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The Cold War Cuban Detritus

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the Cold War that had existed between it and the U.S. since the end of World War Two came to an end, but...

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Florida teen callously murders 71-year-old man, shoots at point-blank (VIDEO)

A Florida teen was arrested after he fatally shot a 71-year-old man at point blank. After stalking his prey through a grocery store, 17-year-old Jamal Jackson rode on his bicycle and followed Miguel Pilotos to his car, fatally shooting him in the head after trying to rob the Miami-Dade County native. Jackson took nothing from […]

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Lost interview with Fidel Castro (VIDEO)

“If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself.” The Revolution did not fall. Castro won. But there are many Cubans in America and abroad who would agree that even after Castro won, Cuba still became Hell itself. The lost interview, was animated by PBS in there series […]

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Suspicion surrounds Cuban cargo heading for North Korea as officials find a couple of Soviet-era fighter jets (VIDEO)

When it comes to International disputes that involve the Cubans or the North Korea’s there is sure to be some sort of surprise involved. A North Korean ship was stopped on July 11 while trying to return to North Korea through the Panama Canal after picking up a shipment of cargo from Cuba. After the […]

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The Old Man and the Sea (and his Tommy Gun)

If you remember back to high school lit class, Ernest Hemingway's work, the Old Man and the Sea, tells the classic story of man's cathartic struggle against the forces of nature. But while the novels protagonist, Santiago, symbolically swings a large stick at the seawolves eying his prize catch, it would seem the Heming-way to keep sharks away from a half-ton marlin involves a Thompson submachine gun.

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