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• A personal note

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  I just returned from three days in Puerto Rico for a work conference. Beautiful place with fantastic vistas on the north coast. I imagine that the blue of their part of the Caribbean is as beautiful as the blue that surrounds our sad island to the west of them. I would [...]

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• Cuba’s Ladies in White leader Berta Soler to be honored in Miami

  Via The Miami Herald:

  UM institute to honor Cuba’s Damas de Blanco leader Berta Soler

  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio holds a photograph of Damas de Blanco leader Berta Soler while speaking to her via telephone during a Miami meeting with Cuban exile leaders in October 2011.

  " src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/03/25/16/09/dhc3o.Em.56.jpeg" width="131" height="197" border="0" />Cuban" [...]

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• Ailing political prisoner in Cuba refused medical care

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Sick political prisoner transferred to penitentiary where he won’t receive adequate medical care

  Ariel Arzuaga Pena

  Political prisoner Ariel Arzuaga Pena, who is suffering various health ailments, was recently transferred to a penitentiary camp in the municipality of Bayamo, where he will not receive adequate medical attention, according [...]

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• Cuba: Castro regime retaliates against inmates for providing help to prisoner of conscience

  Via Uncommon Sense:

  As Cuban political prisoner Calixto Martinez continues hunger strike, guards retaliate against other inmates

  Monday, March 25, was the 19th day of Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Ramon Martinez'shunger strike to demand his immediate release.

  What the world knows about his protest and the toll it has' [...]

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• Azuuuuucar! Forget about it, we ain’t got no sugar…this is Cuba… but we do have child prostitutes to spare.

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  Ay, no, mami, por favor, no me lo digas.... no lo puedo soportar.... tantas malas noticias.... me hace falta un calmante..... o un pariente exilado que me traiga regalitos y me mande dolares.

  When the official government newspaper admits that something has gone wrong, you know things are bad, for [...]

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• The state of Cuba in 2013: Cosmetic reforms are a distraction

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  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  The state of Cuba in 2013: Cosmetic reforms are a distraction

  Below is the English translation of an article published in Estonian for the publication Maailma Vaade.

  The state of Cuba in 2013 
  Cosmetic reforms are a distraction 

  In the midst of the [...]

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• Sen. Rubio & colleagues urge Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate death of Cuban activist Oswaldo Payá

  For Immediate Release
  Monday, March 25th, 2013

  RUBIO & COLLEAGUES URGE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO INVESTIGATE DEATH OF CUBAN ACTIVIST OSWALDO PAYÁ
  

  Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined a bipartisan group of senators in urging the Inter-American [...]

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• AFP Havana Bureau reported death of Zoe Valdes (in 1995!)

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  From the AFP's site:

  1957: AFP is established as an independent, impartial news provider to suscribers in France and around the world by an act of parliament guaranteeing its independence from both private and state interests.

  Zoe Valdes was in Paris at the time, promoting her first novel La Nada Cotidiana, and [...]

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• Maria Werlau: Cuban blogger, ‘citizen Yoani,’ at the UN

  Maria Werlau from the Cuba Archive Project:

  Cuban blogger, "citizen Yoani," at the UN

  She came in through the visitors’ entrance after passing the security check. When she pushed through the revolving door into the grand hall, standing there alone, I greeted her with pretended formality: “Welcome to the United Nations.” [...]

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• Psychics gather in Cuba, channel the spirit of Hugo Chavez

  A gaggle of psychics from twenty-four different countries gathered in Cuba and paid tribute to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

  Luckily, our friends at Guamá were able to capture on film the moment these psychics channeled the spirit of Chavez:

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