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Florida

New foundation, old Ideas

Max J. Castro Sep 27, 2016
A group of Cuban exiles in Miami recently announced the creation of a new foundation, the Inspire America Foundation. It’s a new organization with really old ideas. “We are…
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Florida

Shameless in Miami

Max J. Castro Sep 18, 2016
In his brief visit to Miami last week, Donald Trump pulled out of the bag of made-for-Miami Republican card tricks the most worn-out one. The Cuba card. He promised to take us back to…
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Noticias

Public ignorance and media pseudo-objectivity enable Trump’s lies

Max J. Castro Sep 12, 2016
Elections decided by deception and mass delusion, accepted by the media as plausible, can produce tragedies the consequences of which can last decades. “I would urge journalists to ask…
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Global South

‘The humiliation is now complete’

Max J. Castro Sep 5, 2016
Mexicans across the board were really, really mad because their president, Enrique Peña Nieto, stood by silently, impassive, neither denouncing the idea of a wall nor demanding an…
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Florida

Zika crisis grows so members of Congress decide to go on vacation

Max J. Castro Aug 29, 2016
Republicans in Congress are once again playing the extortion game with Obama by refusing to fund the administration’s $1.1 billion request to fight Zika unless a provision aimed at…
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Noticias

Pharma’s business model: Your money or your life

Max J. Castro Aug 24, 2016
Human life is supposed to be priceless, but U.S. pharmaceutical companies, like the makers of the EpiPen, have a clear sense of how much a life is worth to people who desperately need a…
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Noticias

Trompe l’oeil economics*

Max J. Castro Aug 15, 2016
Trump, being Trump, is proposing an even more radical fiscal counter-revolution than that that has been under way since the Reagan administration. It is a wonderful plan for business…
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Noticias

An end to capital punishment in the United States?

Max J. Castro Aug 9, 2016
Capital punishment continues to be practiced in the U.S. decades after it has been abolished in other Western developed countries. It continues to be practiced despite denunciation of…
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Noticias

Democrats celebrate and Trump digs himself deeper

Max J. Castro Jul 31, 2016
The Democrats in Philadelphia held a brilliant convention last week. It stands in sharp contrast to the previous week’s Republican disaster. And while they celebrated, Donald Trump was…
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Noticias Secundarias

The Republican Convention debacle

Max J. Castro Jul 24, 2016
Last week was filled with good news for progressives. It started Monday in Cleveland with the disastrous kickoff to the Republican National Convention that would officially elect Donald…
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