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• Canadian who crossed Castro crime family speaks out from a Cuban prison

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  When you do business with criminals, sooner or later, it catches up to you.

  Via The Miami Herald:

  Canadian jailed in Havana corruption scandal speaks out

  Speaking over a scratchy telephone line from inside a Cuban prison, Sarkis Yacoubian’s voice goes suddenly silent. He’s crying.

  “I was so depressed at times, I wanted [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 16, 2013, 10:00am in Cuba

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• Damas de Blanco en el Día de las Madres

  
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  From El Cafe Cubano at May 16, 2013, 9:30am in Cuba

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• Cuba: Crackdown on Afro-Cubans destroys myth of racial equality

  Jon Purdue in The Miami Herald:

  Crackdown on Afro-Cubans destroys myth of racial equality

  Berta Soler was in Oslo this week, where the Human Rights Foundation awarded her former Czech President Vaclav Havel's Prize for Creative Dissent.

  " src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/05/15/17/24/VmbHc.Em.56.jpeg" width="209" height="162" border="0" />OSLO, Norway At the time of Fidel Castro’s takeover of" [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 16, 2013, 9:08am in Cuba

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• Shortage of Toilet Paper in Venezuela

  
  
  
  Folks I am not making this up! It appears that their is such a shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela, that the Venezuelan dictatorship has to import 50 million rolls! It's the Embargo's fault for this fiasco......wait a minute their is NO embargo, but... but... how is it [...]
  From El Cafe Cubano at May 16, 2013, 8:30am in Cuba

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• VIDEO: Cuba’s Ladies in White march in honor of Mother’s Day

  Cuba's courageous Ladies in White risk beatings and imprisonment to march in honor of Mother's Day:

  H/T Pedazos de la Isla

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  From Babalú Blog at May 16, 2013, 8:21am in Cuba

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• Cuban dissident in Miami denounces racism of apartheid Castro dictatorship

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  Manuel Cuesta Morua, a black Cuban dissident currently visiting Miami has denounced the rampant racism practiced by the apartheid Castro dictatorship on the island.

  Juan Tamayo in The Miami Herald:

  Cuban dissident says racism remains a grave problem

  Cuban dissident Manuel Cuesta Morua on Wednesday called for “affirmative action” to redress what [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 16, 2013, 8:13am in Cuba

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• Swimmer pursues dream to reach England from Third Reich

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  Gotcha!  Humberto Fontova style.... Jawhol, Herr Kommandant....sehr gut, aber schrecklich....

  No, of course, this has nothing to do with the Second World War, or Nazis, but we've caught your attention.

  You guessed it: totally clueless Diana Nyad is at it again.   She intends to try her Cuba-to-Florida swim again.

  Yeah.  And,' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 16, 2013, 1:04am in Cuba

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• Reports from Cuba: Neither so Educated nor so Superior

  By Miriam Celaya in Translating Cuba:

  Neither so Educated nor so Superior

  HAVANA, Cuba, May, www.cubanet.org- I’ve heard it said that hunger can affect vision permanently. For a while, I thought that this sentence was just a popular myth based on superstition, however, it turns out to be absolutely true. Hunger [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 15, 2013, 6:15pm in Cuba

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• Argentina’s Kirchner threatens prison for those who refuse to buy bonds

  Argentina's Cruella (or Cretina, take your pick) de Kirchner is desperate for money. That should not surprise anyone since she has somehow found a way to bankrupt the already bankrupt Argentine economy. But that is par for the course when you subscribe to the corrupt tenets of socialism, which benefit' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 15, 2013, 5:00pm in Cuba

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• The Cubanization of Venezuela: Dictator Maduro vilifies and blames others for his own corruption

  Taking a page straight out of the Castro dictatorship handbook, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is now trying to vilify and blame the country's largest food producer for the lack of food in that country brought about by the corrupt government's mismanagement and embezzlement.

  Via the AP in ABC News:

  Venezuela Food [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 15, 2013, 3:45pm in Cuba

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