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The calamity commences; the resistance rears up
A sense of the tragic pervaded events in Washington, D.C., Friday, as Donald Trump was inaugurated to the presidency. What happened next, on Saturday, nobody could have imagined.…
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Donald J. Trump, president
Mr. Donald Trump took the oath of office at noon yesterday and assumes the office of the presidency of the United States. This cartoon that appears in the Times of London says it all.…
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America takes a giant leap backward, 140 characters at a time
He is not a man of eloquence. His life appears limited to 140 characters at a time, which includes carefully studied sound bites. His choppy discourse often evokes a vulgar American…
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Editorial: Dialogue without pressures
We wish that the dialogue between the United States and Cuba may continue until relations are fully normalized. But if the temptation might arise to reverse or freeze the achievements…
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Obama commutes sentence for political prisoner Oscar López Rivera
President Obama has commuted the sentence of Oscar López Rivera, a victory for the Puerto Rican independence activist who is considered to be one of the world’s longest-serving…
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Trump stumbles in calling out a hero
It is ironic but typical that President-elect Donald Trump would choose the eve of the national holiday honoring the great hero of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, to…
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There’s still the Adjustment Act…
A long interview held last summer with Miami immigration attorney Ira Kurzban offers insight into the confusion over the Cuban Adjustment Act and the wet-foot-dry-foot policy. He…
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Obama’s farewell to Cuba
It seems that President Obama has concluded his policy of reforms in relations with Cuba with the acceptance of a new migratory accord that eliminates the dry-foot-wet-foot policy, and…
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Fair decision or foul concession? The 2 Heralds differ.
As so often before, Miami's two Heralds are putting different spins on the news that President Obama has called an end to the wet-foot-dry-foot policy maintained by the United States…
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Ira Kurzban: ‘The wet foot dry foot policy … was not a positive policy’
The elimination of the policy may, or may not, have any effect on current practice. If it suggests that a person out in the coastal waters of the U.S. may claim asylum then it…
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