Cuba (10 unread) Blogs
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General Escalante was Wrong About “The Yankee Comandante”
Miguel Fernandez at Cuba Confidential:
General Escalante was Wrong About “The Yankee Comandante”
In his book The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959-62 (Ocean Press, 1995), General Fabián Escalante, former chief and current historian of the Castro State Security, asserted that as early as in February 1959, the CIA [...]
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Quote of the day – See Cuba while it’s still romantically lost in time
Number of comments: 2Jorge Michel, an Oregon State University student who is going on a "people-to-dictatorship," Castro propaganda adventure to Cuba, expresses his excitement over the trip: Obviously, Jorge realizes it will be sooner rather than later when Cuba is released from the yoke of tyranny and goes on to lose all [...]
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The Left’s Cold War Revenge in Guatemala
Number of comments: 1Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal:
The Left's Cold War Revenge in Guatemala
The history behind an absurd court ruling that Gen. Rios Montt is guilty of genocide.
By now even casual readers of Latin American news know that a Guatemalan court has ruled Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of' [...]
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They Know You’re Reading This
Have the news reports of the excesses of power that our government has been engaging in bothered you?
Twenty-five miles due south of Salt Lake City, a massive construction project is nearing completion. The heavily secured site belongs to the National Security Agency.
"The spy center" -- that's what some [...]
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May 20th: Cuba’s Independence
Today is the anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain. Unfortunately, it is also another year Cubans on the island and all over the world are forced to celebrate this independence while their country remains under the tyrannical yoke of the Castro dictatorship.
Nevertheless, Cuba was once free on a day like [...]
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Dissident artist in Cuba arrested by State Security, artwork confiscated
Cuban dissident artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto, was arbitrarily arrested over the weekend by Cuban State Security and had artwork confiscated while he was held overnight in a Castro jail.
Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:
Cuban Artist's Paintings Confiscated
Yesterday, the Castro regime's secret police burst into the home [...]
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Cuba: Lady in White denied access to church by regime all year
Another example of the magnanimous reforms of Cuban dictator Raul Castro.
Lady in White not allowed to assist Mass so far in 2013 (Audio)
Each Sunday, police forces are deployed throughout the municipality of Antilla, in Holguin province, with the mission of carrying out an arrest. It’s not [...]
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Cuba Nostalgia 2013: A stroll down memory lane
Cuba Nostalgia allows for a stroll down memory lane
On the last day of Cuba Nostalgia’s quinceañera party, Carlos Rosario played dominoes with his son Enzo, Librada Caballero salsaed to Willy Chirino tunes, and Joe and Maria Elena Chambrot tried to find the addresses of their childhood [...]
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Thor Halvorssen: “Not one word, however, about the 55-year Castro dictatorship.”
From Thor Halvorssen's Facebook page:
Every year the Cuban and Venezuelan Embassies in Oslo organize a protest outside the Oslo Freedom Forum. This year, after embassy persons put up the posters but before the protesters arrived John Lubbock was able to snap some pictures. Mario Vargas Llosa, Obama, a [...]
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Video of the day: Cuba Libre
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