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By Will Weissert From the Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the perjury trial of an elderly ex-CIA agent can continue although defense claims…
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From Latin America News Dispatch WASHINGTON – Advocates of prying Cuba policy a bit further open are looking to the Obama administration rather than Congress for help. Experts gathered…
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By Scott Hiaasen, Patricia Mazzei and Marc Caputo From The Miami Herald Before launching his bid for Congress last year, David Rivera embarked on a record-breaking campaign for the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso The Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) is reading the riot act, as the old saying goes, to its tens of thousands of members through an internal document that should be…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian In 1915, the U.S. Marines invaded Haiti, occupying the country until 1934. U.S. officials rewrote the Haitian constitution, and when the Haitian…
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A St. Petersburg Times Editorial Florida lawmakers' hopes of thwarting Cuba's offshore drilling ambitions by isolating it from oil companies that do business in the United States is…
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By Saul Landau In upmarket restaurants one wouldn’t know the world is suffering from a food crisis. As I observed young executives and professionals slurping oysters and chasing them…
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By Dana Milbank From The Washington Post Did Arianna Huffington just sell out her fellow progressives? In the literal sense, she undoubtedly has: The sale of Huffington Post to AOL…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Follow the money. Soaring rhetoric and good intentions aside, what counts and what really defines a nation, a society, or a community is who gets…
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By Bill Press It's amazing what we can do with our iPhones: make calls, return emails, schedule meetings, file notes, take photos, keep grocery lists, get wake-up calls, time a…
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