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Al’s Loupe By Alvaro F. Fernandez If I was Betty Castor I would be praying and asking for heavenly help to assure that Rep. Katherine Harris jumps into the Florida Senate race to…
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IN BLACK AND WHITE The president was “like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people...” -- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill describing…
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Eating with Doña Lita By Lita Ruiz litaruiz2001@yahoo.com This year’s January 6, the Day of the Epiphany, that in Hispanic America is celebrated more enthusiastically than the…
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Latin American Weekly Summary Havana, Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA) -- Pedro Álvarez, president of Alimport, the Cuban food import agency that has been negotiating the import of…
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The lights and shadows of NAFTA on its 10th anniversary By Jorge Coarasa jorgecoarasa@hotmail.com. Services of Adital Jan. 1 marked the 10th anniversary of the North American…
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By Eduardo Dimas dimas@progresosemanal.com Exactly one year ago, just about this time, Progreso Weekly published an article about the challenges facing the newly installed…
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By Bill Press Tribune Media Services Stop! Don't touch that dial. There's nothing wrong with your radio. That piercing, high-pitched sound you hear is not a mechanical…
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By Matthew Miller Tribune Media Services It's one thing for rival Democrats to slam Howard Dean's domestic agenda as some “left-wing abandonment” of President Clinton's centrist…
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By Saul Landau Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White…
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Never underestimate the ability of The Miami Herald to be irrelevant. Case in point: its coverage of “the strange-looking photo” on Page One of the Cuban daily Granma of Dec. 4. “Is…
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