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Watch Cold Case: Stealing Home on CBS tonight

Tonight, CBS will air a special episode of their police drama series Cold Case. The episode, titled “Stealing Home,” is about the murder of a baseball player who defected from Cuba. It airs at 9PM eastern, please watch it.
I’ve been told by a good friend that this episode will show the [...]

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Cuban baseball defection

No, it wasn’t a baseball player. But Babalu Blog is reporting that an editor with Cuban TV who was traveling with the baseball team has indeed defected.
Another one reaches freedom. Wonder when the remianing 11 million will reach freedom. Best of luck to the defecting editor, Yuri Boza.

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Cuban baseball slavery

Babalu Blog has a blogburst today about the World Baseball Classic and Cuba’s sadly enslaved baseball team. The post is pegged to the top of the page and it includes a song parody of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game,” a special graphic and this:
Cuba is one of the few countries in [...]

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Hypocritical Mexico

Mexicans illegally entering US: okay.
Cubans entering US via Mexico: no way.
So decreeth the Mexican government (as well as the Castro regime):
Mexico agreed Monday to deport Cubans who sneak illegally through Mexican territory to reach the U.S., a step toward cutting off an increasingly violent and heavily used human trafficking route.
The [...]

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Castro regime takes a kick to the groin…

…as Cuban female judo champion disappears and possibly defects to the US during a tournament in Miami:
The Cuban contingent that competed in last week’s Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon.
As I write this post, no official word on Laborde’s [...]

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What’s REALLY illegal is the Castro regime

Every Cuban who can escape the slow death sentence that is “life” under Castro, is escaping, and the MSM calls it an “Illegal flow of Cubans.” No, what’s REALLY illegal is Castro’s usurpation of power.
Read on:
The number of Cubans leaving their communist-run country by sea is steadily increasing and has reached [...]

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Breaking News: father fit to care for girl, judge says

The Miami Herald is reporting Judge Jeri Cohen has decided the father is fit to have custody of the five-year-old foster girl whose mother brought her and her brother to the U.S., paving the way for her return into Castro’s clutches.

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Today’s the big day…

…for the little Cuban girl whose life is in the hands of a judge who had previously said “If we deport people back to Cuba, we could empty our jails:”
The judge in a contentious child custody dispute is expected to reveal today her ruling on whether a Cuban father is a fit parent to [...]

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Don King vs. Fidel Castro

It’s the Bearded One against the man with the wild hair, and the man with the hair wins:
Fifteen days ago, the 130-pound Angelo Santana Diaz, a seven time regional champion in Cuba and twice its national title holder, braved the crossing of the Caribbean, condemnation by his country’s leader, and fear of [...]

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More Cubans fleeing the ’socialist paradise’

Yep. It’s true:
In a few days, the number of Cuban migrants stopped in the Florida Straits this year will likely exceed the number of interdictions in 2006.
As of Friday afternoon, Cuban migrant interdictions by the U.S. Coast Guard stood at 2,255 — just 38 people shy of last year’s total.
The likely increase [...]

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