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| 02/06/2012 11:18 PM |
| University Reform Without Autonomy / Dimas Castellano |
| University Reform Without Autonomy / Dimas CastellanoDimas Castellanos, Translator: Unstated On the 50th anniversary of the University Reform enacted in January 1962, the newspaper Granma published on Monday, January 9, 2012, an article entitled University and Society by Armando Hart Dávalos, in which he proposes that "after the triumph of the Revolution university reform was [...] |
| 12/09/2011 07:16 PM |
| Cuba MBA’s: As Communism Lingers, A New Backdoor To Capitalism Opens |
| Cuba MBA's: As Communism Lingers, A New Backdoor To Capitalism Opens A Spanish university and Catholic clergy in Cuba have joined forces to help train Cuba's business leaders of the future — even if 'What Future?' remains a looming question as regulations still restrict free enterprise from blooming under the Castro regime.By Daniela ArceAMÉRICAECONOMÍA/Worldcrunch HAVANA [...] |
| 11/04/2011 11:20 PM |
| Lawmakers meet with freed Cuban prisoners |
| Posted on Thursday, 11.03.11 Lawmakers meet with freed Cuban prisoners Miami lawmakers on Capitol Hill hosted several former Cuban prisoners who had protested against the regime of Fidel Castro.By Erika Bolstadebolstad@mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON — Three Cuban dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown and imprisoned until their exile last year to Spain, brought their story to Capitol [...] |
| 10/15/2011 11:33 PM |
| The high-wire walked by Cuba’s cardinal |
| Posted on Sunday, 10.16.11 Cuba's Jaime OrtegaThe high-wire walked by Cuba's cardinal A look at Cuba's Jaime Ortega as he celebrates his 75th birthday and offers a resignation that will almost certainly be rejected by the Vatican.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega will celebrate his 75th birthday on Tuesday. And, as required by [...] |
| 10/03/2011 11:32 AM |
| Cuba opens doors to MBA studies |
| October 3, 2011 12:25 am Cuba opens doors to MBA studiesBy Marc Frank San Carlos y San Ambrosia Seminary is home to the new MBA programme In what may well signal a slight political and economic thaw in the communist-run country, Cuba has opened its first MBA programme. The part-time programme is an educational initiative [...] |
| 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. [...] |
| 06/14/2011 08:10 PM |
| Liberty without Banishment for Cuba’s Dissidents |
| Liberty without Banishment for Cuba's DissidentsJune 14, 2011 10:53 A.M.By Mario Loyola In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O'Grady brings to light the plight of 115 Cuban dissidents, former political prisoners exiled to Spain over the past year along with their families. The Spanish government is refusing to grant political asylum and travel and [...] |
| 06/13/2011 02:50 PM |
| Cuba: Activists, Bloggers on the Cuba Money Project Vimeo Channel |
| Cuba: Activists, Bloggers on the Cuba Money Project Vimeo ChannelPosted 13 June 2011 12:30 GMTWritten by Ellery Roberts Biddle For anyone interested in US policy, human rights activism, or the problem of free expression in Cuba, there is a new must-see channel on Vimeo. It belongs to the Cuba Money Project. Last December, journalist, blogger, [...] |
| 04/18/2011 06:19 PM |
| Cuban dissidents are talking about unity, |
| Posted on Sunday, 04.17.11 Cuban dissidents are talking about unity But internal bickering and rivalries need to be resolved before they can form a broad opposition front.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@elnuevoherald.com Believing that the time is ripe for a new push against the Raúl Castro government, Cuban dissidents are working to organize 12 recently freed political [...] |
| 04/08/2011 09:56 PM |
| What Jimmy Carter can’t change in Cuba |
| What Jimmy Carter can't change in CubaBy Yoani Sanchez, Thursday, April 7, 7:29 PM Thirty years after he left the White House and nine years since his only previous visit to Cuba, Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana last week, wearing the white guayabera that would serve as his uniform during a three-day visit to our [...] |
| 12/02/2010 12:07 PM |
| Cuban dissidents credit faith for surviving prison ordeal |
| Cuban dissidents credit faith for surviving prison ordealWednesday, December 01, 2010By CNA Four former Cuban political prisoners recently shared how their faith helped them survive their time in prison. Jose Miguel Martinez, Regis Iglesias, Leonel Grave and Jesus Mustafa recently spoke to the Catholic newspaper Alfa y Omega. "Only God can sustain you in the [...] |
| 09/11/2010 01:02 AM |
| Dissident group marks 22 years of working for peace in Cuba |
| Dissident group marks 22 years of working for peace in Cuba Havana, Cuba, Sep 9, 2010 / 11:51 am (CNA).- This week, the coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, Oswaldo Paya, renewed the commitment of his organization to bringing about a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba. In a statement released this week, Paya said [...] |
| 08/31/2010 06:54 PM |
| IF IT WERE JUST THE MARABÚ |
| IF IT WERE JUST THE MARABÚ . . .CUBA'S AGRICULTURE 2009-10G.B. Hagelberg "We face the imperative of making our land produce more . . . the needed structural and conceptual changes will have to be introduced," Raúl Castro famously proclaimed on 26 July 2007, a few days short of a year after provisionally taking over [...] |
| 08/23/2010 10:31 PM |
| Church in Cuba responds to open letter from dissidents |
| Church in Cuba responds to open letter from dissidents Havana, Cuba, Aug 23, 2010 / 10:11 am (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Havana issued a press release on August 20 in response to an open letter recently sent to Pope Benedict XVI by a group of Cuban dissidents. The archdiocese said its statement was in response [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 07/06/2010 07:11 PM |
| Zapata Lives! |
| Reina Luisa Tamayo DangerCuban grandmotherPosted: July 6, 2010 10:20 AM Zapata Lives! Much has been said in the Cuban regime's official media about my son Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a young black man. Many lies have been told, and it has been said that my son was a criminal, and that he was not simply allowed [...] |
| 05/21/2010 09:41 PM |
| U.S. can’t turn deaf ear anymore |
| Posted on Thursday, 05.20.10 CUBAN DISSIDENTS U.S. can’t turn deaf ear anymore BY TOMAS BILBAO www.CubaStudyGroup.org For too long, the debate over U.S. policy toward Cuba has been dominated by narrow arguments at the two extremes. They either ignore Cubans’ demands for desperately needed change in their country’s failed system or appeals for necessary changes [...] |
| 05/11/2010 09:42 PM |
| Molina stands by ‘my truth’ about Cuba |
| Addresses select audience to dodge violent hecklers Molina stands by 'my truth' about CubaBy Michael SoltysHerald staff After last month's violent incidents at the Book Fair, Cuban dissident Hilda Molina went "clandestine" yesterday in a discreet fourth-floor salon of a downtown hotel at an event organized by CADAL (the Centre for the Opening and Development [...] |
| 05/06/2010 10:47 PM |
| Cuba—A Way Forward |
| Cuba—A Way Forwardby Nik Steinberg, Daniel Wilkinson In a 1980 interview, Gabriel García Márquez told The New York Times that he had spent three years writing a book about life in Cuba under Fidel Castro. But, he said, "now I realize that the book is so critical that it could be used against Cuba, so [...] |
| 04/21/2010 09:41 PM |
| Cubans united on need for change, says Roman Catholic cardinal Jaime Ortega |
| April 21, 2010 Cubans united on need for change, says Roman Catholic cardinal Jaime OrtegaJames Bone in New York Cuba's foremost Roman Catholic said that Cubans are growing impatient for change to address the island's worst crisis in more than a decade. Cardinal Jaime Ortega told the church newsletter Palabra Nueva (New Word) that Cubans [...] |
| 04/07/2010 10:03 PM |
| Dissident drowns trying to sneak back into Cuba |
| Posted on Wednesday, 04.07.10Dissident drowns trying to sneak back into CubaThe Associated Press MIAMI — A noted Cuban opposition activist has died after drowning while trying to return to his homeland. That's according to fellow dissidents, who say Adrian Leiva left Florida on a boat in March. He wanted to return to Cuba to continue [...] |
| 04/06/2010 09:54 PM |
| Ladies powerful in their silence |
| Salinas:'Ladies' powerful in their silenceTuesday, April 6, 2010Herald News White: the purest of colors. Ladies dressed in white, marching through the streets of Havana, Cuba, in silence: the purest of protests. Yet a group of Cuban women known as "Las Damas de Blanco," or "Ladies in White," have been victims of cruel repression by supporters [...] |
| 04/03/2010 08:06 PM |
| Salinas: Ladies in White march for Cuba |
| Salinas: Ladies in White march for CubaBy Maria Elena SalinasKing Features SyndicatePosted: 04/03/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT Ladies dressed in white, marching through the streets of Havana, Cuba, in silence: the purest of protests. Yet a group of Cuban women known as "Las Damas de Blanco," or "Ladies in White," have been victims of cruel repression [...] |
| 03/23/2010 11:19 PM |
| Dissident encourages dignity and rights for Cubans |
| Dissident encourages dignity and rights for Cubans CNA STAFF, Mar 22, 2010 / 11:56 am (CNA).- In an interview with CNA, thepresident of the Christian Liberation Movement, Oswaldo Paya reiteratedthe need for a democratic change in Cuba and called on the internationalcommunity to support this peaceful struggle without ideological bias. In the second part of [...] |
| 12/13/2009 11:26 AM |
| Christian Liberation Movement urges government to return sovereignty to Cubans |
| Christian Liberation Movement urges government to return sovereignty to Cubans Havana, Cuba, Dec 11, 2009 / 10:59 pm (CNA).- The Christian Liberation Movement this week urged Cuba's National Assembly to return sovereignty to the people because Cubans have fought for the "well-being of all, not for the power of only a few." "If lawmakers are [...] |
| 11/23/2009 03:47 PM |
| THE VARELA PROJECT, HOPE UNDER CROSSFIRE |
| THE VARELA PROJECT, HOPE UNDER CROSSFIRE2009-11-21.Coordinating Council of the Christian Liberation Movement (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- With this document, today we begin the publication of a series of reports, denunciations and declarations about the Varela Project, the repression and attacks suffered by its organizers, the government and its allies' maneuvers used to confuse, silence, and discourage the citizenry [...] |
| 10/01/2009 12:39 PM |
| Cuba detains political opponent and places him on summary trial |
| Cuba detains political opponent and places him on summary trial Havana, Cuba, Sep 30, 2009 / 08:11 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- The Christian Liberation Movement, led by Oswaldo Paya, on Tuesday denounced the detention of one of its members, Agustin Cervantes, who is facing a summary trial without the ability to testify in his own defense. [...] |
| 09/11/2009 11:53 AM |
| Moderate Dissident Group Convenes Congress |
| POLITICS-CUBA:Moderate Dissident Group Convenes CongressBy Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Sep 10 (IPS) – A moderate dissident group in Cuba that aspires to become a "political majority" in the future announced Thursday that it would hold a congress in 2010. The social democratic group, Arco Progresista (AP), says 150 to 200 delegates from around the country will [...] |
| 09/01/2009 07:41 PM |
| Archdiocese of Havana to inaugurate new seminary in 2010 |
| Archdiocese of Havana to inaugurate new seminary in 2010 Havana, Cuba, Sep 1, 2009 / 12:26 pm (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Havana announced this week that it will open a new seminary in 2010, the first such building project the Church has undertaken in Cuba in the last 50 years. John Paul II blessed the [...] |
| 08/27/2009 10:49 AM |
| Dissident slams U.N. and OAS for silence on torture in Cuba |
| Dissident slams U.N. and OAS for silence on torture in Cuba Havana, Cuba, Aug 26, 2009 / 03:30 pm (CNA).- The leader of theChristian Liberation Movement in Cuba, Oswaldo Paya, criticized theUnited Nations and the Organization of American States this week forresponding with silence to the open letter he sent denouncing thetorture that prisoners of [...] |
| 08/26/2009 02:20 PM |
| In Cuba, agriculture is going back to basics |
| Posted on Wednesday, 08.26.09CUBAIn Cuba, agriculture is going back to basicsAs Cuba's agricultural crisis becomes more desperate, training centers for oxen teams are being opened to save on tractor fuel and increase food production.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@MiamiHerald.com Cuba is going back as it looks forward, expanding its use of ox teams in agriculture to save [...] |
| 07/28/2009 03:56 PM |
| Remnant Jewish community in Cuba struggles |
| Remnant Jewish community in Cuba struggles The Jewish community, at 1500, is now just one-tenth of itspre-Revolution numbers. Increased religious freedom for Jews andCatholics came after the historic visit by Pope John Paul II.Monday, July 27, 2009By Stanley Cohen In 1995, when I first visited Cuba, it was after years working insupport of Soviet Jewry. [...] |
| 07/22/2009 11:37 AM |
| Relics and Souvenirs, and The Berlin Wall In Cuba |
| Posted: July 22, 2009 12:49 AMRelics and Souvenirs, and The Berlin Wall In Cuba A Generation Y reader sent me a piece of the Berlin Wall. The fragment of concrete has come to me, a person also surrounded by certain limits, not less severe for being intangible. The stone painted with remnants of graffiti suggests [...] |
| 07/02/2009 12:13 PM |
| Cuban Christian dissident receives award |
| Cuban Christian dissident receives award Oswaldo Pay of the Christian Liberation Movement in Cuba said his organization would continue promoting the Varela Project for peaceful change on the island. He received the National Endowment for Democracy's 2009 Democracy Award.Wednesday, July 01, 2009By CNA The coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement in Cuba, Oswaldo Paya, said [...] |
| 06/26/2009 12:43 PM |
| MESSAGE FROM OSWALDO PAYÁ SARDIÑAS TO THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY’S 2009 DEMOCRACY AWARD, AT CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JUNE 24, 2009 |
| MESSAGE FROM OSWALDO PAYÁ SARDIÑAS TO THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY'S 2009 DEMOCRACY AWARD, AT CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JUNE 24, 20092009-06-25.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, In the name of the Christian Liberation Movement(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Dear friends, Representatives of the people of the United States of America, Much is said about relations between my [...] |
| 05/03/2009 01:20 AM |
| Cuba: Harassment: Edgard Lopez Moreno – Amnesty International |
| Cuba: Harassment: Edgard Lopez Moreno (m)PUBLIC AI Index: AMR 25/005/200930 April 2009 UA 115/09 HarassmentCUBA Edgard Lopez Moreno (m) Edgard López Moreno, who was accepted as a refugee by the US governmentin February 2007, has been repeatedly denied an exit visa by the Cubanauthorities. He has been on hunger strike in protest, since 14 April.His [...] |
| 01/18/2009 08:35 PM |
| Cuban dissident jailed in 2003 crackdown freed |
| Posted on Thursday, 01.15.09Cuban dissident jailed in 2003 crackdown freedBy ANDREA RODRIGUEZAssociated Press Writer HAVANA — A democracy activist arrested in a crackdown on Cuba's opposition six years ago was released from prison Thursday after completing his sentence, the island's leading independent rights monitor said. Of the original group of 75 activists arrested in the [...] |
| 01/05/2009 06:43 PM |
| The forgotten Catholic dissidents |
| CubaThe forgotten Catholic dissidentsPosted at: 2009-01-01 20:27:00.0Author: Austen Ivereigh Amidst the coverage of the muted celebrations of the Cuban Revolution's50th birthday, some good news: Cardinal Jaime Ortega of Havana and fourother bishops were able, for the first time since 1959, to celebrateMass on Christmas Day in several Cuban jails. Some of the prisoners were especially [...] |
| 12/30/2008 04:51 PM |
| Can Obama soften the Castros’ iron fist? |
| Can Obama soften the Castros' iron fist?Posted: December 24, 20081:00 am Eastern In the Miami-Dade Cuban community in Florida, 65 percent now support the United States restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, according to a Florida International University poll (Miami Herald, Dec. 2). And there is increasing pressure on President-elect Barack Obama from such business interests [...] |
| 12/10/2008 11:13 PM |
| MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF THE VARELA PROJECT TO UNO |
| MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF THE VARELA PROJECT TO UNO2008-12-10.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, Coordinator of the organizing committee of the Varela Project (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- We respectfully ask the General Secretariat of the United Nations to distribute this message to its Member States and to refer it to the General Assembly for its consideration, as we celebrate [...] |
| 12/06/2008 12:35 PM |
| The End of the End of the Revolution |
| The End of the End of the RevolutionBy ROGER COHENPublished: December 5, 2008 ON MY FIRST DAY IN HAVANA I wandered down to the Malecón, the world's most haunting urban seafront promenade. A norte was blustering, sending breakers crashing over the stone dike built in 1901 under short-lived American rule. Bright explosions of spray unfurled [...] |
| 09/25/2008 09:47 PM |
| THREE PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE AFTER THEIR RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS ARE CONFISCATED |
| THREE PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE AFTER THEIR RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS ARE CONFISCATED2008-09-23.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, Minervo Chil Siret, Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación- MCL)(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Havana, September 22, 2008.- Political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Sainz, Pedro Arguelles Morán and Antonio Ramón Díaz Sánchez have all declared a hunger strike since Friday, September 19th at Canaletas Prison, located [...] |
| 06/02/2008 02:54 PM |
| MESSAGE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION |
| MESSAGE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION2008-06-01.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, Sakharov Prize 2002, In the name of the Christian Liberation Movement On May 26th, the members of the Coordinating Council of the Christian Liberation Movement, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Minervo Chil Siret, met with representatives of the European Union Presidency in the French Embassy. In our meeting, [...] |
| 05/23/2008 09:47 PM |
| Fact Sheet: Promoting Democracy in Cuba |
| Fact Sheet: Promoting Democracy in Cuba On Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, President Bush Recognizesand Calls For the Release of Political Prisoners of the Regime WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, President Bush honored the Cubanpeople with the inaugural Day of Solidarity with the people of Cuba. Healso issued a Presidential Proclamation to commemorate those who aresuffering [...] |
| 05/17/2008 09:58 PM |
| CALL TO CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY |
| CALL TO CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY2008-05-16.Oswaldo J. Payá Sardiñas, the leading representative of Christian Democracy in Cuba Through the closing remarks of the conference titled Quo Vadis Cuba?: Transition after the Castro Era in Brussels, Oswaldo J. Payá Sardiñas, the leading representative of Christian Democracy in Cuba, made a call to focus all [...] |
| 02/18/2008 08:53 PM |
| DECLARATION IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE SECOND SESSION OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN CUBA AND SPAIN |
| DECLARATION IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE SECOND SESSION OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN CUBA AND SPAIN2008-02-16.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, Coordinator, Christian Liberation Movement The Spanish Embassy has kindly sent me the text of the joint communiqué released after the Second Session of the Dialogue on Human Rights between the governments of Spain and Cuba . [...] |
| 01/30/2008 11:18 PM |
| Committee for Democracy in Cuba |
| Committee for Democracy in Cuba del2008-1-28 Monday, January 28, 2008 3:56 PMSubject: ICDC News Dear Mr. Estefanía Please find attached the news from Cuba and from the activities of theInternational Committee for Democracy in Cuba (ICDC) from the months ofNovember through December 2007. The ICDC has completed the overview of its 2007 activities. The bulletinis [...] |
| 01/24/2008 11:04 PM |
| Work of Church in Cuba ignored overseas, says leading dissident |
| AmericasWork of Church in Cuba ignored overseas, says leading dissident Havana, Jan 23, 2008 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- The president of the ChristianLiberation Movement, Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, said this week that outsideof Cuba, the true work that the Church does for the Cuban people is unknown. "The Church is playing a key role in the [...] |
| 01/24/2008 11:03 PM |
| In the last act of Castro’s Cuba, a search is on for a new beginning |
| In the last act of Castro's Cuba, a search is on for a new beginning In Havana last week the trucks were busy replacing vintage American andSoviet fridges with new free models from China. Fidel Castro may haveleft centre stage but the revolution stutters on and as they head to thepolls today Cubans are left [...] |
| 01/23/2008 09:25 PM |
| TO CHOOSE TO BE FREE |
| TO CHOOSE TO BE FREE2008-01-20.Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas Havana, January 18, 2008.- We have been promoting changes to the laws for many years, so that the rights of citizens are respected. We have particularly insisted on a new electoral law, because that is the key for the people to exercise their sovereignty, which is the [...] |