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By Mark Silva | Baltimore Sun
President Bush is bound for Florida today to do what he does best: Raise money.
For someone in need.
He will be raising it this afternoon for two of the three South Florida Cuban-American congressmen who face serious challenges from Democratic rivals this fall. At least one of them, the incumbent whose rival was never indicted, faces a serious contest. (Although, in Florida, the indicted should never be counted out of political contests.)
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is the junior member of a Cuban-American trio…
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Huffington Post
Obama Will Give Reform in Cuba a Nudge if Not a Shove
Barack Obama’s gutsy appearance Friday in Miami before the Cuban-American National Foundation was of course a refreshing change of pace from the lame and stale “stay-the-course” boilerplate that’s been passing for a John McCain foreign policy vision. Unlike McCain, who despite the baby-step reforms in Cuba is stubbornly holding out for the status quo unless the Castro brothers’ regime basically rolls over and dismantles itself—sure, like that’s going to happen—Obama enunciated more clearly than ever that “after eight years of the disastrous…
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By Michael Voss | BBC News
Mr Obama said he would lift restrictions on family travel and remittances. The Ladies in White have come out publicly to support the call by the US presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, for direct talks with the new Cuban President, Raul Castro.
In an open letter to Mr Obama they wrote of their hope that his policies may help free their husbands and sons.
Mr Obama told Cuban exiles in Miami on Friday that America needed to talk to its enemies as well as its friends.
Mr…
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By TIM PADGETT | TIME
John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, no doubt believes he scored a 10 with his hard-line Cuba policy speech in Miami earlier this week. But presidential candidates, like figure skaters, are often judged on the originality of their moves —and in that regard McCain may be staring at lower marks in the crucial swing state of Florida than his campaign appreciates.
McCain got the jump on Barack Obama, who is slated to speak to the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami on Friday. But while Obama is expected to outline a…
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Miami Herald
Here is the speech Sen. John McCain delivered Tuesday at the Sheraton Miami Mart. A copy was provided to the media by his campaign.
Today, on Cuba’s Independence Day, we have occasion to celebrate the rich cultural heritage and deep-rooted traditions of the Cuban people. Cuban Americans, many of whom have ascended to the heights of business, government, and the arts, have enriched and enlivened our country. In every field, and in states across America, they bring to our communities their custom of hard work and personal initiative. And for many of these patriotic…
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BY BETH REINHARD AND LESLEY CLARK | Miami Herald
Seeking to trip up Barack Obama’s march to the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton plans to overlap with his much-ballyhooed trip to Florida that begins Wednesday.
Florida voters were braced for back-to-back visits from Republican John McCain and Obama that signaled the general election campaign was under way—until word leaked out Monday that Clinton, too, is coming to the state this week.
Clinton is expected to continue pushing for her contested victories in Florida and Michigan to count, though she still would not earn enough delegates…
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By Mike Clary | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
In the 15 years he has represented the 21st Congressional District, which includes a swath of southwestern Broward County, U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart has been re-elected with little or no opposition.
But the Miami Republican could face a stiff challenge this fall from former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez, who is flush with campaign cash and reaping plenty of support from national Democratic Party leaders.
The latest political celebrity to appear on Martinez’s behalf is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who headlined a May 3 campaign event in the…
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Washington Times
Sen. Barack Obama will have to defend his support for easier negotiations with America’s enemies when he addresses a leading Cuban-American exile group this week during his first campaign stop in Florida in nine months.
The professed desire by the likely Democratic presidential nominee to hold direct talks with Cuba’s communist leaders if elected has evoked the ire of some Cuban groups in Florida, who maintain that no such talk should be held until real democratic reform takes place on the island.
“Barack said he would be willing to conduct talks with…
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The family of a former senior Havana police official who claimed that Cuban government officials had him killed received a major damage settlement in a Miami court.
Circuit Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. awarded $94.6 million in damages to relatives of Aldo Vera Sr. who was a founding member of an anti-Fidel Castro group; he died in Puerto Rico in 1976.
In accordance with a U.S. law passed in 1966, victims of terrorist groups or countries like Cuba that are designated as state sponsors of terrorism to sue for damages. Families who have successfully sued Cuba…
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Legislation Now Heads to Senate
House Bill 685 sponsored by Representative Eddy González (R-Hialeah) was approved today by the Florida House of Representatives and is now awaiting passage in the Senate. The bill bans doctors trained in Fidel Castro’s apartheid medical schools from practicing medicine in Florida.
“Our students should not be contributing to, nor legitimizing such a blatant system of apartheid, nor should they be used in what is merely a propaganda and public relations ploy by a sworn enemy of America, which shares the unsavory distinction of other…
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