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October
28
The Miami Herald
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Cuba's 'Ladies in White' wins prestigious prize
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From afar, Orishas carry Cuba's new vibe
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Book offers look at Raúl-Fidel alliance
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Cuban poet's words deftly touch audience
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Strict U.S. policy on Cuba tears families apart
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After floods, saltwater a concern in Cuba
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Crashing waves bring more trouble for Cuba
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Havana streets flooded by Wilma
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Family reunion is political affair
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Cubans charged with smuggle attempt
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Cuba to Let U.S. Officials Visit Country
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Wilma Floods Havana but Kills None
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Floodwaters Recede in Cuba, Reveal Damage
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Nearly 250 Rescued From Flooded Cuba Homes
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Castro
denies accepting US aid
Cuban President Fidel Castro
denied on Thursday that his Communist government
had accepted US aid for the first time in the wake
of Hurricane Wilma.
IOL. |
Cuban
choir members hit high note for freedom
After a performance Sunday
in a Toronto church, Mr. Cendoya-Sotomayor saw two
fellow singers fleeing the hotel, suitcases in hand.
He knew he had to act quickly. He called the Cuban-Canadian
Foundation and within an hour, the foundation's
president had sent a car to collect him, and two
more singers.
The
Globe and Mail, Canada. |
Strict
travel policies are hurting families
A new report by Human Rights
Watch puts a human face on the suffering caused
by travel restrictions imposed by the governments
in Cuba and the United States.
The
Miami Herald. |
Maradona
interviews Cuba's Castro
The former Argentina football
captain told Cuban television interviewing Mr Castro
had been his dream. The two men have known each
other for many years.
BBC,
UK. |
Cuba
still in thoughts of Sox hurlers Contreras, Hernandez
Amid champagne showers in
a jubilant Chicago White Sox clubhouse, Jose Contreras
finally relinquished thoughts of his native land,
if only for a brief while.
USA
Today. |
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October
21
FROM
CUBA
Mother
of dissident harassed by Rapid Response Brigade
Finding that dissident Léster
Sánchez Hernández was not home, members of a Rapid
Response Brigade shouted insults and threats at
his mother, María Hernández Fernández.
SANTA CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
Dissidents
injured in clash with government supporters
Paramilitaries attacked
a group of dissident pacifists, four of whom suffered
injuries that required medical treatment.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Ailing
dissident prisoner returned to a jail cell
Ángel Moya Acosta, sentenced
to 20 years in prison in 2003, was recently removed
from the hospital unit in the Combinado del Este
prison and returned to a cell.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
French
tourist with a tattoo of Che Guevara detained by
police
A French tourist who had a
tattoo of Che Guevara on his right arm was detained
and handcuffed by police following an incident with
a taxi driver.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
detained by police
An official of the political
police arrested Roberto Estrella Salas, member of
the Party of the People, and returned him home under
house arrest following questioning at police headquarters.
PINAR
DEL RIO |
FROM
CUBA
Convalescing
independent journalist transferred to another prison
Independent journalist Víctor
Rolando Arroyo, recovering from a 24-day hunger
strike, has been transferred to the Cuba Sí prison
in Holguín province.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Neighbors
take up a collection to repair butcher's refrigerator
Tired of walking four
miles to find refrigerated meat, neighbors spent
almost a year taking up a collection to have the
refrigerator at the nearby "La Rampa" government
butcher shop repaired.
SANTA
CLARA |
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The Miami Herald
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Cuba, U.S. rules hurt families, group says
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Cuba hails condemnation by summit of 'blockade'
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Cuban exile likely to direct bureau
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Cuban boy killed on voyage to U.S. buried in Miami
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Executed men's families testify
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Yahoo! News
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Press freedoms slip back in West, advance in newly
free states: watchdog
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Sons of Iraq Vet to Leave Cuba for Visit
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Cuba praises Ibero-American summit's call for
end to US 'blockade'
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Cuban Official Blames U.S. for Death
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Fox
defends policy towards Cuba
President Vicente Fox reasserted
Mexico's long-standing position against the economic
blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba
Saturday on his last day at the 15th Ibero-American
Summit.
El
Universal, Venezuela. |
Travel
regulations undermine family values
Among the many injustices
Cubans endure today are restrictions on travel that
prevent them from reuniting with family members
abroad. These restrictions have torn young children
away from their parents, destroyed marriages and
kept exiles from visiting and caring for their aging
or dying parents in Cuba.
Daniel
Wilkinson, The Miami Herald.. |
Ibero-American
leaders get nothing in return for backing Cuba at
summit
Reporters Without Borders
voiced disappointment today at the outcome of last
weekend's Ibero-American summit in the Spanish city
of Salamanca, where leaders adopted two resolutions
in support of the Cuban government without any getting
anything in return on human rights.
Reporters
Without Borders. |
Human
Rights, Revisited
The recent Ibero American
summit in Spain (a gathering of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking
leaders) has been dominated by discussions about
Cuba and, more widely, by the issue of human rights.
The
Independent Institute, CA. |
Cuban
film to premiere in Hollywood
The premiere of "Barrio Cuba",
the latest by outstanding Cuban filmmaker Humberto
Solas, will take place in the Spielberg Auditorium
and the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on November
1.
Dominican
Today, Dominican Republic. |
Castro's
around-the-world campaign against America continues
Believe it or not, America
has been the target of an international terrorist
and drug smuggler far longer than Al Qaeda has been
in existence. Since 1959, in fact, Castro has been
operating with virtual impunity against us, U.S.
Municipalities
of Cuba in Exile. |
Clyde
Butcher photo exhibit focuses on wild mountains
of Cuba
In the presence of photographer
Clyde Butcher's dramatic black-and-white landscapes,
the frequent comparisons to Ansel Adams seem apt.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL. |
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October
17
FROM
CUBA
Jailed
independent journalist Oscar Mario González hospitalized
Imprisoned independent journalist
Oscar Mario González was confined to the security
wing of the military hospital in Havana this week
because of his deteriorating mental and physical
condition, according to his wife, Mirta Wong.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Dissidents
in Pinar del Rio threatened by the political police
Roberto Estrella Salas and
Carlos M. Collazo, members of the Opposotion Party
of the People, were threatened by two officers
of the political police in the tourist town of
Viñales.
PINAR
DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Political
police mistreat rafters returned by the U.S. Coast
Guard
René Soto Delgado and his
wife, Ledeyse, who have tried twice to leave Cuba
illegally, say political police seized their personal
documents, including their identity cards.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Teaching
fired for registering Jehovah Witnesses
Professor Tania Puig Calzadilla,
a veteran of 10 years teaching at the Eduardo Chibás
school in Banes, Holguín province, has lost her
job for admitting members of the Jehovah Witnesses
without prior approval of the Ministry of Education.
HOLGUÍN |
FROM
CUBA
Human
rights activists harassed by police
Agents from the National Revolutionary
Police, accompanied by inspectors from the Tax Office,
fined two brothers who operate a food stand and
threatened to withdraw their permit if they continued
their advocacy of human rights.
HOLGUÍN |
FROM
CUBA
Crowd
blocks entrance to building, preventing dissident
meeting
Some 300 government supporters
blocked the entrance to a building where a meeting
of dissidents was to take place.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
farmer fears someone killed his 12 pigs
Antonio Alonso, president
of the National Alliance of Independent farmers
of Cuba, says he fears someone killed all of his
fattened pigs to discourage his dissidient activities.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Bleeding
prisoner is hospitalized
Prisoner Léster González Pentón,
sentenced to 20 years during the 2003 crackdown
on dissidents, was taken from the Youthful offenders
Prison in Villa Clara to the Celestino Hernández
Robau hospital in Santa Clara last week.
SANTA
CLARA |
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The Miami Herald
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Cuban 'blockade'? U.S. objects to word
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Annan urges cuts in farm subsidies
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Dissident poet speaks at college
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Cuban exile from Miami chosen for Immigration
job
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Migrants win freedom, lose son
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Castro's health 'excellent': Cuban government
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Child Dies When Boat Capsizes Off Fla.
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Mayo
Hernández tries to take his life, sees death as
the only way out
Reporters Without Borders
today voiced deep concern about the condition of
imprisoned journalist Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández
after his wife and mother reported that he tried
to commit suicide twice and is still determined
to end his life.
Reporters
Without Borders. |
Cuban
government goes to the Internet to fight U.S. embargo
The Cuban government has taken
its campaign against the U.S. embargo on trade and
travel to the Internet. On Thursday representatives
of the island government were online to answer inquiries
and comments about the four-decade old policy.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Editor's
note | What will drive Cuba in a post-Castro world?
After Fidel Castro is gone,
two men who'll be on the first Miami-Havana flight
are brothers Lombardo and Lomberto Perez. Their
business: Selling cars.
The
Miami Herald. |
Bush
policy cuts volunteers who help ordinary Cubans
It's not every day that you
see 50 American volunteers dressed in T-shirts and
shorts assembling a state-of-the-art playground
in the working-class neighborhood of Santa Amalia.
Chicago
Tribune. |
Liberator
or Castro clone?
Flush with oil money and political
power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is firmly
implanting his socialist -- and anti-American --
vision at home and buying influence in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
The
Washington Times. |
Cuba
Needs Church to Combat Abortion, Says Castro
Fidel Castro wants help from
the Church to fight the "plague of abortion" in
his country, reported an Italian cardinal at the
end of a visit with the Cuban president.
Zenit. |
Cuba
Regards Ibero-American Summit as Victory Over US
In what Cuban media are describing
as a "defeat" for the United States, leaders from
Latin America, Spain and Portugal ended a summit
at the weekend calling for an end to the U.S. embargo
against Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Town
Hall, DC. |
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External
links
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Sugar
Industry Overhaul Leaves a Void in Cuba
In Cuba's rust belt, mounds of scrap iron, rusting
railway cars and cannibalized machinery lie scattered
beneath palm trees and giant smokestacks that
once proudly announced dozens of picturesque rural
sugar towns.
LA
Times.
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Cuban
dissidents expect tactful ally in new U.S. liaison
A career diplomat, Michael Parmly speaks four
languages. But according to dissidents who met
him just hours after he took command at the U.S.
Interests Section three weeks ago, the first thing
he did was listen.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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October
13
FROM
CUBA
Privately
grown produce seized by police
The National Revolutionary
Police carried out early morning raids last week
at the Egido market in Old Havana, seizing three
truckloads of fruits and vegetables grown by private
farmers.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Wife
of dissident threatened
Iris Díaz Peñate, wife of
Jesús Francisco Corrales Serrat, a member of the
Maximo Gómez Civic Movement, says she was threatened
in her home by an agent of the political police.
PINAR
DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Police
beat man who criticized treatment of jailed son
When Leonel Arencibia Pedrosa,
47, started to criticize the government about the
treatment given his son, imprisoned on common criminal
charges, he didn't.
PINAR
DEL RIO |
FROM
CUBA
Commercial
buildings collapse in Caibarién
Several buildings housing
food stores in Caibarién have collapsed due to neglect
and the stores have been relocated, making consumers
go longer distances to secure their food allotments.
CAIBARIÉN |
FROM
CUBA
Dissidents'
children and wives harassed
The wives and children of
at least two dissidents who are in prison have been
harassed and threatened by paramilitary mobs under
the direction of government officials in Las Tunas,
eastern Cuba.
CAIBARIÉN |
FROM
CUBA
No
cane juice for Ranchuelo
Consumers complain they haven't
been able to get a glass of sugar cane juice in
Ranchuelo, one of the highest producers of sugar
in the country through the years.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Chemical
plants are heavy polluters
Two chemical plants in Sagua
la Grande release a range of pollutants, including
mercury, to the atmosphere and the Sagua river,
which eventually carries them to the sea.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Fumigation
campaign follows Aedes mosquito detection
Government health authorities
launched a massive spraying operation after the
Aedes aegypti mosquito was detected in the area
of Cruces, Cienfuegos province at the end of September.
CRUCES |
FROM
CUBA
Shoemakers
idle in Ranchuelo
The "Bienvenido Bermúdez"
factory, the only one in the municipality, has seen
production interrupted several times before, typically
for six to seven months out of the year, for lack
of raw materials.
RANCHUELO |
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The Miami Herald
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Execs have eyes on Cuba
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Yahoo! News
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Cuban Gov't. Supporters Decry Dissidents Mon
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Freed Cuban Journo Makes Emotional Homecoming
To IAPA
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France
demands Cuba release political prisoner
France's foreign minister
told his Cuban counterpart during a meeting here
on Tuesday that Cuba must release its political
prisoners. "The meeting was exclusively about the
human rights situation in Cuba," said a French foreign
ministry statement.
Caribbean
Net News. |
Survey
says S. Florida execs bullish on post-Castro Cuba
A majority of executives interviewed
in South Florida would be interested in doing business
with a post-Castro, democratic Cuba, a survey released
Wednesday shows.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel. |
Students
leave for Cuba
Yesterday, 40 students left
the island for Cuba to further their studies at
tertiary level institutions. These students represent
the last set of Antiguans and Barbudans bound for
the Spanish-speaking country for the academic year
2005.
Antigua
Sun, Antigua and Barbuda. |
Castro's
Library Pass
Since the ALA's Office of
Intellectual Freedom (OIF) website says the primary
audience for their postings is the general public,
and since readers are encouraged to write Don Wood
with questions, I sent him an e-mail on June 25
to inquire why the news of Castro's book burning
was not included on the book burning page he edits.
Walter
Skold. FrontPageMagazine.com. |
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October
10
FROM
CUBA
Police
break up dissident meeting before it begins
Police agents and members
of the Rapid Response Brigade stopped a car carrying
five dissidents to a post-midnight meeting called
by the Cuban Orthodox Renovation Party and took
everyone to the police station.
PALMA SORIANO
|
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FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist jailed nearly 3 months with no charges
laid
The wife of independent
journalist Oscar Mario González, jailed since
July without any charges being laid, says she's
alarmed at his physical deterioration.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Woman,
65, prevented from attending Ladies in White activity
A paramilitary group congregated
in front of the home of Eduarda Caridad Morales
Lazaga last Sunday and prevented her from attending
activities of the Ladies in White.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Patient
asks for visa to Venezuela because his doctor's
there
An ailing patient hung a sign
outside his residence in Old Havana last week seeking
permission to travel to Venezuela to see his doctor
who was sent there under a Cuban-Venezuelan exchange
agreement.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Tumult
at prevention of AIDS rally
Outnumbered police beat a
retreat from an AIDS prevention rally after failing
to remove a participant among the estimated 20,000
students in the Plaza de la Revolución Antonio Maceo.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Human rights advocate released from prison
human rights advocate who
preferred a prison sentence to forced work on a
farm was released last week alftr serving a 10-month
sentence.
PALMA
SORIANO |
FROM
CUBA
Opposition
doctor makes appeal to Cardinal Ortega
Opposition doctor Darsi Ferrer
appealed this week to Cardinal Jaime Ortega to intervene
with the government on behalf of two prisoners on
a hunger strike.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Grocery
store unable to repair damaged door
Since robbers tried to force
the doors of the government-owned "La Criolla" grocery
store three weeks ago, customers are being served
in the back entrance.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Dissidents
prevented from holding meeting
The Political Police carried
out arrests this week to prevent dissidents from
holding a meeting.
PINAR
DEL RIO |
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The Miami Herald
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Castro highlights summit's guest list
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Cuban dissident held at MIA, misses event
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Raul Rivero: A poet unbowed by Cuba's jails
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Invitations create diplomatic flap
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Twenty FIU students fast in support of jailed
Cubans
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Miami filmmaker spotlights fading 'Jewban' community
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Yahoo! News
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Cuban Migration to U.S. Hits 10-Year High
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Tougher U.S. policy curtails aid to Cubans
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Venezuela to Revamp Cuban Oil Refinery
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'Viva la revolucion!' says Che Guevara's daughter
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Singer Miriam Makeba on Farewell Tour
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Cuban claims new football head juggling record
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UBS
Dealings in Iran, Cuba to Be Probed
The world's largest "wealth
management" firm, UBS, will be investigated by Congress
for possibly laundering money for two state sponsors
of terrorism, Cuba and Iran, lawmakers here told
The New York Sun.
The
New York Sun. |
"Welcome
to Cuba where journalists have no rights"
Wearing prisoner uniforms
in solidarity with the 23 journalists in Cuban jails,
a score of Reporters Without Borders activists staged
a loud protest outside UNESCO headquarters in Paris
today as Cuban foreign minister Felipe Pérez Roque
was due to address a meeting inside.
Reporters
Without Borders. |
Cuba's
asterisk
Felipe Perez Roque was all
vim and gusto as he set out this week to convince
Canadian investors of Cuba's advantages.
The
Globe and Mail |
Recalling
de Céspedes: true hero of the nation
In the suffering of today's
Cuba, we evoke the image of the father of the Cuban
nation. Today marks the anniversary of his 1868
call for Cuban independence from Spain.
Alberto
Bustamante, The Miami Herald. |
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October
4
FROM
CUBA
Librarian
beaten outside of home of independent journalist
Independent librarian Pablo
González Villa was beaten last week during a protest
outside the home of independent journalist Alejandro
Tur Valladares, director of Jagua Press.
CIENFUEGOS
|
|
FROM
CUBA
Members
of the police accused of confiscating dissident's
property
Alfonso Rodríguez Rodríguez
says agents of the national police took a scale
and a meat grinder from his home after failing
to find illegal meat he allegedly was selling.
PINAR
DEL RÍO
|
FROM
CUBA
Independent journalist placed in isolation cell
Imprisoned independent journalist
Fabio Prieto Llorente has been placed in an isolation
cell where he's suffering from bronchitis, according
to his sister.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Signers
of the Varela Project issued summons by the police
Dozens of residents of the
capital's Cerro district who signed the Varela Project
calling for a national referendum have been issued
summons by the police.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Home
of dissident searched by Interior Ministry agents
The home of dissident Osmany
Hernández Mesa was searched by agents from the Interior
Ministry on September 19.
CAIBARIÉN |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
accused of possessing enemy propaganda
Dissident Carlos Camilo Valdés
Figueroa was detained by agents of the political
police in Minas, Camagüey province on Wednesday
and accused of possessing enemy propaganda.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Water
Crisis
There is a non-stop coming
and going of people, carrying buckets and all kinds
of containers, who head to the few places where
there are water taps.
PINAR
DEL RÍO |
Arroyo
replies to Cuban Cardinal's remarks on his hunger
strike
"Let everyone know that
this was the only thing I could do. I am not playing
with my life, I am defending my life and the life
of everyone that is going through the same tortures
as me".
Information
Bridge Cuba Miami. |
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The Miami Herald
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Aging Cuban musicians fight for royalty rights
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Elián, five years later: 'I've grown up'
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For U.S. group, it's just about Cuban children
•
U.S. says Cuba not trying to halt migrants
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Yahoo! News
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Contreras Resurfaces As Red Sox Nemesis
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Elian Gonzalez: Nothing Good About Time In Miami
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American Group Builds Playgrounds in Cuba
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Cuba May Play in World Baseball Classic
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