaso:

  The Unreality of a Slogan The slogan of the Cuban Workers Union (CTC) for their gathering to celebrate May 1 is “United for a Prosperous and Sustainable Socialism.” It seems there are different types of socialism, and the one with which we are familiar is that of [...]
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• Free Cuba’s Future Oprah?!…(or her Gloria Gaynor?)

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  (Berta Soler on Spanish TV)
  
  One of the ladies above strikes me as "hot-headed", as "over-emotional" as probably incapable of soberly analyzing issues that require careful study and logic rather than brusque and heated responses. This person sure comes across as a simple-minded "hard-liner."

  Maybe free [...]

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• Miami Herald report on papal visit to Cuba completely ignores the thousands of political arrests it prompted

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  In an article analyzing the impact Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba last year on the island, The Miami Herald's Mimi Whitfield manages to write an article almost 1,200 words long without making one single, solitary mention of the more than 6,000 politically motivated arrests that took place on [...]

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• Diaz-Balart Urges The Bahamas to Not Forcibly Repatriate Cuban Refugees Seeking Freedom

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

  March 26, 2013

  
  Diaz-Balart Urges The Bahamas to Not Forcibly Repatriate Cuban Refugees Seeking Freedom

  Washington, D.C. – Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) sent an urgent letter to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asking that Cuban refugees within its [...]

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• Image of the day: ‘Jaimanita waits for you’

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  Via Guamá:

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• The two island of Cuba: Splendor for the elite, starvation for everyone else

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  As photographer Michael Dweck documented in his book Habana Libre, the elite members of Cuba's ruling class enjoy a life of splendor with bountiful meals, flowing champagne and cocktails, and decadent parties that can last for days.

  For the rest of Cuba's people, however, poverty, misery, and starvation is [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo on his Facebook page:

  "Raise your children free, in an imaginary nation where the Cuban Revolution is not even a reference, where the word Fidel remains unknown."

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• Cuba hiding collapse of its foreign trade

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  Like all its other multitudinous failures, the dictatorship of Raul Castro in Cuba is hiding the collapse of the country's foreign trade.

  Via Martí News (my translation):

  Cuba hiding collapse of its foreign trade

  According to the firm Trade, which conducts analysis on the international export trade, Cuba reduced its imports of [...]

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• The Failure of U.S. Attempts at Unilateral Rapprochement with Cuba

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  Vanessa Lopez in Focus on Cuba from UM's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies:

  The Failure of U.S. Attempts at Unilateral Rapprochement with Cuba

  Nearly every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy has tried to improve U.S. relations with Cuba. Some administrations halted these efforts when it was clear the [...]

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