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• Senate confirms envoy to Brazil after State gives LeMieux assurances on Cuba policy

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 129
  Thomas A. Shannon Jr. , former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, on Thursday was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil after Senator George LeMieux (R-Fla.) lifted a "hold" on his nomination in exchange for State Department assurances on U.S. policy toward Cuba and ...
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• Brazil gets its new ambassador

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 150
  Per Sen. George LeMieuxs office, the Senate today confirmed Tom Shannon as the new U.S. ambassador to Brazil. GOP senators, including LeMieux, had held up Shannons appointment for months because of concerns with State Department policies. But LeMieux said last week hed lift his hold, citing State Department ...
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• Cuba in the United States

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 472
  Photo credit: Viva Cuba blog There are eight towns, villages or townships called Cuba in the United States. According to this blog , they are in: * Missouri * Alabama * Ilinois * New Mexico * Wisconsin * Minnesota * New York (2) Pretty strange, huh?
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• Seeing parallels between Sean and Elian

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 125
  I wonder how many people who are (rightly) applauding the return of Sean Goldman to his father — the child was taken from his birthplace, America, and kept in a foreign country, Brazil, by his mother, who died, and then her relatives fought an extended battle to keep him in there, away from his father — criticized ...
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• How the OFAC Stole Christmas

  
  ExportLawBlog — Authority: 118
  A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (”OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to be resumed before Santa’s scheduled departure on December ...
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• Brazilian custody case triggers memories of Elian

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 472
  Cuban children march along the Malecon A 9-year-old boy was reunited with his American father Thursday in Rio de Janiero , ending a five-year-long international custody battle, the New York Times reported. The story brought back memories of the Elian Gonzalez affair. Elians mother and 10 other ...
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• Closure of Gitmo prison postponed

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 462
  The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the federal government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. Congress must first appropriate money for the takeover of the Thomson Correctional Center and the necessary construction. Lawmakers wary of ...
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• Newest broken promise: Gitmo to close no sooner than early 2011

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Fine by me. And, chances are, by you too. Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the ...
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• AUTOBUSES DE CUBA

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Amigos cubanos, inauguro este nuevo thread con unas imágenes de los buses Viazul que van al interior del país.
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• New Cuban independent news agency is on the beat

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Members of the newly formed Union of Free Journalists of Cuba. (Photo by Luis Carrillo Fernández.) Cuban independent journalists are some of the best in the business, overcoming obstacles small and big — from the lack of pens and paper to write with to dodging the secret police — to break the Castro ...
  22 hours ago

• admit it, you wish he was ours

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 444
  [click image] . Reflections by comrade Fidel THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SUMMIT The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive. These ...
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• Letter To Radio Romania International Nominating International Singer Maria Lourdes for Personality Of The Year RRI 2009

  
  El Noticiero de Alvarez Galloso — Authority: 139
  Dear Radio Romania International:   It is hoped that when you receive this letter, that everything is great in Romania especially in Bucharest which is known as the Paris of Central Europe.   It is a pleasure and an honour to nominate a Personality of the Year 2009 taking into account the changes in ...
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• Carta Para Radio Rumania Internacional Sobre Maria Lourdes

  
  El Noticiero de Alvarez Galloso — Authority: 139
  Para mí querida familia y amistades en Radio Rumania Internacional:   Espero al recibo de este articulo te encuentres bien junto con los demás en Bucarest [Paris en Europa Central]. Es un honor poder hablar de la personalidad del año para el 2009.En la época de personas que merecen reconocimiento en un ...
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• Guantanamo May Not Close Until 2011

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 462
  The prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may not close until 2011 because of anticipated appropriation struggles in Congress, the need to change federal law and construction time to upgrade an Illinois facility to hold detainees.
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• Who Is Yunieski Maya?

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 147
  According to Globedia.com the Mets and White Sox are the front-runners to sign 27–year-old Cuban RHP Yuniesky Maya. We don’t know much about these foreign imports and, just like with Ryota Igarashi, information is hard to come by. Matt Cerrone of Metsblog described Maya as “major-league ready, mature, ...
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• Democrats Refuse to Fund Purchase of Gitmo II in Illinois

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and ...
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• Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Transfer Delayed

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  President Barack Obama made waves just after taking office when he announced his administration’s intent to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba by Jan. 22, 2010, but it looks as if he’s going to miss that deadline. The president and his sidekicks in the federal Bureau of Prisons had been looking to ...
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• Wordless Wednesday: Toddler Wearing – Pikkolo by Cat Bird Baby on the beach in Cuba

  
  PhD in Parenting — Authority: 467
  [IMG: http://www.phdinparenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/December-2009-304.jpg]
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• Cheap Holidays in Cuba

  
  Travel Blog — Authority: 442
  Probably you have been searching for some cheap Cuba holidays options already and you have not been very lucky. I intend to give you some tips on how to safe money before you book you package holidays to Cuba.
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• American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 629
  Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema....
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