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‘The age of the library is probably ending’
About one-third of Miami-Dade libraries will be closed in a county with almost 2.5 million people and which were visited by 8 million people last year. And what's the county…
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Stand Your Ground supporters should favor special session
Half of Florida supports Stand Your Ground, 43% want it changed or repealed. But neither the majority of Floridians who support it nor the Stand Your Ground that a massive minority…
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Baseball and the Cuban heart
Leonardo Padura and Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera at bat. Progreso Weekly publishes reflections of two great Cubans, both fans of baseball and Cuba. They express views about the game that…
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Industriales will play in Miami, “even if it’s in a canebrake”
Alejandro Cantón, president of Somos Cuba , the Florida agency that promotes the match, told Progreso Weekly in an exclusive interview that the games will take place "even if it's in a…
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Self-censoring journalists shield us from ugly consequences of U.S. military power
Despite an ever-receding threats to the actual physical security of Americans we seem to be in a state of permanent warfare and government spying and surveillance of our own citizens
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Snowden leaves Moscow airport; in hiding
The Associated Press is reporting that Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he’d been holed up since June.
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U.S. spends $24 million on ‘Propaganda Plane’ nobody can see or hear
"It's hard to believe we are still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jammed TV signal – that fewer than 1 percent of Cubans can see..." says Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Validity of U.S. tourist visas for Cuban nationals extended to 5 years
Effective August 1, the Department of State is changing the validity of tourist visas from six months, single entry to five-years, multiple entries for qualified Cuban nationals.
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Cuba reports highest outflow of citizens since 1994
The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported on Wednesday, reaching levels not seen since 1994.
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Alvarez Guedes dies in Miami
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, the Cuban comic who reduced a common expletive used often by Cubans to a simple ño!!, died in Miami at the age of 86.
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