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(Original title: In tough economic times, public opinion shifts on Cuba embargo)
By David Adams | TampaBay.com
We all know how Cuba excites passions in political debates from Miami to Tampa.
Thursday night, Rep. David Rivera, a Miami Republican, and Naples cattleman John Parke Wright IV locked horns over United States policy toward Cuba in a debate held in the wood-paneled enclave of downtown Tampa’s University Club.
Rivera, a rising Cuban American political star, voiced the unbending attitudes of Miami’s hard-line exile community — no normalization of relations until democratic elections are held and the political prisoners are freed. Wright,…
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By WILL WEISSERT | Associated Press Writer
The human mule is in her 70s, gaunt and hunched over with short, white hair and the deeply wrinkled face of a chain-smoker.
She lives in Miami with her daughter but wanted to see her son and grandson in Cuba. After nearly three years of saving, she still didn’t have the $500 she needed for a plane ticket.
So she knew exactly which Little Havana travel agency to visit — and agreed to haul clothes, canned meat and evaporated milk to strangers in Cuba for a free seat on a charter flight.
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BY DAVID OVALLE | Miami Herald
The heartless crime, police say, became clear when angry crowds on three separate days gathered outside Isla Express wire service during last year’s holiday season:
They wanted to know where tens of thousands of dollars destined for family members in Cuba had gone.
One year later, authorities said Thursday, two of Isla’s three operators were jailed on charges of illegal money transfers. One has vanished.
The money disappeared, too.
“These people were waiting for food and medicine,” Hialeah Police Chief Mark Overton said of the victims in Cuba.
Investigators say Isla Express scammed at…
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By BILLY HOUSE | The Tampa Tribune
Estela Roberts and her family have always hoped they would be compensated one day for their property in Cuba seized after that country’s 1959 revolution.
Roberts, 62, whose family eventually relocated to Miami and then to Tampa, still remembers her family’s beautiful home in Havana, down to the “marble staircase with some ironwork.”
Along with a summer home in Tarara, a small sugar plantation, a bank and a tobacco store, the total value of the family’s confiscated property has been estimated to exceed $3 million.
Decades later, Roberts and her siblings have yet…
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This is a summary of a larger study being prepared by Jose Azel, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS), University of Miami. A longer version will be published in Cuban Affairs, the quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, in its January issue. Dr. Azel has a comprehensive general management background integrating broad functional experience in corporate governance, organizational development and finance with interdisciplinary, scholarly research in international business studies.
Since the announcement by the Cuban government that octogenarian Fidel Castro had transferred power to his brother Raul, there…
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By IAN JAMES | Associated Press Writer
President Hugo Chavez announced plans Monday to nationalize Venezuela’s electrical and telecommunications companies, pledging to create a socialist state in a bold move with echoes of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution.
“We’re moving toward a socialist republic of Venezuela, and that requires a deep reform of our national constitution,” Chavez said in a televised address after swearing in his new Cabinet. “We are in an existential moment of Venezuelan life. We’re heading toward socialism, and nothing and no one can prevent it.”
Chavez, who will be sworn in Wednesday to a third term…
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At least 10 Florida-based journalists were paid by the US government to contribute to anti-Cuba propaganda broadcasts, the Miami Herald says.
Three writers have been sacked by the Miami Herald newspaper group for an alleged conflict of interest.
One was paid $175,000 (�98,000) for hosting shows on the US-funded channels TV and Radio Marti, the paper says.
The channels are broadcast to Cuba but their programmes cannot be transmitted in the US under anti-propaganda laws.
Pablo Alfonso, who writes an opinion column for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister paper of the Miami Herald, was paid almost $175,000 to…
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1. Be PROUD to be an American!
2. Lose the entitlement attitude, be grateful for the opportunities this wonderful country has given and continues to give to Hispanics.
3. Stop calling white people “gringos” when you do this your ignorance shows, you would not like it if a white person called you a “spic”. Extend the same courtesy and respect you expect.
4. Remember that America isnt under obligation to anyone, yet America still extends opportunity to all who come here legally. No single group is entitled to control or dominate this nation, and that kind of…
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Hispanic enterprise is leading the race among US businesses, growing three times faster than the national average, according to US Census Bureau figures.
In 2002, Hispanic-owned businesses numbered 1.6 million, up nearly 31 percent from 1997. The national average provides a good contrast with the total number of US businesses having increased by 10 percent over the same period. And that isn’t all. The amount of business Hispanic companies did rose even faster – with turnovers growing 54 percent from $4.8 billion in 1997 to $7.4 billion in 2002.
Hispanic-owned firms are clearly outpacing all other minority-owned…
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The Hispanic market has been riding the headlines for the past couple of years as one of the fastest growing sectors of marketing. According to the third annual AOL/Roper U.S. Hispanic Cyberstudy, Hispanics are entering cyberspace at rapid pace with over 14 million US Hispanics online. Yet the companies successfully targeting them online in the direct response arena are few and far between. Why is it that something which seems like such low hanging fruit is so difficult to make successful?
There are too many misconceptions about targeting Hispanics to mention, such as the thinking that translation…
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