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By Val Prieto, on January 20, 2012, at 2:53 pm
Another Cuban dissident dead at the hands of the castro regime and it will be business as usual today at the International Flights Terminal at Miami International Airport. The lines for the Miami to Havana flights will still be the same, with "gusanos" stuffed to the gills all over, brand new TV's and Playstations wrapped [...]
By Val Prieto, on January 20, 2012, at 9:14 am
Wilmar Villar Mendoza, Cuban dissident on hunger strike for 50 days protesting his incarceration and the abject violation of his basic rights and freedoms, died yesterday at the hands of the Cuban government. He was 31 years of age.
Wilmar Villar Mendoza died a hero, not only because of his courage to stand against the Goliath [...]
By Val Prieto, on January 18, 2012, at 7:28 am
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Please help stop two bills currently in Congress that will censor the internet. Sign the petition and write your congressman right here.
Here's info on the House Bill "SOPA".
Here's info on the Senate Bill "PIPA."
SOPA and PIPA in layman's [...]
By Val Prieto, on January 12, 2012, at 7:34 am
The lead story in my Yahoo newsfeed this morning:
Outrage over 'human zoo' on islands
A video of tribal women lured to dance for tourists in exchange for food has rights groups crying foul.
It's in India, but it might as well be Cuba.
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By Val Prieto, on January 11, 2012, at 2:05 pm
Preface
Those of you that visit this blog often know that I have not written much of anything Cuba related here in quite some time. My reasons for this are varied, ranging from disillusionment to anger to frustration and quite a few other things in between. This includes a little nagging voice that reappears every so [...]
By Val Prieto, on January 6, 2012, at 7:32 am
Feliz dia de Los Reyes Magos!!!!
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By Val Prieto, on December 18, 2011, at 7:35 am
Staunch anti-communist, former President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel has died.
"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
-- Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel vis a vis Cuba, right here.
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By Val Prieto, on December 15, 2011, at 7:34 am
I'd like all of our wonderful readers and commenters and friends and family to take a moment to wish Alberto de la Cruz a very happy birthday today.
Have great birthday, Alberto! And thank you for being a great friend and staunch fighter for the freedom of Cuba.
PS We all ponied up a few [...]
By Val Prieto, on December 7, 2011, at 7:11 am
A huge and magnificent and hug-filled Happy Birthday to the greatestestest Goddaughter EVAH!!!!!
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By Val Prieto, on November 11, 2011, at 11:25 am
By Val Prieto, on November 11, 2011, at 7:54 am
I had the privilege and honor this past year of meeting some exceptional men and women of our armed forces at the Wounded Warrior Support Center at Brooke Army Medical Center while participating in two events with Cooking with the Troops. (The word "exceptional" falls way short in describing these young men and women as [...]
By Val Prieto, on October 21, 2011, at 1:43 pm
A message for WaPo's Manuel Roig-Franzia, from Marco Rubio, way back in 2008:
The Cuban-American community is a minority within a minority, and one that by all measures is over-represented economically, intellectually and politically in this country. In the eyes of the left and the liberal media, however, we are overachievers who do not toe the [...]
By Val Prieto, on October 14, 2011, at 9:47 am
Otro hijo de la gran puta.
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By Val Prieto, on October 14, 2011, at 8:08 am
Me cago en el recontracoño de su madre.
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By Val Prieto, on October 7, 2011, at 8:14 am
Obama get's tough, shouts "Hold me back! Hold me back!":
When demanding approval of so-called jobs bill, Obama essentially threatened Republicans: If they vote against the legislation, the president said, then they’ll have to “explain to me” why they voted against it. On several occasions the president returned to this theme: voting against Stimulus II will [...]
By Val Prieto, on September 14, 2011, at 2:56 pm
Have something negative to say about Barrack Obama? Be careful, you might want to curtail expressing your thoughts or opinions, or at least, do so only under the auspices of the privacy of your own home just like your family in Communist Cuba, as the Obama Campaign now has the cyber CDRS.
Unreal? Coming from this [...]
By Val Prieto, on September 11, 2011, at 8:09 am
By Val Prieto, on September 11, 2011, at 7:45 am
From the 104th Floor
by Leda Rodis (age 14)
When the plane hit the building
rocked first
to the right
then
to the left,
and outside all the skyscrapers
of New York
seemed to tremble.
The alarms screamed louder
than we did, and I knew
it was time to get away. It's funny
what you notice:
a pen rolling across the floor
my screen saver flicker and go off
a picture [...]
By Val Prieto, on September 4, 2011, at 10:31 am
Yes, Babalu, there are tennis balls in heaven. Tons of them. In all colors. New ones and chewed ones. And, yes, there are footballs. And sticks. And Frisbees, too.
Of course you'll have a yard in heaven, you Big Galoot. A big one, bigger than ours, with shade trees and grass and flowers. And yes, there's [...]
By Val Prieto, on August 31, 2011, at 7:50 am
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