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• Three pictures — the whole story

  

  In all fairness, how drab would this world be without interior decorators? I guess we can all use a queer eye looking out for the straight guy.

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  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 6:36pm in Cuba

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• More U.S. Visas, for Stalinist apparatchiks.

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  Formell and buddies (He's second from left)

  Juan Formell makes Alicia Alonso look like a Cuban dissident. His Castro regime asskissery revolts all who witnessed it up-close (just ask Arturo Sandoval and Paquito d' Rivera.)

  Formell signed in favor of' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 4:37pm in Cuba

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• Septeto Nacional play Hoy Como Ayer; music, family, no drama.

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  Havana's Septeto Nacional marked a little bit of history Saturday night in Little Havana with family feeling and no drama. "On your feet familiares de Septeto Nacional" said 68-year old lead singer Eugenio Rodriguez to dark, tiny and packed Hoy Como Ayer on Saturday night. "Tantos primos y primas" [...]

  From Cuban Colada at November 22, 2009, 3:49pm in Cuba, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• Omara Portuondo to play Miami in March

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  Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will perform in Miami Beach on March 2nd, 2010, the first major Cuban star to be announced for the greater Miami area since connections between the U.S. and the island tightened up in 2003. The Buena Vista Social Club star and former member of beloved quartet [...]

  From Cuban Colada at November 22, 2009, 3:43pm in Cuba, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• When Saturday Night Live gets it right…

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  ...it can be very, very funny.

  (H/T Maggie at Infidel's Paradise)

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  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 12:57pm in Cuba

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• Spanish daily urges EU to pressure Cuba

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  The influential Spanish newspaper El Pais – normally a left-of-center daily – has sided with hardliners who would like Spain and the European Union to pressure Raúl Castro into relaxing his control of society.
  
  Here are excerpts from an editorial it published Sunday, titled "Repression in Cuba."
  
  "Fidel" [...]
  From Cuban Colada at November 22, 2009, 10:13am in Cuba, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• November 22, 1963

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  I was a second grader in Mrs. Mudre's class at St. Mary's Cathedral School, my parochial school here in Miami. The day started as all days back then did. I have no memory of it save that it was my birthday and I was expecting lots of presents when my [...]

  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 7:00am in Cuba

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• Mum’s the word for a reason

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  Friday afternoon's attack of Reinaldo Escobar by bused in castro Rapid Response Brigade mobs has the Cuban blogosphere, both in Cuba and in exile, abuzz. There are dozens of posts, a ton of pictures, videos of the attacks and hundreds and hundreds of comments. Commentary and news of the desperate [...]

  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 6:58am in Cuba

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• The Recovery Debacle

  Please follow me closely but please hold your anger in as much as you can. I will give you a Play-by-Play or a Step-by-Step here, of how I approached or to make it more precise, how I personally broke this down. Well, my logical assessment of the ARRA (the [...]

  From Babalú Blog at November 22, 2009, 3:46am in Cuba

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• 'Jorge Barrera Alonso,' Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 11/22/09

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  In "New Castro, Same Cuba," Human Rights Watch's recently released report on the human rights situation in Cuba more than three years after Fidel Castro turned sick [...]

  From Uncommon Sense at November 21, 2009, 10:46pm in Cuba

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