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• So why is Yoani Sanchez traveling to Brazil? (Read on:)

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  President Raul Castro's economic reforms "have whetted the appetite of Cubans" who now want more, opposition blogger Yoani Sanchez said in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper Thursday.

  "I am not naive about the changes in Cuba, about the small economic adjustments which Castro introduced," the prominent Cuban dissident, who [...]

  From Babalú Blog at February 08, 2013, 12:21am in Cuba

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• Why?

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  It seems that vote totals for Romney keep going up, making up the alleged 3 million vote "deficit" we had all heard about. Here is a link with raw vote totals. Romney, according to this chart, has surpassed the 60 million vote mark:

  Obama: 65,147,939 (50.91%)
  Romney: 60,610,074 (47.36%)
  Other: 2,209,061 [...]

  From Babalú Blog at November 29, 2012, 2:35pm in Cuba

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• “You’ve Got a Friend” (The New York Times assures Castro–yet again)

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  “Without the help of the New York Times, the Revolution in Cuba would never have been." (Fidel Castro on a visit to the New York Times offices in April 1959 to honor Herbert Matthews with a Julio 26 medal. )

  "When you're down and troubled and you need a' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at September 21, 2012, 12:22am in Cuba

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• The Dirty Little Secret

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  A good friend called me earlier to comment on an ongoing discussion he was following here in our blog.

  The topic was who was, and who wasn't a Communist; I have ideas on that subject which challenge long-standing Cuban exile orthodoxy.

  I don't know that I believe that Fidel Castro was [...]

  From Babalú Blog at September 10, 2012, 3:09pm in Cuba

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• Montaner: What the pope saw in Cuba

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  Carlos Alberto Montaner in the Miami Herald:

  What the pope saw in Cuba

  Hundreds of millions of people watched the pope in Cuba, heard his utterings and observed what happened. Naturally, each one of those witnesses perceived the visit differently. What’s interesting now is to find out [...]

  From Babalú Blog at April 03, 2012, 11:59am in Cuba

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• Beyonce and Jay-Z Celebrate 5th Wedding Anniv. in Havana! (But U.S. tourism to Cuba is illegal…keep repeating it)

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  "We will be like Che!" (Pioneros por el comunismo)
  
  "I'm like Che Guevara with a bling on!" Jay-Z

  Wow! That Yoani Sanchez works like greased LIGHTNING! Who woulda thought her anti-"embargo" proposals woulda kicked in so FAST!!!

  From the AP:

  "The artists' publicists did" [...]

  From Babalú Blog at April 04, 2013, 6:51pm in Cuba

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• Valentine from the Vomitorium: Bohemian Rhapsody for Fidel Down in Kiwi Land

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  Rainbows and roses and whiskers on tyrants,

  bright copper bullets and millions of migrants,

  brown angry dissidents tied up with strings,

  these are a few of my favorite things..

  Way to go, Kiwis.... Celebrate the lovely bohemian ambience of the Castro Kingdom.  Yeah, man.  Cool.

  You've even transformed Fidel  into the guy' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at February 14, 2013, 9:03am in Cuba

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• Cubans keep breaking Canadian hearts

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  Canadians love to vacation in communist Cuba. They frolic on the beaches, dance in the clubs, and some of them bring home a souvenir from their island slave plantation adventure in the form of a Cuban wife or husband. And that is when Canadian hearts start breaking...

  Via The Star [...]

  From Babalú Blog at February 08, 2013, 10:07am in Cuba

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• Have a little champagne…

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  In light of the latest reports on the demise of fidel castro, whom the Miami Herald is reporting is on his deathbed, Im reposting the following, back from 2006, when fidel castro was reported to be on his deathbed. We all know that we won't get any official confirmation' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at October 19, 2012, 6:53am in Cuba

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• Somewhere, in his private sea-side room in hell, Hitler is smiling

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  Judenrein, 21st century style.

  For the first time, criminal charges have been pressed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions, a Jewish weekly reported on Tuesday.

  A doctor from Hesse filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg, who serves in the community of Hof, in Upper Franconia (northern Bavaria), according [...]

  From Babalú Blog at August 21, 2012, 5:55pm in Cuba

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