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• Reflections of a ‘Cuba Expert’: Giving a vile regime the benefit of the doubt

  
  
  

  After suffering decades of humiliation, repression, murder, and a never-ending stream of propaganda and lies from the Castro dictatorship, Cubans are ill equipped to give the benefit of the doubt to a regime that has destroyed millions of lives and has enslaved an entire nation. I guess [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 12:00pm in Cuba

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• Quote of the day

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  Anya Landau French, a "Cuba Expert" and daughter of Fidel Castro sycophant Saul Landau*, just cannot seem to understand why the criminal and recalcitrant Cuban dictatorship continues to act like a criminal and recalcitrant dictatorship:

  "It’s mystifying to watch Cuban officials working harder to chase off investors" [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 11:00am in Cuba

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• Liberty vs. tyranny, goose liver style

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  California is banning foie-gras, one of my all-time favorite foods. Did you know that? I didn't know about this until this morning when I read it on Drudge. It's just another data-point in my never-ending quest to educate everyone about how truly, deeply, bat-shit crazy the' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 10:30am in Cuba

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• Cuba: A State Sponsor of Terror by any other name is still a State Sponsor of Terror

  
  
  

  While "Cuba Experts" continue to tell us that the Castro dictatorship is not a State Sponsor of Terror, the Cuban regime keeps strengthening its ties with a fellow State Sponsor of Terror, the Iranian dictatorship:

  Iranian, Cuban officials discuss promotion of bilateral ties

  Senior Iranian and Cuban Foreign [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 9:58am in Cuba

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• Politics is a taboo subject

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  Recently, in an email thread with some old friends, I was taken to task for always injecting politics and religion into conversations at social gatherings. Believe it or not, I usually don't start the political discussion. I'm fairly certain most of you have been accused of doing [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 9:00am in Cuba

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• Castro dictatorship finally informs Cuban people of dry oil well

  
  
  

  The news that the offshore oil well drilled by Repsol for the Castro dictatorship turned up dry has been known by the entire world for weeks. The entire world, that is, except Cuba. Long after the reports detailing the failure came and went and Repsol had already [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 8:53am in Cuba

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• IKEA says investigation underway into its use of prison labor in Cuba

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  After meeting yesterday with Cuban American lawmakers in Washington D.C., Swedish furniture manufacture IKEA stated that it is investigating the evidence recently uncovered that the company struck a deal with the Cuban dictatorship in the 1980s to have its goods manufactured in Cuba by forced prison labor.

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  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 7:56am in Cuba

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• Cuban human rights activist on hunger strike after Castro political police threaten to rape her 5-year-old daughter

  
  
  

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Cuban Activist Declares Herself on Hunger Strike for the Safety of her Daughter

  Damaris Moya Portieles

  This past Sunday June 3rd, Damaris Moya Portieles- activist from the Rosa Parks Movement for Civil Rights- declared herself on hunger strike in the city of Santa Clara.  Moya [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 7:42am in Cuba

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• George Clooney to direct “Yankee Comandante” based on William Morgan

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  Focus Features is going to Cuba, attaching George Clooney to direct and produce "The Yankee Commandante" via his Smokehouse Pictures banner. Focus won bidding this week for feature rights to "Commandante," based on David Grann's recent New Yorker story about William Alexander Morgan, an American [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 07, 2012, 1:31am in Cuba

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• Mariela Castro at the New York Public Library: Public Feedback

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  A guest post by Asombra:

  The following was sent to Jason Baumann (jasonbaumann@nypl.org), who organized the Mariela Castro talk at the New York Public Library, with cc to his boss, NYPL president Dr. Anthony Marx (president@nypl.org). It was e-mailed on 5/30, the day after her talk. [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 7:05pm in Cuba

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