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Santiago: Arrested in Cuba, Yoani Sanchez “is not alone”
This is the real Cuba — not the one of circular and unproductive policy debate in Miami and Washington, D.C., but the one people suffer and endure.
Miami Herald
Ryan now drinking the Cuban exile cafe con leche
Rep. Paul Ryan criticized President Obama’s supposed “appeasement” of Cuba. That’s what the crowd in Miami wanted to hear.
Palm Beach Post
Stifling travel to Cuba
The U.S. government is getting silly about what U.S. citizens can do while on legal visits to Cuba.
Tampa Tribune
Santiago: Cuba’s new piece of Stalinist theater
Truth is harder to keep in the shadows for decades. Even dead poets speak long after they’re gone.
Miami Herald
A Russian Navy Base in Cuba?
Let us hope that Vladimir Putin be prudent in the use of the Russian military without making a threatening stand against the free world.
Diario Las Americas
July 26th, a Day of Mourning for the Cuban People
59 years ago, on July 26th, 1953, an attack on Moncada Barracks in Oriente Province of Cuba was led by a young revolutionary agitator Fidel Castro.
Diario Las Americas
Santiago: Payá was beacon of hope for Cuba
Payá is dead at 60 — the second Cuban dissident leader to die within months and under questionable circumstances.
Miami Herald
The Strange Death of Oswaldo Payá in Cuba
Oswaldo Payá renowned opponent of the Cuban regime died in what seems to be a provoked accident a few miles outside the city of Bayamo in East Cuba.
Diario Las Americas
Oswaldo Payá (1952-2012)
Cuba has lost a tireless advocate for freedom. Oswaldo Payá, who founded the Christian Liberation Movement, died in a suspicious car crash.
Miami Herald
Weighing in on court's health care ruling
Reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act:
Florida Today
Drilling reprieve
Repsol, the Spanish energy conglomerate, announced last month that it would quit its oil exploration efforts off Cuba's northern coast.
Orlando Sentinel
Relief over Cuba oil bust
Repsol, the Spanish energy conglomerate, announced last month that it would quit its oil exploration efforts off Cuba's northern coast.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Cuba's Constricted Internet: Get Cubans Connected
Marco Rubio, U.S. senator from Florida, is right: America should use its technological prowess to extend affordable Internet access in Cuba.
Lakeland Ledger
Speaking truth to Cuba’s despots
Beating of dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez” deserves world condemnation.
Miami Herald
Miami’s Venezuelans and the October 7th Election
The closing of the Miami consulate is a product of the type of dictatorship that Hugo Chávez heads.
Diario Las Americas
Getting Cubans online
Marco Rubio, U.S. senator from Florida, is right: America should use its technological prowess to extend affordable Internet access in Cuba.
Tampa Bay Times
Maxwell: 20-year-old reconnects with Cuban roots
Since the United States initiated an economic embargo on Cuba in the 1960s, more than a million people have fled their homeland.
Tampa Bay Times

Op Ed

Did U.S. leaders discuss murder of Fidel Castro?

It only...

Miami Herald
Embargo of Cuba no longer makes sense

Considering Cuba’s and our current financial plights, and the need to restore both our economies, it seems Cuba would offer a golden opportunity...

St. Augustine Record
How to reach achieve real political reform in Cuba

Today, thanks to the Obama administration, as well as left-leaning think tanks in Washington and New York, an effort is underway to steer an...

Miami Herald
Gov. Scott gets it wrong again

 I doubt any lawmaker could name a local company that does $1 million (the threshold) worth of business with Syria, but everyone can name one —...

Miami Herald
Welcome in any country, unable to leave my own

 

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Palm Beach Post
For Ozzie Guillen, to err is human, to forgive him divine

As a baseball fan and card-carrying Cuban-American living in Miami because of Fidel Castro, I have tried to muster anger toward Ozzie Guillen, but...

Hernando Today
Church has ‘marriage of convenience’ with dictatorship

Pope Benedict XVI should never have accepted the terms and conditions insisted upon by the Cuban dictatorship for his trip to Cuba. By strictly...

Miami Herald
Waiting for the pope

Being the messenger of God on Earth, if Pope Benedict XVI hears the pleas of the Ladies in White and the cries for help of the regime’s secular...

Miami Herald

Letter To The Editor

Sen. Marco Rubio should take lead on Cuba policy

Richard Nixon, a dedicated anticommunist, was the one who opened up China during Mao Tse-tung's rule. Rubio is uniquely positioned to do the...

Tampa Bay Times
Writer misinformed; Cuba a dictatorship

Maybe he should befriend a Cuban-American, so that he or she may enlighten him on the realities of life in Cuba. Sure, Cuba has first-class...

Palm Beach Post
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Do you support a Florida law that would ban state and local governments from hiring companies with business ties to Cuba?
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