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| 02/08/2012 04:16 PM |
| Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions |
| Posted on Tuesday, 02.07.12Guantanamo Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base 'broke rules,' face restrictionsBy CAROL ROSENBERGcrosenberg@MiamiHerald.com Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center [...] |
| 02/08/2012 12:08 AM |
| My Wish for 2012: Outraged People in Cuba / Miriam Celaya |
| My Wish for 2012: Outraged People in Cuba / Miriam CelayaMiriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting Santana Cartoon illustrating the post in Penúltimos Days A European friend who recently visited Havana asked me what my greatest wish for this year 2012 was. Of course, she expected me to express to her the same old litany: the [...] |
| 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 09:05 PM |
| Mexico rescues 6 Cubans from drifting boat |
| Mexico rescues 6 Cubans from drifting boatPublished February 06, 2012Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Navy says it has rescued six Cubans from a makeshift boat adrift off the Caribbean island of Isla Mujeres. The Navy says a recreational boat reported the drifting craft. Photos provided by the Navy showed what appeared to be [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:19 PM |
| A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health |
| Posted on Friday, 02.03.12 A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of his incarceration.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@elnuevoherald.com The Cuban government freed a former Hialeah truck driver jailed [...] |
| 01/12/2012 08:05 PM |
| Migration Costs and Benefits for Cuba |
| Migration Costs and Benefits for CubaJanuary 12, 2012Fernando Ravsberg HAVANA TIMES, Jan 12 — Referring to the expected changes in immigration policy, a Cuban-American colleague wrote: "Not only is it absurd, but it is totally irresponsible to think that Cuba must open the doors to its borders wide open." (1). Certainly no country opens "its [...] |
| 01/11/2012 06:37 PM |
| Have Cubans Lost Their Rebeliousness? |
| Have Cubans Lost Their Rebeliousness?January 10, 2012Haroldo Dilla Alfonso* HAVANA TIMES, Jan 10 — Recently I read one of Yoani Sanchez's incisive articles stating that Cubans have had their capacity for rebellion rooted out. Her statement alluded to the inability of Cuban society to produce a socio-political rebellious response similar to the ones that occurred [...] |
| 01/07/2012 04:48 AM |
| The Ant and the Elephant / Rebeca Monzo |
| The Ant and the Elephant / Rebeca MonzoRebeca Monzo, Translator: Unstated An ant, shivering and sobbing, asks his friend the elephant, "Have you read today's Granma newspaper?" "No," he replies, "What does it say?" "They are going to sacrifice, starting this month, all the large animals to be able to feel the people," answers the [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 01/03/2012 09:02 PM |
| How Far Can Cuba’s Raul Castro go on Immigration? |
| How Far Can Cuba's Raul Castro go on Immigration?January 3, 2012Haroldo Dilla Alfonso* HAVANA TIMES, Jan 3 — No one should be mistaken. When something is affirmed by the second-rate intellectuals of the Cuban government, particularly those who don't enjoy the protection of Writers and Artists Association (UNEAC) and the minister of Culture, it's because [...] |
| 01/03/2012 01:23 AM |
| Sequences and Consequences / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| Sequences and Consequences / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated There are expectations on Cuba's "multiple shores" regarding the new immigration law that the government of Raul Castro is working on. It's not the first time we've heard about it; it's already been alluded to more than once and the news has [...] |
| 01/02/2012 11:58 PM |
| Rafters: A Neverending Story? / Jeovany J. Vega |
| Rafters: A Neverending Story? / Jeovany J. VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated The neverending story brings back bad omens. An official note from the Ministry of Interior – issued through the newspaper Granma on Friday – brings up again the perpetual drama of the rafters. This time 18 people were rescued off the coast of [...] |
| 01/01/2012 10:18 AM |
| Repression still the rule, but Cuba sees year of change |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.31.11CUBA Repression still the rule, but Cuba sees year of change Now you can get a loan, buy a house and — maybe soon — travel abroad more easily. But the Castro government has no desire to ease its authoritarian ways.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Joe Garcia, a former executive director of the [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/31/2011 06:16 PM |
| On travel to Cuba, think liberty first |
| On travel to Cuba, think liberty firstCommentaryBy ANGEL CASTILLO JR. | Florida VoicesPublished: December 31, 2011 It has now been 63 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, in 1948. Both the United States and Cuba ratified it, and neither has withdrawn its consent. The declaration sets out [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 12/25/2011 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 [...] |
| 12/24/2011 06:00 PM |
| Cuba to pardon close to 3,000 prisoners |
| Politics | 24.12.2011 Cuba to pardon close to 3,000 prisoners Cuba's President Raul Castro has announced his country will release some 3,000 prisoners on "humanitarian grounds," and "gradually" reform its strict foreign travel laws. Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Friday, December 24, the release of 2,900 prisoners, while hinting that his government may be [...] |
| 12/24/2011 12:37 PM |
| Castro to free more prisoners, but not Alan Gross |
| Posted on Friday, 12.23.11CUBA Castro to free more prisoners, but not Alan Gross Raul Castro said 2,900 prisoners would be 'pardoned,' but they do not include the U.S. contractor Alan Gross.By Juan Carlos Chavez and Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban ruler Raúl Castro announced a pardon for about 2,900 prisoners on Friday, but he sharply disappointed [...] |
| 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 |
| Communist Cuba set to end travel restrictions |
| Communist Cuba set to end travel restrictionsAFPThursday, Dec 22, 2011 HAVANA – President Raul Castro is Friday expected to announce an end to onerous, unpopular travel restrictions that have been in place for almost 50 years and which keep most Cubans from traveling abroad. The Roman Catholic Church and regime-friendly musicians like Silvio Rodriguez and [...] |
| 12/14/2011 11:17 PM |
| 18 Cubans hoping to get to US arrive at Honduras island after spending 10 days in boat at sea |
| 18 Cubans hoping to get to US arrive at Honduras island after spending 10 days in boat at sea By Associated Press, Wednesday, December 14, 4:25 AM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Eighteen U.S.-bound Cubans are in Honduras after spending 10 days at sea. Honduran immigration spokesman Jose Barahona says the Cubans arrived on the island of [...] |
| 12/09/2011 07:18 PM |
| Engage Cuba on oil drilling |
| Engage Cuba on oil drillingDecember 9, 2011 Considering last year's deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the ensuing oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico, it would be counterproductive for the United States to allow a diplomatic standoff to get in the way of ensuring oil drilling in the Florida Straits meets the [...] |
| 12/03/2011 12:07 AM |
| Cuba’s Citizens Freer Movement |
| Cuba's Citizens Freer MovementDecember 1, 2011Fernando Ravsberg HAVANA TIMES, Dic 1 — The recent reform of the law that limited migration from the provinces to the capital seems a step in the right direction, though it still doesn't completely respond to the spirit of the constitution entitling Cubans to live wherever they see fit. In [...] |
| 12/02/2011 05:43 PM |
| On Cuba’s Farmers, Lettuce and Hotels |
| On Cuba's Farmers, Lettuce and HotelsDecember 1, 2011Haroldo Dilla Alfonso HAVANA TIMES, Dec 1 — The recent authorization given to different types of cooperatives to sell products directly to the tourism industry is positive and significant for two reasons. Firstly, this is a measure that introduces a note of rationality to the Cuban economic system [...] |
| 12/01/2011 06:52 AM |
| Behind the New Changes / Laritza Diversent |
| Behind the New Changes / Laritza DiversentLaritza Diversent, Translator: Regina Anavy The new housing regulations in force struck down part of the laws that prevented Cuban emigrants from disposing of their homes before leaving the country permanently. But it left in force Law 989 of December 5, 1961, which requires permission to enter and exit, [...] |
| 11/28/2011 05:02 AM |
| Housing Regulations Maintain Restrictions for Cubans / Laritza Diversent |
| Housing Regulations Maintain Restrictions for Cubans / Laritza DiversentLaritza Diversent, Translator: Unstated The housing regulations, recently enacted by the government of Cuba, and which take effect on November 10, leave intact regulations that impede the full exercise of the right of ownership. As part of the implementation of the Guidelines adopted at the Sixth Congress [...] |
| 11/27/2011 10:00 PM |
| Cubans Seen by Foreigners |
| Cubans Seen by ForeignersNovember 27, 2011Regina Cano "When Cubans try to get close to a foreigner, it's not to make friends. It's always with the intention of getting something in return." These were more or less the words of a Latin American who lived in Cuba for several years. She was speaking with someone from [...] |
| 11/24/2011 06:55 PM |
| Cuba eases clamp on domestic migration |
| Cuba eases clamp on domestic migrationAFPWednesday, Nov 23, 2011 HAVANA – Communist Cuba has eased but not ended wildly unpopular 14-year-old restrictions on people moving from the provinces to Havana, according to a decree published Tuesday. The only single party regime in the Americas has argued that the rules were necessary, in the country of [...] |
| 11/24/2011 02:48 PM |
| Can Raul Castro’s Reforms Create a New Cuba? |
| Can Raul Castro's Reforms Create a New Cuba?Published November 22, 2011 in Arabic Knowledge@Wharton Plagued by US$72 billion in foreign debt, rising unemployment and low industrial productivity, the government of Cuban leader Raul Castro is undertaking a series of economic reforms aimed at downsizing Cuba's bloated public sector and encouraging Cubans to find — or [...] |
| 11/23/2011 09:45 PM |
| Immigration expects Cuban influx |
| Immigration expects Cuban influxBy: Brent Fuller | brent@cfp.ky23 November, 2011 They're back. For the first time in a few years, the Cayman Islands Immigration Detention Centre is brimming full of Cuban migrants after two boatloads arrived here within the past two months. Last weekend, a group of 17 Cuban migrants – 16 men and one [...] |
| 11/23/2011 06:24 PM |
| Cuba relaxes bureaucratic requirements on migration to capital for family of residents |
| Cuba relaxes bureaucratic requirements on migration to capital for family of residentsBy Associated Press, Wednesday, November 23, 4:07 AM HAVANA — Cuba on Tuesday relaxed a rule that limits islanders' internal movement, reducing bureaucratic hurdles associated with migration to Havana for people with immediate family members there. Spouses, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren and siblings of [...] |
| 11/20/2011 04:32 PM |
| Overseas Ballot Boxes / Yoani Sánchez |
| Overseas Ballot Boxes / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez After dinner they stayed at the dining room table to fill out the ballots. He nervous, she more decisive. They worked like crazy, marking them with crosses, while the kids played on the sofa. Those papers received from the Spanish Consulate in Havana smelled new, of [...] |
| 11/19/2011 11:48 PM |
| Children Of Cuba Remember Their Flight To America |
| Sat., November 19, 2011 8:30am (EST) Children Of Cuba Remember Their Flight To AmericaBy Greg Allen Operation Pedro Pan shaped the lives of a generation of Cuban-Americans. Between 1960 and 1962, the program airlifted more than 14,000 Cuban children from Havana to the U.S. Fifty years later, those children are recalling how that flight changed [...] |
| 11/17/2011 04:36 PM |
| Cuban boatpeople run aground in Cayman Islands |
| Posted on Thursday, 11.17.11 Cuban boatpeople run aground in Cayman IslandsBy Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Seventeen Cubans fleeing their country were detained in the Cayman Islands after their wooden sailboat ran aground in the Caribbean territory, according to a Cayman government announcement. The interception was the fifth such incident this year in the Cayman Islands, compared [...] |
| 11/06/2011 05:20 AM |
| The Starting Line / Yoani Sánchez |
| The Starting Line / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez The Paseo del Prado has been unsettled for the last couple of days, and not just because of the hustlers hustling and the hookers trolling for tourists. The uproar comes from the new Decree-Law No. 288 which establishes rules for the buying and selling of housing. [...] |
| 11/04/2011 06:26 AM |
| New Law, Old Mentality / Regina Coyula |
| New Law, Old Mentality / Regina CoyulaRegina Coyula, Translator: Unstated Photo: Katerina BampaletakuWe were talking about the new law for the sale and transfer of vehicles, but what caught my attention was the reasoning of my interlocutor. As I and many others understand it, the law is inadequate, leaving many unknowns and maintaining inequalities in [...] |
| 11/01/2011 08:06 PM |
| Key political risks to watch in Cuba – 11-2011 |
| Key political risks to watch in CubaTue Nov 1, 2011 2:28pm GMTBy Jeff Franks HAVANA Nov 1 (Reuters) – The Cuban government has been quietly cutting its bloated payroll and stepping up plans to boost agricultural production as part of reforms aimed at strengthening its socialist system for the future. Its long-delayed offshore oil exploration [...] |
| 10/26/2011 01:39 PM |
| Cuba studies challenge of aging population |
| Cuba studies challenge of aging populationPublished October 26, 2011EFE Havana – Cuba faces a crossroads of social and economic policies brought on by a population that is getting older and fewer in numbers, the subject of a new study that for the first time reveals the details of living conditions for people over 60. In [...] |
| 10/20/2011 06:54 AM |
| The Census, the Counted, the Censored… / Yoani Sánchez |
| The Census, the Counted, the Censored… / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez Today we are: Friendly, Supportive, Kind, Cheerful, Happy, Loving, Affectionate, Optimistic I was not a number in the last census taken in Cuba. I didn't appear in the figure of 11,177,143 people who — by choice or by resignation — inhabited the country [...] |
| 10/20/2011 05:53 AM |
| Updating Immigration Policy in Cuba / Jeovany J. Vega |
| Updating Immigration Policy in Cuba / Jeovany J. VegaJeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated The mere fact of hearing it on television petrifies me, but listening to the president of my county has been illuminating, because in revolutionary Cuba there are issues so ethereal that they never find an appropriate occasion to be raised "procedurally," taboos [...] |
| 10/14/2011 06:17 AM |
| The New Prison, the New School / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| The New Prison, the New School / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. Numerous facilities which functioned as schools decades ago are now being used as detention centers in the Eastern province of Holguin. Until recently, in the municipality of San German, some secondary schools were being used to keep inmates which worked [...] |
| 10/11/2011 04:57 PM |
| More Cubans try to slip out of the island, |
| Posted on Monday, 10.10.11 More Cubans try to slip out of the island Authorities in Cayman have detained 19 men after they landed on the island from Cuba.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Authorities in the Cayman Islands just south of Cuba have detained 19 Cuban boatpeople in the fifth similar incident since February, compared to none [...] |
| 10/10/2011 08:24 PM |
| Illegal Cuban migration, after years of decline, is up again |
| Posted on Sunday, 10.09.11 Illegal Cuban migration, after years of decline, is up again Theories abound as to why the number of undocumented Cuban migrants to the United States rose in the past year. Tracking the numbers The number of undocumented Cuban migrants stopped at sea or who landed on U.S. shores has risen sharply [...] |
| 10/09/2011 10:30 PM |
| Undocumented Cuban migration to US on rise |
| Posted on Sunday, 10.09.11 Undocumented Cuban migration to US on riseThe Associated Press MIAMI — The number of undocumented Cubans intercepted at sea or reaching U.S. shores has more than doubled over the last year. El Nuevo Herald ( http://bit.ly/nohcEO) reports that 1,700 Cubans were interdicted or reached land in the 2011 fiscal year, which [...] |
| 10/09/2011 12:46 PM |
| Report: Cuban diaspora can boost island’s economy, |
| Posted on Friday, 10.07.11 Report: Cuban diaspora can boost island's economy Cuba experts say Havana and Washington should open the doors to exile involvement in private enterprises.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cubans living abroad could significantly boost the island's private economic sector if government officials in both Havana and Washington adopt better policies toward the migrants, [...] |
| 10/08/2011 02:49 PM |
| Jobs’s Genius and My First Frankenstein / Yoani Sánchez |
| Jobs's Genius and My First Frankenstein / Yoani SánchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez For that mess of cables and circuits to come to life and become my first computer, all I was lacking was the small pump that blows air over the red hot microprocessor. But how to find that in the Havana of 1994, completely [...] |
| 10/05/2011 05:43 AM |
| Following Spain’s Footprints / Rebeca Monzo |
| Following Spain's Footprints / Rebeca MonzoRebeca Monzo, Translator: Unstated This endeavor that I have been subjecting myself to for almost three years is becoming increasingly difficult and stressful. Never before this half-century would it have occurred to me, and practically to any Cuban, I believe, to obtain another citizenship: we were proud of ours. The [...] |
| 10/04/2011 10:20 AM |
| One Step Forward, One Step Back / Ernesto Morales Licea |
| One Step Forward, One Step Back / Ernesto Morales LiceaErnesto Morales Licea, Translator: Unstated The diplomacy of the absurd. A kind of indecipherable political cha cha cha, with steps lacking any harmony with each other, forming no coherent dance. The thinking of the top leadership in Cuba is an unfathomable mystery to me, every day [...] |