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By CURT ANDERSON | AP
A Miami judge has awarded more than $1 billion in damages to a Cuban-American who was involved in the 1967 capture and killing of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien said Friday he was sending a signal to the Cuban government. Such a large award may be impossible to collect but attorneys involved in the case insist they’ll try.
The award came in a lawsuit filed by Gustavo Villoldo, who blamed Guevara, Fidel Castro and others for his father’s 1959 suicide in Cuba. The family fled to the U.S.
The 76-year-old Villoldo…
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By Rocco Staino | School Library Journal
Vamos a Cuba (Heinemann, 2001), a controversial book by Alta Schreier that paints a rosy picture of life in the communist country, can be removed from Miami-Dade County school libraries, ruled a panel of judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The ruling overturns a July 2006 injunction by the Southern Florida District Court that allowed the book to remain in Miami-Dade County school libraries despite a school board vote of 6-3 to remove 49 copies of the book. The school board,…
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EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge
A major Cuban-exile organization announced here Wednesday a plan to help people on the communist-ruled island recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
The Cuban American National Foundation presented the initiative at a press conference in Miami.
CANF board chairman Jorge Mas Santos said the organization has obtained an “additional license” from the U.S. Treasury Department that will allow it to send up to $250,000 in aid to hurricane victims.
The Treasury Department is responsible for enforcing Washington’s 46-year-old economic embargo against Cuba.
“We already have a license that allows us…
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Solita and the Purple Moon/Solita y la Luna Morada is a new bilingual (English and Spanish) children’s picture book written by Miriam Isabel Elliott, a Cuban American from New Jersey.
The book has received 5 Stars by Midwest Book Review and is becoming very popular in the United States and other countries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“Miriam Isabel Elliott arrived to the United States in 1970, along with her mother and brother in search of the opportunity and freedom denied to them in Cuba.
She has two daughters both of whom were born in the United States. It has…
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(original title: High-speed escape) |
Economist
Greater optimism at home has not stopped the exodus to the United States
WITH Fidel Castro formally out of office and some signs of greater optimism among Cuba’s citizens about the possibility of social and economic change, you might expect fewer people to risk their lives by seeking to escape the island by sea.
Not so, apparently. The number of Cubans trying to smuggle their way into America is the highest it has been for more than a decade. The United States Coast Guard says that over the past eight…
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BY RUI FERREIRA AND HELENA POLEO | El Nuevo Herald
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart points to a trade publication article as evidence of a Democratic plan to unseat him and two other Republican Cuban-American members of Congress in an effort to lift the embargo.
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart says the likelihood of a contender for his seat is a Democratic Party strategy to soften U.S. policy toward Cuba after he and other Cuban-American members in Congress have successfully maintained a hard line toward the communist island.
’‘What you have now is a [Democratic] decision that if they don’t defeat Mario,…
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Enrique Martinez carries an order at the Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana
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BY TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE | Miami Herald
Felipe Valls has a soft spot for the crowd of men that converge, like clockwork, at the counter of his Calle Ocho eatery for their daily ritual of cafecitos and politics.
He has even toyed with the idea of a sign outside his landmark Versailles restaurant, a tongue-in-cheek riff on McDonald’s famous boast.
’‘Castro killed here over a billion times,’‘ Valls said, tracing the outline of his imaginary…
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By Ian Swanson | TheHill.com
For decades, Miami Cuban-Americans have been a reliable Republican voting bloc and three GOP incumbents who represent that community in the House have rarely faced significant opposition.
Now Florida Democrats are trying to mount a meaningful challenge, in part by convincing Raul Martinez, the colorful former Democratic mayor of Hialeah, to take on Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), an eight-term incumbent and scion of a powerful Cuban émigré family.
Martinez is exactly the kind of candidate Democrats would need to seriously challenge Diaz-Balart because their battle would take place in a district where cultural ties matter…
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Attorneys Carlos Enriquez, left, Sergio Mendez, Jose I. Valdes, Luis E. Barreto and Enrique Zamora are on a rotating list of local lawyers who receive a special license to travel to Cuba to represent the rights of Cubans claiming inheritances in the United States. ROBERTO KOLTUN/EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF
BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA | El Nuevo Herald
Since 2003, Cuba and the United States have cooperated closely to settle lawsuits and cases of inheritance involving more than $50 million and hundreds of Cuban families on both sides of the Florida Straits.
The increasing paperwork…
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BY JORGE VALENCIA | Miami Herald
A South Florida businessman was sentenced to 2 � years in prison Friday morning for conspiring in a scheme to violate Cuba travel restrictions through licenses of bogus churches.
Victor Vazquez, 40, of Pompano Beach, was sentenced in a Miami federal court by U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck as one of the country’s first defendants charged for illegally obtaining religious travel licenses to circumvent a more than 44-year-old travel ban to Cuba.
The case has triggered other investigations by a U.S. Attorney’s task force targeting violators of the trade embargo against Cuba.
Vazquez,…
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