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Report: Cuba Using Dog Mauling, Grandma Beatings, Poison to Torture Political Prisoners

The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders published a study this week, based on interviews with Cuban political prisoners and other empirical data, finding that the communist regime tortures 100 percent of its political prisoners through a wide variety of tactics including beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation, rape and threats of rape, and physical attacks on their relatives.

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Brazil Welcomes Venezuelan Socialist Dictator Maduro

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro arrived in Brazil on Sunday to meet with his radical leftist counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as part of the Maduro regime’s efforts to “re-establish strategic bilateral alliances” between Venezuela and Brazil.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula