Today in ongoing programs and until Dec. 31, 2007 at least 773,000 Cubans in the 5 Eastern provinces of Cuba need WFP food aid.
That means 1 in 5 (20%) of the population of these provinces and 7% of the Cuban population needs WFP food aid.
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| 05/19/2012 08:10 PM |
| Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez refuses to back down |
| Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez refuses to back down Published On Sat May 19 2012 By Catherine Porter Columnist HAVANA, CUBA—I have called Yoani Sanchez 76 times since I arrived in Cuba eight days ago. Once, I managed to get through for 38 seconds before the line was cut. So, finally, I board a sleek, blue [...] |
| 05/14/2012 05:49 PM |
| The Loss of Self Esteem / Rebeca Monzo |
| The Loss of Self Esteem / Rebeca Monzo Rebeca Monzo, Translator: mlk Some days ago I read in the international press a story entitled Serving, not servile, by the journalist from Juventude Rebelde (Rebel Youth), Jose Alejandro Rodriguez, where he laments the tendency of Cubans to appear servile to foreigners. In one of his paragraphs [...] |
| 05/13/2012 02:01 PM |
| Unfortunate Plight of Cuban Migrants in Mexico Reported |
| Unfortunate Plight of Cuban Migrants in Mexico Reported MEXICO CITY – Some 250 Cubans have been detained in difficult, dubious conditions at the Tapachula migrant station in southeastern Mexico awaiting judgment on their legal status, the independent National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said. The commission, Mexico's equivalent of an ombud's office, said Friday in [...] |
| 05/12/2012 04:41 PM |
| Prominent Cuban dissident released after brief detention |
| Prominent Cuban dissident released after brief detention Published May 11, 2012 EFE Havana – Prominent Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer has been released in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba after being held for 29 hours. Ferrer told Efe Thursday by phone from his home in the town of Palmarito del Cauto that he [...] |
| 05/11/2012 02:05 PM |
| Brain Drain and Naive Youth |
| Cuba: Brain Drain and Naive Youth May 10, 2012 Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES — In a recent interview, the Cuban-American writer Uva de Aragon told me that the emigration of thousands of intelligent young Cubans does not constitute "brain drain," but their "escape" in search of better opportunities in other countries. The concept is controversial, [...] |
| 05/09/2012 04:26 PM |
| Living Among Lies / Lilianne Ruíz |
| Living Among Lies / Lilianne Ruíz Lilianne Ruíz, Translator: AnonyGY Camilo Cienfuegos seen in an artwork installed in 2009 in the Plaza of the Revolution. The text says: "You're doing fine, Fidel." Cuba looks like an anthill, and each one has contributed — as they say — a grain of sand. Believing that this grain [...] |
| 05/03/2012 02:06 PM |
| Cuba: A Little Hunger and Lot of Poor Eating |
| Cuba: A Little Hunger and Lot of Poor Eating May 2, 2012 Alfredo Fernandez HAVANA TIMES, May 2 — As a Cuban, I'm always surprised with the way my fellow citizens refer to hunger as a "thing of the past," since we felt it sharply back in the 1990s. The fact is, however, that this [...] |
| 05/01/2012 01:15 PM |
| Whatever We Need to Do for the Freedom of Cuba, We Will Continue Doing |
| "Whatever We Need to Do for the Freedom of Cuba, We Will Continue Doing" Translating Cuba, Translator: Raul G. After being confined to a dungeon of the Versalles Police Unit in Santiago de Cuba for 27 days, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, narrates how his recent arrest occurred, [...] |
| 04/30/2012 10:03 PM |
| Human Rights and Democracy -The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report – Quarterly update |
| Quarterly Updates: Cuba Latest Update: 31 March 2012 The Cuban government announced the release of around 2,900 prisoners in the framework of preparations for the Pope's visit in late March. Most of those freed had completed over half of their sentences and only a handful were considered by local human rights organisations to be political [...] |
| 04/30/2012 02:10 PM |
| Justice for Rolando / Yamil Dominguez |
| Justice for Rolando / Yamil Dominguez Translator: Unstated, Yamil Domínguez Rolando is a great man, father, brother and friend. His incarceration just as he was prepared to bring people, including his family,but he was not willing to sacrifice one life when the Cuban border guard charged him with their ships. He could have run with [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 04/30/2012 12:44 PM |
| Cuba frees dissident detained after Pope visit |
| Cuba frees dissident detained after Pope visit (AFP) HAVANA — Police in Cuba released Jose Daniel Ferrer, a political dissident arrested shortly after the visit to the island by Pope Benedict XVI, the activist told AFP. "They released me around 1:00 pm," Ferrer said by telephone from his home in the town of Palmarito de [...] |
| 04/28/2012 08:44 PM |
| Jailed Cuban Dissident Ends Hunger Strike |
| Jailed Cuban Dissident Ends Hunger Strike HAVANA – Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer has ended the hunger strike he launched to protest his arrest early this month, his wife told Efe on Friday. Coinciding with the end of the fast, Cuban authorities formally charged the detainee with creating a public disturbance in the eastern city [...] |
| 04/27/2012 10:16 PM |
| The Great Bubble and the Complicit Silence / Estado de SATS, Alexis Jardines |
| The Great Bubble and the Complicit Silence / Estado de SATS, Alexis Jardines Estado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated By Alexis Jardines José Daniel Ferrer suffers in the dungeons of State Security in Santiago de Cuba, subjected to psychological pressures and macabre practices (like night attacks from swarms of mosquitoes) that seek [...] |
| 04/26/2012 02:23 PM |
| We Are Evolving / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| We Are Evolving / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Jeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated A few days ago a friend asked me whether, if I had gone on a hunger strike five years ago, our case would have had the same outcome. Without hesitation I said no, and doing so caused me to immediately stop and ponder [...] |
| 04/26/2012 02:22 PM |
| Why José Daniel? / Yoani Sánchez |
| Why José Daniel? / Yoani Sánchez Translator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez I knew they would go after him. When I spoke with José Daniel Ferrer for the first time, by phone, I immediately noticed his exceptionality. Shortly after, we talked around the table in our house and this impression was further confirmed. While outside night was [...] |
| 04/24/2012 01:15 PM |
| Wife of top Cuban dissident says he launched hunger strike to protest his imprisonment |
| Posted on Tuesday, 04.24.12 Wife of top Cuban dissident says he launched hunger strike to protest his imprisonment The wife of José Daniel Ferrer García said he began the hunger strike to protest his detention.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba's most aggressive dissident, José Daniel Ferrer García, freed only last spring after eight years in prison, [...] |
| 04/23/2012 12:09 PM |
| Cuba: Further information: Cuban prisoner of conscience still held: José Daniel Ferrer García |
| Document – Cuba: Further information: Cuban prisoner of conscience still held: José Daniel Ferrer García Further information on UA: 99/12 Index: AMR 25/015/2012 Cuba Date: 13 April 2012 URGENT ACTION CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE STILL HELD Cuban government critic José Daniel Ferrer García has been detained without charge for more than 10 days. Amnesty International [...] |
| 04/21/2012 03:04 PM |
| A Necessary Reflection / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| A Necessary Reflection / Jeovany Jimenez VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated Two weeks have passed since I ended my hunger strike, thanks to the wise decision of the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, to reinstate Dr. Rodolfo Martinez and I to the exercise of our profession. Now, with my mind clearer, the [...] |
| 04/21/2012 12:26 PM |
| Cuba’s reforms bring hope amid austerity |
| Cuba's reforms bring hope amid austerityMission Network News – 4/20/2012Bookmark and Share Cuba (MNN) ― All across Cuba, entrepreneurs striking out on their own as locksmiths, plumbers, electricians and the like. They've always existed, but operated on a smaller scale, illegally, in the informal economy. When Cuba implemented its own austerity measures, they were denounced [...] |
| 04/17/2012 04:07 PM |
| Cuban prisoner of conscience still held: José Daniel Ferrer García |
| Document – Cuba: Further information: Cuban prisoner of conscience still held: José Daniel Ferrer García Further information on UA: 99/12 Index: AMR 25/015/2012 Cuba Date: 13 April 2012 URGENT ACTION CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE STILL HELD Cuban government critic José Daniel Ferrer García has been detained without charge for more than 10 days. Amnesty International [...] |
| 04/17/2012 12:23 PM |
| Proposal for Socializing Cuba’s Medical System |
| Proposal for Socializing Cuba's Medical SystemApril 16, 2012Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES, April 16 — The Cuban public health system is another sector that has suffered deterioration due to the structural crisis of the current model. This is recognized in part by the government/party, which decided to make staff and budget cuts that have added to [...] |
| 04/15/2012 01:18 PM |
| 10 Cuban Ex-Political Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike in Spain |
| 10 Cuban Ex-Political Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike in SpainPublished April 13, 2012EFE Madrid – Ten Cuban former political prisoners protesting their "total abandonment" in Spain have launched a hunger strike to press their demands for government assistance, one of the participants in the fast told Efe Friday. "It's the only alternative we have," said Ernesto [...] |
| 04/10/2012 10:13 PM |
| For Cuban Dissidents, an Open Phone Line |
| For Cuban Dissidents, an Open Phone Line Prepaid Cellphones Let Bloggers Post and Tweet in Privacy, as ForeignSupporters Add Minutes to Their AccountsBy NICHOLAS CASEY HAVANA—Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez became famous for sneaking intostate-run Internet cafes to upload posts to her blog, which the Cubangovernment says is subversive. Part of that process is now a [...] |
| 04/10/2012 12:53 PM |
| Havana prisoner who took video transferred to isolation cell in notorious prison |
| Posted on Tuesday, 04.10.12 Havana prisoner who took video transferred to isolation cell in notorious prison José Daniel Ferrer García, a leading Cuban dissident arrested in eastern Santiago de Cuba last week, remains in police custody.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com An inmate who shot several videos inside a Havana prison to publicize its awful conditions has [...] |
| 04/08/2012 01:50 PM |
| The Vatican’s silence amid Cuba’s atrocities |
| Posted on Sunday, 04.08.12 The Vatican's silence amid Cuba's atrocitiesBY MARIA C. WERLAUinfo@cubaarchive.org During his recent visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI said nothing about the Castro brothers' victims. This is not surprising. For decades, the Catholic Church has remained silent about most of the Castro regime´s worst crimes in its quest to expand its [...] |
| 04/05/2012 08:10 PM |
| Cost-benefit, Right-freedom / Joisy García Martínez |
| Cost-benefit, Right-freedom / Joisy García MartínezJoisy García Martínez, Translator: Unstated To Tweet from a cell phone in Cuba is disproportionately costly, almost impossible, and only comparable with the draining of the Cienaga de Zapata swamp, the eradication of prostitution, computer illiteracy or the forbidden game. To write 140 characters via a cell phone in Cuba, [...] |
| 04/04/2012 08:32 PM |
| They Kidnapped Me Again / El Sexto |
| They Kidnapped Me Again / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado MachadoEl Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado, Translator: Unstated In these days of waiting for the Pope, everything around me is tense. I start to leave my phone at home. They followed me from before the presentation of Voices Magazine Number 14. But it is only [...] |
| 04/03/2012 06:29 PM |
| Hunger Striker Dr. Jeovany Jimenez Survives, and Wins, in Cuba |
| Yoani Sanchez – Award-winning Cuban blogger Hunger Striker Dr. Jeovany Jimenez Survives, and Wins, in CubaPosted: 04/ 2/2012 4:28 pm Guanajay has a central park that looks like one of a larger town and a gazebo with the majesty of an entire capital. Right there, for 28 days, Jeovany Jimenez staged a hunger strike demanding [...] |
| 04/02/2012 09:05 PM |
| 104 Hours in the Darkness / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| 104 Hours in the Darkness / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. This post was written by Luis Felipe Rojas as soon as he was released from his 4 day detention on Wednesday, March 28th, as Pope Benedict XVI was heading out of Cuba. I was detained on Saturday, March 24th at 8 [...] |
| 03/26/2012 02:44 PM |
| Cuba’s Ladies in White march without incident in Havana, but report detentions of others |
| Posted on Sunday, 03.25.12 Cuba's Ladies in White march without incident in Havana, but report detentions of othersBy Franco Ordonez AND Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com HAVANA — More than 30 Ladies in White marched in Havana on Sunday without incident but watched by dozens of journalists in Cuba to cover Pope Benedict XVI's visit, while another [...] |
| 03/24/2012 11:56 PM |
| Press Transparency Castro Style / Miriam Celaya |
| Press Transparency Castro Style / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Unstated When, during the First Conference of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) held in January, the General declared that the Revolutionary press should be transparent, there were those who believed him. Even some professionals of the official press (which is a very particular specialty) bowed their [...] |
| 03/22/2012 11:47 PM |
| Hunger Strike 16 Days. Who did they bar from practicing medicine in 2006? / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| Hunger Strike 16 Days. Who did they bar from practicing medicine in 2006? / Jeovany Jimenez VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated Today they are saying I'm heartless, that there was no merit in my past, everything in me was bullshit. They will try to discredit even my shadow, they will say that I am only [...] |
| 03/22/2012 11:24 PM |
| Amnesty denounces detentions of Cuba opposition |
| Posted on Wednesday, 03.21.12 Amnesty denounces detentions of Cuba oppositionBy PAUL HAVENAssociated Press HAVANA — Amnesty International on Wednesday placed four jailed Cubans on its global list of prisoners of conscience, the only inmates on the island to have such a designation, and denounced the Communist-run government for what it called a campaign of intimidation [...] |
| 03/22/2012 10:45 PM |
| Hunger Strike: First Report / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| Hunger Strike: First Report / Jeovany Jimenez VegaTranslating Cuba Doctor without work on Hunger Strike since March 5 For reasons beyond my control I could not access the Internet today and send these words to Citizen Zero through my wife. During the first week of my hunger strike I stayed for most of the time [...] |
| 03/19/2012 11:36 PM |
| Signs? / Yoani Sánchez |
| Signs? / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez karl_marxThe interior stairs of a building collapse on the same corner where the socialist character of the Revolution was declared. A desperate group of thirteen people occupy the Church of Charity in Central Havana and are taken out by force in the middle of the night. The television [...] |
| 03/17/2012 11:13 PM |
| The Revolutionary Doctor / Reinaldo Escobar |
| The Revolutionary Doctor / Reinaldo EscobarReinaldo Escobar, Translator: Unstated On a day like yesterday, thirty years ago, the Carlos J. Finlay Medical Sciences Detachment was formed. In front of 3,800 young medical students, gathered in the Karl Marx Theater, Fidel Castro warned then that the University was for the revolutionaries, a condition more demanding for [...] |
| 03/15/2012 06:08 PM |
| Cuban inmates complain of poor conditions, food in video smuggled from Havana prison |
| Posted on Wednesday, 03.14.12 CUBA Cuban inmates complain of poor conditions, food in video smuggled from Havana prison By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Ten videos smuggled out of Cuba's biggest and reputedly worst prison, in an unusually daring operation by a dissident, show grotesquely dirty toilets, grimy walls, leaking sewage and food described as worse than [...] |
| 03/15/2012 05:28 PM |
| Cuba’s Catholic Church trying to fill gaps in social safety net |
| Posted on Wednesday, 03.14.12 CUBA Cuba's Catholic Church trying to fill gaps in social safety netBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Havana retiree Maria Antonia confesses that she would be starving without the free lunches doled out by her neighborhood Catholic Church. The 69-year-old widow has a $12-a-month pension that barely covers six to eight days worth [...] |
| 03/14/2012 07:07 PM |
| The Cuban Ration Book Turns 50 |
| http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=64286 The Cuban Ration Book Turns 50March 13, 2012Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES, March 13 — Half a century ago, the nascent Cuban Revolution created the Libreta de Abastecimientos (the ration book), which was the basic element of a system of food subsidies and rationing aimed at ensuring that basic staples were affordable for everyone. This [...] |
| 03/12/2012 07:07 PM |
| ONE OF THE MANY… THE RAFTER CRISIS / Mario Barroso |
| ONE OF THE MANY… THE RAFTER CRISIS / Mario BarrosoMario Barroso, Translating Cuba …and the sea is now no more. Revelations 21:1 The response to the material nightmare that was buried in the spiritual collapse and in large measure the political and ideological collapse, was the mass escape at the risk of any mishap and [...] |
| 03/09/2012 08:00 PM |
| Who Are the Real Anti-Cubans? / Estado de Sats, Antonio G. Rodiles |
| Who Are the Real Anti-Cubans? / Estado de Sats, Antonio G. RodilesEstado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated Once again, State Security uses the old tactic of trying to discredit, given its inability to come to a public debate of arguments and ideas. A debate that would have a long-awaited end, because absolutely [...] |
| 03/09/2012 06:54 AM |
| Cultural Exchange / Rebeca Monzo |
| Cultural Exchange / Rebeca MonzoEstado de Sats / State of Sats, Rebeca Monzo, Translator: Unstated Last Saturday* in Estado de Sats the theme was cultural interchange between the island and the rest of the world, and specifically with the United States. The panel was composed of: Miriam Celaya, Julio Ariaga, Charles Barclay, assistant chief of [...] |
| 03/09/2012 06:53 AM |
| The Pot-Banging Protest of January 2012 / Jorge Luis García Pérez Antunez |
| The Pot-Banging Protest of January 2012 / Jorge Luis García Pérez AntunezAntunez, Translator: Unstated In January, the first month of 2012, the Cuban internal resistance was the scene of two major events which, for their impact and significance, are milestones and mark the Cuban nation. On January 19, 2012 the death of political prisoner Wilman [...] |
| 03/08/2012 06:15 PM |
| Letter to Pope Benedict XVI / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| Letter to Pope Benedict XVI / Jeovany Jimenez VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated Artemisa, 20 February 2012 To His Holiness Benedict XVI: Like most Cubans, I greatly rejoice in your announced visit to our country, which will undoubtedly be welcome. You come to a country living in the most complex moment in its history. When [...] |
| 03/07/2012 07:03 PM |
| Does Human Nature Suffer a Mutation in the Cauldron of Totalitarian Violence? / Lilianne Ruíz |
| Does Human Nature Suffer a Mutation in the Cauldron of Totalitarian Violence? / Lilianne RuízLilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated The best weapon the Cuban regime has cultivated is ignorance and fanaticism. I have never believed that my neighbors, without exception, are bad people. I live in a building from the 1980s constructed by a microbrigade. It [...] |
| 03/07/2012 01:22 PM |
| Cuban cardinal’s prayers ignore real victims |
| Posted on Tuesday, 03.06.12 In My Opinion Cuban cardinal's prayers ignore real victimsBy Fabiola Santiagofsantiago@MiamiHerald.com Sometimes the echo of a prayer travels far, much too far. Sometimes a prayer sounds less like a prayer and more like a political move. Sometimes, as happened Sunday in Havana, that prayer reaches our ears in Miami and rattles [...] |
| 03/06/2012 05:16 AM |
| Hugo Chavez: Fidel Castro’s Bet / Iván García |
| Hugo Chavez: Fidel Castro's Bet / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Unstated Some might think that luck came to the aid of a beleaguered Fidel Castro, when back in 1998, the island economy was going down with an industry crippled by lack of oil, exports were in the toilet, finances in the red, international debt swelling, [...] |
| 03/06/2012 04:52 AM |
| Dr. Jeovany Jimenez Vega Declares Hunger Strike / Jeovany Jimenez Vega |
| Dr. Jeovany Jimenez Vega Declares Hunger Strike / Jeovany Jimenez VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated This afternoon at 1:30 PM, I delivered at the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Health Minister a document addressed to Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, by which I declare a HUNGER STRIKE, which I will maintain until my death if [...] |
| 03/05/2012 02:17 PM |
| How the Catholic Church is Preparing for a Post-Castro Cuba |
| How the Catholic Church is Preparing for a Post-Castro CubaReligion and Rebuilding on the IslandVictor GaetanFebruary 27, 2012 When Pope Benedict XVI visits Cuba next month, he will once again reinforce a strategy that the Vatican has allowed the local Catholic Church there to pursue for more than three decades: diligently avoid any political confrontation [...] |