Somalia

al-Shabaab terrorists smuggled into US via Cuba (Updated)

June 7, 2010

U.S. federal law enforcement agencies (FBI and ICE) are hunting down al-Shabaab terrorists (an ally of al Qaeda) who illegally entered the U.S. from Kenya through Cuba, reports the New York Daily News. al-Shabaab is an Islamic terrorist group that controls much of southern Somalia, excluding the capital, Mogadishu. It has waged an insurgency (using guerrilla [...]

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Banned from military service and the death penalty

May 30, 2010

Esquire magazine takes a look at the statistics of countries that ban gays from serving in the military and that also embrace the death penalty. Cuba, along with 16 other countries (see above infographic), ban homosexuals from serving in the military and also execute people. The others are: China, Egypt, Iran, Jamaica, Nigeria, North Korea, [...]

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Fidel dies of natural causes under questionable circumstances

January 11, 2010

Castro dies of natural causes under questionable circumstances. His brother Raul is still in control of the apparatus. An enormous funeral and wake is observed throughout the nation, but within days after the wake, Cubans begin to demonstrate openly against the post-Castro regime. Raul accelerates liberalizing policies and carefully consolidates preferential property rights for the [...]

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