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• Looks Like Gitmo Will Be Open Longer Than Promised

  
  Big Dogs House — Authority: 502
  Copyright © 2009 Big Dog . Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/looks-like-gitmo-will-be-open-longer-than-promised/ . Barack Obama roared into office with lots of bluster and one of the things he did was sign an order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said that it would be closed ...
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• Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 142
  My Way News (AP) , “ Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 ” by Larry Margasak Obama originally said Guantanamo would close Jan. 22, 2010. While that date proved unrealistic, the president has directed administration officials to move quickly to acquire the maximum-security prison in Illinois. ...
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• Cuba political prisoner on hunger strike since Dec. 3

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Orlando Zapata Tamayo Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá is calling on the international community to intercede on behalf of prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo , who has been on hunger strike since Dec. 3 when he was transferred to the Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey. Zapatas captors, according to ...
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• Break the CIA in Two By Ray McGovern

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 515
  http://consortiumnews.com/2009/122209a.html Break the CIA in Two By Ray McGovern December 22, 2009 Editor’s Note: Exactly 46 years ago, President Harry Truman looked back on the still-young CIA, which he had helped create, and was alarmed at how its original purpose – to provide unvarnished information to top ...
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• Cuban Stars of the Week

  
  myworldofbaseball — Authority: 135
  http://www.baseballdecuba.com/IndexEng.asp  announced that the player of the week was Yulieski Gourriel.  This came as no surprise based on his assault of the Cuban pitching last week when he hit six homeruns and 14 RBIs.  There appears to be an interesting battle in Cuba with the top three Cuban hitters over the ...
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• U.S.-aided attack in Yemen thought to have killed al-Qaeda leaders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sanaa (Yemen), Dec. 25 (ANI): Yemeni forces, backed by the United States, launched a major attack Thursday on a meeting of senior al-Qaeda operatives thought to include the Yemeni American cleric linked to the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.According to the Washington Post, American ...
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• Pro-democracy program in Cuba questioned after man detained

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 948
  The detention of a U.S. government contractor in Cuba has put the spotlight on a secretive U.S. pro-democracy program that ballooned during the Bush administration but has faced persistent questions about its management and effectiveness.
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• Photo (s) of the Week - Santiago de Cuba carnival dancers

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 474
  Link: Index to past Photo (s) of the Week
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• Mis Héroes

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 123
  Los héroes verdaderos de la revolución: por Esteban Fernández MIS HÉROES Algún día, en una Cuba libre, será cuando verdaderamente los cubanos se enterarán del descomunal esfuerzo realizado por el destierro cubano combatiendo a rajatablas a la tiranía castrista. Dentro de nuestra nación muchísimos ...
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• Cuba: Morales, Gourriel Grab Weekly Awards

  
  baseballdeworld.com — Authority: 506
  CUBA – Elephant’s closer Yasiel Morales, perfect in two win opportunities, was named Player of the Week, presented by Víctor Rodríguez Díaz and the Cuban Baseball Federation Site for the period through Sunday. Morales, struck out seven batters in 7 complete innings. He posted wins in two games, against ...
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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: 474
  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: 474
  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: 463
  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: 179
  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 ...
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