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| 02/05/2012 07:47 PM |
| Brazilian Government must defend the rights of Yoani Sánchez, Cuban blogger and all other dissidents, journalists and human rights activists – Amnesty International |
| Brazilian Government must defend the rights of Yoani Sánchez, Cuban blogger and all other dissidents, journalists and human rights activists AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 27 January 2012 AI Index: AMR 19/002/2012 Br azilian Government must d efend the rights of Yoani Sánchez , Cuban blogger and all other dissidents, journalists and human rights activist s [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:36 PM |
| Cuba, Where Sheep Are Trained To Venerate Wolves |
| Op/Ed – 1/31/2012 @ 11:15AM Cuba, Where Sheep Are Trained To Venerate Wolves With the death of Cuban dissident Wilman Villar Mendoza, Cuba has lost one of its precious remaining brave souls. While a sputtering dissident movement shows occasional signs of life, reminding us of the hell the Cuban people endure, it casts a pale [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:34 PM |
| Cuban authorities ‘responsible’ for activist’s death on hunger strike – Amnesty International |
| Cuban authorities ‘responsible’ for activist’s death on hunger strike 20 January 2012 “The responsibility for Wilman Villar Mendoza’s death in custody lies squarely with the Cuban authorities, who summarily judged and jailed him for exercising his right to freedom of expression.” Javier Zúñiga, Special Adviser at Amnesty International Fri, 20/01/2012 The death in custody of [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:29 PM |
| Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them |
| Posted on Thursday, 02.02.12 Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched them for cellphones By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban dissidents say police beat, groped and detained seven women who tried [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:27 PM |
| Amnesty: Cuba Releases 3 Prisoners of Conscience |
| Amnesty: Cuba Releases 3 Prisoners of ConscienceBy PETER ORSI Associated PressHAVANA January 23, 2012 (AP) Amnesty International said Monday that three Cubans held without charge for 52 days following their arrest at a protest were released last week, hours after the human rights group named them as prisoners of conscience. The release of the three [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:10 PM |
| Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit |
| Posted on Thursday, 02.02.12 Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit The Brazilian leader had vowed to make human rights a cornerstone of her foreign policy pointed to the U.S. detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay on the island's southeastern tip.By Matthew BristowBloomberg News HAVANA — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said [...] |
| 02/03/2012 09:24 PM |
| HRW: “Cuba se mantiene como el único país de América Latina que reprime virtualmente toda forma de disenso político” |
| DDHH HRW: "Cuba se mantiene como el único país de América Latina que reprime virtualmente toda forma de disenso político" En el informe anual publicado este domingo, Human Right Watch afirma que "En 2011 el Gobierno de Raúl Castro continuó imponiendo el conformismo político usando las detenciones temporales, golpizas, actos públicos de repudio, exilio forzado [...] |
| 01/11/2012 10:45 PM |
| Cuba activist says brief detentions doubled in 2011 |
| Cuba activist says brief detentions doubled in 2011Wednesday, January 11, 2012 HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — A leading Cuban human rights campaigner said yesterday that brief detentions of dissidents nearly doubled in 2011 compared to the year before. The report released by Elizardo Sanchez, who monitors arrests as head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights [...] |
| 01/11/2012 08:55 PM |
| Challenges Facing Cuba’s New Left |
| Challenges Facing Cuba's New LeftJanuary 11, 2012Erasmo Calzadilla HAVANA TIMES, 11 ene — Cuban political scientist and columnist Haroldo Dilla recently published an essay on the need for a new left to be born in our country. Nevertheless for me, as someone who considers themself a member of that political wing, those words (at least [...] |
| 01/10/2012 04:35 PM |
| Human Rights Still Suffer Despite Change In Cuba |
| Human Rights Still Suffer Despite Change In Cuba01-09-2012New incarcerations for political dissent have not stopped. Members of dissident group "Ladies in White" pray after a Mass and before the group's weekly march at Santa Rita church in Havana, Cuba, Sunday Oct. 16, 2011. The group continues to face harassment by government officials and pro-government groups. [...] |
| 01/06/2012 05:37 PM |
| Former spanish ambassador to Cuba to head relations with Latin America |
| Posted on Thursday, 01.05.12 CUBA Former spanish ambassador to Cuba to head relations with Latin America Jesus Gracia Aldaz was ambassador in Havana when Cuban government jailed 75 dissidentsBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com A Spanish diplomat who served as ambassador in Havana from 2001 to 2004 was appointed Thursday to head the Foreign Ministry section that [...] |
| 01/04/2012 11:00 PM |
| Ros-Lehtinen says Smithsonian trips to Cuba a cash gift to Castro |
| Ros-Lehtinen says Smithsonian trips to Cuba a cash gift to CastroBy Pete Kasperowicz – 01/04/12 12:11 PM ET House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said the Smithsonian Institution's plan to chaperone Americans on four visits to Cuba this year amounts to licensed tourism of Cuba that will help give the "Castro dictatorship" access [...] |
| 01/03/2012 07:02 PM |
| Cuban prisoner dies during hunger strike |
| Posted on Monday, 01.02.12 Cuban prisoner dies during hunger strikeThe Associated Press HAVANA — A leading human rights activist says a Cuban prisoner who launched a hunger strike because he was not part of a large prison amnesty has died of an apparent heart attack. Rights activist Elizardo Sanchez said Monday that Rene Cobas died [...] |
| 01/03/2012 06:19 AM |
| The Pope’s Visit to Cuba: Expectations and Possibilities / Intramuros |
| The Pope's Visit to Cuba: Expectations and Possibilities / IntramurosIntraMuros Editorial 24The Catholic Church and the official press have announced that His Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI "is considering visiting Mexico and Cuba during the spring of the year 2012". At the same time, the spokesman of the Holy See has declared that the State [...] |
| 01/03/2012 01:23 AM |
| Sequences and Consequences / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| Sequences and Consequences / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated There are expectations on Cuba's "multiple shores" regarding the new immigration law that the government of Raul Castro is working on. It's not the first time we've heard about it; it's already been alluded to more than once and the news has [...] |
| 12/31/2011 11:12 PM |
| The General’s Pardons / Yoani Sánchez |
| The General's Pardons / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez Thousands of eyes were glued to national television screens this last Friday. The social networks and text messages also vibrated nervously. A strong rumor had been growing all week, feeding the hopes of Cubans on and off the island, killing sleep. Initiated and fed by official [...] |
| 12/31/2011 06:16 PM |
| On travel to Cuba, think liberty first |
| On travel to Cuba, think liberty firstCommentaryBy ANGEL CASTILLO JR. | Florida VoicesPublished: December 31, 2011 It has now been 63 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, in 1948. Both the United States and Cuba ratified it, and neither has withdrawn its consent. The declaration sets out [...] |
| 12/30/2011 11:47 PM |
| Raul Castro Releases 2,900 Common Prisoners But Holds Onto His 11 Million Cuban Hostages |
| Yoani Sanchez – Award-winning Cuban blogger Raul Castro Releases 2,900 Common Prisoners But Holds Onto His 11 Million Cuban HostagesPosted: 12/30/11 08:39 AM ET Thousands of eyes were glued to national television screens this last Friday. The social networks and text messages also vibrated nervously. A strong rumor had been growing all week, feeding the [...] |
| 12/28/2011 08:43 PM |
| Jailing of Cuban dissidents denounced |
| Posted on Tuesday, 12.27.11 Jailing of Cuban dissidents denouncedBy Juan Carlos Chavezjcchavez@elnuevoherald.com Activists and groups advocating individual freedom in Cuba denounced the jailing in maximum security prisons of three peaceful opponents, including Ivonne Malleza Galano, who this year carried out a series of daring street protests. The arrests coincide with the massive amnesty announced by [...] |
| 12/28/2011 06:31 AM |
| Chronicle of Asclepius in Cuba (Part 2) / Jeovany J. Vega |
| Chronicle of Asclepius in Cuba (Part 2) / Jeovany J. VegaJeovany J. Vega Translator's note: Asclepius is the ancient Greek god of Healing and Medicine If you are moderately well-informed you know that we 11 million Cubans living in Cuba are subject to a ban on free travel abroad. In this case it's not about [...] |
| 12/27/2011 07:56 PM |
| Cuban Dissident Freed Hours After Violent Arrest |
| Cuban Dissident Freed Hours After Violent Arrest HAVANA – Prominent Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas was released without charges several hours after his "violent" arrest in the central city of Santa Clara, his family and colleagues said Monday. Fariñas was headed for church on Sunday together with a group of 10 opposition members when "three (police) [...] |
| 12/25/2011 06:07 AM |
| Diversity vs. Demagoguery / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| Diversity vs. Demagoguery / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated For some time here the leaders of the Cuban government have been given to talking about diversity and defending the importance of respecting this in different groups of people in our national home. It's a positive discourse, of course, but something rather [...] |
| 12/25/2011 04:56 AM |
| They…the dissidents / Miriam Celaya |
| They…the dissidents / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting If it were possible to classify years the same way winemakers catalogue wine, I would say that 2011 has been a good harvest, good for those Cubans who aspire to a future of civility and of transformations in Cuba, who have seen a gradual but sustained [...] |
| 12/23/2011 02:21 PM |
| Cuban-Americans stream to the island for holidays |
| Posted on Friday, 12.23.11 Cuban-Americans stream to the island for holidaysBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZAP Hispanic Affairs Writer MIAMI — Deborah Labrada was giddy as she stood in line at Miami-Dade International Airport, waiting to fly to the town of Guantanamo, Cuba. It is the place she visits roughly once a year to see her grandfather, aunts [...] |
| 12/22/2011 08:06 PM |
| Cuba, North Korea, and Vaclav Havel |
| Cuba, North Korea, and Vaclav HavelRay WalserDecember 21, 2011 at 11:30 am On learning of the death of Kim Jong-il, Cuban authorities immediately declared three days of official mourning. Their action underscored longstanding ties of intimacy between two of the world's most oppressive, most anti-American regimes. The death of North Korea's tyrant also evoked a [...] |
| 12/20/2011 10:08 PM |
| Political Arrests on Rise in Cuba, Opposition Says |
| Political Arrests on Rise in Cuba, Opposition Says HAVANA – The opposition Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation said Monday that in December there have been 388 temporary detentions for political reasons in Cuba. "We are very disturbed by the increase of what is called 'low intensity' political repression consisting of being kept [...] |
| 12/19/2011 05:46 PM |
| Obama: Iran and Cuba ties don’t benefit Venezuela |
| Obama: Iran and Cuba ties don't benefit VenezuelaBy Daniel WallisCARACAS | Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:54am EST (Reuters) – The United States believes increasingly warm ties between Venezuela, Iran and Cuba do not benefit the Venezuelan people, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper published on Monday. Venezuelan leader Hugo [...] |
| 12/18/2011 03:56 PM |
| U.S. defends $3.4M grant to Cuba program |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.17.11CUBA U.S. defends $3.4M grant to Cuba program A grant to a Miami nonprofit that supports democracy in Cuba ignited critics who argue the money was given to reward Obama's cronies.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The U.S. Agency for International Development is strongly rejecting complaints of political favoritism in its grant of $3.4 [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/17/2011 02:57 PM |
| Dissidents send out images of police crackdown |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.17.11 CUBADissidents send out images of police crackdown One dissident got nine stitches, another oneBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban dissidents have sent out photos and videos of a large police crackdown in the eastern town of Palma Soriano that left at least five government opponents with head wounds, black eyes and other [...] |
| 12/16/2011 06:38 PM |
| HRW: ‘Un derecho fundamental no es una moneda de cambio política’ |
| Viajes y remesas HRW: 'Un derecho fundamental no es una moneda de cambio política'AgenciasWashington 15-12-2011 – 11:31 pm. La organización pide a los republicanos retirar la enmienda legislativa que revertiría los cambios de Obama. Human Rights Watch (HRW) llamó hoy al Congreso estadounidense a retirar una iniciativa que revertiría los cambios del presidente Barack Obama, [...] |
| 12/16/2011 12:00 AM |
| The Cuban Government Should Respect Human Rights Week Activities |
| The Cuban Government Should Respect Human Rights Week Activities Press StatementVictoria NulandDepartment Spokesperson, Office of the SpokespersonWashington, DCDecember 14, 2011 We are deeply troubled by reports of increased repression by the Government of Cuba against Cuban citizens peacefully expressing themselves. Of particular concern are reports that government officials and government-organized groups detained, harassed, and assaulted [...] |
| 12/14/2011 11:16 PM |
| Congress may tighten travel, remittances to Cuba |
| Posted on Wednesday, 12.14.11CUBA Congress may tighten travel, remittances to CubaBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com An effort to harshly tighten restrictions on Cuban Americans' travel and remittances to Cuba has come down to last-ditch negotiations in Congress over a huge government spending bill. It remains unclear exactly how the restrictions would be tightened if a rider [...] |
| 12/13/2011 06:45 PM |
| Cuban activist in incommunicado detention – Urgent Action Amnesty International |
| Document – Cuban activist in incommunicado detention UA: 355/11 Index: AMR 25/006/2011 Cuba Date: 9 December 2011 URGENT ACTION CUBAN ACTIVIST in incommunicado detention The whereabouts of Cuban human rights activist Ivonne Malleza Galano are unknown after police detained her during a peaceful demonstration on 30 November in Cuba's capital, Havana City. Her husband , [...] |
| 12/13/2011 04:44 PM |
| Cuba urged to free political prisoners |
| Cuba urged to free political prisonersAFPDecember 13, 2011 11:10PM FREEING all political prisoners in Cuba before Pope Benedict XVI's visit next year would be "a great gesture", the cardinal who heads charity group Caritas International says. "If the political prisoners could be released, it would be seen as a sign of appreciation of the visit," [...] |
| 12/12/2011 07:58 PM |
| We Cubans Are Allowed to Say "Christmas" Again, But "Human Rights" Remains a Dirty Word |
| We Cubans Are Allowed to Say "Christmas" Again, But "Human Rights" Remains a Dirty WordPosted: 12/11/11 11:20 AM ET In the long list of the words forbidden in my childhood, there were two in particular that were censored: "Christmas" and "Human Rights." The first I heard from time to time, in a whisper, from the [...] |
| 12/12/2011 05:06 AM |
| Reduced Vocabulary / Yoani Sánchez |
| Reduced Vocabulary / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez In the long list of the words forbidden in my childhood, there were two in particular that were censored: "Christmas" and "Human Rights." The first I heard from time to time, in a whisper, from the lips of a grandmother who had known the trees with garlands, [...] |
| 12/11/2011 09:16 PM |
| Cuba’s Ladies in White dissidents honor late leader on Human Rights Day, amid counterprotest |
| Cuba’s Ladies in White dissidents honor late leader on Human Rights Day, amid counterprotest By Associated Press, Published: December 10 HAVANA — Cuba’s Ladies in White dissident group paid homage to their late leader while observing International Human Rights Day at her home Saturday, surrounded by a jeering pro-government crowd for a second straight day. [...] |
| 12/11/2011 12:36 AM |
| Gov’t supporters block Ladies in White march |
| Gov't supporters block Ladies in White marchUpdated Sunday, December 11, 2011 0:09 am TWN, By Jack Kimball ,Reuters HAVANA — Dozens of slogan-chanting Cuban government supporters faced off with dissident women on Friday and prevented them from marching in the street on the eve of international Human Rights Day. About 200 backers of Cuba's communist [...] |
| 12/11/2011 12:17 AM |
| Cuba stops dissident Rights Day protest, 200 held |
| Cuba stops dissident Rights Day protest, 200 heldReutersBy Jack Kimball and Nelson Acosta | Reuters HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban dissidents said on Saturday that about 200 people were temporarily detained by the Communist-run island's security services in the days leading up to an international human rights celebration. Government supporters danced salsa and chanted political slogans [...] |
| 12/11/2011 12:16 AM |
| Cuba’s ‘Ladies’ mark Human Rights Day amid protest |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.10.11 Cuba's 'Ladies' mark Human Rights Day amid protestBy PETER ORSIAssociated Press HAVANA — Cuba's Ladies in White dissident group paid homage to their late leader while observing International Human Rights Day at her home Saturday, surrounded by a jeering pro-government crowd for a second straight day. Photos of Laura Pollan and [...] |
| 12/11/2011 12:16 AM |
| Exile fireworks show off Cuba irks Castro govt |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.10.11 Exile fireworks show off Cuba irks Castro govtBy PETER ORSIAssociated Press HAVANA — Fireworks shot from a flotilla organized by Miami exiles exploded in red and white balls off the coast of Havana to call attention to Cuba's human rights record. The stunt irritated Cuban officials but drew few spectators. The [...] |
| 12/09/2011 11:31 PM |
| Cuba Oil Drilling Tests U.S. on Protecting Florida or Embargo |
| Cuba Oil Drilling Tests U.S. on Protecting Florida or EmbargoDecember 09, 2011, 9:56 AM EST By Katarzyna Klimasinska Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Four U.S. inspectors armed with safety glasses and notebooks will set out on a mission next month to protect Florida's beaches from a Cuban threat. They'll rendezvous in Trinidad and Tobago with the [...] |
| 12/09/2011 11:16 PM |
| Bishops call for reconciliation among Cubans |
| Bishops call for reconciliation among CubansPublished December 09, 2011EFE Havana – Cuba's Catholic bishops on Thursday issued a call for rapprochement and reconciliation among Cubans during the coming year, in keeping with the 400th anniversary of the finding of the image of the Virgin of Caridad del Cobre and a planned visit by Pope Benedict [...] |
| 12/09/2011 10:29 PM |
| Late Cuban Activist Laura Pollan To Be Honored at Capitol Hill Event |
| Late Cuban Activist Laura Pollan To Be Honored at Capitol Hill Event December 14By National Endowment for DemocracyPublished: Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 – 8:11 am WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2011 — National Endowment for Democracy will recognize Ladies in White leader with Democracy Service Medal WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Laura Pollan, the late founder [...] |
| 12/09/2011 07:28 PM |
| Cuba bristles at exile fireworks show off coast |
| Cuba bristles at exile fireworks show off coastAP HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's government is indignant over an exile flotilla that plans to sit off the coast of the island and protest the country's human rights record by lighting up the skies with fireworks. Foreign Ministry official Rene Mujica calls it yet another in a long [...] |
| 12/09/2011 07:21 PM |
| Cuban exiles to set off for Cuba’s coast |
| Posted on Friday, 12.09.11 Cuban exiles to set off for Cuba's coastBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZAP Hispanic Affairs Writer MIAMI — A coalition of Cuban exile groups began traveling Friday morning across much of the Florida Straits despite rough seas for a protest off the coast of Cuba that was to include a massive fireworks show. The [...] |
| 12/08/2011 04:52 PM |
| Cuban exiles say flotilla plan not a provocation |
| Posted on Wednesday, 12.07.11 Cuban exiles say flotilla plan not a provocationBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and GISELA SOLOMONAssociated Press MIAMI — A coalition of Cuban exile groups said Wednesday their plans to anchor a small flotilla off the coast of Havana and launch fireworks to highlight the island's human rights abuses is not meant to provoke [...] |
| 12/06/2011 05:05 PM |
| Cuban dissidents: Colleagues injured in police crackdown |
| Posted on Tuesday, 12.06.11 Cuban dissidents: Colleagues injured in police crackdownThe dissidents say they want police to free 10 dissidents arrested.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban dissidents vowed to protest at a State Security office Tuesday unless police free 10 government critics detained in a crackdown where several suffered head wounds, a broken rib and other [...] |
| 12/06/2011 04:59 PM |
| Lawyer: Cuba has refused any ‘meaningful dialogue’ in case of Md. man held for 2 years |
| Lawyer: Cuba has refused any 'meaningful dialogue' in case of Md. man held for 2 yearsBy Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, December 6, 8:32 AM WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the family of a Maryland man held in Cuba for two years says the Cuban government has "refused to engage in any meaningful dialogue" to resolve [...] |