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November 2005

November 21

FROM CUBA
Home of dissident attacked two days in a row
Someone threw a six-pound steel object on the roof of the home of dissidient Julio César Montes Nerey, breaking one of the tiles.
SANTA CLARA

FROM CUBA
Dozens of workers at state company detained
Dozens of workers at the Empresa de Comercio Mayorista have been detained since the end of October because of alleged corruption in the state-owned business, according to sources.
SANTA CLARA
FROM CUBA
Home of dissident attacked twice
Dissident José Amado Estrada Varela says his house was attacked twice last week by elements linked to the police.
SAN LUIS
FROM CUBA
Dissident cited for remodeling home without a permit
Roberto Miranda Díaz, an officer of the Liberal Cuban Movement, has been cited for building a room for his mother-in-law, who lives with him and his wife, without first obtaining a permit.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Rafter caught and returned four times to Cuba
Cuban authorities have fined rafter Jesús Hernández Matamoros 1,500 pesos - the equivalent of about nine months salary - after he was caught and returned to the island for the fourth time.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Prisoner loses conjugal rights over re-education program
Léster González Pentón, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in the 2003 crackdown on dissidents, says his conjugal rights have been withdrawn because he refused to attend Communist indoctrination classes.
SANTA CLARA
FROM CUBA
Police cruiser stoned in Havana
Six police cars were dispatched in a fruitless search for someone who kicked and stoned a police cruiser in the capital on Sunday night.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Public trial held in a movie house
What was advertised as an "exemplary trial" of a thief was held last week in a movie house where residents were invited by local radio stations to attend.
CAIBARIÉN
FROM CUBA
Dissident struck by Communist Party member in front of his home
Ana Margarita Perdigón Brito of the November 30 Party says one of its members, Elvis Gregorio Pérez Lara, was punched in the face by a member of the Communist Party last week.
CAIBARIÉN
FROM CUBA
Farmer fined week's salary and peanut bars seized
Farmer Guillermo Casabuena Montesinos was fined 60 pesos - the equivalent of an average workman's salary for a week - for allegedly planning to illegally sell 56 peanut bars he intended to give as gifts to friends and relatives.
SANTA CLARA
The Miami Herald
• Indignant Castro claims to feel 'better than ever'
• MLB wants Cuba to play
• Coast Guard looks for missing Cuban rafter
• Castro has Parkinson's disease, CIA has concluded
• School to seek ways to solve Cuba land disputes

Yahoo! News
• Castro Meets With Cuba's Catholic Leaders
• Cuba's Castro sued for 60 million dollars in US court
• Solis the hero as Cuba crowned world boxing champs
• Cuba on target at world amateur boxing finals

Cuba Wants To Be COMINAC Chairman Earlier
Cuba has requested to be the Chairman of Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (Cominac) earlier than scheduled.
Bernama .
Grant aims to help U.S., Cuba prepare for post-Castro era
More than the 79-year-old dictator stands in the way of a renewed friendship. An enduring source of conflict is compensating Americans for property seized when Castro imposed communist rule more than four decades ago.
Lincoln Journal Star

November 14

FROM CUBA
Lady in White forced to leave Plaza de la Revolución
Berta Soler Fernández, wife of imprisoned dissident Angel Moya Acosta, says she was ordered out of the Plaza de la Revolución area last week while waiting to deliver a letter of protest about her husband to President Fidel Castro.
HAVANA

FROM CUBA
Prisioner of conscience moved to maximum security facility
Eduardo Díaz Fleites, one of the 75 dissidents arrested imprisoned in 2003, was moved last month to the maximum security prison at Kilometer 8.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Lady in White says she has been harassed 3 times lately
Dolia Leal Francisco, whose imprisoned husband is one of the Group of 75, says members of the Rapid Response Brigade have harassed her at her home in Havana's El Vedado district three times lately..
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
A member of FLAMUR is threatened
Dayami Piñera Cruz, a member of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR), says she was threatened by two policemen who came to her home in the village of La Coloma, 15 miles from Pinar del Rio.
PINAR DEL RIO
FROM CUBA
Independent librarian fined for alleged insult
The director of the independent library in Herradura, Pinar del Río province, Lázaro González, says he was fined for refusing to allow his luggage to be searched.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Wave of arrests following deaths of tourists
The roundup of suspects is being carried out by joint teams from the National Revolutionary Police, the Department of Technical Investigations and the Interior Ministry's special tactical group. Coordination is said to be under the Interior Ministry.
HAVANA
The Miami Herald
• Migrants' relatives call on president to free 33 Cubans
• U.S. denies a visa to prize-winning scientist
• Bush's Latin team shuffled
• Again, U.N. vote urges end to Cuba embargo
• 2 Cuban migrants drown

Yahoo! News
• Latest Cuba Census Reports 11.2M Residents
• U. S. Cos. Sell $259M of Goods to Cuba
• Spending Bill Stalls Over Cuba Dispute
• Coast Guard, Family Disagree On Fatal Boat Capsize
• World Baseball Classic organizers ready if Cuba does not play
• Revenge on the China menu as Cuba seek to regain world boxing crown
• Drop in Cuba Exports Hurts Trade Deficit
• Disabled Woman Sentenced To House Arrest For Smuggling Cuban Birds


November 3

FROM CUBA
Teachers punished for maintain relationship with dissident
A Communist Party official ordered the public chastisement of a school teacher who refused to leave her husband, a government opponent and former political prisoner.
SANTA CLARA

FROM CUBA
Ladies in White say they are not an organized group
The dissident Ladies in White, who will share this year's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, say they do not constitute an organized group.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Looting in Havana following Hurricane Wilma
Police arrested many people accused of looting businesses in Havana following Hurricane Wilma. The looting occurred mainly in the area of the Malecón and in Vedado where many businesses were left exposed after being hit by tidal surges.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Anti-government posters appear in Batabanó
Some dozen posters and anti-government graffiti appeared on walls in the southern coastal municipality of Batabanó last week, some as a result of power outages because of Hurricane Wilma.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Varela Project activist and brother of Cubs shortstop arrested Daniel Ordóñez Pereira, activist of the Varela Project and brother of Chicago Cubs shortstop Reynoldo Ordóñez, was arrested last week.
HAVANA
The Miami Herald
• Smugglers make quick guilty pleas
• Cuba-U.S. dispute scraps trip over storm
• Verdict to stand for five Cuban spies
• Nebraska to sell products to Cuba
• 11 Cuban singers defect
• Chávez threatens to send F-16s to Cuba, China
• More Cubans leaving for U.S.
• U.S. aid experts to see storm impact

Yahoo! News
• Cubans Show Up in Force at Americas Summit
• Cuban Minister Expects U.S. Embargo Win
• Venezuela Must Consult U.S. on Jet Moves
• Venezuela Is Cuba's No. 1 Trading Partner
• American Farmers Relish Cuban Trade Fair
• Castro Praises Maradona's Anti-U.S. Stance

Cuba protests against Czech diplomatic note over celebrations
Cuban charge d'affaires in Prague Aymee Hernandez categorically dismissed the diplomatic note in which the Czech Foreign Ministry protested against the way Cuban authorities prevented the celebrations of the Czech national holiday in a Havana hotel last Friday.
Czech Happenings, Czech Republic
Israeli tourist murdered in Cuba
Victim robbed at knifepoint, stabbed to death in Havana; his body to be returned to Israel via Canada, as Israel does not have diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Ynetnews, Israel
Dead CIA pilot's kin wants asset handover
The daughter of an American pilot shot down over Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion nearly 45 years ago has asked a court to order JPMorgan Chase & Co. to turn over more than $22 million in assets held on behalf of the Cuban government.
Centre Daily Times, PA
Cuba denies money contribution to Lula's campaign
Cuba categorically denied Sunday having contributed three million US dollars to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's electoral campaign in 2002 as was attributed by the latest edition of Veja magazine.
MercoPress, Uruguay
Cuba says US aid offer looked like funding for dissidents
Cuba's Communist government on Thursday disputed the Bush administration's version of events over possible U.S. disaster relief to the island, saying Washington's offer appeared to be an attempt to continue backing dissidents "using the hurricane as a pretext."
Dominican Today, Dominican Republic
Catholic's passion sets him apart in Cuba
He's on the Vatican's 30-member peace and justice council, but his state-appointed job in Cuba consists of spending eight hours a day in a shed guarding palm tree stalks used to make cigar boxes.
Washington Times
Che Guevara should be scorned - not worn
Che demanded worldwide revolution, even if it meant a stream of death and misery. He said the utopia that could be built on the ashes of the old world would make the suffering worthwhile. That's why he advocated a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis.
Ryan Clancy, USA Today.

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