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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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A look at the (not-so-new) U.S. policy toward Cuba
An unusual display of consensus on the polarized political stage in the United States has been the public letter that some 40 personalities of both parties have sent President Barack…
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Surviving in illegality
Beginning in 2013, with the exception of California, the rest of the country saw an increase of $153 in the usual car insurance rates. If you add that increase to the other elevated…
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When 2 plus 2 is no longer 4
In arithmetic, and until someone demonstrates the opposite, 2 plus 2 equals 4. Not so in politics. If we go over the history of confrontation between the U.S. and Cuba, we can see how…
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Charlie Crist will go to Cuba
Our crystal ball is clear when it comes to Cuba, the Fanjuls and Charlie Crist. And it's all about the benjamins. At a recent fundraiser, Crist raised more than $400,000. The room was…
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A prisoner exchange that could improve U.S.-Cuba relations
Alan Gross has been serving a fifteen-year prison sentence in Cuba for providing material support to the Cuban opposition. In the meanwhile, three Cuban agents have been incarcerated in…
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High-level Cuba-U.S. meeting held; reason unknown
Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson met Thursday in Washington with the director of the North American department of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, according to…
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‘I vote for no one; it’s not worth the trouble’
"Here, those who have papers and those who don't do the same: we work to make our families succeed," says Elena Guzmán, a Salvadoran woman from New York. She voted for Obama in two…
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Crist: A high-risk diver
Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, now a Democratic candidate to that post, makes a high-risk, high-altitude dive when he states that the United States' policy toward…
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