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• IKEA Executives Meet with Ros-Lehtinen, Menendez, Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Rivera, Discuss Company’s Alleged Past Use of Forced Laborers in Cuba

  
  
  

  NEWS

  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

  For IMMEDIATE Release – June 6, 2012

  IKEA Executives Meet with Ros-Lehtinen, Menendez, Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Rivera, Discuss Company’s Alleged Past Use of Forced Laborers in Cuba

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 3:50pm in Cuba

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• Carlos Ponce: Ché Guevara a ’serial assassin’

  
  
  

  For certain, Puerto Rican actor/singer Carlos Ponce will not make many friends among our Lah-teen-oh brothers and sisters with this statement, but he can count on lots of new and old friends here in Miami and Cuba.

  Via El Día (my translation):

  Carlos Ponce calls 'Che' a 'serial' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 3:25pm in Cuba

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• Ethics committee says case against Waters to move forward

  
  
  

  This couldn't happen to a more deserving corrupt do-nothing castroite lowlife, who lives lavishly off her poorer constituent’s dime.

  From The Hill:

  The House Ethics Committee announced on Wednesday that Rep. Maxine Waters’s (D-Calif.) rights were not violated in its investigation of her and its case will proceed.

  Waters is' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 3:09pm in Cuba

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• Obama administration betrays England, sides with Argentina and the likes of Cuba on Falkland Islands

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  Once again, the Obama administration has turned its back on an ally, England, and sided with Latin America's "21st Century Socialist" tyrannies such as Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, and the rest of the sordid despots in South America.

  Nile Gardiner in the UK Telegraph:

  Barack Obama’s unwelcome Jubilee [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 3:05pm in Cuba

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• June 6, 1944

  
  
  

  I've been remiss in posting a remembrance of the events 68 years ago this morning. Here is the great Ronald Wilson Reagan's speech given on the fortieth anniversary: "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc":

  Also, in today's National Review a very interesting read about the rivalry that existed' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 2:44pm in Cuba

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• Trademark Wars: Castro dictatorship demands trademark they stole back

  
  
  

  The Associated Press' man in Havana, Peter Orsi, reports on the trademark war going on between the Bacardi and the Castro dictatorship over the Havana Club trademark. Amazingly, the AP and Orsi managed to write a 926 word[...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 2:15pm in Cuba

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• Wisconsin, redux

  
  
  

  Why did I post this? Just because.

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  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 1:33pm in Cuba

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• The Battle of Ideas

  
  
  

  The humor of Santana:

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  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 1:03pm in Cuba

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• The Corleones of the tropics and the refined left

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  Via Enrique Del Risco's blog Enrisco (my translation):

  The Corleones of the tropics and the refined left

  Impressive. There is no other way to describe Mayeya Castro's journey through the United States. This despite the hermetically controlled environment that surrounded her (I should say absurd) appearances where she [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 12:00pm in Cuba

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• Venezuela’s PDVSA to continue off-shore oil exploration in Cuba

  
  
  

  Considering how Venezuela's PDVSA is hemorrhaging money due to corruption and mismanagement in spite of that country's oil wealth, this new venture in Cuba ought to go real well:

  Malaysia firm, PDVSA to drill off Cuba as Repsol stops

  HAVANA — Cash-strapped Cuba's long quest for black gold [...]

  From Babalú Blog at June 06, 2012, 11:11am in Cuba

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