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Category Archives: Cuba
Yoani Sanchez: Solzhenitsyn-like chronicler of communist abuse
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was beaten up by yesterday by thugs from the Cuban government. Hopefully, even bloggers outside of Miami will find reason to call attention to this latest abuse by the Cuban government. Thanks to friend of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Norman Podhoretz, Obituaries, Stinking Communists, Yoani Sanchez
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Juanes Picks His Fights Very Carefully
The well known Latin pop singer and UMPG client who has made Miami — Key Biscayne more exactly — his home, has made an important career decision. He has agreed to perform in Cuba. Why does that represent such a … Continue reading
Could Guantánamo Bay Be The Next Hong Kong?
Could Guantánamo Bay become the next Hong Kong? Yes. Paul Romer lays out one possible scenario in his TED talk about Charter cities. Romer’s scenario would be dependent on Cuban leadership that was honest as to the limitations and failures … Continue reading
Fear and Loathing at the State Department
This morning, when I read the story of the Washington D.C. couple — Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers — in their 70’s who were accused of espionage on behalf of the Castro regime, I wished my newspaper could have … Continue reading
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Sarah Stephens — Puppeteer with a cause
Media Puppeteer: n. – One who advocates while pretending to inform. Information typically disseminated by those pretending not to have an opinion, i.e. journalists and/or marionettes. Sarah Stephens is an advocate for lifting the limited U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. … Continue reading
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Tagged Council on Foreign Relations, Cuba Dilettantes, Fellow Travelers, Julia Sweig, Sarah Stephens
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What the Miami Herald leaves out, again
Maybe the Miami Herald doesn’t want to help itself. I mean if you can’t flaunt leftist preferences during the age of Obama, then when can you? Back in February, we took a look at how Frances Robles seemed unwilling or … Continue reading
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Tagged Bias, Frances Robles, Freddy Balsera, Lesley Clark, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Miami Herald
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Orbitz: CFR’s Stealth Messenger
If the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR], a reliable policy group on the political left, came out against restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, no one would bat an eye, it’s a given. But what if they got someone else … Continue reading
Economist Bias
In an Economist magazine article designed for making a case for increased contact [dollars] between the US & Cuba without requiring the Cuban regime to actually improve their human rights performance, the article notes the following: the vast majority of … Continue reading
Carl Hiaasen & The LSD-PL Syndrome
Carl Hiaasen is a great novelist. So sayeth Tom Wolfe, which is good enough for me. Hiaasen is also a long-time South Florida resident who has left of center political views and airs those views as a regular columnist for … Continue reading
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