Foreign investments in Cuba are a reality
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – Early this leap-year February, Repsol-YPF began its first perforations for oil in the deep Gulf waters 50 kilometers from the Cuban coastline. Repsol, Norway’s Statoil and India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. are three of six companies participating in the same objective.
A couple of weeks earlier, the long-awaited semi-submersible platform Scarabeo 9 moved past Havana’s Morro during the visit by Dilma Rousseff.
General Maceo’s imprisonment
By Dalia Céspedes
“Here you go again, lady, with General Maceo?” Yes, dear reader, and I see you look not only reluctant but also suspicious for you know that he, 27 wounds and all, was never captured, much less incarcerated, even if he was several times about to suffer such fate. We remember him badly hurt after the Bajaragua combat, and protected by his brother José amidst a herd of Spanish soldiers sniffing the titan’s blood close by when he, just at the point of being caught, jumps from stretcher to horse and vanishes in a storm of bullets.
Romney, Republicans, and the poor
By Max J. Castro
It’s official. We now have it straight from the horse’s mouth: Mitt Romney, the man whose yearly income over the last two years has averaged $22.5 million, doesn’t care about the very poor. He said so last week in an interview with CNN...
A strange gathering in Havana
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – On Feb. 1, a group of friends, among them some who live in various U.S. cities, decided to gather at my house in Havana. After we decided on the date, one of them commented: “How nice; that way we can talk about the results of the Republican primary in Florida.”
Buying the presidency
“How many billionaires does it take to buy a presidential election? … Obama’s decision to openly endorse his super PAC has had an immediate effect. ‘Our donors get it,’ an [Obama campaign] official said, adding that they now want to ‘go fight the other side.’
Exactly… So now a relative handful of super-rich Democrats want to fight a relative handful of super-rich Republicans. And we call this a democracy.”
-- Former labor secretary Robert Reich writes in his blog.
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The media informs us – about American idols
By Saul Landau
We once learned that a free press would protect the public from shady government and business operations. The stereotyped journalist oozed skepticism and curiosity; got in the face of the powerful, with tough questions.
Sadness, shame and something more
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – If the Cuban authorities are serious about promoting international tourism, they should cast a critical eye at José Martí International Airport (HAV) in Rancho Boyeros, Havana.
Abbott and Costello explain unemployment
By Unknown
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good subject in these terrible times. It's about 9%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
Click to continue reading...Miami, the most miserable city in the U.S.
From Reuters
Warm sun, white beaches, and million-dollar mansions notwithstanding, Miami has captured the dubious distinction of being the most miserable city in the United States, according to a new poll published by Forbes magazine [last week].
The playground of the rich and famous is in the middle of a crippling housing crisis that has cost thousands of residents their homes and jobs. The metropolitan area has one of the highest crime rates in the country...
Obama wins Florida and the presidency
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
For republicans to beat President Obama in November they must win Florida. Political experts tell us that.
The president’s scenario is different. His advisers claim to have drawn a path to victory that doesn’t necessarily have to include Florida. But if Obama does claim the sunshine state, expect a very long evening for republicans in November.
So let’s take a look at the results of the recently completed Republican primary here in Florida to see what we can decipher. I checked out voter turnout and who voted. And I looked carefully at Miami-Dade County – with its cache of bloc-voting Cuban republicans.
The search for Gulf oil begins
By Gerardo Arreola
HAVANA - With a multinational investment that may total hundreds of millions of dollars, Cuba began a search for oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with the potential to impact the United States’ economic blockade against the island like nothing ever before.
The semi-submersible platform Scarabeo-9, built in China and Singapore for the Italian company...
Koch brothers driving anti Obama hate machine
By Bill Press
"If not now, when?" It's one of the most famous maxims of history, attributed to the great Rabbi Hillel, who's also credited with a down-to-earth version of the Golden Rule: "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary."
Now, here's your trivia question for the day: Who in our time revived that call to action withthe challenge: "Ifnot us, who? If not now, 
when?" MichaelMoore? Barack Obama? Leaders of Occupy Wall Street?
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