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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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A rapidly deteriorating situation for Cuba’s elderly
Cuba's elderly population, comprising over a quarter of the country's inhabitants, is facing a severe and rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. Pension amounts are woefully inadequate,…
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MAGA, MIGA, BIBI: Not a hat trick
There are few things more pitiful than a desperate magician repeating a failed trick. The crowd has seen the rabbit, the dove, the disappearing subpoena. They’ve clapped politely. Some…
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Liberal justices blast SCOTUS decision to resume third country deportations
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily lifted a lower court order that had required the Trump administration to give migrants the chance to challenge their deportation to a country…
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