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• Here we go again: New York Times swallows Castro regime’s farcical emigration reforms hook, line, and sinker

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  We have been hearing it for decades: The Castro dictatorship announces it is "considering" reforming its emigration policy, which effectively condemns Cuba's 11-million+ to life sentence on an island prison. Each and every time, zero emigration reforms follow the announcement, but not before the regime receives weeks [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 5:32pm in Cuba

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• Under Batista Cuba was the “Corruption Capital” of the Cosmos (!!!)….right?

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  Then the Castroites washed away this national stain, shame, humiliation and cog in the wheels of commerce .......right?

  Alas:

  Diplomats in Havana privately tell consistent stories of reported corner-cutting on the project that let corrupt officials skim millions of dollars from its budget...A senior French [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 4:21pm in Cuba

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• Enslaved Cubans cannot afford cigars they manufacture

  
  
  

  Is it any surprise slaves cannot afford to purchase the merchandise their masters force them to manufacture?

  Via the Miami Herald:

  Iconic Cuban cigar goes un-smoked at home

  PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba -- The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 3:58pm in Cuba

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• Spanish government doles out 1.8-million Euros in scholarships for Castro grandson and other Cuban students

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  Cuba al Descubierto (Cuba Uncovered) has a report on the Spanish government's decision to award almost 1.8-million Euros in university scholarships to 159 Cuban regime chosen students, including the grandson of dictator Fidel Castro. Considering the economic situation in Spain, this revelation raises quite a few [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 3:29pm in Cuba

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• Photo of the day

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  As seen in Washington D.C. late last week and captured on camera by an intrepid Babalú reader, members of the Castro dictatorship's propaganda squad stationed at our nation's capital:

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  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 1:36pm in Cuba

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• Washington Post still at it

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  The Washington Post's Editorial Board got bent out of shape because not enough Castroite apparatchiks were recently issued U.S. visas. I call your attention to their choice of words regarding American legislators of Cuban heritage in an editorial yesterday:

  ....the absurd outcry from [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 12:18pm in Cuba

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• Cuba’s Diplo-Spies

  
  
  

  Cuba Confidential continues to expose the Castro dictatorship's Diplo-Spies, the Cuban regime's so-called diplomatic corps who are really high-ranking intelligence officials:

  Cuban Ambassador “Burned” As Cuban Spy

  Carlos Rafael Zamora Rodriguez, Havana’s Ambassador to Brazil, is a career officer in the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), according to a highly reliable [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 11:59am in Cuba

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• Babalú at Cuba Nostalgia

  
  
  

  Cristina Puig at Fox News Latino has a story about this year's Cuba Nostalgia.

  It’s a journey that takes you back to Cuba before Fidel Castro rose to power, when the island was a must-stop for tourists and was the Caribbean’s crown jewel.

  “Everybody talked about how [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 10:45am in Cuba

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• Odebrecht and Miami: Bad Karma — Part 2

  
  
  

  When you make billions in blood money as the despicable Brazilian company Odebrecht does, karma can definitely be a bitch. Last week we told you about the accident that took place at the Miami International Airport with the Odebrecht built people mover train that injured two [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 10:43am in Cuba

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• Two Cuban refugees escape Cayman Islands Detention Center

  
  
  

  Cayman Island authorities are searching for two Cuban refugees who managed to escape a detention center in that country where they were being held awaiting deportation back to Cuba.

  Via Caribbean Journal:

  Cayman Seeks Cuban Refugees After Escape from Detention Centre

  
  Above: the boat that landed in Cayman [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 21, 2012, 9:37am in Cuba

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