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| 02/07/2012 10:39 PM |
| 10 Cuban dissidents at US Guantanamo base: blogger |
| 10 Cuban dissidents at US Guantanamo base: blogger(AFP) HAVANA — Ten Cuban dissidents are seeking asylum at the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, but "are being treated like terrorists," a blogger close to the Cuban government charged Monday. The 10 including dissident journalists Olienny Valladares Capote and Adolfo Pablo Borraza Chaple, have been at [...] |
| 02/07/2012 12:46 AM |
| Cuban blogger blocked from travelling to film premiere in Brazil – Amnesty International |
| Cuban blogger blocked from travelling to film premiere in Brazil6 February 2012 "The Cuban government's repeated denial of exit permits to critics like Yoani Sánchez can only be seen as retaliation for the expression of their legitimate political views and activism."Javier Zúñiga, Special Advisor to Amnesty InternationalMon, 06/02/2012 The Cuban government must reform an arbitrary [...] |
| 02/06/2012 11:17 PM |
| Wilman Villar Mendoza: The Death of a Dissident / Yoani Sánchez |
| Wilman Villar Mendoza: The Death of a Dissident / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez The punishment cell is narrow, is five feet wide by two long, cold and there is not even a blanket for cover. From the hole in the floor that serves as a toilet, a rat occasionally emerges and looks curiously at [...] |
| 02/05/2012 08:38 PM |
| Cuba Denies Exit to Pro-Democracy Blogger Invited by Brazil |
| Cuba Denies Exit to Pro-Democracy Blogger Invited by BrazilFebruary 05, 2012, 1:43 AM EST By Joshua Goodman (Updates with Sanchez's comments in fourth paragraph.) Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Cuba's best-known pro-democracy blogger said she was denied permission to leave her country after Brazil granted her a visa ahead of President Dilma Rousseff's state visit to [...] |
| 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 07:47 PM |
| Further information: Prisoners of conscience freed – Amnesty International |
| Cuba: Further information: Prisoners of conscience freed Further information on UA: 355/11Index: AMR 25/002/2012Cuba Date: 23 January 2012 URGENT ACTION PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE FREED Cuban human right activists Ivonne Malleza Galano and Ignacio Martínez Montejo were released from detention on 20 January, along with Isabel Haydee Álvarez, who was detained after calling on officials to [...] |
| 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 07:11 PM |
| Cuban dissident blogger says exit visa denied |
| Posted on Friday, 02.03.12 Cuban dissident blogger says exit visa deniedThe Associated Press HAVANA — Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says she has been denied permission attend a film festival in Brazil. Sanchez recently got an entry visa from Brazil. The sticking point was whether Cuba would grant the exit visa that islanders must obtain [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 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 04:45 AM |
| Open Letter from the Writer Ángel Santiesteban-Prats to the New President of Spain / Ángel Santiesteban |
| Open Letter from the Writer Ángel Santiesteban-Prats to the New President of Spain / Ángel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated Havana, 20 December 2011 President Mariano Rajoy, I turn to you on the day my daughter celebrates her birthday. Just thinking of the Cuban young people, I decided to write you these humble and sincere words [...] |
| 01/11/2012 03:46 AM |
| Catching Up / Regina Coyula |
| Catching Up / Regina CoyulaRegina Coyula, Translator: Unstated After the claustrophobic feeling of having no internet for two weeks, catching up with events will not be easy, adding the softness of these days. I will summarize in three stories that remained me with me like feedback after the holidays. Saga North Korea is one of [...] |
| 01/11/2012 02:47 AM |
| Cuba and Cuba / Regina Coyula |
| Cuba and Cuba / Regina CoyulaRegina Coyula, Translator: Unstated Yesterday, two pleasant women from Madrid appeared in my house. One of them follows Bad Handwriting, and the other came with her because she didn't want to come alone. After the introductions and making arrangements with the driver of the Soviet-made Lada car that brought them, [...] |
| 01/11/2012 02:06 AM |
| And If Nothing Happens? / Reinaldo Escobar |
| And If Nothing Happens? / Reinaldo EscobarReinaldo Escobar, Translator: Unstated It is less than three weeks until the First National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba, and it seems that almost no one cares about what will happen there. Perhaps we haven't lost the habit of events like these coming accompanied by billboards, posters, [...] |
| 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 05:28 PM |
| Cuban blogger appeals to Brazil’s president for help to leave Cuba |
| Cuban blogger appeals to Brazil's president for help to leave Cuba Dissident blogger Yoani Sánchez has issued a video plea after being denied permission to leave the country since 2004 The dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez – famed for her outspoken online critiques of the country's communist regime – has issued an appeal to Brazil's [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/05/2012 04:05 AM |
| 2011, That Year So Remote / Yoani Sánchez |
| 2011, That Year So Remote / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez In October Laura Pollan left us, in a dark hospital on a drizzly day, in a year, 2011, that had been born already battered. In the early months, the final prisoners of the Black Spring had been released and national and international headlines gave [...] |
| 01/04/2012 08:05 PM |
| Condemning the Attitude of Bishop Ricardo Pereira, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Cuba / Ricardo Medina |
| Condemning the Attitude of Bishop Ricardo Pereira, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Cuba / Ricardo MedinaRicardo Medina, Translator: Unstated Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. Psalm 25:21 King James Bible At 10:34 PM I received a text message from my brother the Pastor Yordi Alberto Toranzo Collado in which [...] |
| 01/04/2012 03:36 AM |
| CID Party Leader Arrested in Pinar del Rio for Listening to Music by Willy Chirino / Katia Sonia |
| CID Party Leader Arrested in Pinar del Rio for Listening to Music by Willy Chirino / Katia SoniaKatia Sonia, Translator: Paul Knopinski Luis Alberto Hernández Marrero, delegate of the Party for an Independent and Democratic Cuba in the province of Pinar del Rio was violently arrested, together with his son, Luis Adrian Hernández Martínez, at [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/01/2012 06:03 PM |
| It’s Not The Same Water / Yoani Sánchez |
| It's Not The Same Water / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez My small end-of-year tribute to the commentators Water* falls from the balconies. It's midnight and sonorous waterfalls spill from the windows and doors that give on to the street and terraces. It is the overflowing liquid of a slow scrubbing, the residue of a [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/30/2011 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 [...] |
| 12/29/2011 09:20 PM |
| Cuba’s Justice System Mustn’t Be Blind |
| Cuba's Justice System Mustn't Be BlindDecember 29, 2011Fernando Ravsberg HAVANA TIMES, Dec 29 — Upon hearing the news of the pardon of 2,900 prisoners, a friend who's a "revolutionary" warned me that "the streets are going to turn bad"; while a dissident complained to me that "the Cuban government's decision was too limited." The controversy [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/27/2011 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 08:06 AM |
| Of Pardons and Forgetting / Yoani Sánchez |
| Of Pardons and Forgetting / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez "Don't be naive," "You're going to be left with a packed suitcase," friends everywhere tell me, with the best of intentions. But an inmate always dreams that the door will open, that the jailer himself will take the keys and draw back the bars. Instead [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/24/2011 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 [...] |
| 12/23/2011 02:24 PM |
| Cubans wait, hope for end to travel limits |
| Cubans wait, hope for end to travel limitsBy Rosa Tania Valdez and Jeff FranksHAVANA | Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:24am EST (Reuters) – Cuba is abuzz with speculation that President Raul Castro will soon announce policy changes making it easier for Cubans to travel abroad from their communist island. Without being specific, he has promised [...] |
| 12/23/2011 06:47 AM |
| My Suitcase is Packed / Yoani Sánchez |
| My Suitcase is Packed / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez Like all the airports in the world, ours is impersonal, stressful, glass and aluminum on all sides. Once in a while the door to customs opens and someone comes out with their luggage wrapped in cellophane. The waiting family members scream, tears running down their [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/21/2011 05:05 AM |
| My Fears / Yoani Sánchez |
| My Fears / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez A solitary man sweeps the dry leaves on the wide avenue where not one car is traveling in either direction. He lowers his head and avoids talking with the cameraman. Perhaps it's a punishment for not applauding with sufficient enthusiasm at a meeting, or not bowing with [...] |
| 12/21/2011 04:17 AM |
| Dynastic Socialism / Reinaldo Escobar |
| Dynastic Socialism / Reinaldo EscobarReinaldo Escobar, Translator: Unstated None of the classics of Marxism-Leninism could foresee the possibility that a country formally declared as socialist would be governed by a family dynasty. But now we get the news (?) after the death of Kim Jong Il that the leadership of that country will be left [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/20/2011 07:43 PM |
| After Kim Jong-il’s Death, Cubans Wait for Castro’s Turn |
| After Kim Jong-il's Death, Cubans Wait for Castro's TurnWritten By Bryan LlenasPublished December 19, 2011Fox News Latino The death of Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator, has Cuban Americans and dissidents in Cuba pondering about the day when they will read Fidel Castro's obituary. As North Korea urges its people to rally behind Jong-il's youngest [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/18/2011 04:44 AM |
| A Disconcerting Concert / Rebeca Monzo |
| A Disconcerting Concert / Rebeca MonzoRebeca Monzo, Translator: BW Yesterday afternoon we were going in our old Lada (Russian car) by road to a house of a friend who had invited us for dinner. Since she lives in a beautiful building on 9th Street, very close to the Malecón on a very high floor and [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/17/2011 06:47 AM |
| Between Jokes and The Dead / Yoani Sánchez |
| Between Jokes and The Dead / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez The nothingness, the apathy, the wall at the corner to sit on, forever wasting time. The hero of the film "Juan of the Dead" was already acting like a corpse before the zombies invaded Havana, a city in fact shrouded and dead. This fictional [...] |
| 12/16/2011 07:09 PM |
| Bid to tighten up Cuba travel dropped from budget bill, |
| Posted on Thursday, 12.15.11 Bid to tighten up Cuba travel dropped from budget bill Cuba was one of the last issues holding up a $1 trillion spending bill in the U.S. Congress. A bid to make it easier for Cuba to buy U.S. imports also fell.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Congressional leaders dropped both a measure to [...] |
| 12/16/2011 06:24 PM |
| Fidel Castro: Guilty of Murdering the Cuban Nation / Angel Santiesteban |
| Fidel Castro: Guilty of Murdering the Cuban Nation / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Regina Anavy The Cuban dictatorship criticizes the possibility offered by the U.S. government of accepting Cubans who cross the Florida Straits in a bid to achieve their dreams. They write lengthy manifestos to disguise the reality of the island, and blame the [...] |
| 12/15/2011 06:39 PM |
| In Cuba, Dial-Up Internet Is A Luxury |
| In Cuba, Dial-Up Internet Is A Luxuryby Nick MiroffListen to the Story:December 14, 2011 Cuba is one of the least-connected countries in the world, a time-warped place where millions of young people have never been online and a dial-up Internet account is the stuff of dreams. An undersea fiber-optic cable linking the island to Venezuela [...] |
| 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," [...] |