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The shocking story of Yasiel Puig's hazardous journey from Cuba to the Los Angeles Dodgers calls for congressional hearings to end the trafficking in Cuban athletes, carve an exemption…
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Donald Sterling, the longtime owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, was barred from the N.B.A. for life and may be forced to sell the team for making racist remarks. Sterling will also be…
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All three Cuban-American members of the U.S. Senate -- Robert Menéndez, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz – wish they could say truthfully that their parents “fled Castro's Cuba". The…
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The Washington Office on Latin America issued a statement today calling on the Obama administration to negotiate with the Cuban government to secure the release of USAID contractor Alan…
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The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. Our now infamous one percent own more than 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Which has turned Washington into a protection racket…
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If anyone doubted that the U.S. military tribunals in Guantánamo were kangaroo courts those doubts should have been erased last week when it was revealed that the FBI has been spying on…
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Accustomed to bad news, the immigrant community has welcomed as a breath of fresh air some positive developments that occurred in recent weeks. In a movement that could have national…
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Last week, the John F. Kennedy Library marked the 53rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a CIA covert operation with the goal of overthrowing the Castro government. No wonder…
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Gabriel García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who died April 17, 2014, played a fascinating cameo role in the story of the Cuban Five. In the spring of 1998, he carried a secret…
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“I think race has something to do with the fact that they are not bringing up an immigration bill,” said House minority leader Nancy Pelosi. “I’ve heard them say to the Irish, ‘If it…
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