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| 12/24/2011 06:26 AM |
| Vaclav Havel: Without Fake Covers / Yoani Sánchez |
| Vaclav Havel: Without Fake Covers / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez It came carefully wrapped in a page of the newspaper Granma, but bore no relation to that official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba. The dull wrapping was just camouflage, the mask under which a copy of The Power of the Powerless by [...] |
| 12/17/2011 10:18 PM |
| Chistes de Cuba: Cómo vendí 5,000 ejemplares |
| Chistes de Cuba: Cómo vendí 5,000 ejemplaresSábado 17 de Diciembre de 2011 11:17Kiko Arocha Acepto que esta antología de chistes populares que ridiculiza a la llamada revolución cubana, publicada en Miami, ha resultado seductora para quienes tuvieron que sufrir años de comunismo en Cuba, aunque no tanto para la primera generación de exiliados, razón por [...] |
| 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 , [...] |
| 10/23/2011 08:53 PM |
| The National Library / Fernando Dámaso |
| The National Library / Fernando DámasoFernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated On October 18th the Jose Marti National Library of Cuba celebrated its 110th year, and for some months has been undergoing a complete remodeling of both the building and its organization. This is good news as its state of disrepair was obvious to everyone, after many [...] |
| 09/26/2011 06:41 AM |
| Father Varela, Man of the Present / Dimas Castellanos |
| Father Varela, Man of the Present / Dimas CastellanosDimas Castellanos, Translator: Unstated The accords of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), along with those emanating from its five previous congresses, have demonstrated not only their inability to solve the serious problems of Cuban society, but also to enforce the approved guidelines. [...] |
| 09/15/2011 10:32 AM |
| Dissidents arrested in Cuba – Urgent Appeal |
| Document – Cuba: Dissidents arrested in Cuba UA: 265/11 Index: AMR 25/005/2011 Cuba Date: 1 September 2011 URGENT ACTION DISSIDENTS ARRESTED IN CUBA Eleven members of a dissident organization and three of their relatives have been detained , without be ing told of any charge s against them , since their arrest on 28 August [...] |
| 09/07/2011 08:06 PM |
| Castro sics dogs on flower-carrying women |
| Castro sics dogs on flower-carrying womenPosted: September 06, 20116:12 pm EasternNat Hentoff Among the bravest and most persistent protesters against dictatorial regimes have been, for years, the Ladies in White of Cuba. With Fidel presumably sidelined, his brother Raul carries on the brutish family tradition of crushing dissent, as seen in his attacks against this [...] |
| 09/06/2011 01:18 PM |
| Cuba: Further information: Women denied right to protest – Amnesty International |
| "Document – Cuba: Further information: Women denied right to protest Further information on UA: 256/11 Index: AMR 25/004/2011 Cuba Date: 1 September 2011 URGENT ACTION WOMEN DENIED RIGHT TO PROTEST A group of female relatives of prisoners of conscience in Cuba and their supporters were again prevented from organizing a peaceful protest on 28 August [...] |
| 08/12/2011 02:52 PM |
| Testimony: The Failed Attempts to Make Me an "Agent" – IV / Angel Santiesteban |
| Testimony: The Failed Attempts to Make Me an "Agent" – IV / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated After the Black Spring, when they arrested the 75 Government opponents, through my younger sister I met one of them who had been released due to illness. And visiting his house, I noticed that his daughter was an [...] |
| 07/18/2011 09:10 PM |
| Closed for Demolition / Francis Sánchez |
| Closed for Demolition / Francis SánchezFrancis Sánchez, Translator: S.Solá [I have decided to publish, before this blog is closed down, some texts that I didn't publish at the time because it was practically impossible to do it because of obvious difficulties or because as time passed I doubted that it would be the best idea. [...] |
| 07/18/2011 04:45 AM |
| ISLAND STASIOLOGY / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo |
| ISLAND STASIOLOGY / Orlando Luis Pardo LazoOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Claudia Diaz Alemany Of Militants and QueersOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo …s they have tried to call it. They weren't "five gray years." Much less a "black decade." The '70s were the splendor, the Cuban Revolution's era of luxury. The '70s are and will be [...] |
| 07/15/2011 07:20 PM |
| Cuban Wretch "Escapes" Castro’s Paradise |
| Cuban Wretch "Escapes" Castro's ParadiseWritten by Bruce WalkerFriday, 15 July 2011 10:31 On Thursday, July 14, 2011, a young Cuban who tried to stowaway inside the landing gear of a Spanish airliner died during the nine-hour flight from Havana to Madrid. It was, ironically, Lenin who invented the term "voting with their feet" during the [...] |
| 07/07/2011 05:07 AM |
| RIDING MISTER ROJAS / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo |
| RIDING MISTER ROJAS / Orlando Luis Pardo LazoOrlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Joanne Gómez In art, like in politics, the speeches of epigones, now free of the original guilt of the Messiah, start attempting a liberal rereading of the revolutionary scripture and end up being pure fascism. The Cuban intellectual Fernando Rojas, beyond his high [...] |
| 07/06/2011 10:25 PM |
| In Cuba, the Voice of a Blog Generation |
| In Cuba, the Voice of a Blog GenerationDesmond Boylan/ReutersPublished: July 5, 2011 Ms. Sánchez's blog, Generation Y, chronicles daily life under Castro. "The content of the book entitled 'Free Cuba' transgresses against the general interests of the nation, in that it argues that certain political and economic changes are necessary in Cuba in order for [...] |
| 05/26/2011 10:44 PM |
| Universitarios cubanos con internet racionada |
| Universitarios cubanos con internet racionada Los estudiantes cubanos en general, y los universitarios en especial, no cuentan en este interconectado y vertiginoso mundo actual con pleno y libre acceso a Internet. Rolando Cartaya/ Especial para martinoticias 25 de mayo de 2011 Se ha repetido mucho que el mayor capital de Cuba hoy por hoy es [...] |
| 05/26/2011 04:10 AM |
| Por qué los estudiantes cubanos necesitan Internet? |
| ¿Por qué los estudiantes cubanos necesitan Internet?mayo 24, 2011Graham Sowa HAVANA TIMES, 24 de mayo — La pasada semana se publicó en los periódicos cubanos un artículo especial con el título de "Ciberguerra: Acceso a Internet, subversión, o derechos humanos". Mientras más leo la perspectiva que tiene el gobierno cubano sobre la Web, más siento [...] |
| 05/24/2011 02:01 PM |
| Why Students in Cuba Need Internet |
| Why Students in Cuba Need InternetMay 23, 2011Graham Sowa Last week a special article ran in Cuban papers titled "Cyberwar: Access to the internet, subversion, or human rights". The more often I read about the internet from the Cuban government perspective the more I feel like we need to do a better job of explaining [...] |
| 05/12/2011 06:28 PM |
| U.S. Cuba programs: the stuff of spies? |
| Posted on Wednesday, 05.11.11 U.S. Cuba programs: the stuff of spies? The U.S. government Cuba democracy programs are being revamped to address concerns from Congress, which have held up the $20 million budget.By Frances Roblesfrobles@miamiherald.com To the U.S. government aid workers who he suspected were secret agents, Cuban professor Raul Capote was "Pablo." He went [...] |
| 05/03/2011 10:37 AM |
| Cuba debate roils academic conference |
| Cuba debate roils academic conference NEW YORK, April 30, 2011 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) – Academic conferences are usually sedate affairs, with minimal controversy or verbal sparring, but this staid pattern was broken at a three-day conference on "Cuban Futures" held from March 31 to April 2 at the City University of New York (CUNY) [...] |
| 03/31/2011 06:55 PM |
| Napoleonic museum opens in Cuba |
| Napoleonic museum opens in Cuba(AFP) HAVANA — Napoleon Bonaparte goes on display in Cuba on Friday with the reopening of the Napoleonic Museum of Havana, which boasts the largest collection of French revolutionary and imperial items outside of Europe. Napoleon never set foot in Cuba but his physician, Corsican-born Francesco Antommarchi, who treated him during [...] |
| 02/03/2011 09:17 PM |
| American policy toward Cuba is `oddly benign’ |
| Posted on Thursday, 02.03.11 American policy toward Cuba is `oddly benign' As a retired Foreign Service Officer with a special interest in Cuba, I write to comment on Carlos Saladrigas' Jan. 21 Other Views article Good for the Cuban people. He says that U.S. sanctions against the Castro regime “are more comprehensive than any other [...] |
| 10/27/2010 06:54 PM |
| NYU gets the papers of Philip Agee, renegade CIA agent |
| SpyTalk NYU gets the papers of Philip Agee, renegade CIA agentjeff steinWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, October 27, 2010 NYU library acquires the papers of Philip Agee, renegade spy The private papers of Philip Agee, the disaffected CIA operative whose unauthorized publication of agency secrets 35 years ago was arguably more damaging than anything WikiLeaks has [...] |
| 10/25/2010 01:22 PM |
| Cuba Ahoy? Travel Writer Finds the ‘Inviting Isle’ Can’t Even Provide a Decent Toilet |
| Cuba Ahoy? Travel Writer Finds the 'Inviting Isle' Can't Even Provide a Decent ToiletBy Tim Graham | October 24, 2010 | 16:56Tim Graham's picture The Travel section in Sunday's Washington Post featured a huge picture of a sailboat in the spray with the words "Cuba AHOY! Just 90 miles offshore, the embargoed yet inviting isle [...] |
| 09/16/2010 07:56 PM |
| Cuba waits for a new dawn with unease |
| Cuba waits for a new dawn with uneaseBy Rory CarrollThursday, 16 Sep, 2010 HAVANA: It was supposed to be the start of a brave new world in which the customer was king. But the teenage boy in the barber's chair stared at his reflection, aghast and almost crying. "What have you done?" he asked, caressing [...] |
| 09/10/2010 11:55 AM |
| Students’ strike in Cuba draws never-before-seen anti-riot squad |
| Posted on Friday, 09.10.10Students' strike in Cuba draws never-before-seen anti-riot squad A strike by Pakistani students in Cuba drew a show of force from an anti-riot squad not seen before on the streets of the island.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@elnuevoherald.com A Cuban anti-riot squad, previously unseen but surprisingly well-equipped and with fixed bayonets, quelled a Pakistani [...] |
| 08/29/2010 12:53 PM |
| Detención arbitraria de activistas por la democracia – Acción Urgente Amnistía Internacional |
| Document – Cuba: Pro-democracy activists arbitrarily detained AU: 186/10 Índice: AMR 25/013/2010 Cuba Fecha: 25 de agosto de 2010 ACCIÓN URGENTE detención arbitraria de activistas por la democracia Cinco hombres, todos miembros de una organización pro democracia de Cuba, han sido detenidos en relación con sus ideas y actividades políticas. Están bajo custodia de la [...] |
| 08/28/2010 12:41 PM |
| Cuban survivor of `hell’ retains his fighting spirit |
| Posted on Saturday, 08.28.10Cuban survivor of `hell' retains his fighting spiritBY CARLOS FRIASPalm Beach Post There's a stranger in the photograph that friends have placed in Ariel Sigler Amaya's Jackson Memorial Hospital room. The muscles in the stranger's shoulders merge with the ones in his neck, and his chest swells through a plain white T-shirt. [...] |
| 08/22/2010 11:01 PM |
| Former Cuban freedom fighter now confined to wheelchair |
| Former Cuban freedom fighter now confined to wheelchair In his Cuban homeland, Ariel Sigler was a champion boxer and a powerful voice against the Castro government.Sigler is being rehabilitated and hospitalized at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.By CARLOS FRÍASPalm Beach Post Staff WriterUpdated: 8:07 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 MIAMI — There's a stranger in [...] |
| 08/13/2010 12:26 AM |
| Mother harassed for marching for dead son: Reina Luisa Tamayo – Amnesty International Urgent Action |
| Cuba: Mother harassed for marching for dead son: Reina Luisa Tamayo UA: 174/10 Index: AMR 25/012/2010 Cuba Date: 11 August 2010 URGENT ACTION MOTHER HARASSED FOR MARCHING FOR DEAD SON The mother of a Cuban prisoner of conscience who died after hunger striking has been repeatedly harassed and intimidated in an attempt to stop her [...] |
| 07/13/2010 06:42 PM |
| Brief biographies on 7 Cubans released to Spain |
| Posted on Tuesday, 07.13.10Brief biographies on 7 Cubans released to SpainThe Associated Press A brief biography on the seven Cuban political prisoners released and then sent to Spain: — LESTER GONZALEZ – Independent journalist from Santa Clara, youngest of the 75 opposition members arrested in Cuba in March 2003. Member of Reason, Truth and Freedom [...] |
| 06/30/2010 08:38 PM |
| Restrictions to freedom of expression create climate of fear in Cuba |
| Restrictions to freedom of expression create climate of fear in Cuba30 June 2010 Full report:http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR25/005/2010/en/62b9caf8-8407-4a08-90bb-b5e8339634fe/amr250052010en.pdf Cuba's repressive legal system has created a climate of fear among journalists, dissidents and activists, putting them at risk of arbitrary arrest and harassment by the authorities, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. The report Restrictions on [...] |
| 06/30/2010 08:36 PM |
| Crea Cuba ambiente de temor para periodistas y disidentes: Amnistía |
| Crea Cuba ambiente de temor para periodistas y disidentes: Amnistía En su informe "Restricciones a la libertad de expresión en Cuba", AI llamó al gobierno cubano a revocar o enmendar las medidas legales que limitan la libertad de expresión, poner fin al hostigamiento a los disidentes y liberar a todos los presos de conciencia.Mié, 30/06/2010 [...] |
| 06/29/2010 07:25 PM |
| Cuban prisoner of conscience released, Darsi Ferrer – Amnesty International |
| Cuba: Cuban prisoner of conscience released, Darsi Ferrer Further information on UA: 134/10 Index: AMR 25/010/2010 Date: 25 June 2010 CUBAN Prisoner of conscience released Darsi Ferrer was released from detention in the Cuban capital, Havana, on 22 June. He had spent almost a year in a maximum security prison after organizing protests critical of [...] |
| 06/24/2010 12:51 PM |
| Castros reject any opening |
| Posted on Thursday, 06.17.10Castros reject any openingBY MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLEMarifeliPerezStable.com Aletter signed by 74 Cuban citizens — calling on the U.S. Congress to end the travel ban on Americans visiting Cuba — has raised hackles among hard-liners in Miami. With them in mind, the signatories acknowledge that the regime stands to benefit from windfall earnings if [...] |
| 03/23/2010 11:18 PM |
| Independent librarian fired from government job |
| Posted on Tuesday, 03.23.10Independent librarian fired from government jobCUBANET HAVANA, Cuba, March 23 (Aini Martín Valero, ALAS, www.cubanet.org) -José Ignacio Oropesa Almora says he was fired from his job as a truckdriver for the state oil company because he's an independent librarian. He said his superior at Cuba Petróleo (CUPET) told him at the beginningof [...] |
| 03/18/2010 11:56 PM |
| Cuba’s Ladies In White Hauled Away During Protest |
| Mar 18, 2010 3:46 pm US/EasternCuba's Ladies In White Hauled Away During ProtestReportingEliott RodriguezHAVANA (CBS4) A protest in Cuba Wednesday turned violent when a group of mothers and wives came face to face with a pro-government mob. The women were marking the 7th anniversary of a crackdown on dissidents, but Cuban police put an end [...] |
| 03/14/2010 06:25 PM |
| British tabloids love Shakespeare caper with Cuban twist |
| Posted on Saturday, 03.13.10THE DANDY, THE DANCER AND THE BARD British tabloids love Shakespeare caper with Cuban twistAn 'aging Lothario' accused of stealing a $5 million Shakespearean manuscript has the British papers in a froth.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com He's an eccentric British antiques collector, middle-aged and a bit of a dandy. She's a fetching young [...] |
| 02/18/2010 09:18 PM |
| TERRORIST MENTALITY |
| TERRORIST MENTALITY2010-02-18.Francisco Chaviano González, Unidad Liberal de la República de Cuba (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Jaimanitas, Havana, February 7, 2010. Cuban communists are upset because our island has been included on a list of countries which support terrorism. These persons do not consider themselves terrorists. Terrorism- according to their point of view- is Posada Carriles. ETA, Irish, IRA [...] |
| 02/07/2010 01:38 PM |
| Journey to the provincial heart |
| Cuba: Journey to the provincial heartLydia Bell sets out on a road trip, accompanied by her husband, assorted hitchhikers and a pig.By Lydia BellPublished: 8:00AM GMT 07 Feb 2010 We are in the heart of Cuba, the middle of this long streak of island, and in search of the country's provincial face and a gentler [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/24/2010 11:44 AM |
| Modern Planetarium in Old Havana Opens |
| Modern Planetarium in Old Havana OpensWritten by Prensa LatinaFriday, 22 January 2010 13:58 Havana.- The first and modern Cuban planetarium opened its doors to the public in the Havana historical center, with a projector able to capture 6,500 stars and a space theater with 65 seats. Their official opening was last December 21, coinciding with [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/09/2010 01:26 PM |
| Independent librarian detained over children’s party |
| Independent librarian detained over children's partyCUBANET HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 8(Julio Beltrán, Agencia Libre Asociada / www.cubanet.org) – Independent librarian Ileana Margarita Pérez says she was detained by police on Three Kings Day and questioned during an eight-hour period. "I was submitted to an interrogation only because I had organized a Three Kings Day party for [...] |
| 12/09/2009 06:03 AM |
| Cuban Journalist Ricardo Gonzalez On Hunger Strike |
| Dec 8, 2009 8:13 pm US/EasternCuban Journalist Ricardo Gonzalez On Hunger StrikeMiami Family Says His Health Is DeterioratingArrested In March 2003, Sentenced To 20 Years In jailReportingEliott Rodriguez For nearly 7 years, Ricardo Gonzalez has been jailed in one of Cuba's most notorious prisons for the simple crime of being a journalist and reporting uncensored [...] |
| 12/07/2009 12:34 PM |
| Gay Life in Cuba |
| INSIDE CUBA: Gay Life in CubaNot much has changed since Reinaldo Arenas' time.By LGBT Cuba News Today EDITORS NOTE:The following posts are from the blog LGBT Cuba News Today.In These Times offers this selection in lieu of the article that was to have been written by Mario José Delgado Gonzáles (ultramarino321@yahoo.com), who was jailed in [...] |
| 11/17/2009 05:11 AM |
| Court won’t get involved in book banning case |
| Posted on Monday, 11.16.09Court won't get involved in book banning caseBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and JESSE J. HOLLANDAssociated Press Writers MIAMI — The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems [...] |
| 10/29/2009 06:02 PM |
| Retired PSU prof’s book tells about Cuba in the ’50s |
| Retired PSU prof's book tells about Cuba in the '50sThursday, October 29, 2009 PLYMOUTH — A retired Plymouth State professor will be discussing his newbook on the rise of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during a book talk andsigning scheduled for next week. Professor of History Emeritus Manuel Marquez-Sterling will talk abouthis book, "Cuba 1952-1959: The [...] |
| 10/27/2009 01:38 PM |
| Unsung Cuban heroes |
| Posted on Tuesday, 10.27.09MISSILE CRISISUnsung Cuban heroesBY BRIAN LATELLafterfidel@aol.com Forty-seven years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy revealed that the Soviet Union was secretly installing strategic nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. More than 40 were to be emplaced, capable of obliterating nearly every major American city. The two superpowers confronted each other at the brink [...] |
| 10/22/2009 02:43 PM |
| Waiting for a Revolution |
| "Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution" FREEDOM ?? Congrats. You're free. Who cares, right? Sure, I'm free, you're free,we're all free. Presidents and puritans have paraded under the banner offreedom for generations. Braveheart coined the battle cry. I think wetake it for granted in light of what you'll see in "Vanguard's" ?"Cuba:Waiting for a Revolution". ??I [...] |