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• Castro Kingdom still trying to colonize Africa…. sort of… or something….

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  They never give up on their grandiose nightmares and delusions of grandeur, those Castronoids.

  Fidel had a dream of colonizing Africa and turning his kingdom into an empire, but the collapse of the Soviet Union shattered this dream.  Funding dried up faster than a spitball in the Kalahari desert.  Little [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 12:01pm in Cuba

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• General Escalante was Wrong About “The Yankee Comandante”

  Miguel Fernandez at Cuba Confidential:

  General Escalante was Wrong About “The Yankee Comandante”

  In his book The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959-62 (Ocean Press, 1995), General Fabián Escalante, former chief and current historian of the Castro State Security, asserted that as early as in February 1959, the CIA [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 12:00pm in Cuba

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• Quote of the day – See Cuba while it’s still romantically lost in time

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  Jorge Michel, an Oregon State University student who is going on a "people-to-dictatorship," Castro propaganda adventure to Cuba, expresses his excitement over the trip: Obviously, Jorge realizes it will be sooner rather than later when Cuba is released from the yoke of tyranny and goes on to lose all [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 11:05am in Cuba

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• The Left’s Cold War Revenge in Guatemala

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  Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal:

  The Left's Cold War Revenge in Guatemala

  The history behind an absurd court ruling that Gen. Rios Montt is guilty of genocide.

  By now even casual readers of Latin American news know that a Guatemalan court has ruled Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 10:15am in Cuba

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• They Know You’re Reading This

  Have the news reports of the excesses of power that our government has been engaging in bothered you?

  Read on.

  Twenty-five miles due south of Salt Lake City, a massive construction project is nearing completion. The heavily secured site belongs to the National Security Agency.

  "The spy center" -- that's what some [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 9:30am in Cuba

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• May 20th: Cuba’s Independence

  Today is the anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain. Unfortunately, it is also another year Cubans on the island and all over the world are forced to celebrate this independence while their country remains under the tyrannical yoke of the Castro dictatorship.

  Nevertheless, Cuba was once free on a day like [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 9:00am in Cuba

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• Dissident artist in Cuba arrested by State Security, artwork confiscated

  Cuban dissident artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto, was arbitrarily arrested over the weekend by Cuban State Security and had artwork confiscated while he was held overnight in a Castro jail.

  Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:

  Cuban Artist's Paintings Confiscated

  Yesterday, the Castro regime's secret police burst into the home [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 8:08am in Cuba

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• Cuba: Lady in White denied access to church by regime all year

  Another example of the magnanimous reforms of Cuban dictator Raul Castro.

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Lady in White not allowed to assist Mass so far in 2013 (Audio)

  Each Sunday, police forces are deployed throughout the municipality of Antilla, in Holguin province, with the mission of carrying out an arrest. It’s not [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 7:55am in Cuba

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• Cuba Nostalgia 2013: A stroll down memory lane

  Via The Miami Herald:

  Cuba Nostalgia allows for a stroll down memory lane

  On the last day of Cuba Nostalgia’s quinceañera party, Carlos Rosario played dominoes with his son Enzo, Librada Caballero salsaed to Willy Chirino tunes, and Joe and Maria Elena Chambrot tried to find the addresses of their childhood [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 7:45am in Cuba

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• Thor Halvorssen: “Not one word, however, about the 55-year Castro dictatorship.”

  From Thor Halvorssen's Facebook page:

  Every year the Cuban and Venezuelan Embassies in Oslo organize a protest outside the Oslo Freedom Forum. This year, after embassy persons put up the posters but before the protesters arrived John Lubbock was able to snap some pictures. Mario Vargas Llosa, Obama, a [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 19, 2013, 4:15pm in Cuba

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