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CUBA SI COMMUNISM NO

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President Obama and The First Family landed in in rainy Habana, Cuba for their historic three-day visit Obama is the first sitting U.S. leader to visit Cuba in 90 years.

Meanwhile, Raul Castro was not there at the airport to greet them and Fidel has refused to meet with Obama.

President Obama arrives in Cuba http://bbc.in/1pDdjI4

Obama is the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 http://hrld.us/1QiRBCM

Damas de Blanco, the Ladies in White, hold their weekly protest Sunday, hours before Obama arrives in #Cuba. http://apne.ws/1pVmDa1

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“Look up here, I’m in Heaven!” is the opening line of David Bowie’s off Broadway production, Lazarus, which premiered earlier this month two days before the artist’s death. Known for innovating the world of music, Bowie revisited the theater as a creative way to say goodbye as he lost his battle with cancer. Many of the retrospectives on his unique life include his innovation in the financial world too.

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US FOREIGN POLICY?

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Afghanistan-Why did US announce a 30,000 troop surge to Afghanistan in 2009, only to say they’d be pulled out in 18 months, giving al-Qaida and the Taliban a mental stamina to last at least that long and to plan ahead. Afghanistan is awash in wasted aid programs and corruption. The Taliban is more ascendant in the country than any time since 2001. The Islamic State is increasing its presence, and the U.S. only recently razed a 30-square-mile al-Qaida training camp, which was one of the largest ever to be created.

SEPTETO NACIONAL DE CUBA

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Performing together at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, the legendary champion of Cuban son SEPTETO NACIONAL DE CUBA IGNACIO PIÑEIRO and the longest running charanga band outside of Cuba ORQUESTA BROADWAY.

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US FLAG FLIES IN CUBA

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The US flag will be raised over the American Embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years despite mistrust and a call from former President Fidel Castro for the United States to pay millions in reparations.
In fact, it is the Cuban government, which seized billions in properties from private US firms and wealthy Cubans.

Secretary of State John Kerry leads a delegation to the embassy in Habana, including members of Congress, selected Cuban-American entrepreneurs and a large contingent of media, as well as retired Marines who last lowered the flag in January 1961.

CUBA NO YANKEE SI

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Defection is what Cuban athletes did to commemorate 7/26 El 26 De Julio, the Castro Brothers first and foremost national holiday. It also happens to be the first nation al celebration day since re-establishing US/Cuba diplomatic relations. What does that say about human rights and individual freedoms inside the communist island?

Cuba’s sports defectors: The 90-mile sprint http://econ.st/1GGrFYj via @TheEconomist

Half of Cuba Men's Hockey Team Defects to USA http://sports.ndtv.com/hockey/news/246093-half-of-cuba-men-s-hockey-tea…

CUBA SI YANKEE SI

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The Cuban embassy re-opens in Washington, D.C. for the first time in 54 years. The Cuban flag will rise in Washington, D.C., for the first time in over five decades on Monday in the latest step toward normalized relations between the two countries.

The flag-raising will be part of a daylong series of events commemorating the opening of a full Cuban embassy in Washington, about two miles north of the White House.

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