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‘We had to eat like dogs’: Abusive practices at Florida immigrant prisons
A new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch details what the organization describes as "abusive practices" at three immigrant detention facilities in the state of Florida.
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Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – what we still don’t know about the…
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in…
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Trump and Netanyahu: A duplicitous and murderous pair
Meetings between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are more akin to a master class in posturing and duplicity than in diplomacy. Last week’s…
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The theater of cruelty: America’s immigration shame
On a sweltering July afternoon in the Florida Everglades, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem stood before a newly constructed immigration detention center newly built with…
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The Communist Party shows no signs of life
Based on the press reports about the 10th Plenary Session of the Central Committee, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) appears more like an entity living in a different country than in…
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“We’re going to kill you”: FBI report details threats against Carlos Muñiz Varela
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five months before his assassination, Carlos Muñiz Varela, one of the early pioneers of Cuban exile travel to Havana during Fidel Castro's government, received an…
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Masked agents snatching people off the street in Trump’s America
“I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s…
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That “damned” immigration
Not even Adolf Hitler had the bad taste to celebrate the opening of a prison publicly. Such a practice has become increasingly fashionable in contemporary politics. Nayib Bukele did it…
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America for sale! Everything must go!
The U.S. government has fallen into the hands of people who lack proper metaphors; all they know is business. The nation should be “run like a business” according to these…
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Exile, empire, and the fantasy of regime change
Cuba has been in the backburner of the news for a while. Two wars have taken over the attention of the public. Still, this month the administration has taken additional measures…
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