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By Bob Peltz From The Miami Herald (Editor’s Note: What follows is a letter written to The Miami Herald, which appeared this past Monday. Jackie Bueno Sousa is a Herald columnist…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The U.S. Senate last week rejected a bill, the “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010,” that would have extended unemployment…
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By Saul Landau The U.S. government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the…
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By Varela I remember when, two decades ago, I began to work for a publication in Miami for the first time. The Chicago Tribune, through The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, hired me…
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From Chairman Collin Peterson’s Office: The Agricultural Committee vote on HR 4645 (travel and agricultural sales bill which caused a furor in Miami when 74 Cubans on the island…
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This just arrived by email from my friends at the Democratic Party. So, OK, it’s slanted, I know. But when it comes to Marco and David, even when slanted, you can tell these two are a…
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Story I just received from the Havana Note blog. Really… it shows how low some of these idiots are willing to stoop. As for the staffer, he’ll do well in Washington some day… probably…
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By Jordan Levin From The Miami Herald One of Cuba's most famous and important musicians, Silvio Rodríguez, 63, composes poetic lyrics and tender love songs that have endeared him to…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Four years ago, when the government of Evo Morales re-nationalized its hydrocarbon industry, the Brazilian media was spoiling for a fight. After…
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By Bill Press For the last two months, commenting on the BP oil spill, pundits have been on steroids. The environmental and economic catastrophe in the Gulf has been variously…
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