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U.S. trafficking in Cuban baseball players
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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Sterling barred from NBA for life (+ Video)
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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The embarrassing flight of the three hawks
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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WOLA: U.S. government should negotiate with Cuba to free Alan Gross
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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Washington helping to promote income inequality
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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Guantánamo terrorism trial implodes
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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Immobility on immigration draws reaction in cities nationwide
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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From the Bay of Pigs to the ‘Bay of Tweets’
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 and the Cuban Five
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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Racism, jabber and immigration
“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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