Gag law
Cuba’s 14ymedio Journalists Spend Two hours With the New York Times’ Ernesto Londoño
Cuba’s 14ymedio Journalists Spend Two hours With the New York Times’
Ernesto Londoño
Posted: 12/06/2014 4:24 am EST
14ymedio, 1 December 2014 — Ernesto Londoño, who authored six
editorials on Cuba published recently by The New York Times engaged in a
friendly conversation on Saturday with a part of the 14ymedio team, in
the hotel where he is staying in… Continue reading
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says her digital newspaper is launching soon
Posted on Tuesday, 04.01.14
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says her digital newspaper is launching soon
BY IVONNE GOMEZ AND JUAN O. TAMAYO
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez says her planned digital newspaper is just
weeks away from its debut, with a dozen staffers getting last minute
training and looking for novel ways to distribute the reports with text
messages, emails… Continue reading
What do Cubans Hope For in the New Year?
What do Cubans Hope For in the New Year? / Ivan Garcia
Posted on December 22, 2013
December is a month of epilogues. 2013 brought new things for Cubans.
After the 14th of January, those born on the island could travel abroad
without so much government oversight.
Even the dissidents. Although with exceptions. Opponents, hostages of
the Black Spring of… Continue reading
Journalism in the Cross-Current
Cuba: Journalism in the Cross-Current / Ivan Garcia
Posted on October 21, 2013
An autocracy’s efficiency can be measured by, among other things, its
immutable capacity for controlling information. Everything passes
through an ideological filter. Some guys sitting in an air-conditioned
office minutely evaluating it to determine what people can see, hear or
read.
Books, records, news, novels, films and… Continue reading
Independent Journalists Live on the Razor’s Edge in Cuba
Independent Journalists Live on the Razor's Edge in Cuba / Iván García
Ivan Garcia, Translator: mlk
Every day when they go out to report or write some story about daily
reality, invisible to official media, the murky Gag Law that can land
them in jail for 20 years or more floats over their heads.
It's not just the legal harassment.… Continue reading
The Need for Light
The Need for Light / Lilianne Ruiz
Lilianne Ruiz, Translator: Unstated
"Declaration of the Minister of Foreign Affairs." The article accuses
the U.S. Interests Section in Havana of fabricating an opposition
movement against Cuba's legitimate government, creating dissidents, and
trying to provoke "regime change."
For the first time I feel like a target of attack by the State
dictatorship in… Continue reading
First Anniversary of the Death of Laura Pollan
First Anniversary of the Death of Laura Pollan
Translating Cuba
Of short stature, with blue eyes and a firm voice, Laura Pollan was for
years one of the most visible faces in Cuba of the Ladies in White. A
teacher by profession and a civic activist by choice, she participated
in the creation and strengthening of the most important dissident… Continue reading
Cuba: Petitions and Apprehensions
Cuba: Petitions and Apprehensions
August 20, 2012
Dariela Aquique
HAVANA TIMES — For more than a half a century, we Cubans have suffered
from apprehension, as we have gone through an adverse social juncture in
which our civil rights have been constantly vetoed by the government.
Beyond the prohibitions themselves, the cardinal problem lies in that
most Cubans do not… Continue reading
Justice
Justice / Rafael León Rodríguez
Rafael León Rodríguez, Translator: Unstated
Elias Carranza. From adelante.cu
Dr. Elias Carranza, Director of the United Nations Latin American
Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,
shocked us when he said that Cuba is the safest country in the region,
during his Keynote Address at the Sixth International Meeting on Justice… Continue reading
Meñique Went out to Travel / Luis Felipe Rojas
Meñique Went out to Travel / Luis Felipe Rojas
Translating Cuba
"Meñique Went out to Travel" — that's the name of a famous children's
song. Those same travels were awarded to me by the combined forces of
State Security (G-2) and the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) on
April 28th. At 7:39 AM, Lieutenant Yasmani Suarez Ramirez showed up at
my… Continue reading
Not Twelve, Seventeen / Miguel Iturria Savón
Not Twelve, Seventeen / Miguel Iturria Savón
Miguel Iturria Savón, Translator: Unstated
Since the release of latest political prisoners from the repressive
crackdown known as the Black Spring of 2003, foreign correspondents in
Cuba cling to a mythical number twelve, referring to those who refused
exile and stayed on the island, which is a half truth.
There were 52 remaining… Continue reading
Strange "Estrangement" of the Foreign Press in Cuba / Miriam Celaya
Strange "Estrangement" of the Foreign Press in Cuba / Miriam Celaya
Miriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting
An article by a foreign news agency recently reported on the Internet,
"Cuban Dissidents at a Crossroads"by Paul Haven and Andrea Rodríguez of
the Associated Press, suffers from, at least, two of the most common and
serious limitations of accredited journalism in Cuba: contempt… Continue reading
Cuba: The Gag Law / Laritza Diversent
Cuba: The Gag Law / Laritza Diversent
Laritza Diversent, Translator: Unstated
In the first of the two annual sessions of the National Assembly, held
in the final days of last July, the International Relations committee
agreed to instruct its counterpart on Constitutional and Legal Matters,
an aggravation of the measures contained in the No. 88.
The Gag Law, as this… Continue reading
Cuba, the Same Ration of Hate / Luis Felipe Rojas
Cuba, the Same Ration of Hate / Luis Felipe Rojas
Luis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G.
This article was written by Luis Felipe Rojas and published on the
digital newspaper, Cubaencuentro.
Little time has passed since the conclusion of the VI Cuban Communist
Party Congress, and now very few have faith in those promises. In the
spectrum known as Social… Continue reading
Authorities Step Up Harassment Of Independent News Centre – RSF
Cuba: Authorities Step Up Harassment Of Independent News Centre
Written by: Reporters Without Borders
July 2, 2011
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The Cuban authorities are waging a campaign to intimidate Hablemos
Press, a Havana-based independent news centre, presumably because of its
criticism of the government. In the past three months, 14 of its
correspondents have been threatened and 10 have been… Continue reading
Political Decisions Above Cuban Laws / Laritza Diversent
Political Decisions Above Cuban Laws / Laritza Diversent
Laritza Diversent, Translator: Raul G.
The American contractor, Alan Gross, was sentenced this past March 4th
in Havana for carrying out acts which uphold the interests of a foreign
State with the "objective of damaging Cuban state independence or
territorial integrity", according article 91 of the Penal Code.
The choice of the… Continue reading
Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet is released after 8 years in prison
Posted on Friday, 03.11.11
Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet is released after 8 years in prison
Cuba's best-known dissident says he'll continue to fight the government
after eight years in prison.
BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
Cuba's government Friday freed Oscar Elias Biscet, a leading dissident
who served more than 11 years in prison and was awarded the U.S.
Presidential Medal… Continue reading
What Cuba’s dissidents want
What Cuba's dissidents want
27/07 20:16 CET
Human Rights
On July 13, seven freed Cuban dissidents arrived at Madrid airport in
Spain. They were part of a group of 75 people who were given long prison
sentences in a crackdown in early 2003. Their release followed
negotiations between the Cuban Catholic church and Raúl Castro.
The Cuban president had promised… Continue reading
20 journalists in prison since March 2003
20 journalists in prison since March 2003
In Cuba, they don’t just censor you now – they throw you in jail.
President Fidel Castro’s police rounded up 27 independent journalists on
18 March 2003, along with more than 50 political dissidents, all for the
same reason. At the beginning of April, Cuban courts dispatched each of
these journalists to prison… Continue reading
CUBAN DENTIST, A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA, GRAVELY ILL,CLAIMS HE PREFERS TO DIE RATHER THAN RENOUNCE HIS IDEALS
CUBAN DENTIST, A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA, GRAVELY ILL
CLAIMS HE PREFERS TO DIE RATHER THAN RENOUNCE HIS IDEALS
Camaguey
Testimony of Rebeca Rodriguez Sauto
Taped, transcribed, and translated into English
Coalition of Cuban-American Women
Laida Carro / Tanya Wilder
La Nueva Cuba
April 25, 2006
On April 18, 2006, Rebeca Rodriguez Sauto went to Kilo 7 Prison in… Continue reading
