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What justifies Oscar López Rivera’s 33 years in prison?
Few know this, but one of the oldest political prisoners in the world is not in China, Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela or Cuba but in a prison in Indiana, here in the United States, an…
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State Dept.: U.S. won’t trade 3 Cubans for Gross (+ Video)
The simultaneous release of five Afghan prisoners from Guantánamo, and U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl drew this exchange during the press briefing at the State Department between…
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Conexión Miami / Foolish words
The antics -- not to say foolishness -- of the Indiana Pacers' Lance Stephenson will be remembered with contempt when the NBA Finals begin Thursday between the San Antonio Spurs and the…
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Debts, legality and courtrooms
The unpaid-bill situation is serious from every point of view. In the farm sector, we're talking about suppliers who are indispensable to the basic project of Cuba's economy, both to…
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Chilean, Cuban youth leaders share views
The heads of Chile's and Cuba's Communist Youth organizations met Thursday in Havana to discuss "the current state of their respective organizations and the tasks they're carrying out,"…
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Cuba’s Yulieski Gourriel off to conquer Japan
Cuba’s Yulieski Gourriel, of Cuba’s Industriales baseball team, will soon join the Japanese Baseball League (NPB). He is the second active Cuban league baseball player to sign with a…
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Cuban Customs: Don’t carry parcels for others
The Cuban General Customs Agency issued the following announcement in Spanish on Thursday (May 28). Because it affects many Cuban-Americans traveling to their homeland, Progreso Semanal…
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Conexión Miami / Taken for a ride, in a Cadillac
David Beckham's proposed soccer stadium - in the last open space in downtown Miami - is wrong because it insults any sense of smart urban design in contemporary times by deferring to a…
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A far-right, anti-immigrant party becomes France’s ‘new normal’
Sunday’s political landslide in the French elections was human-made and predictable. What is shocking news is that a highly scoring, and even domineering, National Front has come to be…
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Marco Rubio, climate change denier
Florida Senator Marco Rubio says the planet may be getting warmer but human activities, such as the generation of vast amounts of energy from coal and other fossil fuels that produce…
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