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This ain't Disneyland

Diaz-Balart wife and business partner owe the IRS $66,731

Weekly Archive Nov 4, 2009
As reported by the South Florida Business Journal in their Friday, October 30 edition, it seems one of our area’s distinguished members of congress (well, really his wife in this case…
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Florida

The rogues on television

Weekly Archive Nov 4, 2009
By Alejandro Armengol From El Nuevo Herald A multimillion-dollar industry exists in Spain, a segment of the trashy media: television programs devoted to commenting on the lives of…
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Deal Reached in Honduras to Restore Ousted President

Weekly Archive Oct 30, 2009
By ELISABETH MALKIN From The New York Times MEXICO CITY — A lingering political crisis in Honduras seemed to be nearing an end on Friday after the de facto government agreed to a deal…
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This ain't Disneyland

Stackhouse is in jail — now it’s time to look at the politicians involved

Weekly Archive Oct 29, 2009
There is good news. Boston developer Dennis Stackhouse, accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a proposed taxpayer-supported biopharmaceutical park intended to revitalize Liberty…
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Cuba

Musings on Halloween and Christmas, Havana-style

Weekly Archive Oct 29, 2009
By Aurelio Pedroso In Spain, the start of the Christmas holiday season is set off by the El Corte Inglés megastore. It fires the starting gun and triggers the shopping spree. In Cuba…
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Cuba

A concert in Havana: An unfinished dialogue with the furies

Weekly Archive Oct 29, 2009
By Elíades Acosta Matos On Oct. 27, 2009, a Boeing jumbo jet from New York should have landed at Havana's José Martí Airport after a scheduled three-hour flight. According to plan,…
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UN Vote: 187 to 3 to End U.S. Embargo on Cuba

Weekly Archive Oct 28, 2009
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to call for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba. The vote was cast at the 192-member General…
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The United Nations Denounces the U.S. Embargo on Cuba … Again

Weekly Archive Oct 28, 2009
For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly unequivocally calls for the end of "the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of…
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USA

America’s real quagmire

Weekly Archive Oct 28, 2009
The biggest obstacle to reforming the U.S. economy, healthcare or foreign policy isn't Republicans -- it's the media By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian What kind of a public…
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USA

Why Wall Street reform is stuck in reverse

Weekly Archive Oct 28, 2009
By Robert Reich From Robert Reich’s Blog At a conference in London, a Goldman Sachs international adviser, Brian Griffiths, praised inequality. As his company was putting aside $16.7…
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