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Four members of the U.S. House meet with Alan Gross
Four U.S. House members have met with Alan Gross, an American government subcontractor who is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba.
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One man’s view of Cuba
"After many trips there," says the author, "I've come to realize that Cuba's way of life and adjustments to the realities of Peak Oil and climate change describe the path that the rest…
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Why won’t the White House act on Alan Gross?
Obama has extraordinary latitude to change the dark and scandal-ridden history of U.S.-Cuban relations. And the case of Alan Gross reflects Obama’s failure to “write a new chapter in…
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Group pressure
In South Florida, hard-working men have their barbecues -- or "barbikiús," as they call them. I was at one of them, trying to mix with the locals with a chunk of meat in one hand and a…
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Rivera’s back. And we thought we’d ridden ourselves of the cockroach
David Rivera announced that he will challenge Garcia for the 26th congressional district seat the incumbent wrested from him in 2012. He blamed "lies propagated by the Miami Herald" for…
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‘Will the real terrorist please stand up’ (+ Video)
As Saul Landau, who is no longer with us, asked in one of his documentaries: “Will the real terrorist please stand up?” On Wednesday, April 30, the U.S. Department of State, again,…
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Conexión Miami / Animals, fetishes and sex
Miami-Dade prosecutors have accused model Sara Zamora, 28, of torturing chickens and rabbits... while making a series of pornographic videos uploaded to the Web.
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The squandering of public money
Residents of Miami-Dade County usually have a vague impression that our tax money is not always utilized properly. It is a realistic suspicion, based partly on accusations that we hear…
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The GOP’s immigration headache
The debate over immigration -- specifically what to do with the nearly twelve million undocumented immigrants that live, work, get sick, get pregnant, drive, serve in the armed forces,…
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Cuba returns religious property
The return of property from the churches seized by the Cuban government after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 is more and more a fact. Msgr. José Félix Pérez calls it a "'process'…
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