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| 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 07:12 PM |
| Cuban communists OK term limits for party and government officials |
| Posted on Monday, 01.30.12 Cuban communists OK term limits for party and government officials At the Cuban Communist Party's first national conference, term limits are approved for government and party officials.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba's Communist Party Sunday cleared the way for a long-term renovation of its Central Committee that might hint at the island's [...] |
| 01/13/2012 05:11 AM |
| The Manipulative Dossier / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| The Manipulative Dossier / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Adam Cooper In Cuba we have six television channels, but at 8 p.m. our options narrow, because the national news (the primetime program) is broadcast repeatedly on three of them (channels 4, 6, and 27), we are treated to sports news on channel [...] |
| 01/13/2012 01:01 AM |
| Medical Policy, or Political Medicine? / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| Medical Policy, or Political Medicine? / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translating Cuba, Translator: Unstated A little less than a year ago I lived for two weeks thinking I had cancer in my lymph nodes. In November, 2010, a team of pathologists at the "Carlos Manuel de Cespedes" Provincial Hospital in Bayamo signed a yellowish [...] |
| 01/07/2012 03:50 AM |
| Who Will Kill the Commander? / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| Who Will Kill the Commander? / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. The socialist labyrinth consists of so much injustice that even the functionaries joke about being trapped in it. The beauracratic skeins of the tropical Cuban creature have been designed to hinder citizens, to make their daily lives harder, but it is [...] |
| 01/06/2012 04:58 AM |
| Cuban Blogographia / Regina Coyula |
| Cuban Blogographia / Regina CoyulaRegina Coyula, Translator: Unstated Well, yes. A Cuban blogosphere has come out with blog graphs. I have just read the works of the Spaniard Josep Calvet which appear in La Joven Cuba. It is patient work to scrutinize evidently diverse and diverse material on the Network. Calvet commits an often repeated [...] |
| 01/04/2012 09:28 PM |
| Raul Castro’s absurd hope: a socio-capitalistic system |
| Posted on Tuesday, 01.03.12CUBA Raul Castro's absurd hope: a socio-capitalistic systemBY CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANERelblogdemontaner.com Another Jan. 1 passed. What's happening in Cuba 53 years after the communist dictatorship was imposed? Some important things. Fidel, now 85, distanced from power by his age and his chronic ailments, no longer commands. He has some moments of lucidity [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/02/2012 10:45 PM |
| Lady in White Elizabeth Linda Kawoya Toca Summoned by State Security / Katia Sonia |
| Lady in White Elizabeth Linda Kawoya Toca Summoned by State Security / Katia SoniaKatia Sonia, Translator: Unstated Elizabeth Linda Nanyonga Kawooya Toca, a member of the Laura Pollan Ladies in White Movement, was summoned by State Security for 2:00 pm on November 4th at the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) station at Infanta and Amenidad in [...] |
| 12/30/2011 06:56 AM |
| Allow us a word… / Jeovany J. Vega |
| Allow us a word… / Jeovany J. VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated To Dr. Adelaida Fernández de Juan. Esteemed colleague: I recently read your article, "Medicine defended, which circulated on the web this past August. Before I read it I saw your name at the bottom, and as this is a sign of responsibility and [...] |
| 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) [...] |
| 12/18/2011 05:44 AM |
| Production Line for Cuban Robots / Angel Santiesteban |
| Production Line for Cuban Robots / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Regina Anavy Cuban Television puts forth, in its horrible primetime schedule, another program of manipulated news coming from Telesur, with a Venezuelan ideologue-manipulator-agent-"journalist," Walter Martinez, who has forgotten ethics and the first rule for a reporter: to report news without adding his personal opinion, which [...] |
| 12/06/2011 05:14 PM |
| Cuba’s Media Promotes Cockfighting |
| Cuba's Media Promotes CockfightingDecember 5, 2011Isbel Diaz Torres HAVANA TIMES, Dic 5 — The always interesting television program Como me lo contaron (The way I heard It), discussed the hot topic of cockfighting last week. Although this lucrative business is promoted by the Cuban state — which exports about 700 fighting birds annually — government [...] |
| 11/25/2011 01:56 PM |
| Human Rights Activists arrested in Santiago, Cuba for distributing pamphlets with UN Declaration of Human Rights |
| Human Rights Activists arrested in Santiago, Cuba for distributing pamphlets with UN Declaration of Human RightsBy Alberto de la Cruz, on November 24, 2011, at 8:51 am On Hablalo Sin Miedo, former political prisoner and independent journalist Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia reports from Cuba that several human rights activists in Santiago de Cuba were attacked [...] |
| 11/20/2011 03:54 PM |
| Cuban dissident slams censorship, travel restrictions |
| Cuban dissident slams censorship, travel restrictions(AFP) MIAMI — Blogger Yoani Sanchez denounced the travel restrictions and censorship imposed on dissidents like her in communist Cuba, as she introduced her latest book at a Miami book fair via telephone. Sanchez, named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2008, called [...] |
| 11/15/2011 02:48 PM |
| Who Writes for Cuba’s Granma Newspaper? |
| Who Writes for Cuba's Granma Newspaper?November 15, 2011Isbel Diaz Torres There's good press and bad press, but also the old press…for various uses. A sales stand at the Tulipan Farmers Market in Havana. Photo: Isbel Diaz Torres Looking a little more closely at Granma newspaper, I discovered that in reality we don't know who's writing [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 11/07/2011 05:19 AM |
| Cuba, or the Car’s Fifth Wheel / Iván García |
| Cuba, or the Car's Fifth Wheel / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: J.E.L. It's now known that the Castro brothers' government defends itself by attacking. When an independent journalist or alternative blogger writes about the other face of Cuba that the official media ignores, they jump at your neck like a spring. They use all kinds [...] |
| 11/04/2011 11:20 PM |
| Lawmakers meet with freed Cuban prisoners |
| Posted on Thursday, 11.03.11 Lawmakers meet with freed Cuban prisoners Miami lawmakers on Capitol Hill hosted several former Cuban prisoners who had protested against the regime of Fidel Castro.By Erika Bolstadebolstad@mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON — Three Cuban dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown and imprisoned until their exile last year to Spain, brought their story to Capitol [...] |
| 11/02/2011 09:41 PM |
| Prominent Cuban dissident detained |
| Prominent Cuban dissident detainedPublished November 02, 2011EFE Havana – Cuban government opponent Guillermo Fariñas was detained in the central city of Santa Clara while trying to visit a hunger-striking dissident at a hospital, his family and pro-democracy activists said. "Guillermo went to pay a visit to Alcides (Rivera) at the hospital and they don't want [...] |
| 10/21/2011 01:56 PM |
| The Ladies in White: Cuba’s shame |
| The Ladies in White: Cuba's shameby Achy Obejas | Oct. 20, 2011 I remember a time when the only reaction the Ladies in White would get in their native Havana was discomfort and shame. Back in 2004 or so, those early years, when they were just a fistful of women, a silent handful with their [...] |
| 10/21/2011 01:42 PM |
| Cuba suspicious of a Radio/TV Marti baseball contract |
| Posted on Friday, 10.21.11 Cuba suspicious of a Radio/TV Marti baseball contract The U.S. dismisses Cuban complaint that encrypted baseball broadcasts to the island is part of a "cyber war."By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The mystery of Radio/TV Marti's encrypted broadcasts to Cuba, which fueled Havana complaints of a U.S. "cyber war" against the communist government, [...] |
| 10/19/2011 05:15 PM |
| Founder of Cuba’s Ladies in White leaves legacy of courage |
| Posted on Tuesday, 10.18.11 In My OpinionFounder of Cuba's Ladies in White leaves legacy of courageBy Fabiola Santiagofsantiago@MiamiHerald.com In Miami, Havana and cities around the world where she touched hearts and changed views on Cuba, Laura Pollán is being remembered as a woman of exceptional courage. She didn't possess a discursive resume or a commanding [...] |
| 10/19/2011 05:14 PM |
| Dissidents: 20 women detained on way to Pollán’s home |
| Posted on Wednesday, 10.19.11 Dissidents: 20 women detained on way to Pollán's home The women were detained to keep them from meeting about the Ladies in White's future following the death of the group's leader.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban police detained 20 members and supporters of the Ladies in White to keep them from participating [...] |
| 10/15/2011 11:33 PM |
| The high-wire walked by Cuba’s cardinal |
| Posted on Sunday, 10.16.11 Cuba's Jaime OrtegaThe high-wire walked by Cuba's cardinal A look at Cuba's Jaime Ortega as he celebrates his 75th birthday and offers a resignation that will almost certainly be rejected by the Vatican.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega will celebrate his 75th birthday on Tuesday. And, as required by [...] |
| 10/15/2011 11:27 PM |
| Cuba’s escape valve |
| Posted on Saturday, 10.15.11 Cuba's escape valve OUR OPINION: Havana shows it has no intention of respecting human rights, improving relations with the U.S.By The Miami Herald EditorialHeraldEd@MiamiHerald.com As Cuba continues its crack down on dissidents and young Cubans complain of no future, the number of Cubans caught at sea or pleading "dry foot" here [...] |
| 10/12/2011 02:13 PM |
| Cuban ‘Wasp’ spy checks in with Miami probation officer |
| Posted on Wednesday, 10.12.11 Cuban 'Wasp' spy checks in with Miami probation officer A Havana web site reports that Wasp Network member checked in with his probation officer in Miami.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban spy René González reported to a probation officer in downtown Miami on Tuesday after serving 13 years in prison as part [...] |
| 10/10/2011 05:54 AM |
| The Gastronomic Slums / Fernando Dámaso |
| The Gastronomic Slums / Fernando DámasoFernando Dámaso, Translator: lapizcero In the section Acuse de Recibo ("Acknowledgement of Receipt") of the daily Juventud Rebelde ("Rebel Youth") for 9/25/11 there is an article titled El Potín, y mucho más ("The Potín and Much More"), where a citizen and the journalist show the deplorable state of this formerly [...] |
| 10/10/2011 04:54 AM |
| The Artist Behind the Barricades / Angel Santiesteban |
| The Artist Behind the Barricades / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Espirituana The writer and journalist Amir Valle, in a still unpublished interview, asks me the following question. And what about the powerful Cuban culture that has been developing for five decades already in exile, in many parts of the world? How do you think it [...] |
| 10/06/2011 07:30 PM |
| Hablemos Press journalist to be expelled from Havana yet again in new crackdown |
| Hablemos Press journalist to be expelled from Havana yet again in new crackdownPublished on Thursday 6 October 2011. Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the independent news centre Hablemos Press arrested on 30 September and held at the Alternative Penal Centre prison in Havana, is awaiting deportation from the capital for the ninth time [...] |
| 10/05/2011 06:54 AM |
| Strange "Estrangement" of the Foreign Press in Cuba / Miriam Celaya |
| Strange "Estrangement" of the Foreign Press in Cuba / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting An article by a foreign news agency recently reported on the Internet, "Cuban Dissidents at a Crossroads"by Paul Haven and Andrea Rodríguez of the Associated Press, suffers from, at least, two of the most common and serious limitations of accredited [...] |
| 10/04/2011 01:37 PM |
| Cuba: Radio/TV Martí texting is ‘cyberwar’ |
| Posted on Monday, 10.03.11Cuba texts Cuba: Radio/TV Martí texting is 'cyberwar' The Cuban government said that Radio/TV Marti could disrupt the island's cell system by sending up to 24,000 texts per week to local cell phones.By JUAN TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba alleged Monday that Radio/TV Martí is violating the country's laws and may disrupt its cellular text-messaging [...] |
| 10/04/2011 03:28 AM |
| New Accusation of Assault / Angel Santiesteban |
| New Accusation of Assault / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated Photo of a fragment of a document from the file of Ángel Santiesteban-Prats where you can read at the end in a handwritten note: "Case of interest to the Minister." Refers to General Colome Ibarra. Cuba's totalitarian regime treats Defense Attorneys as unwelcome to those [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 09/30/2011 08:56 AM |
| I Know the Writer Angel Santiesteban Whom Cuba Wants to Punish / Angel Santiesteban |
| I Know the Writer Angel Santiesteban Whom Cuba Wants to Punish / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated [This text is from the website Incredible Universe] Manuel Fernández reveals in Incredible Universe how, when he met the Cuban writer Angel Santiesteban, State Security recorded the conversation. A Spanish citizen, Fernández was the manager, at that time, [...] |
| 09/26/2011 12:39 PM |
| Fidel Castro calls Obama U.N. speech "gibberish" |
| Fidel Castro calls Obama U.N. speech "gibberish" Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan television journalist Mario Silva talk during an interview in Havana. (Ho New / Reuters)Jeff Franks Reuters 12:27 a.m. PDT, September 26, 2011 HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused President Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address [...] |
| 09/25/2011 03:46 PM |
| Pro-regime mob targets rights activists in Cuba |
| Pro-regime mob targets rights activists in CubaAFP September 25, 2011, 12:42 pm HAVANA (AFP) – Some 300 activists backing Cuba's Communist government shouted down 35 relatives of political prisoners, some of whom were roughed up, an AFP journalist witnessed. The pro-government crowd or university students and members of the Union of Communist Youth, massed to [...] |
| 09/25/2011 05:21 AM |
| Mine First: Of the Wolf and the Sheep / Regina Coyula |
| Mine First: Of the Wolf and the Sheep / Regina CoyulaRegina Coyula, Translator: Unstated With his La Plaga articles [regarding corruption in Cuba], the BBC journalist Fernando Ravsberg has passed his finger over a festering sore that afflicts our country: corruption, a phenomenon in which political pedigree supports the entitlement to important positions, and where [...] |
| 09/18/2011 01:45 PM |
| Cuban Officials Cracking Down on Dissidents |
| Cuban Officials Cracking Down on DissidentsSeptember 17, 2011 9:53 AM EDT Officials in Cuba have detained more than 30 anti-government protesters in an effort to prevent them from staging a demonstration in the town of Santa Clara. One of the activists who were arrested (but later released) was Guillermo Farinas – a psychologist and journalist [...] |
| 09/16/2011 02:50 PM |
| Blogger Luis Felipe Rojas Arrested for Peacefully Commemorating Heroes / Pedazos de la Isla |
| Blogger Luis Felipe Rojas Arrested for Peacefully Commemorating Heroes / Pedazos de la IslaTranslator: Raul G. In the early morning hours of Monday, September 12th, the dissident blogger/journalist Luis Felipe Rojas announced through his Twitter that he was in the town of Duaba, in Baracoa, reporting and taking part in the National 'Zapta and Boitel [...] |
| 09/13/2011 12:54 AM |
| Spy wants return to Cuba after prison, US objects |
| Spy wants return to Cuba after prison, US objectsPublished September 12, 2011Associated Press MIAMI – A former Cuban intelligence officer convicted of spying in the U.S. wants to return immediately to Cuba upon his release from prison next month, but federal prosecutors insist he must serve an additional three years of probation in this country. [...] |
| 09/09/2011 03:50 PM |
| Fidel Castro breaks long silence with interview |
| Posted on Thursday, 09.08.11 Fidel Castro breaks long silence with interviewBy PAUL HAVENAssociated Press HAVANA — Fidel Castro has broken a long silence by granting an interview to a Venezuelan television station, his first since rumors began to spread that the former Cuban leader might be sick or near death. A top Cuban official said [...] |
| 09/08/2011 01:29 PM |
| Madrid says Cuba wrong to boot Spanish journalist |
| Madrid says Cuba wrong to boot Spanish journalistPublished September 07, 2011EFE Madrid – Spain's foreign minister said Wednesday that Cuba made a "great mistake" in declining to renew the work permit of a Spanish journalist who reported from the island for 20 years. Trinidad Jimenez said the decision was unfair to Mauricio Vicent, Havana correspondent [...] |
| 09/07/2011 07:52 PM |
| Journalists: Raúl Castro tightens screws in Cuba |
| Posted on Tuesday, 09.06.11 Journalists: Raúl Castro tightens screws in Cuba Cuba rejected admission for a French agency's correspondent, and a reporter for Spain's El País newspaper was denied a license renewal to work there.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The Cuban government has denied entry to a French news agency correspondent who had been assigned to [...] |
| 09/05/2011 03:05 PM |
| Cuba Needs Animal Protection Law |
| Cuba Needs Animal Protection LawSeptember 4, 2011Isbel Diaz Torres A few weeks ago on the TV news/commentary program "La Mesa Redonda" (The Roundtable) — known for its tedious monologues and a skewed approach to any subject — its producers had the surprisingly good judgment to take on the issue of environmental regulations in Cuba. I [...] |
| 09/04/2011 01:38 PM |
| Cuba revokes accreditation of Spanish journalist |
| Cuba revokes accreditation of Spanish journalistAssociated Press2011-09-04 06:00 PM One of Spain's largest media groups says Cuba has revoked the accreditation of its correspondent on the Caribbean island for alleged bias and negative reporting. El Pais said Sunday that 47-year-old Mauricio Vicent has reported from Cuba for newspaper El Pais and radio network Cadena SER [...] |
| 09/02/2011 12:27 AM |
| Letter from Pablo Milanés to Edmundo García / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| Letter from Pablo Milanés to Edmundo García / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translator: Unstated For the first time in this blog I am publishing something that I did not write. It is my duty to do so. Pablo Milanés' response to the article published by Edmundo García is so rich, so evolved, so brutally [...] |
| 08/31/2011 07:21 PM |
| Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents |
| Posted on Tuesday, 08.30.11 Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidentsBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZAP Hispanic Affairs Writer MIAMI — Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanes has criticized harassment of a leading Cuban dissident group, saying insults and obscenities hurled by pro-government crowds at the so-called Ladies in White during their protest marches are "vile" and "cowardly." In an [...] |
| 08/13/2011 03:18 PM |
| Assisting journalists in Cuba: Hurdles in prison and beyond |
| Assisting journalists in Cuba: Hurdles in prison and beyondBy Maria Salazar-Ferro/Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator In mid-2006, CPJ's Journalist Assistance program began sending regular remittances to the families of independent Cuban journalists in prison. By CPJ's count, of the 29 journalists jailed during a massive crackdown in 2003, 24 were still in prison at the time–making [...] |
| 08/12/2011 02:41 PM |
| With Regards to the Theory of Rescuing Socialism / Miriam Celaya,Miriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting |
| With Regards to the Theory of Rescuing Socialism / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting (Originally published in the Diario de Cuba dated August 3rd, 2011) The last five years in Cuba have been fruitful in the theoretical development of solutions to the country's severe problems, mainly those related to the ills of the economy [...] |