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Pot Lady
"You were talking about mari-juana," said a disgruntled lady to a couple of morning radio talk hosts in Miami. The announcers were not advocating its use, much less selling it. They…
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The path is clear; we don’t seem to want to take it
The latest Cuba poll had no major surprises. A not so close analysis shows a path to victory for those who’d like to see a change in U.S.-Cuba policy. One we've known about for some…
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A quick view of the Cuba poll results
The latest Cuba polls confirms a continuing trend toward moderation among the target population and an expected gap in opinion between the newcomers (arriving after 1994), young adults…
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Cuban Research Institute releases latest Cuba poll
The latest Cuba poll demonstrates that Cubans in Miami-Dade County have diverse views of how they would like the U.S. government to deal with the Cuban government. It confirms a…
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Nostalgia helping to spur loosening of Cuba policy
Tired of waiting for the end of communism in Cuba, more and more Cuban-Americans have concluded that it is time for the United States to allow more engagement with the island they left…
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Miami’s Tower of Babel
Remember Babel? "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven And the Lord said, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand…
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A new perspective #FathersDay
Subhash Kateel, who occasionally writes for Progreso Weekly, wrote this piece for the BK Nation blog. Kateel welcomed a son to this world recently and is celebrating Fathers Day in his…
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A story about hurricanes II
I have to meet this man, Bob Dylan said to himself, and closed the book. On the cover, in gold letters: "The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472."
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Conexión Miami / Beckham: A business trip
Last weekend, while watching a soccer training session at José Martí Park in Little Haiti, David Beckham said something that resembled news or sounded like news: "I'm starting to know a…
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Hillary, Crist: End the embargo
Are the latest developments in the long debate over the interminable U.S. embargo against Cuba good or bad news for those who want a change of policy? One must read carefully beneath…
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