By Luis Felipe Rojas:

Paint Used to Cause Terror

Translation of this collage which shows the homes of some dissidents, targets of state vandalism :
(1st row)
Terrorist paint attack in homes of peaceful dissidents.
It is common practice to carry out these attacks at night, while everyone is sleeping. However, they tend to also do them during [...]

Juan Abreu in his Emanaciones #1016 (translation by Asombra):

1016
The president of Brazil has visited the frightful island. There she sniffed profusely the asses of the Castro brothers. I’m not going to belabor the matter because, in the final analysis, what the hell do I care what that cow does?
But. Madame President had her guerilla phase, [...]

Via Fox News Latino:

127-Year-Old Cuban Still Awaiting Recognition as World's Oldest Person

The battle over who is the world’s oldest living person continues.
Cubana Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodríguez claimed that she turned 127, which would make her 12 years older than the official record holder, the 115-year Besse Cooper of Georgia. Cooper was [...]

School children in Venezuela pictured holding assault rifles in front of a mural depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary wielding AK-47s in honor of dictator Hugo Chavez:

Complete report HERE.

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Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

The Cyber Threat (From Our Backyard)

From CBS News today:
Today, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he believes "the cyber threat will equal or surpass the threat from counter terrorism in the foreseeable future."
A concerning admission, for as [...]

I have always thought that the purpose of a Chamber of Commerce is to promote business and the free market. I never imagined, however, that Chambers of Commerce are also into promoting slavery. But that appears to be the case for two Chambers of Commerce in the U.S.
First, the Portland Business Alliance:

Come visit Cuba, says [...]

Via Reuters:

Spain's Repsol begins drilling offshore Cuba: sources
(Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol YPF has begun drilling the first well in Cuba's long-awaited exploration of offshore oilfields that the communist country says hold both billions of barrels of oil and the key to greater prosperity, industry sources told Reuters.
The massive Scarabeo [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 3, 2012

Diaz-Balart introduces resolution condemning the murder of Cuban hero, Wilman Villar Mendoza

Washington, DC - Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives condemning the murder of Wilman Villar Mendoza and honoring his sacrifice in the cause of freedom for the Cuban people.
“Wilman [...]

UPDATE: I just received news that the senate resolution passed unanimously last night.
Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), joined also by Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Robert Casey (D-PA), introduced a Senate Resolution to honor the martyred Cuban democracy activist, Wilman Villar Mendoza.
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S.RES.366 -- Honoring the life of dissident and democracy activist [...]

In Cuba, 2011 saw a dramatic increase over the previous year in violence and repression against peaceful human rights activists by the dictatorship of Raul Castro. Unfortunately, for the peaceful opposition in Cuba, the year 2012 is shaping up to be even more violent and repressive.
As reported by the Cuban independent news agency CIHPRESS, here [...]

Via Pedazos de la Isla:
Dissidents protest against the Cuban regime’s murder of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza in a neighborhood of Guantanamo.  In addition to paying tribute to the fallen Villar Mendoza, once can also hear screams of “Laura Pollan Lives!” (fallen leader of the Ladies in White) at the moment [...]

It is a common theme that runs throughout the entire half-century history of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba: merciless brutality and savage violence. And for more than a year now, as the wave of repression unleashed by dictator Raul Castro continues to roll unabated over the island, the courageous women in Cuba's opposition have not [...]

"Freedom fighter" Dilma Rousseff in Cuba... no further descriptions necessary:

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By Luis Felipe Rojas:

Marti for Everyone?

This past 28th of January, the Cuban government presented us a renovated Jose Marti amid the shouts of the little red pioneers, portraits of Fidel Castro, and songs of Silivio Rodriguez.  The celebration was also marked by beatings, arrests, and restrictions on movement of various [...]

Venezuelan member of parliament and outspoken critic of dictator Hugo Chavez, Maria Corina Machado, responding to one of Fidel Castro's Reflections in which he mentioned her by name and criticized her opposition (my translation):

"In the future, our nations will be friends, but we will never accept the permanence of the status quo that has allowed [...]

The humor of Garrincha:

Translation:
Dilma Rousseff: "I would've met with the dissidents, but they don't know anything about foreign investments."
Raul Castro: "That Dilma learns fast..."

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NEWS
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

For IMMEDIATE Release – February 1, 2012
Cuba’s Ladies in White, Biscet Officially Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Ros-Lehtinen, Colleagues

(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with twenty-nine of her Congressional colleagues in [...]

A short but to the point must-read from Elliot Abrams at the Council for Foreign Relations:

Rousseff’s Shameful Sojourn in Cuba
The president of Brazil has been visiting Cuba this week. It should not be necessary to remind anyone that Brazil itself lived for years under a military dictatorship, or that Cuba is one [...]

Because Tampa is oh so far away, it is inhumane to force Cuban mules to drive all the way from Orlando to Tampa lugging all those hundreds of pounds of flat-screen TVs, stereo systems, refrigerators, toasters, quinceañera dresses, fashion accessories, makeup, and all the other luxury items and wares they traffic regularly to the island [...]

Amazing how hundreds of millions of dollars in business conducted by American companies with the Castro regime is referred to as a stifling "embargo" that precludes the U.S. from any significant role in what transpires in Cuba:

Cuba Says Imports From US off Sharply in 2010
HAVANA February 1, 2012 (AP) - Cuban imports from the United [...]