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It’s time to work with Cuba

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For better or worse, the Castro regime isn’t going away anytime soon: “Cuba formally assumed Monday the presidency of the Community of Latinamerican [sic] and Caribbean States during the group’s summit in Chile calling for regional integration and independence from the United States. Cuban President Raul Castro hailed the move as ‘a great honour’ and Read More

Why you should watch the foreign policy debate

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Tonight marks the last of 2012′s three presidential debates. This last one, which focuses on foreign policy, is being held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, perhaps the most ironic setting for a political debate. Most Americans may feel the urge to tune out of the last debate and return to their regularly scheduled programming. Read More

Signs of the end in Cuba

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On Tuesday Fox News Latino published a report on how Cuba’s aging population should inflame the already ravaging economic fires of the Communist island nation: “So few children, so many elderly. It’s a central dilemma for a nation whose population is the oldest in Latin America, and getting older. The labor force soon will be Read More

Romney vs. the three Commie amigos

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On Monday, Mitt Romney called for an investigation into the untimely death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died in a car crash on the southeastern part of the island on Sunday. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s unofficial Latino mascot, soon echoed the presumptive nominee’s demand for justice, saying it was “critically important that Read More

Death to Fidel and Chávez! Long live Fidel and Chávez!

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Throughout present-day Latin America, no two leaders are bestowed with so much fervor, equal parts adoration and animosity, than Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. The socialist, anti-imperialism policies they exhort make them the scourge of the Western world; their totalitarian attempts to prolong their regimes fuel opposition within their own countries. Read More