Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida-Mariela Castro in San Francisco

Gay Cuban Americans in Miami are furious that Fidel Castro's niece is meeting this week and next with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in San Francisco and New York City.

"For Mariela Castro, or anybody else under the Castro dictatorship, to say they are representing the rights of anyone is an insult to the hundreds of thousands who have either been killed, jailed or assassinated by their own hands, or the nearly 100,000 people who’ve jumped into the ocean looking for freedom who haven’t made it here," said Herb Sosa, executive director ofUnity Coalition, Miami-Dade County's leading Hispanic gay rights group.

Audio de las declaraciones del bloggero Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo sobre la visita de Mariela Castro. http://realaudio.rferl.org/CU/manual/2012/05/24/4b977d6e-e41c-41de-b8ef-2c1e9f92e6f8.mp3 

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/05/cuban-american-gay-activists-in-miami-protest-mariela-castros-visit-to-san-francisco-new-york.html#storylink=addthis#storylink=cpy

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Venezuelan General Wilmer Moreno killed - Daily News - EL UNIVERSAL

Late on Thursday, Venezuelan Army General Wilmer Antonio Moreno was killed in Anzoategui state, northeast Venezuela. 

Unofficial sources said that some people approached the military official, asked who he was and when he answered he was shot. 

The news was posted on social networks. Sources claimed that Moreno was shot 10 times, but other reports clarified that he was shot seven times. 

Moreno was a close collaborator of the current Venezuelan government. He played a role in the attempted coup of 2002, which sought to overthrow then President Carlos Andrés Pérez. 
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Cuban political prisoner forcibly exiled to Spain commits suicide | Babalú Blog

Cuban political prisoner forcibly exiled to Spain commits suicide | Babalú Blog: "Sad news has reached us from Spain. Albert Santiago Du Bouchet, a Cuban political prisoner forcibly exiled to Spain through arrangements made by the Cuban Catholic in collusion with the Castro dictatorship, committed suicide yesterday. He leaves behind his wife and a son."

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State Department calls on Castro dictatorship to release dissidents | Babalú Blog

State Department calls on Castro dictatorship to release dissidents | Babalú Blog: "The U.S. State Department has called on the Castro dictatorship to release the dissidents arrested during their latest wave of repression sparked by the papal visit to the island last week."

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43 dissidents still imprisoned in Cuba from papal visit crackdown | Babalú Blog

The count of dissidents and human rights activists still imprisoned by the Castro dictatorship during their papal visit crackdown has risen to 43. Apparently emboldened by the lack of concern on part of the Vatican and the pope, the Cuban regime has ratcheted up the repression in an obvious show of force and resolve to demonstrate it will not tolerate and will violently punish any dissent or opposition.
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