All the "news" below is produced by "journalists" accepting the following limitations:
Promulgated in February 1999, the "88 Law" (soon nicknamed the "gagging law" in dissident circles) weighs like the Sword of Damocles over any person who "collaborates, by any means whatsoever, with radio or television programmes, magazines or any other foreign media" or "provides information" considered likely to serve US policy. The law provides for very heavy sentences: up to 20 years' imprisonment, confiscation of all personal belongings and fines up to 100,000 pesos (close to 4,800 dollars, while the average Cuban salary is 250 pesos or 12 dollars per month). This law, that no court has taken advantage of as yet, also provides for punishment for "the promotion, organisation or encouragement of, or the participation in meetings or demonstrations.
and under threat of the following repressive laws
"The Cuban government is based on lies and cheap propaganda. That is why
it is afraid of words and the truth."
"El Gobierno cubano se basa en la mentira y en la propaganda barata. Por eso
le tiene miedo a la palabra, a la verdad"
Raul Rivero, April 2006, University of Sevilla, Spain.
Enlace
Sitio de los periodistas de Sancti SpÃritus. Cuba
Mon, 21 May 2012 21:23:20 +0000
| 05/21/2012 09:23 PM |
| Sancti SpÃritus, la ciudad de los puentes de barro |
| Aunque no existe esa denominación oficial para Sancti SpÃritus, me atrevo a asegurar que no hay otra ciudad en Cuba con tantos puentes de barro como en la cuarta villa fundada por los conquistadores españoles a mediados de 1514. |
| 05/21/2012 09:23 PM |
| Amelia Peláez: espirituana y universal |
| De la casa paterna en Yaguajay espirituano, donde transcurrió toda su adolescencia, conservó Amelia el purismo de los colores, la reverberación insolente de la luz del trópico, el cromatismo de la intemperie. |
| 05/21/2012 09:23 PM |
| El pintor de los tejados |
|  Cada vez que empuña un pincel, Antonio DÃaz deja su alma plasmada en el lienzo. |
