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From The Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A senior U.S. senator met with imprisoned American Alan Gross and discussed the man's case in a long sit-down with Cuban President Raul Castro,…
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This photo was sent to me by columnist Saul Landau. It’s funny. I wanted to show it to you. I’ll probably use it later this week in a piece Saul wrote about President Santorum. Yes…
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By Rachel Weiner From The Washington Post BuzzFeed broke the story Thursday morning — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), an outspoken Catholic, was for a few short years of his life a Mormon.…
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By Saul Landau On September 11, 1973 (28 years before the World Trade Center-Pentagon attack), General Augusto Pinochet, leading a gang of treasonous officers, ordered Chilean air…
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By Matt Taibbi From Reader Supported News As a journalist, there's a buzz you can detect once the normal restraints in your business have been loosened, a smell of fresh chum in the…
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By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA - Herakles, that Hellenic hero whom the Romans and Disney called Hercules, performed 12 extremely difficult tasks before he was poisoned by his wife. If the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – The government and the Communist Party have been asking us for some time now to do something as complex and hard to explain (also to accomplish) as…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – Several of the panels held during the recently ended Havana Book Fair dealt with the topic of Cuban culture among émigrés and the relationship…
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Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com After almost three years of unilateral concessions to Republicans and very little zeal to mobilize the American people against the outrages of…
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By Alan Farago From Eye on Miami The Hindustan Times reports that the University of Sussex in Great Britain "has announced the creation of a new research center at Sussex…
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