He got richer faster than anyone else in history
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Sheldon’s got it fixed
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Freedom's Watch
Freedom’s Watch Bears Watching
via Jim Lobe
founders, funders and key personnel:

• Sheldon Adelson
• Bradley A. Blakeman
• Matt Brooks
• Ari Fleischer
• Richard J. Fox
• Mel Sembler

In case you're keeping track each one of those guys is Jewish.
But then so's Jim Lobe.
Mel Sembler, well oh well. Mel Sembler is one sick son of a bitch.
He gets his own set of links.
Sembler:

Ambassador de Sade
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Sembler, founder of Straight Inc, taken down by Montel Williams
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They put stuff up my butt
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Sembler founded Straight after a congressional investigation determined that the last detox program he oversaw, The Seed, was using mind-control tactics similar to those used by North Koreans during the Cold War.
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Tough love has become a billion-dollar industry

Adelson - Sands, Vegas
Lansky - Sands, Vegas
Lansky:

Asked why all the gangsters were tolerated in Cuban casinos, the U.S. ambassador Earl Smith reportedly explained, "it seems to be the only way to get honest casinos". Lansky's days in Cuba, however, were numbered when Castro took power in Havana. In October 1960 the Riviera Hotel and 165 other American enterprises were confiscated and nationalized.

Lansky:

Even Al Capone realized they were more powerful than he.
In remarks attributed to Luciano, he once explained, "I learned a long time before that Meyer Lansky understood the Italian brain almost better than I did. . . . I used to tell Lansky that he may've had a Jewish mother, but someplace he must've been wet-nursed by a Sicilian." Luciano often said Lansky "could look around corners," or anticipate what would happen next in underworld intrigues, and that "the barrel of his gun was curved," meaning he knew how to keep himself out of the line of fire.

Lansky:

The Lanskys and Traficante organized a pipeline of Peruvian cocaine from Cuba to the US with an associate named George Zarate.

Somewhere in all this is the reason and cause drugs are so viciously illegal and at the same time so readily available; the cause of the constant unquestioned hysterical condemnation of the Cuban revolution; the reason for US nurturing and maintenance of the fascist Columbian government (and recent extradition of key witnesses in Columbian corruption cases to the US , where they can be silenced); and the war in Iraq.

Let's see. Meyer Lansky ran Cuba under Batista. Castro kicked out all the scammers and corrupt swine. Lansky's headquarters were in Florida. He did the start-up on Vegas. He ran the Mafia, or ran the thing that ran the Mafia, during the heyday of things Mafiosi. All that talk of "Cubans" and "the Mob" around the Kennedy assassination and Lansky never gets mentioned. Jack Ruby's real name was Rubenstein. There's been a big resurgence, a "resurgency" around gambling as America's gotten more decadent and morally imbalanced, and now Vegas is touting itself as a kind of Disneyland for middle-class hedonists. And there's whispers at the edge of things that Cuba's on the short-list for extreme democracy makeovers. Lansky and his business empire ran the drug trade during most of the twentieth century, the serious drug trade anyway.
Haiti had an extreme democracy makeover recently, around which there was talk that the incoming political personnel were tied in, and the outgoing personnel (Aristide et al) were not, that Aristide was in fact suppressing and eliminating wholesale drug activity, a "business unfriendly" climate in Haiti under Dr. Aristide, much like Cuba under Castro.
There have been whispers all along that Kennedy got done because he blocked the invasion of Cuba. Which would have let all those "Cubans" back at their troughs in the big hotels and brothel-estancias of pre-revolution days.
Hemingway opposed Batista's granting the gambling concession to Lansky, Batista did it anyway.
JEdgarHoover never touched "organized crime" when it was shaking out, except here and there, more like an enforcer than an eliminator, and never ever connected anybody but cheese-eaters to it when he did finally get forced into saying and doing something about it. Which seems emphasizable given Lansky and Siegel's two prongs to Lucky Luciano's third in the troika.
Hemingway toward the end of his life kept complaining to people the feds were reading his mail. People kept blowing him off as a paranoid old fading macho. Turns out the feds were pretty consistently reading his mail.
There's whispers that Haiti's the western Atlantic version to Ghana's eastern. Ghana being a major trans-shipment point for heroin and cocaine back-and-forthing between their jungly Third World points of origin and the urban hives of the Free World. Ghana and Haiti have a lot in common. A staging area where there's virtually no danger to businessmen who are tied in. Lots of desperate poor, scrambled-up local economies, thugs with badges and clipboards and computers, lax to non-existent record-keeping.

4 eyes for an eye

Hamas militants broke three weeks of relative calm in Gaza on Tuesday, setting off a bomb in what they said was an elaborate scheme that included a tunnel and a double agent. The attack killed an Israeli soldier and triggered Israeli retaliation that killed four Palestinian gunmen.

IBRAHIM BARZAK/Guardian UK 07. Dec.04

"They said" - plus you can't tell from the paragraph as written who dug the tunnel, who was the agent. Plus the "retaliation" is not a "they said" it's an "is". It's implacable, inevitable, ineluctable, an unstoppable force of nature. But what it does say unequivocally is this is a vengeful people, to whom revenge is not a questionable act.
So when we see this:

Israeli forces kill "unarmed, wounded" Palestinian

we know it's an act of retribution, necessary, mandated, a strong gesture of wholesome retaliation. Another sacred act by the Chosen People.
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Now the really arcane part opens up.
Before the rise of Al Capone to the nation's "Most Wanted" list, there was a presence in America, that was Italian, criminal, and had all the attributes now associated with "mafia" activities. But it wasn't called "the mafia" because that word wasn't common yet. Words like "dago" "guinea" "wop" and others were used, but you can see how anyone of Italian parentage would be lumped in with whoever was being described, and unfairly maligned. Once people had a name like "mafia" they could distinguish the criminal gangsters from the sons and daughters of decent law-abiding immigrants. Not that there weren't decent mafiosi, not that it isn't far more complex than simple terminology - the main point is that there was no way to even begin to discuss what was happening with people outside the events, no way to describe what was happening to those who weren't witnesses, because there was no word for who was doing it.
We don't have a word like that to distinguish Meyer Lansky from the Jews of his time, even though Lansky was more powerful than Capone. And most pertinent to this issue, Lansky was the vice-lord of Cuba under Bautista, before the revolution that brought Castro to power. There is a direct connection between what happened in Cuba when Castro came to power and a hazy, ill-defined, but increasingly powerful Jewish criminal underworld.
The common perception is there's only three major players in the Cuban situation:
Communists under Castro, small "d" democrats under the current American regime, and those loud and powerful "Cubans" down in Florida.
What I'm saying is there's an invisible fourth party here, and a seriously vindictive, retaliatory one. Lansky's heirs. A group of people we don't have a name for, who want revenge, as they wanted revenge in Babylon for wrongs suffered two millenia ago, and are getting it. It seems preposterous when looked at as an idea, but when you watch the news, and listen to the contemporary voices of the powerful, it's obviously possible. I'm saying it's what is, that's what's happening here. Revenge and retaliation.
So when Bush talks about treating Cuba to an "extreme democracy makeover" similar to the one Iraq's currently privileged to be experiencing, it's from within the context of his puppetry, and his servile obedience to those nebulous hands.

committed

President George W. Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
Roger Noriega, who heads the department's Latin American bureau, also said once Cuban President Fidel Castro is no longer in power, the United States is ready to support broad economic and political changes in Cuba "to ensure that vestiges of the regime don't hold on."
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The plan is spelled out in a report released last May and overseen by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The assistance is conditional on whether Cuba is on a "democratic path" and whether such assistance is requested.

CBC/AP 07.Dec.04

Haiti was invaded at their command as well, though the roots of the cause of that invasion are more hidden than any of the others.
Having the Cubans make a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian people just adds fuel to the fire.
Trying to get Americans to see these connections is a wonderfully impossible task. But an exhilirating one, all in all.

Neither Wilén’s nor Ardin’s texts complain of rape.
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Ardin's the woman the swine-news drones are championing as the rapee in Assange's currently-happening legal difficulties with the Swedish police.
The fdl piece links her w/ "Cuban" exciters of turmoil and nasty dreamers of scenarios of reconquest, inc. the "Cuban-American mafia".
It is the opinion, strongly held, of inf38, that the food chain of that mafia links vertically upward to a virtually invisible criminal organization, multi-national, hydratic, ruthless, that traces its ancestry directly to Meyer Lansky, the king of kings of pre-Castro Cuba's real economy, which was like Bangkok Vegas and your local street-ho drug-get boulevards all rolled into one tidy tropical island getaway.
It was a Cuba whose ostensible ruler, Batista, was mostly a beard for Lansky's vice operations on the island, in the 50's a wide-open sin park. So not only did the rico aristocracy of Cuba get booted to the penile state virtually en masse, Lansky's thugs and pimps and blackmailers got the heave-ho too. Creating a thirst for vengeance in men known for their long-arc vendettas.

sniper school - free tuition
Strongarm dictator Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba until the revolution, or as the highly-paid Jeff Jacoby would have it - until Fidel Castro "seized power". Seizing power from ruthless corrupt dictators was the American job description, last I heard. Batista was in every respect but the moustache the Saddam Hussein of Cuba, and possibly less moral generally.
Meyer Lansky ran Batista's vice franchises until Castro drove all the crooks out of Cuba, or as many as he got around to, or the ones that bothered him. Whatever. The point is for years I haven't been able to understand how a handful of semi-literate, but wealthy, Cubans could exercize so much power in American politics.
Meyer Lansky was not Italian but he was probably at or near the top of the organized criminal underworld for most of his maturity. This never got to the big screen or the public eye the way all those godfathers and goodfellas did.
Lansky. Now Abramoff.
Abramoff is a prince among men. Gambling. Vice. Murder. Whatever it takes.
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link Busy Busy Busy

Ching-chong good thing ding-dong:

...the Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao made international headlines by publicly announcing his ambitions to buy the New York Times and later the Wall Street Journal. In a TV interview he explained that he would be an ideal newspaper magnate because “I am very good at working with Jews”—who, he said, controlled the media.

Yet Chen presumably, like the majority of Chinese, has few concrete ideas about the reality of Jewish history or practices.

Tablet
via iSteve via xymphora
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Announcing your intention to write something is almost a guarantee you won't. But.
History and practices.
To get at this you need a take on what was called "The Opium War", after it was over. Why it happened, how it was resolved, and the outcome.
The short version is the Sassoon family, Jewish textile merchants taking advantage of the brutal domination of India by Britain, with its consequently available near-slave labor, minimal overhead etc. got into the wide-open Asian opium trade, and ended up with an exclusive franchise in China. Which was at the time a sort of dystopic 3rd-worldy kind of place.
The Sassoons were making big money on the addiction process, that ultimate retail/consumer hook, steadily expanding their market, and running the whole enterprise in-house.
Then some heroic Chinese, some military figures centrally, disgusted at what they saw happening, began agitating against the damage widespread opium addiction was causing to their society and their people.
They threw a bunch of opium in the Yangtze, broke up the candy stores, ran dealers out etc.
The Sassoons, because of their financial connections in and on the British government, the biggest empire in the world at the time, got the British navy to invade China and whip the asses of the reformers, who fought back, were defeated by a far superior military, and by the terms of surrender were forced by the British to repay the Sassoon organization for lost business and all the opium they threw in the river. Revenge and then some.
At the end of the conflict, the Sassoons had a guaranteed lock on the opium business in China.
That's never stopped. Mickey Cohen, Meyer Lansky, 20th century bosses of the world drug trade. Their heirs have not been disinherited.
Hoover never made move one on Jewish gangsters, as an anti-organized crime warrior he was exclusively concerned with the Italian Mafia. Probably because Lansky's mob, the "Kosher Nostra", equally organized, equally criminal, equally if not more powerful, had blackmail-ready proof of his sexual ambiguity. 8x10 glossies of Edgar in a house dress and lipstick or something.
That's who's got the global illegal drug market lock today. And I'm convinced, without any hard evidence, that that's why the US/NATO is in Afghanistan, the world's number one producer of opium, which just harvested its largest crop ever, under military occupation. An otherwise inexplicable fact.
Because, as Mr. Chen Guangbiao says, the Jews run America. And the media. And the world's illegal drug industry.

His eyes are dead:

“No one has bought me, No. 1,” Menendez said last spring. “No one, ever. In the 20 years I’ve been in Congress, never has it been suggested that that could even be possible. Never in 40 years of public life. So I’m not going to reach this moment in my life to make that a possibility.”
JewishVoiceNY
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Castillo called the allegations part of a “diabolical plot” orchestrated to discredit Melgen, who owns a company with a lucrative contract with the Dominican government to provide X-ray machines at ports. The machines would be used to scan shipping containers to look for contraband and illegal drugs.
Miami Herald
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“He treated me well,” she said. “He had money. He was very generous.”
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Carl Hiaasen(Miami Herald) on Menendez/Melgen
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Prominent Dominican lawyer Vinicio Castillo on Monday said allegations that linked U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to sex parties with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic were part of a “dirty campaign” aimed at discrediting his cousin, a Florida eye doctor who has a stalled multimillion-dollar contract for security at Dominican ports.
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The contract was originally signed with the Dominican government a decade ago. Two years ago, Melgen bought out the company that had signed the contract.
That contract has raised controversy due to its cost — an estimated $500 million to $1 billion over 20 years. And the machines have not been installed.
Menendez, who has received healthy campaign contributions from the doctor, in a July Senate hearing peppered Obama officials about what they were doing to help U.S. business interests in the Dominican Republic. He specifically mentioned the contract for X-ray equipment at the ports.
Castillo’s father, Vinicio “Vincho” Castillo, the government’s drug czar and Melgen’s uncle, has also spoken about the need for the machines.
Fieser/Miami Herald
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They all started to come to light Tuesday and Wednesday when the FBI raided the South Florida offices of Menendez’s friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, accused in the emails of flying the New Jersey Democrat to the Dominican Republic for the trysts.
Menendez called the claims “fallacious allegations.”
Caputo/Miami Herald
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Menendez trove at the Daily Caller

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Okay. A brief defense of hater sites and wingnut web presence.
The mindset of counter-MSM journalism, essentially the left/liberal channel on the net, is so timid and knee-jerk partisan you can get most of the two "sides" to any serious issue from scanning FOXNews and the Daily Kos.
The polarized scornful dismissal of non-liberal non-progressive but non-mainsream whatever, means that any info not acceptable to either the MSM or the counterMSM has no validity. It's not going to show up in acceptable channels.
Partisan news is just team playing, and there's always only two teams.
If you want to get at what's really happening you'll have to dig through a lot of shit, and you'll need inspired guidance. There's a lot of shit out there.
But the truth is out there as well.
The Daily Caller has no standing with Gawker. Xymphora's on the ADL's hatewatch menu.
My stance, such as it is, is that I'll read anything by anybody. And make my own mind up.
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So, the biggest bankers in Ecuador rip off the little Ecuadoran checking and savings folks and flee to the US, while the little Ecuadoran folks lose their money in the failure of Filanbanco, biggest bank in Ecuador - money which the Isaias bros now have for their very own, to live largely upon.
Menendez has their backs. Seriously has their backs.
Melgen the Opthalmologist's uncle is the drug czar of the Dominican Republic.
Melgen the Opthalmologist buys a company lined up to run X-ray scanners at major shipping ports in Dominican Republic. Playing a central role in whether or not illegal drugs are moving through D.R.
Menendez godfathers Melgen's business interest in Dominican homeland security through the various USgovernment avenues necessary.
Melgen takes Menendez to D.R., more than twice, for what an anonymous tipster says is sex vacation party fun, with underage hookers.
Neighbors in D.C. say Menendez is an at-home sex-party fool.
The math is pretty easy.
Menendez is a sex addict, vulnerable to all kinds of blackmail pressure and entrapment/enticement because of that.
Corruption is the place this thing breeds and reproduces itself.
Sex and drugs are used to corrupt individuals, money is used to corrupt individuals and the system.
Miami.
Menendez is Cuban.
What makes it hang together is the Lansky connection to pre-revolution Cuba, and Lansky's spiritual grandchildren in the "Kosher Nostra". An invisible organization which dominates international illegal drug trafficking. Most Americans think the int'l drug biz is run by the producers of the drugs themselves, which is absurd.
The control of US foreign policy by Jews - Senator "We Own You Bob" Menendez is Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee - accounts for, among other seriously bad-for-US policy decisions, the otherwise senseless continued presence of US military in Afghanistan. The world's biggest source of pre-heroin opium, Afghanistan. Which has just produced its largest opium crop ever, during an occupation by the most powerful military force in the world.
But you have to have that initial hypothesis working, that the international illegal drug industry's being run by Jewish gangsters.
And without solid evidence for that, the allegation just means you're anti-Semitic, willing to believe anything that makes Jews look bad.
Of course if you did have solid evidence for that, the depth and breadth of it are so global, and the ruthlessness of the main players so implacably vicious, your life wouldn't be worth a dime bag of street-cut skag.
And it would be pretty hard to find a safe place to hide out in long enough to get that info to anyone who could do something with it. And who would that be anyway?
Probably not the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Lansky @inf38

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke is on youtube, or most of it is, I couldn't find the ending.
via w/b.t. link.
Also a snippet of Lee on Bill Maher's erstwhile progressive-left talk thing.
He was chastised for mongering conspiracy-fears by not denouncing the "levees were bombed" idea which is evidently pretty popular, or was at the time, all of 2 years ago.
Coming to that after seeing the documentary made it less bizarre.
Does it really matter if they were bombed or not? A little I guess. But the arrogance behind the caused disaster of Katrina's aftermath, the cold heartlessness of the President's mother's affluent-alcoholic throwaway comment - how so many of the displaced were suddenly better off, sheltered and fed in the Houston Astrodome, than they had been in New Orleans - the obvious disregard in the posture and speech of Bush and Cherthoff compared to the tears and outrage of Nagin and Compass, it adds up to something like a bomb.
Much joy and confirmation in the Judeo-Christian mystic camps as disaster strikes everybody but them, so far. There's this weird background noise that never made it to the overt screen, of New Orleans as an evil place, punished and cleansed by the stern hand of the Almighty, even as many of the survivors testified to their faith confirmed. That many of the lost died praying doesn't enter into it.
And China gets whacked by the same hand. Ha-ha China. Take that you godless jerks.
Some of us have speculatively shifted the scene's particulars to the coming collapse of systems built on the foundations of a stable world, foundations those systems have undermined past repair. How long 'til the next one?
Logically the next step is to avoid getting caught in the chaos. I keep imagining all these second-sighted visionaries piling up and smashing into each other as the limits of their abilities bring them to the same place, like fans lunging toward a foul ball. The near-future.
The central Jewish story is the Passover, which basically involves the good guys walking out of a disaster unscathed, while the bad guys suffer and die. And Christianity it becomes increasingly clear is a kind of watered down Judaism, with the good guy badges and uniforms retailored to fit. This is not about the actual moral teachings of either religion, which line up well with non-religious humane morality. It's about the organization as organism, with its own senses, that distant vision being primary. Prophecy.
The moment occupied by an organism that's semi-immortal isn't as fixed on the timeline as an individual's. And these organizations as organisms would be immortal, so far.
The ability to see the future comes up all over the place - Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Paracelsus, the psychedelic nastiness of Revelations, Polynesians drinking kava and seeing great ships coming over the horizon years before they did, the Scots Gaels have traditions of second-sight that are too common to be based on nothing but wishful thinking, Meyer Lansky was notorious for being able to avoid trouble as if he could see it coming.
It seems probable that humans can tap something that provides a clear enough picture of future events that given other skills can be put to advantage. It would for sure come in handy in the investment sector. But who can see the whole thing? What would it look like if you could? And how do all those partial visions work to create what they see? That's one of the quantum theory spookinesses. That merely looking divides reality, choosing anything creates a new path, another world that wouldn't have been without that looking, and choosing.
As always the selfish have the upper hand there - when you're all that matters the only important thing is how it affects you. Deferring responsibility to divine agency gets selfishness out of the way, but it's not hard to find certainty on both sides of completely contradictory views of the divine. And too much of the common view of the divine is a selfish vision to begin with.
As the global warming debate sputters to shocked silence many turn toward hard pragmatic responses. The carbon footprint of your community would be much smaller if your community itself were much smaller. Eugenics, genocide, Holocaust. FEMA.
The linkage is even more outlandish than the theory of the levees being bombed to flood the 9th Ward of New Orleans. But the logic of it is simple enough - you know lots of the men who run things, men who choose the larger paths we all get carried down, have worked those dark corners for what they could gather for themselves.
George Bush's God killed a bunch of innocent people during and after Katrina, through Bush's agency whether incompetent or callous, but that same God has killed, through that same agency, over a million innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Each day's rise in the world population cheapens the price of human life, lessens the abstract horror. As the truth gets even more inconvenient, where we are, how fast we're headed for what can only be an awful correction, accelerates that degrading of human worth. The competition for survival increases, hardening hearts. Behind the gaudy veils of the television's stage the sound of that heartlessness whispers louder. But Sean Penn was down there in the flood, doing what he could to help. Spike Lee put his heart to the wheel to make that documentary.
Whatever drove them we all need now, and we'll need a lot more of it before this is finished.

Monstrous:

Once the police state vanishes, that habit of criminality will, unfortunately, not disappear. It will explode.

AnnLeslie/DailyMail(UK) 05.Aug.06
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Ann Leslie - another graduate of the Christopher Hitchens school of the poisonous mind. Or heart. Maybe liver.
What this is, what she's saying, is advance p.r. for what's planned and intended for Cuba.
A resumption of Meyer Lansky's criminal enterprises under Batista, the near-total corruption of the island before Che and Fidel took over.
Las Vegas with brown-skinned servants.
Back to the old days.
To talk about either Che or Fidel without placing them in the context of that corruption and their righteous and heroic, and ultimately victorious, stand against it, is an absolute lie - cunning, Satanically mischievous, evil in intent and practice.

Cuba (lots of broken links)
Lansky
Castro
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Jeb Bush
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Otto Juan Reich
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Orlando Bosch

and here
and here

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Luis Posada
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Raoul Cantero
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Miguel Recarey, Jr
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Camilo Padreda
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Hector Pesquera
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+ Batista