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| 05/04/2012 02:58 PM |
| Being Black in Cuba / Iván García |
| Being Black in Cuba / Iván García Iván García, Translator: Unstated A white-skinned off-duty law enforcement officer, having a drink, justifies the Cuban police force's racist archetype that turns a black or mixed-raced person into a presumed criminal with the old refrain he learned from his mother, "All blacks are not thieves but all thieves [...] |
| 04/29/2012 08:59 PM |
| Havana Cuba 16 February 2012. Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS about Human Rights Violations in Cuba Against the LGBT Community / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada |
| Havana Cuba 16 February 2012. Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS about Human Rights Violations in Cuba Against the LGBT Community / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Translator: Unstated, Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Five decades have passed since that fateful triumph featuring people dressed in garments of olive green, who descended from the [...] |
| 04/18/2012 04:21 PM |
| For an American, Havana is filled with contradictions |
| Posted on Tuesday, 04.17.12 For an American, Havana is filled with contradictionsBy Franco OrdonezMcClatchy Newspapers HAVANA — The green 1951 Dodge Coronet clattering along this city'sfamed Malecon coastal seawall looks like the car built more than ahalf-century ago, but lift the hood and things are not as expected. The car's bulging headlights give the classic [...] |
| 04/15/2012 12:29 PM |
| Cuba becomes major issue at hemispheric summit |
| Posted on Saturday, 04.14.12 Summit of the Americas Cuba becomes major issue at hemispheric summit Cuba's exclusion, attempts to legalize drugs and Argentina's claim over the Falklands Islands were major issues Saturday, first day of the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.By Sibylla BrodzinskySpecial to The Miami Herald CARTAGENA, Colombia — Cuba was not [...] |
| 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, [...] |
| 03/22/2012 10:46 PM |
| To the Outraged / Lilianne Ruíz |
| To the Outraged / Lilianne RuízLilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated I understand that Western countries, where the government emerges from a multi-party democracy, must have their problems. Here the scriptwriters of any news report broadcast are very pleased when they comment on (because they almost never let you hear the voices of the international reporters) the [...] |
| 03/18/2012 08:05 PM |
| Set-Dumpling-Butterball in a Little Neighborhood Whorehouse / Dora Leonor Mesa |
| Set-Dumpling-Butterball in a Little Neighborhood Whorehouse / Dora Leonor MesaDora Leonor Mesa, Translator: Unstated The idea is widespread of a Cuba that opens its doors to foreigners. In my judgment, the presence of a unknown foreign accompanying our young people causes any family more concern than pleasure. Reasons abound. The visit and statements in Amsterdam's [...] |
| 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, [...] |
| 03/04/2012 01:37 PM |
| Censorship maven fails in Cuba |
| Posted: Sun, Mar. 4, 2012, 3:01 AM Censorship maven fails in CubaBy Glenn Garvin Chalk up another victory for the greeting-card cartel: Valentine's Day now goes on for weeks, months, even decades – at least when it comes to the American left and the Castro brothers. The latest love letter to Havana comes from Peter [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/12/2012 11:59 AM |
| A Chip Off The Old Block: Che’s Daughter / Ángel Santiesteban |
| A Chip Off The Old Block: Che's Daughter / Ángel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated As if by agreement, Mariela Castro flatters the Dutch system of prostitution in the Amsterdam red light district, and Aleida Guevara (both without highlighting they'd come from the most advantaged sperm of their fathers who fertilized the eggs of their mothers), [...] |
| 01/05/2012 06:26 AM |
| Eleven News Stories Not Reported in Cuba in 2011 / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| Eleven News Stories Not Reported in Cuba in 2011 / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translator: Unstated 1. The Arab spring Only when the events in Egypt exceeded the predictions, did the Cuban press note (with tweezers) some isolated incidents. Nor had it published anything earlier about the riots in Tunisia and Yemen, nor did [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/22/2011 12:46 AM |
| Empleados de turismo en Cuba ofrecen prostitutas veinteañeras |
| Empleados de turismo en Cuba ofrecen prostitutas veinteañeras Un documental que circula en estos días por internet contiene escenas filmadas con cámara oculta y deja ver cómo los empleados de un hotel disponen del mismo como si fuera su propio burdel. martinoticias.com 21 de diciembre de 2011 Un documental sobre la prostitución en Cuba, desde [...] |
| 12/01/2011 05:05 AM |
| Mariela and the Red Light District: Bad Girl’s Romance / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| Mariela and the Red Light District: Bad Girl's Romance / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translator: Unstated I wonder if Cuban television will air at least a small morsel of the delicious interview Mariela Castro Espin offered to the cameras of Radio Netherlands Worldwide during her recent visit to the Red Light District in Amsterdam. [...] |
| 11/11/2011 05:17 PM |
| Cuba follows Sweden to combat prostitution |
| Cuba follows Sweden to combat prostitutionPublished: 11 Nov 11 08:13 CET Cuba is considering implementing the Swedish example in fighting prostitution by penalizing the clients rather than the sex workers, Cuban sexologist Mariela Castro said Thursday. "Sweden has done a really admirable job and even organizations like CENESEX (Cuban National Center for Sex Education) and [...] |
| 11/09/2011 05:26 PM |
| Raul Castro’s daughter, dissident blogger clash online |
| Raul Castro's daughter, dissident blogger clash onlineBy Mariano Castillo, CNNNovember 9, 2011 STORY HIGHLIGHTS- Raul Castro's daughter joined Twitter to discuss a recent trip- Instead, she locked horns with a Cuban dissident- Mariela Castro Espin lashes out at anti-government critics (CNN) — Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter joined Twitter to set the record straight about [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 10/04/2011 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 [...] |
| 09/28/2011 12:25 PM |
| Cuba Silent on Child Prostitution Case |
| Cuba Silent on Child Prostitution CaseSeptember 27, 2011Rosa Martinez HAVANA TIMES, Sept. 27 — According to unofficial media here, yesterday a trial began — behind closed doors — in which 14 people (among them three Italian citizens) are implicated in the death of a Cuban junior high school student. When a friend commented to me [...] |
| 08/12/2011 03:16 PM |
| CHANGE IN CUBA? |
| CHANGE IN CUBA?12-08-2011.Paul MeoFormer official of the World Bank with a very extensive experience in developing countries and a long term member of ASCE (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- The early August meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), held in Miami , was different from some of the more recent ones. First, there [...] |
| 08/11/2011 03:10 PM |
| Spaniard sentenced by Cuba for secretly filming documentary |
| Spaniard sentenced by Cuba for secretly filming documentaryEnglish.news.cn 2011-08-11 11:21:16 HAVANA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — A Spanish businessman was sentenced to seven years in prison in Cuba for unauthorized filming of a documentary about child prostitution on the island, his attorney said Wednesday. "I think we should challenge the sentence," defence lawyer Ovidio Venero told [...] |
| 07/25/2011 11:49 AM |
| Raising the Legal Age From 16 to 18 |
| "Yoani Sanchez – Award-Winning Cuban Blogger Cuba: Raising the Legal Age From 16 to 18Posted: 7/24/11 03:16 PM ET Going to a movie theater to see adult films, buying a beer in some bar, or being hired as an employee, are some of the proofs that we have arrived at the age of majority. When [...] |
| 07/08/2011 06:11 AM |
| Cuba’s Thriving Black Market Covers Almost Everything |
| Cuba's Thriving Black Market Covers Almost EverythingSubmitted by Prakash Sharma on Thu, 07/07/2011 – 13:09 In a country like Cuba where almost everything goes so systematized, every economic activity is very well regulated and where supermarkets and ration shops may have run short of basic grocery items such as sugar, toilet papers or eggs but [...] |
| 07/08/2011 06:11 AM |
| Shame on Cuba: Blind Eye to Human Trafficking |
| Shame on Cuba: Blind Eye to Human TraffickingOlivia SnowJuly 6, 2011 at 6:45 pm "If the girls give me trouble I hurt them." These are the words of human trafficker Aktham Zuhair Salem Madanat. Known for trafficking girls from Cuba to the United Kingom, Madanat had no qualms about openly discussing how he lured 10- [...] |
| 07/04/2011 12:13 PM |
| Cuba tries to drag shadow economy into the light |
| Posted on Sunday, 07.03.11 Cuba tries to drag shadow economy into the lightBy PAUL HAVENAssociated Press HAVANA — Want some paprika-infused chorizo sausage? How about a bit of buffalo mozzarella? Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink you can afford on paltry wages. Perhaps you are looking [...] |
| 07/03/2011 03:03 PM |
| In Cuba, black market thriving |
| In Cuba, black market thrivingEconomic changes aim to drag shadow economy into lightPAUL HAVEN Associated PressPosted July 3, 2011 at midnight HAVANA – Want some paprika-infused chorizo sausage? How about a bit of buffalo mozzarella? Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink you can afford on paltry [...] |
| 05/31/2011 09:07 AM |
| Havana: Hookers a la carte / Iván García |
| Havana: Hookers a la carte / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Regina Anavy When Roman, a tall, skinny guantanamero, who has spent three years living clandestinely in Havana, feels a burning sexual desire, he plans his binge. After working 12 hours selling trashy textiles and pirated tennis shoes in a street fair on Galiano, which brings [...] |
| 05/30/2011 10:32 PM |
| From a Cuban Tenement to an Italian Brothel: The High Price of Escape |
| Yoani Sanchez Award-Winning Cuban Blogger From a Cuban Tenement to an Italian Brothel: The High Price of EscapePosted: 05/30/11 02:20 PM ET She was raised to succeed. As a little girl, her mother took the fried egg of her own plate, if need be, to give it to her, because she was a promise which [...] |
| 05/23/2011 06:08 AM |
| Sebastián Martínez, Spanish Journalist in Cuban Prison / Angel Santiesteban |
| Sebastián Martínez, Spanish Journalist in Cuban Prison / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated The Cuban government doesn't censor, persecute and punish its nationals enough, though they live in the diaspora, but that it also is expanding to foreigners its need to teach a lesson to anyone who dares to break the "untainted" — and only [...] |
| 05/20/2011 04:43 AM |
| Spanish government pressing Cuba over imprisoned man |
| Spanish government pressing Cuba over imprisoned man The Spanish government is raising the profile of the case of a Spanish hotel chain executive who was arrested in July 2010 upon arrival at the Havana airport, two years after he produced a TV documentary about youth prostitution in Havana as a freelancer. Ten months after his [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 04/12/2011 07:43 PM |
| Cuban Court Recognizes that Young People are Dazzled by Foreigners / Laritza Diversent |
| Cuban Court Recognizes that Young People are Dazzled by Foreigners / Laritza DiversentLaritza Diversent, Translator: Unstated The Tunas Court on February 25, recognized in its Ruling No, 92 that young Cubans "are dazzled in the presence of a foreigner, seeing the possibilities of fashionable clothes and shoes and visiting historic sites," in a case having [...] |
| 04/09/2011 12:30 PM |
| Political Interest: The Only Thing Driving Cuban Justice |
| Political Interest: The Only Thing Driving Cuban JusticeLaritza Diversent, Translator: Unstated In December 2009, Cuban State Security detained without charges the USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, for bringing satellite connection equipment to the island. At the end of March 2010, the Department of Technical Investigations (DTI) which serves the "section of evils" (prostitution), arrested an Italian [...] |
| 03/31/2011 06:55 PM |
| Artists put Cuba’s painful history of suppression on display with new exhibit |
| Artists put Cuba's painful history of suppression on display with new exhibit Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will show pieces from 19 influential Cuban artistsRyan Imondi | Scene ReporterPublished: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Last week, while the majority of campus was on break, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art unveiled "Diaspora, Identity, and Race: Cuba [...] |
| 12/13/2010 10:27 PM |
| Artists address the chronic racism in Cuba |
| Artists address the chronic racism in CubaBy Kurt Shaw, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEWSunday, December 12, 2010 Racism always has been a hotbed issue in this country. It's also an important issue all over the world, especially in Cuba, where people of African descent have experienced significant barriers in regard to employment. An exhibit on display at the [...] |
| 08/26/2010 03:04 PM |
| Congressional Black Caucus Still Stuck on Castro |
| Congressional Black Caucus Still Stuck on CastroHumberto Fontova Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who also serves as chairperson for the Congressional Black Caucus, has composed an entreaty to President Obama for an end to the "embargo" on Cuba. "Mr. President: Lift the travel ban," reads the title of her post on The Hill's Congress Blog. "[W]e [...] |
| 07/28/2010 09:26 PM |
| Race in Cuba: The Eternal ‘Black Problem’ |
| Race in Cuba: The Eternal 'Black Problem'By: Leonardo PaduraPosted: July 27, 2010 at 6:20 AM When it comes to race, Cuba is far from the utopia that black intellectuals like to think it is. As part of The Root's series exploring the island's color complex, Cuba's best-known novelist weighs in. After almost five decades of [...] |
| 07/28/2010 09:25 PM |
| Race in Cuba: The Politics of Power and Hypocrisy |
| Race in Cuba: The Politics of Power and HypocrisyBy: Inéz Maria Martiatu TerryPosted: July 28, 2010 at 6:08 AM When it comes to race, Cuba is far from a utopia. As part of The Root's series exploring the island's color complex, one of Cuba's esteemed social scientists writes about the aftermath of an open letter [...] |
| 06/29/2010 06:18 PM |
| Opening Cuba to travel a bailout for Castro |
| Opening Cuba to travel a bailout for Castro12:00 AM 06/29/2010 As the House Agriculture Committee prepares to vote Wednesday on a bill that would lift the travel ban on Cuba bolster the Castro regime with American tourism dollars, I remember the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about the horrors of living in a Soviet [...] |
| 06/24/2010 04:02 PM |
| The Liberation of Women: Another Failed Dream of Cuba’s Revolution |
| The Liberation of Women: Another Failed Dream of Cuba's Revolution With a very short skirt and a cell phone attached to her hip, Yanisleidy leaves her house in a crowded Havana neighborhood. She's seventeen and has a visa to emigrate to Belgium. She looks around, checking for the cops, because she doesn't want to get [...] |
| 05/18/2010 11:01 PM |
| Cuba’s disaffected youth finds its voice |
| Cuba's disaffected youth finds its voice Their music is banned by the state, but rappers Los Aldeanos are still making a big noise in Havana. Esteban Israel reportsTuesday, 18 May 2010 It's almost midnight at a roadside bar on the outskirts of Havana as young Cubans gather to listen to hip-hop. A man with dreadlocks [...] |
| 05/17/2010 09:50 PM |
| Underground Cuban Rappers Live on the Edge |
| Underground Cuban Rappers Live on the EdgeBy Esteban IsraelReuters HAVANA It's almost midnight at a roadside bar on the outskirts of Havana and young Cubans gather to listen to hip hop. A man with dreadlocks steps up, microphone in hand, to the roar of approval from a crowd of 150 fans. "I'm not going to [...] |
| 04/22/2010 11:04 PM |
| Dissident’s daughter jailed on charge of prostitution |
| Posted on Thursday, 04.22.10Dissident's daughter jailed on charge of prostitutionCUBANET HAVANA, Cuba, April 22 (Dania Virgen García, www.cubanet.org) – Dissident Carmen Bermúdez Arrieta says her 25-year-old daughter has been sentenced to two years in an internment camp on a trumped up charge of prostitution. She said her daughter, Daimis Ruiz Bermúdez, was arrested by a [...] |
| 12/16/2009 08:25 PM |
| Impressions of Cuba: an educated and cultured people, but a feeble economy |
| Impressions of Cuba: an educated and cultured people, but a feeble economyBy Joel Kramer | Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 HAVANA — We'll call her Elena, to protect her from retribution from her government. I don't know if we really need to protect her, but every time we asked her a question about her life in [...] |
| 10/24/2009 12:27 PM |
| Visiting Cuban professor gives lecture at FIU |
| Posted on Saturday, 10.24.09MIAMI-DADEVisiting Cuban professor gives lecture at FIUA Cuban professor visiting Miami said Cuba needs more thoughtful debate to address difficult issues.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba today allows a level of public criticism and debate on controversial topics that would have been impossible 20 years ago, “though there's still a long road ahead,'' [...] |