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BY JAY WEAVER | Miami Herald
The trademarks for two famous Cuban brands—Havana Club rum and Cohiba cigars—could be sold to the highest bidder if a Miami-Dade family who lost a loved one to Castro’s firing squad prevails in court.
Relatives of the late Bobby Fuller, who won a $100 million wrongful-death judgment against the Cuban government, urged a Miami-Dade circuit judge Tuesday to order the sale of Havana Club, Cohiba and 12 other Cuban trademarks to help satisfy their award.
Their legal move will spark a sure-fire controversy, because litigation over Cuban trademarks…
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David Adams | St Petersburg Times
Miami’s “Calle Ocho” always sounded more exotic than it actually was. Officially known as SW Eighth Street, the main thoroughfare running east-west through the heart of Little Havana, the city’s Cuban-American district, never had much to offer visitors apart from some cheap restaurants serving rice and beans and sweet Cuban coffee, and old men in hats chewing cigars and playing dominoes.
In fact, its neglected streets, low-income housing and rising crime led many Cuban-Americans to pack up and leave. The district could have been renamed Little Central America after an influx of…
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On May 15th, 2009 Touro College Sunset branch in Brooklyn acquired the painting “Art Gallery” by Cuban American Artist Jose Acosta. The painting will be displayed at the Touro College Sunset branch, as this is the branch with the largest population of Hispanic students.
Jose Acosta was awarded an Honorary Diploma by Touro College on this day by Millie Colon the Director of Touro College Sunset branch. In Attendance were Dr. Arturo Alvarez, Dr. Hernando Merchand, Dr. Elelis Pena, Numerous Students and the Press.
Jose Acosta is a Cuban-American Artist. Born in San Jose…
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BY LUISA YANEZ, DOUGLAS HANKS AND LAURA FIGUEROA | Miami Herald
There was a time when advertising Viajes a Cuba on a storefront was an invitation to a pipe bombing.
In the politically charged Miami of the late 1970s and ‘80s, the FBI investigated more than a dozen blasts at Cuba travel agencies—considered nests of Communist agents by staunch anti-Castro exiles.
Selling tickets to Havana could even get you killed. That’s what happened to Carlos Muñiz Varela, a 26-year-old exile living in Puerto Rico who opened the first Cuba-approved travel agency. Thirty years ago this week, he was gunned down…
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AFP
Cuban-Americans are glad they no longer have US restrictions on how often they can visit the island, but in times of global economic crisis plenty are not planning to pack their bags soon.
For Mario Salazar, who came to Miami from Cuba 23 years ago, the landmark gesture by President Barack Obama to end travel restrictions is a non-starter.
The move “is good news, at the really worst time,” he says.
“I can’t really even think about that now. I hardly have enough money to pay the bills and feed my family,” added the 47-year-old, who works on a…
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Huliq.com
Electing Barack Obama president could significantly change the balance of power in Cuba and among Latinos in the U.S. because Cuba would be forced to deal with the first American administration in decades poised to strengthen ties with the country’s military government, the director of the University at Buffalo’s Caribbean Studies Program said today.
“For the first time since President Eisenhower, the Castro brothers are becoming aware that come next year they might be dealing with a chief executive in Washington whose policy will be to reestablish dialogue leading to the normalization of relations between Washington and Havana,” said…
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By Miguel Perez
Think of the house of your childhood, the one that you haven’t seen in many years but still brings back very good memories. And then consider that it has been turned into a police station and that the bedroom you once shared with your brother is now the cell. There are bars on your bedroom door!
Think of the other house, the one on the farm where you were born, and then consider that it has been turned into a secret military school. Nowadays, no one knows what really happens inside the gates of a farm you…
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(Original title: problems with Cuba broadcast contracts) See below for my comments
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | AP
Congress’ investigative arm is raising concerns about contracts awarded to local TV and radio stations that broadcast to Cuba, according to a report released Tuesday.
The Office of Cuba Broadcasting beams its Radio and TV Marti broadcasts to Cuba to provide an alternative to the communist island’s government-run media. It awarded the noncompetitive contracts to the local Miami stations in 2006, following a push from the Bush administration to step up broadcasts to Cuba, as well as the announcement by former Cuban President…
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June 30, 2008
By AF Capt. Anthony L. Bucci, Task Force 134/PAO
CAMP CROPPER, Iraq – “As a Cuban-American I was born with a strong sense of patriotism. I was one of those guys who always wanted to join the military even as a kid,” said Lt. Col. Enrique M. Guerra who is the 744th Battalion commander as well as the Theater Interment Facility Commander of Remembrance II at Camp Cropper, Iraq.
Guerra has more than…
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Julienne Gage, FOXNews.com’s Sara Bonisteel and the Associated Press contributed to this report | FoxNews.com
Fifteen Cuban immigrants washed ashore in Florida late Wednesday, one of the largest groups to arrive in the United States since Cuban President Raul Castro announced ownership reforms on the Communist island.
The refugees — 10 men and five women, one of whom is pregnant — had traveled nearly a month to get to the U.S. and hadn’t heard of the reforms, but they said they would have left anyway.
“This doesn’t change anything because there aren’t very many who have access to all that,”…
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