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| 05/17/2012 10:11 PM |
| Breaking the Silence on Racism in Cuba |
| Breaking the Silence on Racism in Cuba Ivet González interviews documentary-maker GLORIA ROLANDO HAVANA, May 17, 2012 (IPS) – Gloria Rolando has been revealing hidden chapters of Cuban history since the 2010 premiere of the first part of her documentary series "1912: Breaking the Silence," about the virtually unknown story about the only legal political [...] |
| 05/13/2012 01:58 PM |
| Cuba’s Raul Castro backs gay rights: daughter |
| Cuba's Raul Castro backs gay rights: daughter (AFP) HAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro backs greater gay rights and ending discrimination against homosexuals, his daughter Mariela, a famed sexologist, said Saturday during a colorful gay rights march in Havana. "He has done some advocacy work, speaking of the need to make progress in terms of [...] |
| 04/30/2012 02:08 PM |
| An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo |
| An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated By Luis Eligio D'Omni and Amaury Pacheco D'Omni: (Artists currently on tour in the United States of America) 1- On The 13th of April, Hector Riscart Mustelier (El Ñaño), the leader of Cuban alternativity, musician for [...] |
| 04/21/2012 05:25 PM |
| No more deception, FREEDOM NOW / Oswaldo Payá |
| No more deception, FREEDOM NOW / Oswaldo PayáOswaldo Payá, Translator: Cleonte The government representing the military regime has denied Cubans the universal right to travel freely for more than half a century and still denies this right without any clear prospects towards change. With the greatest cruelty, it has torn millions of Cuban families apart [...] |
| 04/13/2012 10:03 PM |
| The Trial is Today, April 13. Solidarity with Zuraima, Wife of the Rastifarian Priest Imprisoned in Cuba |
| The Trial is Today, April 13. Solidarity with Zuraima, Wife of the Rastifarian Priest Imprisoned in Cuba: +53-52519247 / Orlando Luis Pardo LazoOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated To whom it may concern: I, Hector Riscart Mustelier, declare in writing what really happened on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. We left the "National Cabaret" where we [...] |
| 04/05/2012 08:11 PM |
| ZURAIMA AND HER RASTAFARIAN HUSBAND ASK FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY: +53-52519247 / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo |
| ZURAIMA AND HER RASTAFARIAN HUSBAND ASK FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY: +53-52519247 / Orlando Luis Pardo LazoOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated INJUSTICE, BRUTALITY AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RASTAFARIANS IN CUBA 2012. CUBAN RASTAFARIANS UNDER THE NEGATIVE POWER ASKING FOR HELP FROM THE POWER OF LIGHT AND TRUTH. By: Family, artists and friends of Hector Riscart TRUTH ALWAYS [...] |
| 04/01/2012 09:29 PM |
| The Streets Belong to Cubans / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| The Streets Belong to Cubans / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated Cuba's leaders and their acolytes have warned for years and without the least reserve, that the streets belong to the Revolutionaries. This amounts to the segregation that only government sympathizers can march and protest peacefully and publicly, but always in [...] |
| 04/01/2012 04:17 PM |
| Total Injustice / Yamil Dominguez |
| Total Injustice / Yamil DominguezTranslator: Unstated, Yamil Domínguez As I mentioned before, that later I would talk about the injustices that still remain in Cuban prisons, and their systems of torture in the process of interrogations that are so hidden from the world. A system designed to establish their totalitarianism and the State terror that [...] |
| 03/28/2012 12:28 AM |
| The Supreme Pontiff Who Was to Come with the Spring / Lilianne Ruíz |
| The Supreme Pontiff Who Was to Come with the Spring / Lilianne RuízLilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated It's absurd that because a political party lets religious people join its ranks, it can say that in Cuban religious discrimination against entering politics has disappeared. From the moment someone discriminates in this way and dares to say whether [...] |
| 03/27/2012 12:28 AM |
| The Challenges of a Visit / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| The Challenges of a Visit / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. Considering the current situation of Cuba, we can conclude that the social scenario where the government, the peaceful opposition, and the Catholic Church should move together has been excessively strained. On one hand, the governing apparatus of General-President Raul Castro has [...] |
| 03/23/2012 10:09 PM |
| Cuba: Church & State, Alliances & Resentments |
| Cuba: Church & State, Alliances & ResentmentsMarch 22, 2012Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES, March 22 — Cuba will soon experience its second papal visit, and many people are wondering why this small island is receiving such a privilege from Rome if, after all, the Cuban Catholic Church doesn't have the popular support that's seen in other [...] |
| 03/20/2012 08:25 PM |
| LGBT Tourism in Cuba (Part II) |
| LGBT Tourism in Cuba (Part II)March 20, 2012Maria Matienzo HAVANA TIMES, March 20 — I don't like to leave my promises unfulfilled. So, since I had promised myself not to leave this issue hanging — regardless of the wrongdoing of my tearing out some pages from someone else's magazine — I wanted to continue with [...] |
| 03/10/2012 05:36 PM |
| LGBT Tourism in a Cuban Magazine |
| LGBT Tourism in a Cuban MagazineMarch 9, 2012Maria Matienzo Puerto HAVANA TIMES, March 9 — This past Saturday I went to a party with some friends of some friends. That might seem a little like a tongue twister, but anyone who has gone through this knows it's the main reason that — even with music, [...] |
| 02/28/2012 11:47 PM |
| Cuba’s Call to Meet with Some Emigrants in USA |
| Cuba's Call to Meet with Some Emigrants in USAFebruary 27, 2012Haroldo Dilla Alfonso* The Cuban Interests Section in Washington D.C. Photo: Wikipedia.org HAVANA TIMES, Feb 27 — This past Wednesday night I received an email that had been sent out to numbers of people from a diligent Cuban-American cultural entrepreneur. It was a call from [...] |
| 02/18/2012 02:28 AM |
| Daily Racism / Fernando Dámaso |
| Daily Racism / Fernando DámasoFernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated Some time ago, in the euphoria of Triumphalism, it was constantly declared that in Cuba the scourge of racism had been resolved, and it had been eliminated. It is true that, institutionally, in the current laws and decrees this is so, but the reality is quite the [...] |
| 02/14/2012 10:38 PM |
| Democratizing Cuba? (Part II) |
| Democratizing Cuba? (Part II)February 14, 2012Isbel Diaz Torres HAVANA TIMES, Feb 14 — My previous post, "Democratizing Cuba (I)," concluded with the expression "behind closed doors." As this is so closely related to the topic I'm dealing with, I'd like to make some comments about the discussions that took place during the recent National Conference [...] |
| 02/12/2012 10:26 PM |
| Public Declaration in Self-Defense of Rastafarian Artist Hector Riscar (El Nano) / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado |
| Public Declaration in Self-Defense of Rastafarian Artist Hector Riscar (El Nano) / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado MachadoEl Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado, Translator: Unstated Share I, Hector Riscar Mustelier, declare in writing what really happened on Wednesday 16 November 2011. We left the National Cabaret, where we were working the Heritage Group, a reggae [...] |
| 01/04/2012 09:35 PM |
| No Law, No Resolution, No Racism in Cuba |
| No Law, No Resolution, No Racism in CubaJanuary 4, 2012Maria Matienzo Puerto HAVANA TIMES, Jan 4 — I have a picture of my niece on the desktop of my computer. She's only a year old and a mulata, like me. What it means to be black in Cuba is summarized by her mother, a light-brown-skinned [...] |
| 01/03/2012 07:01 PM |
| Cuba Santeria priests reject doomsday prediction |
| Posted on Monday, 01.02.12 Cuba Santeria priests reject doomsday predictionThe Associated Press HAVANA — A body of top Afro-Cuban priests is predicting a year of change and upheaval in 2012, but the group says fears the world will end are wrong. In their annual New Year's forecast, the priests warned the world could see more [...] |
| 12/30/2011 04:37 AM |
| Neither a Poet or a Cuban / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| Neither a Poet or a Cuban / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. It is the determination of the literary colonels of the Cuban Book Institute. Five years ago, they officially ceased inviting me to artistic events, competitions, and public readings. An edict, coming from the ditches of Villa Marista and aimed at [...] |
| 12/29/2011 09:24 PM |
| Cuba to consider term limits |
| Cuba to consider term limitsThursday, December 29, 2011 » 08:16pm Cuba's Communist Party is expected to consider a strategic overhaul at its first National Conference in 50 years next month, including a radical presidential proposal to impose term limits on top leaders. President Raul Castro has said the gathering, set for January 28, will tackle [...] |
| 12/22/2011 06:50 AM |
| Mariela Castro in the Right Light District / Jeovany J. Vega |
| Mariela Castro in the Right Light District / Jeovany J. VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: lapizcero Towards the end of October, sociologist Mariela Castro Espin, Director of the National Center of Sexual Education of Cuba (CENESEX), while on a visit to this country, expressed her admiration for the "dignified manner" with which prostitutes uphold the value [...] |
| 12/18/2011 03:50 PM |
| Pope’s trip to Cuba holds layers of spiritual, political hopes |
| Pope's trip to Cuba holds layers of spiritual, political hopesDec. 16, 2011By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Cuba in the spring will have multiple layers of meaning for the church and for Cuban society, said a U.S. archbishop who pays close attention to Cuba. The pope will go [...] |
| 11/26/2011 10:18 PM |
| Police detain dissidents headed for Havana forum on racism |
| Posted on Friday, 11.25.11 Police detain dissidents headed for Havana forum on racism Dozens of Cuban dissidents were detained to break up 'Day of Resistance.'By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban police detained more a dozen dissidents to force the cancellation of Friday's session of a forum on racial discrimination on the island, according to forum organizers. [...] |
| 11/21/2011 12:44 PM |
| Scholar: Communist Party must do more to spur Cuba reforms |
| Scholar: Communist Party must do more to spur Cuba reformsPublished November 19, 2011EFE Havana – Cuba's Communist Party must play a more dynamic role as a vehicle of "change and institutionalization" to ensure the success of recent economic reforms on the island, a Cuban-American scholar says. University of Denver lecturer Arturo Lopez-Levy told Efe in [...] |
| 11/11/2011 04:57 PM |
| Same-Sex Cuba Couples Want to Be Counted |
| Same-Sex Cuba Couples Want to Be CountedNovember 11, 2011Dalia Acosta HAVANA TIMES, Nov. 11 (IPS) — Communist Party and gay rights activist, journalist and blogger Francisco Rodríguez has triggered an online debate in Cuba by calling for sexual diversity to be identified in the next census, due in September 2012. Better known by the name [...] |
| 10/29/2011 10:53 AM |
| Ideological Concoction, a la Carte / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| Ideological Concoction, a la Carte / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) has just made their National Conference document (scheduled to take place on January 28th 2012) public. It is like an extract from a manual containing the recipe to revive the ideological corpse, that political dinosaur that [...] |
| 10/27/2011 07:13 PM |
| Varied reactions to Communist Party policy document |
| CUBA: Varied reactions to Communist Party policy document The conference, which has the power to make changes to the party's Central Committee, comes on the heels of the PCC's Sixth Congress, held in April. HAVANA, Cuba, Thursday October 27 (By Patricia Grogg) – The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) began a wide process of consultation [...] |
| 10/24/2011 03:02 PM |
| Cubans test official limits on criticism |
| Cubans test official limits on criticismBy Peter OrsiAssociated PressPublished: Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 6:50 a.m. MDT PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba — Pedro Pablo Oliva was the kind of model citizen the Cuban government wants to show the world. Oliva proclaimed his loyalty to Fidel Castro's revolution, his support for its goal of social equality and [...] |
| 10/15/2011 08:53 PM |
| Cuba’s repression takes on more racial tint under Raul Castro |
| Posted on Saturday, 10.15.11RACIAL INEQUALITY Cuba's repression takes on more racial tint under Raul CastroBY JON B. PERDUETwitter@jonperdue Unlike the pervasive myth of universal literacy and quality healthcare that has gone unchecked and unchallenged for decades, Cuba's fabled championing of the Afro-Cuban community is one Cuban myth that has been shattered since Fidel Castro handed [...] |
| 10/03/2011 11:31 AM |
| Cuba’s Repression Escalates |
| THE AMERICAS – OCTOBER 3, 2011 Cuba's Repression EscalatesThe loosening of travel restrictions by the U.S. is read as weakness in Havana.By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson returned home from an attempted hostage-rescue mission to Cuba last month empty-handed and "still scratching [his] head" as to why the Castro regime double-crossed [...] |
| 08/14/2011 10:20 PM |
| Singer Pablo Milanes urges more freedom in Cuba |
| Singer Pablo Milanes urges more freedom in CubaSun Aug 14, 2011 11:09am EDTBy Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) – One of Communist-ruled Cuba's best-known singers, Pablo Milanes, said in quoted comments he would like to see more freedom to protest on the island as he prepared for a controversial concert this month in Miami. Miami's Spanish [...] |
| 08/13/2011 03:10 PM |
| Wendy and Ignacio / Yoani Sánchez |
| Wendy and Ignacio / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, they all got ahead of us, as did even Spain itself, that country of espadrilles and tambourines that our grandparents described as timid and old-fashioned. Gay marriage is also a reality in several jurisdictions in the [...] |
| 07/30/2011 08:43 PM |
| Cubans Aren’t Racist, But… |
| Cubans Aren't Racist, But…By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) – "I'm not racist, but at night, if I see three black men coming, I cross the street"; "I have a black friend, but I'd never accept him as my brother-in-law"; "Who me, racist? Not at all! But my daughter marrying a black man…" [...] |
| 07/30/2011 08:38 PM |
| The awakening of Cuba’s resistance movement |
| Posted on Saturday, 07.30.11CUBA The awakening of Cuba's resistance movementBY OTTO J. REICH ANDinfo@directorio.org In Guantánamo, Cuba, an important eastern city near the eponymous Naval Base, the streets recently reverberated with shouts of "Down with Fidel! Down with Raúl!" and "The streets belong to the people!" as dozens marched in open defiance of the iron-fisted [...] |
| 07/09/2011 11:43 PM |
| Cuban transgender woman says she was fired because her lover is with opposition, |
| Posted on Saturday, 07.09.11 Cuban transgender woman says she was fired because her lover is with opposition For Mariela Castro, gay rights are OK in Cuba but political rights are not, says transgender woman.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@elnuevoherald.com A transgender woman has quit her job at a government-run sex studies center headed by the daughter of [...] |
| 07/03/2011 03:12 PM |
| A Sui Generis Walk / Miriam Celaya |
| A Sui Generis Walk / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Unstated On Tuesday the 28th, at three in the afternoon, the first LGTB (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals) Observatory Walk took place in Havana, along the middle of the central street of the Prado, starting from the corner of Neptune and continuing to the sea. The [...] |
| 06/29/2011 09:26 PM |
| Cuba’s gay pride parade: big debut, few marchers |
| Cuba's gay pride parade: big debut, few marchersBy Adalberto Roque | AFP – Tue, Jun 28, 2011 There were just a handful, but the dozen Cubans who took part in the country's first Gay Pride rally Tuesday celebrated one more step on the country's road to gay rights recognition. "We are not asking for anything, [...] |
| 06/27/2011 07:50 PM |
| Yoani Sánchez recibe beca de comunidad social de mujeres de EEUU |
| Derechos Humanos Yoani Sánchez recibe beca de comunidad social de mujeres de EEUU "No permitimos que viajen personas con historial criminal", informó el Ministerio del Interior cubano a la organizadora de BlogHer respecto a la autorización de viaje de la bloguera Redacción CE, Madrid | 27/06/2011 La bloguera Yoani Sánchez ha sido seleccionada junto a [...] |
| 06/23/2011 07:18 PM |
| Revolutionary Racism in Cuba |
| Revolutionary Racism in CubaJune 21, 2011 This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associate Naomi Glassman Revolutionary Racism: Afro‑Cubans in an Era of Economic Change Fidel Castro's regime enacted anti-discrimination legislation and redistributive reforms benefiting Afro-Cubans Afro-Cubans are disproportionately affected by Cuba's economic struggles and change U.S. dollars from remittances, tourism and paladares contribute to [...] |
| 06/22/2011 06:25 PM |
| Global Bestiary / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| Global Bestiary / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translator: Unstated I. A Happy World China, North Korea and Cuba, in that order, are the three happiest nations on the planet. In the "Top Five" they are followed by Iran in the 4th position, and Venezuela, number 5. The most agonizingly unhappy of all countries is [...] |
| 06/17/2011 03:05 PM |
| Economic Reforms Hitting Women Hard |
| CUBAEconomic Reforms Hitting Women HardBy Dalia Acosta HAVANA, Jun 16, 2011 (IPS) – Women in Cuba are gaining ground in public life and earn the same wages as men. But the gender gap in the workplace is still a challenge for women, who are finding the odds more heavily stacked against them as the government [...] |
| 06/06/2011 03:00 PM |
| Experts Weigh in on Questions of Race in Cuba |
| Experts Weigh in on Questions of Race in CubaBy Center for International PolicyPublished: Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 – 6:09 am WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the Center for International Policy hosted an all-day conference that explored the notion and implications of racism and racial identity in Cuba as the Afro-Cuban population struggles [...] |
| 06/06/2011 02:56 PM |
| Racism remains an issue in Cuba, officials say |
| Posted on Friday, 06.03.11Cuba racism Racism remains an issue in Cuba, officials say Raul Castro's economic reforms may not help blacks as much as whites, one of the officials indicates.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@elnuevoherald.com WASHINGTON The Cuban government will soon cast a media spotlight on the issue of racism on the island, although some programs to [...] |
| 05/31/2011 09:06 AM |
| Telenovelas and Teleprejudices / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| Telenovelas and Teleprejudices / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated Cuban television debuts at its usual time of 9:00 in the evening, on the Cubavision channel, a telenovela–soap opera–titled "Under the Same Sun," which is already generating a buzz. Although they haven't provided much information about it, it's said to consist of [...] |
| 05/20/2011 01:31 PM |
| Cuba’s transsexual receives surgery |
| Cuba's transsexual receives surgeryUpdated: 20:36, Friday May 20, 2011 After 40 years of waiting, 61-year-old metalworker Juani Santos finally underwent a sex reassignment surgery as part of the Cuban government's revolutionary program to fund sex-change operations. According to Reuters, Santos was clinically diagnosed as the first transsexual man on the island in 1972, when he [...] |
| 05/20/2011 01:30 PM |
| Sexual Diversity in a Sexist City |
| CUBASexual Diversity in a Sexist CityBy Dalia Acosta SANTIAGO DE CUBA, May 19, 2011 (IPS) – Known as the cradle of the revolution and of the conga, but also as one of the most machista places in Cuba, the city of Santiago in the east of the island was the scene of two days of [...] |
| 05/12/2011 07:11 PM |
| Cuban blacks and mulattos the main victims of Raul Castro’s reforms |
| Thursday, May 12th 2011 – 06:28 UTC Cuban blacks and mulattos the main victims of Raul Castro's reforms Cuban blacks and mulattos will suffer the most with the elimination of a million government jobs, which could easily become a racial problem, consequence of the radical reforms imposed, and 'must be addressed as a priority', points [...] |
| 05/12/2011 06:11 PM |
| Black economist says Cuba needs affirmative action |
| Posted on Thursday, 05.12.11 Black economist says Cuba needs affirmative actionHe says economic reforms proposed by Raul Castro will hurt blacks more than whitesBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@elnuevoherald.com Black Cubans, already with the worst jobs and lowest salaries, will need "affirmative action" as the government tries to slash its inflated payrolls, a black Havana economist and [...] |
| 05/10/2011 05:36 AM |
| Hookers, an Anonymous Society / Laritza Diversent |
| Hookers, an Anonymous Society / Laritza DiversentLaritza Diversent, Translator: Unstated On February 25, in a human-trafficking case, the Las Tunas Provincial Court recognized in Judgment No. 92 that the young Cuban women "were blinded in the presence of foreigners, seeing in them the possibility of wearing stylish clothing and shoes, and the ability to visit [...] |