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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 [...] |
| 05/04/2012 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 [...] |
| 04/13/2012 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 [...] |
| 03/28/2012 12:25 AM |
| Censorship Catholicommunist in Cuba / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo |
| Censorship Catholicommunist in Cuba / Orlando Luis Pardo LazoOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated Why Not Awakening? – An article about the censorship of the documentary about Escuadrón Patriota(Patriot Squadron) – Every February, the Chaplin Cinema opens its doors to the Young Filmmakers Exhibition organized by the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC). [...] |
| 03/15/2012 07:59 PM |
| Aesthetically Balanced Choreography? |
| Aesthetically Balanced Choreography?March 12, 2012Jorge Milanes HAVANA TIMES, March 12 — Demonstrations of racism of any kind are sometimes so subtle that it's hard to imagine it ever re-emerging as a serious social problem. It's equally difficult to imagine situations where its examples are manifested. This is one of them. Samuel, the son of one [...] |
| 03/05/2012 02:17 PM |
| Cuban Santeros wary of Pope visit after JPII snub |
| osted on Monday, 03.05.12 Cuban Santeros wary of Pope visit after JPII snubBy ANDREA RODRIGUEZAssociated Press HAVANA — They cast snail shells to read their fortunes, proudly wear colorful necklaces to ward off illness, dress all in white and dance in "bata" drum ceremonies. But although their Afro-Cuban Santeria religion owes much to Roman Catholicism, [...] |
| 02/26/2012 01:07 PM |
| ’Whitening’ the children: a desire of many Cuban families / Iván García |
| 'Whitening' the children: a desire of many Cuban families / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Unstated Racism in Cuba is far from being left behind. Forget the official ideology of a single nation without races. People do not live in compartments. Whites, blacks and mestizos get on the same bus. Go to the same schools. And [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 02/12/2012 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 [...] |
| 02/11/2012 12:49 AM |
| Civic and Economic Robbery / Mackandal – Manuel Aguirre Lavarrere |
| Civic and Economic Robbery / Mackandal – Manuel Aguirre LavarrereMackandal – Manuel Aguirre Lavarrere, Translator: Unstated From slavery heroes emerge, but from infertile freedom only the useless emerge.José Martí The economy has always been the soft underbelly of the Cuban government. However, before 1959 Cuba was among the countries with highest economic solvency of the [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/24/2011 03:57 PM |
| Raul Castro’s Daughter Launches Blog |
| Raul Castro's Daughter Launches BlogPublished December 22, 2011EFE Just a few weeks after going tweet-to-tweet with dissident Yoani Sánchez in a bracing welcome to the open debate that reigns online, Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and director of the National Sexual Education Center, has launched a blog. "El blog de Mariela [...] |
| 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. [...] |
| 10/03/2011 05:09 AM |
| Cuban Secret Services: Sticks and White Glove / Iván García |
| Cuban Secret Services: Sticks and White Glove / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: lapizcero The problem is the street. General Raúl Castro will not permit an Arab Spring in Cuba. He will do whatever needs doing to detain irate opponents. He wants to isolate the potential short-circuit that could turn into a street protest. The island [...] |
| 09/06/2011 02:14 PM |
| Hezbollah Opens Base in Cuba |
| Hezbollah Opens Base in CubaPosted by Humberto Fontova on Sep 6th, 2011 A year ago many prominent Israelis seemed smitten with Fidel Castro. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart," wrote Israeli President Shimon Peres to Fidel Castro on Sept. 24, 2010: "I must confess that your remarks were, in my opinion, unexpected [...] |
| 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…" [...] |
| 07/09/2011 10:46 PM |
| Cuba academic: Party expulsion order overturned |
| Posted on Friday, 07.08.11 Cuba academic: Party expulsion order overturnedBy ANDREA RODRIGUEZAssociated Press HAVANA — A prominent Cuban intellectual who came under fire for an unusually frank article denouncing high-level corruption says an order expelling him from the Communist Party has been overturned. Esteban Morales wrote Thursday on his personal website that a party appeals [...] |
| 06/25/2011 01:49 PM |
| Cuba is Not a Country For the Elderly, Especially if They are Black / Iván García |
| Cuba is Not a Country For the Elderly, Especially if They are Black / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Adrian Rodriguez Being old in Cuba is a problem. Check this, if a young family have to work miracles to bring three meals a day to the table, buy clothing for their children and try to make [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 06/06/2011 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 [...] |
| 05/12/2011 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 [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 02/18/2011 11:45 PM |
| U.N. Official Urges Cuba to Heed Events in Egypt, Tunisia |
| U.N. Official Urges Cuba to Heed Events in Egypt, TunisiaPublished February 18, 2011 The rapporteur of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Thursday asked Cuba to learn from the example of recent events in the Arab world to carry out democratic reforms on the communist island. Pastor Elías Murillo Martínez said [...] |
| 02/13/2011 03:48 PM |
| The Arts of Cuba, Set to Wow New York |
| The Arts of Cuba, Set to Wow New YorkBy LARRY ROHTERPublished: February 8, 2011 All those and more than two dozen other artists will take part in a wide-ranging festival of Cuban arts that will last more than two months in locations around New York this spring. The festival, called "¡Sí Cuba!," is one of [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 08/22/2010 10:12 PM |
| LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA |
| LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA22-08-2010.Joaquin F. Otero (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- August 17, 2010 The PresidentThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President, I am writing to request your personal attention and assistance, and that of the U.S. Government, on behalf of a mother in Cuba who has been suffering and continues to suffer the abuse, harassment [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 07/28/2010 01:22 PM |
| Race in Cuba: Yes, Virginia, There Is Racism on the Island |
| Race in Cuba: Yes, Virginia, There Is Racism on the IslandBy: Achy ObejasPosted: July 26, 2010 at 6:17 AM When it comes to race, Cuba is far from the utopia that black intellectuals like to think it is. Today, on the 57th anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution, The Root launches its series [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 06/24/2010 12:37 PM |
| Castro’s Third Reich |
| Castro's Third ReichPosted By Humberto Fontova On June 24, 2010 @ 12:00 am In FrontPage | "The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one-and-a-half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all [...] |
| 05/16/2010 07:07 PM |
| The fight against racism in Cuba goes viral |
| The fight against racism in Cuba goes viralBy Marlie Hall9:28 AM on 05/14/2010Tags: Afro Cubans, Cuba, Discrimination, Raul Castro Rosa Parks refused to stand. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. Barack Obama won the presidential election. America' s plight for racial equality has had its struggles, its heroes and its progress. But on the [...] |
| 03/20/2010 08:57 PM |
| RACE AND COLOR IN CONTEMPORARY CUBA |
| RACE AND COLOR IN CONTEMPORARY CUBAGayle McGarrity When I first returned to the United States in 1982, after living for a year and a half in Cuba, I was eager to share with my colleagues the extent to which racism and class divisions were still a glaring reality in ´Revolutionary Cuba´. However, no one wanted [...] |
| 02/28/2010 11:29 PM |
| Blacks bear the brunt of Cuba’s brutality |
| Posted on Sunday, 02.28.10POLITICAL PRISONERSBlacks bear the brunt of Cuba's brutalityBY CARLOS MOOREcarlosmoore2000@gmail.com Orlando Zapata Tamayo — a young, poor, black Cuban worker imprisonedsince 2003 — died after an almost three-months-long hunger strike toprotest racial oppression, the denial of civil and human rights and thebrutality he had endured in prison. He became the first black [...] |
| 02/26/2010 07:50 AM |
| Stop coddling Cuban dictatorship |
| Posted on Thursday, 02.25.10Stop coddling Cuban dictatorshipOUR OPINION: The U.N., OAS and EU should challenge Cuba HAVANA — Orlando Zapata Tamayo died on Feb. 23 as a result of a hungerstrike he maintained for more than 80 days to demand adequate treatmentfor his status as a prisoner of conscience. He staged many other strikessince March [...] |
| 02/23/2010 07:50 PM |
| Beware of Cuba’s Waiters |
| Beware of Cuba's WaitersFebruary 23, 2010Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES, Feb. 23 — This has been an exciting week, as I was caught up in an operative of the Special Police while leaving the bar of the St. John's Hotel in the Vedado district. My crime was to drink a coffee and converse with a journalism [...] |
| 02/14/2010 07:36 PM |
| Cubans publicly debate prejudice against blacks |
| Cubans publicly debate prejudice against blacksWeb posted at: 2/14/2010 2:10:5Source ::: AFP HAVANA: Half a century after Fidel Castro's revolution claimed to have done away with racism, Cubans are publicly debating a stubborn strain of discrimination and prejudice that associates blacks here with quarrels, crime, and rum. "I am not racist, but I don't want [...] |
| 02/01/2010 09:45 PM |
| Race still an issue in Cuba |
| 'Race still an issue in Cuba' By Patricia Grogg The elimination of racism remains unfinished business in Cuba today. "We have to admit that the problem exists, determine its impact on the social model that we defend, and tackle it in depth," says Esteban Morales, an Afro-Cuban economist, political scientist and author of numerous articles [...] |
| 01/30/2010 11:16 PM |
| Being Poor and White Is Not the Same as Being Poor and Black in Cuba |
| Q&A:"Being Poor and White Is Not the Same as Being Poor and Black" in CubaPatricia Grogg interviews University of Havana researcher ESTEBAN MORALESCredit:Patricia Grogg/IPS HAVANA, Jan 29, 2010 (IPS) – The elimination of racism remains unfinished business in Cuba today. "We have to admit that the problem exists, determine its impact on the social model [...] |
| 01/09/2010 01:32 PM |
| Roar, tyrants, you cannot hide your racist deeds |
| Roar, tyrants, you cannot hide your racist deedsBY NAT HENTOFF • January 9, 2010 The Nov. 30 "Acting on Our Conscience: A Declaration of African-American Support for the Civil Rights Struggle in Cuba" by 60 prominent black Americans denouncing the deep discrimination against Afro-Cubans by the Cuban government was a surprise because none of the [...] |
| 01/04/2010 09:52 PM |
| African American activists, including Jeremiah Wright and Cornel West, blast Cuba on racism |
| African American activists, including Jeremiah Wright and Cornel West, blast Cuba on racismJanuary 4, 2010 | 7:08 am There was a time when African American intellectuals had lots of good things to say about Fidel Castro and Cuba, often noting how the regime in Havana, for all its faults on human rights, had brought better [...] |
| 01/03/2010 12:58 PM |
| Black activists launch rare attack on Cuba about racism |
| Black activists launch rare attack on Cuba about racism Onetime supporters of the Castro revolution now question the regime's civil and human rights record.By Richard Fausset January 3, 2010 Reporting from Atlanta – President Obama has loosened travel restrictions to Cuba. His critics accuse him of harboring socialist sentiments. And he is, of course, a [...] |
| 01/02/2010 03:14 PM |
| Cuba faced worst economic crisis in ’09 |
| Posted on Friday, 01.01.10 Cuba faced worst economic crisis in '09 Deepening economic troubles, rising crime and corruption, and a burgeoning blogger movement vexed Cuba in 2009.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@elnuevoherald.com Raúl Castro was right, when he predicted on Jan. 1 that 2009 would be a tough year for Cuba. Havana faced its worst economic crisis [...] |
| 12/30/2009 08:51 PM |
| The Castro brothers’ big dirty secret |
| The Castro brothers' big dirty secretPosted: December 30, 2009 For years I have been reporting on how Fidel Castro has been crushing internal dissent. I did this while simultaneously trying to demythicize his comrade, Che Guevara, a charismatic man when he was not a merciless executioner at Havana prisons. I once met Guevara, and, during [...] |
| 12/20/2009 02:52 PM |
| Why the delayed outcry? |
| Posted on Sunday, 12.20.09BLACKS IN CUBAWhy the delayed outcry?BY NINOSKA PEREZ-CASTELLONninoskapc@aol.com “All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.'' Edmund Burke Agroup of 60 African-American leaders, influenced by Brazil's Abdias Nascimiento, a self-proclaimed admirer of Fidel Castro, condemned racism in Cuba. Congratulations. One exception, Makani Themba-Nixon wants her [...] |
| 12/10/2009 05:54 PM |
| African-Americans: Blacks in Cuba ‘treated with callous disregard’ |
| African-Americans: Blacks in Cuba 'treated with callous disregard' From Shasta Darlington, CNNDecember 9, 2009 — Updated 0657 GMT (1457 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS* African-American intellectuals, artists criticize Cuba's treatment of black citizens* Declaration of protest also seeks release of dissident who organized human rights marches* Cuban intellectuals defend country in letter, citing history of helping Africans, [...] |
| 12/06/2009 07:31 AM |
| Racism fight in Cuba needs new thinking |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.05.09Racism fight in Cuba needs new thinkingBy MYRIAM MARQUEZmmarquez@MiamiHerald.com Fifty and 60. Not just numbers. They capture the journey of 50 years in a crumbling island and a sea of change in perspective among 60 prestigious people to the north who opened their eyes and told the truth, exposing Cuba's dirty little [...] |