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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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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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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