Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

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Venezuelans continue to demand the ouster of Nicolas Maduro, but the dictator and his Cuban handlers, continue to block the restoration of…
The international community needs to step up.
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John Suarez
Cuba's Dueling Legacies: July 26, 1953 and May 10, 2002
Moncada vs Varela
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John Suarez
A Season of Nonviolence: Reflection on Nonviolent resistance in Cuba and China
A reflection on Nonviolent resistance in Cuba and China as seen through a Gandhian-Kingian perspective
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John Suarez
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Regis Iglesias Ramirez
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Remembering Cuban dissident leaders, Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, both assassinated by the Cuban dictatorship on July 22, 2012.
We remember, continue to demand justice, and follow their courageous example.
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Xiaobo, Payá, King and Gandhi: Concluding a Season of Nonviolence
"I say nonviolent struggle is armed struggle. And we have to take back that term from those advocates of violence who seek to justify with pretty words…
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John Suarez
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Regis Iglesias Ramirez
AMIA: 31 years later still no justice for victims of terrorist attack that killed 85 people
31 years of impunity in Argentina
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John Suarez
The role of U.S. economic sanctions in Poland's liberation, and the Soviet empire's collapse.
Response to the argument that economic sanctions did not work on left-wing dictatorships, and the reality that it was unprincipled engagement that…
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Remembering the lives taken July 13, 1994: May their memory be a blessing
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense…
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John Suarez
Remembering Liu Xiaobo: Jailed Chinese Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died on this day in 2017
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense…
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John Suarez
Cuban Students over the past six and a half decades under communism have resisted the ideology, and the dictatorship that continues to…
Original version of this article published at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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John Suarez
Spend an evening with Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless." - Lech Walesa, August 30, 2009.
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For those who have suffered under communism in China and Cuba, July 13th holds dual meaning.
Free Chinese and free Cubans share a common day to mourn their victims of communism.
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