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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…
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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…
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Press Release A080620
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…
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BY LAURA FIGUEROA | Miami Herald
For dozens of Florida-based travel agencies that book flights to Cuba, the future of their livelihood is, well, up in the air.
On Monday, a coalition of 16 Miami-based travel agencies specializing in trips to Cuba plan to file a lawsuit against the state, hoping that a judge will halt a recently approved law aimed at increasing state regulation of their trade.
They say the measure, which goes into effect Tuesday, will drive up operating costs and force many to shut down if they can’t muster the $250,000…
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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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Reuters
Cuban Americans living in the United States could travel to Cuba more often and visit a broader list of family members under legislation approved by a congressional panel on Tuesday.
A House of Representatives appropriations panel embraced the liberalized travel initiative, which faces several more legislative steps over the next few months and likely would be opposed by the Bush administration.
Under a proposal that funds several federal agencies next year including the Treasury Department, which oversees Cuba travel and trade restrictions, travelers would be able to visit close relatives in Cuba once…
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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.
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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…
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By Terri Hallenbeck | BurlingtonFreePress.com
Jared Carter stepped to the lectern and made his courtroom debut Wednesday in federal court in Burlington. The second-year law school student has taken on a case that’s personal: Should he and his wife be able to travel to Cuba to see her family and celebrate their marriage?
The Constitution provides a fundamental right to associate with family, Carter told U.S. District Judge William Sessions III. Federal rules that restrict travel to Cuba undermine that right, Carter argued.
John O’Quinn, deputy assistant U.S. attorney general, defended the restrictions. He…
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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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