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It’s disgusting to see people apologize for doing nothing wrong, especially to wrongdoers. On July 14, Miami-Dade County mayor Alex Penelas spoke at the NAACP’s national convention in Miami Beach and apologized for protests of Nelson Mandela during his June 1990 visit to Miami. Why did these protests occur? Maybe it had something to do with the former South African president’s affection for mass murderers. Sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1964 for armed resistance to the apartheid regime, Mandela was released in February 1990. In May he visited Libyan tyrant Muammar Qadhafi and received the “International Qadhafi Prize for...

by Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton Barlovento is a marina development that flourished before 1959 near Jaimanita Beach northwest of Havana. When Castro was in need of U.S. dollars to prop-up his regime he converted that area into “Hemingway Marina” which became popular among rich and famous foreigners, including yachting Americans, all of whom find dubious amusements and business deals while spending the coveted U.S. dollars, to this day, oblivious that the blood of innocent civilians taint the waters. This is the area where U.S. fugitive Robert Vesco lived in luxury on his stolen U.S. dollars until he fell out...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com On Aug. 11, 1994, due to mounting discontent with his regime, Castro gave the order to the Cuban Coast Guard and security forces not to obstruct illegal departures (sinking their rafts and killing the people) from Cuban shores. Immediately, Cubans began abandoning Castro’s hellhole in anything that would float. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) timeline, on Aug. 19, 1994, the U.S. Coast Guard initiated "Operation ABLE VIGIL, a Cuban Mass Migration Emergency Plan in response to uncontrolled migration from Cuba and the announcement by President Clinton prohibiting the entry of undocumented Cuban migrants into...

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8....

"I believe in reason and in discussion as supreme instruments of progress," the Holocaust survivor and writer Primo Levi once said. By abolishing reason and discussion, totalitarianism could be defined as the perfection of madness and paralysis. Society doesn’t exist in this world, only silence maintained by massive and systematic violence. Self-expression, exchange of feeling, and other basic human behavior are crushed by the dogma that subjugates every institution to the State. Like in Cuba. Fidel Castro has imprisoned conscientious Cubans since 1959, and last month he imprisoned 80 more. The victims ranged from physicians and poets like Dr. Oscar...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com 'Three Little Blacks' © 2003 ABIP Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton Friday, May 23, 2003 “The word on the streets is that Castro referred to them as ‘tres negritos’ (three little blacks). Even if you ignore the alleged racism (which I won’t), the hijackers committed the crime of wanting freedom.” (Manuel J. Coto, in his article in the Orlando Sentinel, May 7, 2003). The names of these expendable “little blacks” are Barbaro Sevilla Garcia, 21, Lorenzo Copello Castillo, 31, and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac, 43. The Association of Black Cubans in Miami held a protest on May...

Cubans “The Voyage Of The Damned” By: David Hoech May 19, 2003 It was sixty-four years ago this past May 13 that the SS St. Louis left Hamburg, Germany with 963 Jews seeking sanctuary from the Nazi regime and anti-Semitism. Cuba permitted only 29 passengers to stay after the ship had sat in its harbor for days, and the United States would not take any. The ship finally docked in Antwerp, Belgium on June 17, 1939. Over 500 of the original passengers perished in the Holocaust. Yet, today the United States wants to find fault with Switzerland’s wartime refugee policy....

ADM’s Involvement In Child Endangerment Exposed At VII Latin Film Festival In Miami April 11-20 Covering Cuba 3: Elián www.CubaCollectibles.com By: David Hoech April 21, 2003 On April 22, 2000, the day before Easter, in a pre-dawn paramilitary raid more than 150 federal agents stormed the home of Lázaro González in Miami, Florida. The INS Border Patrol and ATF teams ransacked the house trampling a crucifix and a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. One of the agents pointed a gun at Lázaro’s daughter Marisleysis’ chest shouting, “Give me the f--king boy or I’ll shoot.” What preceded this action was...

CNN's Apologist for Terrorism By Myles Kantor FrontPageMagazine.com | December 11, 2002 http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5040 If CNN wanted to refute its description as the Communist News Network, the December 3 edition of Connie Chung Tonight didn’t help. On December 2, Chung began a series on tyrants who have clashed with the United States. The first segment was on Adolf Hitler with guests Armin Lehmann and Ron Rosenbaum, authors respectively of Hitler’s Last Courier and Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. (Chung said during the discussion, “I think a lot of us wonder why the Iraqi people continue to...

The AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER #207 December 10, 2002 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER: A.V. Krebs ADDRESS: PO. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201 E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net WEB SITE: http://www.ea1.com/CARP/ TO RECEIVE: Name and e-mail address CONTRIBUTION$ WELCOME !!! BOOK REVIEW: RATS IN THE GRAIN: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World. By James B. Lieber. ROBERT SHERRILL, THE TEXAS OBSERVER: Anyone who had the misfortune to watch the presidential debates may have noticed that the moderator, Jim Lehrer, one of the most overrated journalists of our era, went out of his way...

----- Original Message ----- From: Maidique To: CHACHI Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: THE BLACK HYENA INVITED TO "SPEAK" AT FIU 11/13/02 WHO AUTHORIZED THIS OUTRAGE? Chachi Novellas, Mi papel como rector de FIU me obliga a proteger y defender el derecho de los profesores que han invitado a estos emisarios cubanos a hablar en nuestro recinto. Los profesores de FIU tienen la autonomía se manifiesta, aun cuando el rector y la administracíon no estén de acuerdo con las ideas de sus invitados. Le ruego a la comunidad que entiendan y respeten las libertades que este...

The Baghdad-Havana Axis of Jew Hatred By Myles Kantor FrontPageMagazine.com | November 5, 2002 http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4381 Saddam Hussein's staunchest ally is 90 miles from America, and his name is Fidel Castro. In the late 1980s, Cuban orthopedic surgeon Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras removed a lethal tumor in Hussein's back. Hussein generously remunerated Cambras-also head of the Cuban-Iraqi Friendship Association-who gave the money to Castro and received a mansion in Havana's elite Miramar area. Cambras visited Baghdad in July to give Hussein a message from Castro. Cuba's 43-year long despot expressed "the solidarity of Cuba" with Hussein and congratulated him on the 34th...

Coast Guard repatriates 16 Cuban migrants in four days By The Asssociated Press www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/11/01/news/4423194.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp MIAMI - The U.S. Coast Guard returned home four Cuban migrants Friday, increasing the number of Cubans repatriated over the past four days to 16. The Coast Guard cutter Metompkin intercepted the most recent group after their small rustic boat was intercepted 25 miles northeast of La Isabela, Cuba. Six Cuban migrants and a dog were repatriated on Tuesday after being rescued from a vessel 48 miles north of Matanzas, Cuba. Six others were sent back on Wednesday after their raft was sighted by another boat...

Reno Blocks Effort to Stop Vote Fraud Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002 ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Former Attorney General Janet Reno launched a full-scale legal action Friday in Miami to prevent an independent committee from monitoring Tuesday's elections. Reno, acting as a plaintiff and represented by Al Gore's 2000 election lawyer Kendall Coffey, sought and received an emergency injunction to prevent The Emergency Committee to Stop Bill McBride from sending independent poll watchers to precincts in Miami-Dade. A "liberal Democrat" judge sided with Reno and banned the organization's poll watchers from trying to curb Florida's notorious election fraud. Miami-Dade Judge Eleanor...

Venezuela Dissidents May Be Charged The Associated Press, Sat 26 Oct 2002 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-sa/2002/oct/26/102608521.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan judge ordered military officers demanding President Hugo Chavez's resignation to appear in court to face possible rebellion charges — the first sign Chavez intends to crack down on the 5-day-old protest. Judge Juan Leon Villanueva late Friday ordered 43 military and civilian protesters to appear in court Monday. The order came after Chavez accused them of ``cooking up a military insurrection'' and then vowed to squash it. Since Tuesday, thousands of civilians have rallied at a Caracas plaza in support of...

Payá's answer to Fidel Castro By Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, Coordinator Comité Ciudadano Gestor del Proyecto Varela. Havana, 13th of October of 2002 (TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH BY RCB) According to information by the press, in an interview with journalist Barbara Walters of the ABC network in the U.S., Mr. Fidel Castro responding to her question on the right of the citizens to propose the Varela Project, declared: "Yes, they have the right to present a request, but not to change the Constitution" Fidel Castro also declared on the interview: "they will have their answer in due time" Due to the contradiction...

Acts that don't deserve the prize By Jeff Jacoby, 10/17/2002 www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/oped/Acts_that_don_t_deserve_the_prize+.shtml AS A PATRIOT and a man of honor, Jimmy Carter should refuse the Nobel Peace Prize. That act of integrity would win him more respect than anything he has done in the past two decades. The Nobel Peace Prize committee has sometimes shown disturbingly bad judgment, but never before has it awarded the prize with the explicit purpose of castigating the United States. That new low was achieved last week, when the Nobel Committee chairman, Gunnar Berge, emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of US policy...

Snuffy and Me By Tammy Bruce FrontPageMagazine.com | October 16, 2002 I'm a gun owner. "Snuffy" is my .38 snubnose Smith & Wesson. As a woman a firearm is the only thing that truly equalizes me if faced with someone determined to do me harm. Yes, physical defense courses are good, but in my opinion if a man who wishes me harm is close enough to touch me, he's already too close. Anyone who enters my home with malevolent intentions will not leave standing up. It's that simple. As a defender of the Second Amendment, I knew it was only...

Dissident Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet to be released WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA El Nuevo Herald Thu, Oct. 17, 2002 (Translation by RCB) Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet, one of the most prominent jailed political dissidents in Cuba, will be released next 31st of October after fulfilling a sentence of three years of prison, informed his wife, Elsa Morejón yesterday. The Cuban authorities communicated to her that she had to appear that day, 8 a.m. at the penitentiary Cuba Sí in Holguín, to complete Biscet's, 41, official liberation proceedings. ''He is in good spirits and will continue fighting peacefully for the respect of...

58 Socialists are in the United States Congress Progressive Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives The Republic honors the right to free speech, expression, and association. These rights, the hallmark of a free society, are protected through time honored Constitutional guarantees. An American citizen is free, for example, to be a Socialist, a Communist, a Nazi, a member of the KKK, or a member of any group, as long as he obeys the law and doesn't act in a manner that would threaten the freedom, safety, and liberty of his fellow citizens. This principle is the foundation as well...