Cuba (10 unread) Blogs
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Cuba Nostalgia 2013 in pictures
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This year's Cuba Nostalgia was quite a momentous one and your physically and emotionally exhausted Babalú crew is still recovering from all the excitement. We want to thank all our readers, friends, new friends, and families who came out this past weekend for stopping by and sharing a beer, a [...]
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Religious freedom is still a myth in Cuba
Number of comments: 0The U.S. State Department on Tuesday released its annual assessment of religous freedom in Cuba.
Like other forms of liberty, the freedom to worship as they wish free of harassment, hostility and other repression, is a rarity on the island.
From the executive summary:
The constitution protects religious freedom, although in practice government [...]
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Leninist Machismo
Enrique Del Risco in Enrisco (my translation):
Leninist Machismo Mario Silva, host of La Hojilla, an official Chavista television program, said in a recorded conversation with Cuban State Security Lt. Col. Aramis Palacios:
"I am afraid, Palacios, that Nicolas [Maduro], first of all, is being manipulated by Cilia [his wife].
"This is [...]
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Fidel never understood why Chavez did not get rid of ‘Bourgeois Elections’ in Venezuela
Daniel Greenfield in Front Page Magazine:
“Fidel Told Me He Did Not Understand Why Commandante Chavez had Not Finished with Bourgeois Elections”
The big scandal in Venezuela right now is the release of a recording of conversations between a Cuban intelligence officer and a Chavez media ally, discussing, among other [...]
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Where There’s Smoke: White House and IRS Employees Union Collusion Against Conservative Groups
BREAKING: "Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment" - Lois Lerner
Not so fast on that plausible deniability for Obama, especially when he met with the Treasury Department to discuss how to present the IRS story before the press and the nation.
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Blake Powers releases new book today
A shameless plug for our good friend Blake Powers and the release of his new book, A Different View: Travels with Team Easy, Iraq 2007.
Volume 2 of A Different View
Authored by C. Blake Powers
Prologue by MaryAnn Phillips
Introduction by Michael Z. Williamson
Edition: 1A view of day-to-day [...]
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Lonely Fidel
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May 20th in Cuba: An Unforgettable Day
Normando Hernandez at the George W. Bush Institution's Freedom Collection:
AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY
In his book Cuba: Early Years of Independence (1911), Rafael Ortiz writes that on May 20th, 1902 in Cuba, “The joy was general and it was legitimate; Cubans were touching their dreams … all parties held up [...]
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Babalú talks about freedom in Cuba
Tracey Eaton interviewed yours truly recently:
Babalú blog nears 10th anniversary
Babalú, touted as the world's most popular Cuban-American blog in English, marks its 10th anniversary in June.
I spoke to the blog's managing editor, Alberto de la Cruz, the other day in Miami as part of a series of interviews that [...]
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Liberal / Progressive compassion on display
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Slip of the tongue...
Jokes are a lot like wine: they often reveal the truth. In vino veritas. Yeah: In jocus veritas.
Mentalities exist. French historians came up with this insight about forty years ago. A mentality is a certain way of approaching the world -- the framework or infrastructure that [...]
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