Fidel Castro the lefts favorite “dictator for life” has done a Putin. He has set precedent for the next hand picked “dictator for life.” 50 years seems enough,”then the younger generation will take over.”If only Hugo Chavez was available and not so busy with his own revolution Fidel could just pass on his legacy [...]

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Behind the scenes it looks like American Officials are preparing for a massive number of refugees to seek asylum at Guantanamo.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The U.S. military has expanded plans for a pop-up tent city to shelter migrants in case of a Caribbean boat crisis, spending more than $55 million to prepare [...]

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Illustration by Robin Eley
You may say Hillary is not a Latina. But if she wants to [...]

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Cuban-born hip-hop trio Orishas are known for rhyming about the daily struggles faced by those living in their homeland, often dealing head-on with touchy themes such as racial discrimination, poverty, and immigration.
Even so, there’s one area where Orishas’ MC Ruzzo (a.k.a. Hiram Riverí) refuses to tread. “We are not interested in the political conflicts [...]

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Jorge Perez marketed Miami as a condo haven for rich South Americans. Now Florida’s real estate hangover has him looking for riches in South America.
Jorge Perez vividly recalls the day he was forced to flee Cuba. He was 10 years old, and his dad, a businessman who had worked for Eli Lilly & Co. [...]

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The father of a 5-year-old Cuban girl at the center of an international custody battle did not abandon or neglect her, so he should get her back, a judge ruled Thursday. Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen said she would not immediately return the girl to her father, Cuban farmer Rafael Izquierdo, who wants to take [...]

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It’s a typical weekday morning at Versailles. Most of the tables are occupied. The chatter among patrons is at its customary decibel level, competing with the clacking of utensils in the kitchen. Waitresses in tight green uniforms yell out instructions in Spanish as they tend to orders and race around the sacred Cuban restaurant.
Seconds later [...]

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Cuba expanded its military presence abroad, spending millions of dollars in exporting revolutions; deployments reached 50,000 troops in Angola, 24,000 in Ethiopia, 1,500 in Nicaragua, and hundreds more elsewhere. In Angola, Cuban troops, supported logistically by the U.S.S.R., backed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in its [...]

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Colombian Americans, like many others, seek the grail of Cuban-American style political power. But without a galvanizing figure like the exiles’ hated Fidel Castro to unite them, and marked by decades of civil war in their homeland, they have yet to get behind one consensus agenda.
”The leadership and capacity exists to have more Colombians elected [...]

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