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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com
So it’s Romney.
Yes, the debates between the Republican presidential contenders left in the race – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum,…
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Cuba expected to gain more attention as GOP convention nears
By Ted Jackovics
From The Tampa Tribune
Nearly 50 years have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis, but you wouldn't know it from rhetoric circulating in advance of the 2012 U.S.…
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Wikileaks: Fanjuls among ‘sugar barons’ who ‘muscled’ lawmakers to kill free…
By Michael LaForgia and Adam Playford
From the Palm Beach Post
The cables read like a political thriller: In the Dominican Republic, a "small, powerful coterie of infuriated sugar…
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Digital/broadband divides and the ethnocentric demand made of Cuba
By Nelson P. Valdés and Sue Ashdown
“You have to figure out how you can reach the informed masses. The solution is not the newspapers... Internet is more accessible.” Fidel Castro,…
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The politics of unreason
By Max J. Castro
majcastro@gmail.com
Sometimes a tempest-in-a-teapot brouhaha can reveal much about the tenor of a time, including the level of seriousness and rationality that…
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The mother of all crises
By Max J. Castro
majcastro@gmail.com
Certainly the United States has endured more acute crises than the one the country is mired in today. But seldom, if ever, has the country…
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Happy holidays and a prosperous 2012
This is our last issue of 2011. The year seems to have flown by. Here we are one more week to go before commencing 2012.
As is our custom, we will be taking some time off for the…
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Romney’s wager, Gingrich’s hypocrisy
By Max J. Castro
majcastro@gmail.com
Mitt Romney wants to bet Rick Perry $10,000 to settle an argument over whether Romney claimed in his first book that the health care plan he…
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Pujols making a lot of dough
By Barry Sheckman
(Editor’s Note: This letter appeared in Saturday’s Miami Herald. It succinctly describes the problem of priorities our society currently faces.…
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What we can do RIGHT NOW on Cuba travel
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
alvaro@progresoweekly.com
All hell broke loose earlier this week when media outlets started reporting that the freedom of Cuban-Americans to visit relatives…
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