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Why Doesn’t the Cuban Regime Dialogue With the Dissidence?
Why Doesn’t the Cuban Regime Dialogue With the Dissidence? / Ivan Garcia
Posted on April 19, 2014
Luis, retired military and supporter of the regime, has a few arguments
to debate with several neighbors playing dominoes in the doorway of a
bodega in the Havana neighborhood of Lawton.
The theme of the day is the dialog between the opposition and… 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
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
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
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
After the Black Spring, Cuba’s new repression
After the Black Spring, Cuba's new repression
When the last of 29 journalists jailed in a notorious 2003 crackdown was
finally freed this year, it signaled to many the end of a dark era. But
Cuban authorities are still persecuting independent journalists through
arbitrary arrests, beatings, and intimidation. A CPJ special report by
Karen Phillips
Published July 6, 2011
Juan… 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
Cuba: Freedom on the Net 2011 – Freedom House
FREEDOM HOUSE Freedom on the Net 2011
CUBA
2009 2011
INTERNET FREEDOM STATUS Not Free Not Free
Obstacles to Access 25 24
Limits on Content 30 30
Violations of User Rights 33 33
Total 88 87
POPULATION: 11.3 million
INTERNET PENETRATION: 1 percent
WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS BLOCKED: Yes
SUBSTANTIAL POLITICAL CENSORSHIP: Yes
BLOGGERS/ONLINE USERS ARRESTED: Yes
PRESS FREEDOM STATUS: Not… 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
Does last Black Spring journalist’s release mark turning point for free expression?
Does last Black Spring journalist's release mark turning point for free
expression?
Published on Monday 7 March 2011.
The last journalist detained since the March 2003 "Black Spring"
crackdown, Pedro Argüelles Morán, was released from a prison in Ciego de
Ávila, his home town, on the evening of 4 March and was reunited with
his family, concluding a sad episode… 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
Last Black Spring reporter freed; one still jailed in Cuba
DECLARATION OF SANTIAGO
Jailed U.S. contractor, sour U.S.-Cuba relations
Jailed U.S. contractor, sour U.S.-Cuba relations
Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:21am EDT
(Reuters) – American Alan Gross has been held in Cuba since December on
suspicions of espionage, although he has not been officially charged
with a crime. The U.S. government has said he was not a spy but was in
Cuba setting up Internet systems for Jewish groups under… Continue reading
The hardest life: surviving Cuban jail
Posted on Friday, 07.30.10
RELEASE OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS | STORIES OF ABUSE
The hardest life: surviving Cuban jail
During their seven years in Cuban prisons, former prisoners say they
were confined to tiny windowless cells, fed inedible food and abused
psychologically.
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO
[email protected]
MADRID — Boiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of
bland, yellowing beef… 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
Cuban Government Continues to Stifle Dissent, Despite Assertions that Freedom of Expression is Respected, Says New Amnesty International Report
Cuban Government Continues to Stifle Dissent, Despite Assertions that
Freedom of Expression is Respected, Says New Amnesty International Report
June 30, 2010
Cuba's government continues to stifle dissent through arbitrary arrests,
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of journalists, dissidents and
activists, despite recent assertions that freedom of expression is
respected inside Cuba, Amnesty International said in a new report
released today.… Continue reading
Restrictions to freedom of expression create climate of fear in Cuba
Restrictions to freedom of expression create climate of fear in Cuba
30 June 2010
Full report:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR25/005/2010/en/62b9caf8-8407-4a08-90bb-b5e8339634fe/amr250052010en.pdf
Cuba's repressive legal system has created a climate of fear among
journalists, dissidents and activists, putting them at risk of arbitrary
arrest and harassment by the authorities, Amnesty International said in
a report released on Wednesday.
The report Restrictions on Freedom of Expression… Continue reading
CUBAN POLITICAL PRISIONERS
CUBAN POLITICAL PRISIONERS
(38TH Annual Conference of the International Organization of Human Rights)
2010-04-01.
Rolf Beller, International Organization of Human Rights
(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).-
ISHR Annual General Meeting – Year 2010
Since the seizure of power of the Castro brothers in the year 1959, the
press was at first controlled and then censored so that work for
journalists has always… Continue reading
Rage Against the Marxist Machine
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Rage Against the Marxist Machine
by Humberto Fontova
Hugo Chavez' inspirational debt to Ernesto "Che" Guevara is such that he
titled his regime's socio-economic model, "Mision Che Guevara." Don't
look for much of this in the MSM–but as I write Venezuela's youth are
hitting the streets in the tens of thousands and with raised
fists–AGAINST Castro/Che… Continue reading
