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February
23
FROM
CUBA
Ladies
in White receive Sakharov Peace Prize seals
Members
of the dissident Ladies in White, who protest
the imprisonment of husbands and other relatives,
received Sakharov peace prize seals last weekend.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist Roberto Santana threatened
Independent
journalist Roberto Santana was issued with a citation
by a counter-intelligence agent to appear before
last week.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Dissident
released from jail after seven months
Camilo Cairo
Falcón, one of several pacifists detained by Cuban
authorities July 13, 2005, was released last week.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Foreign
publications added banned list
The government has added to its list of banned publications
the daily newspaper El País of Madrid and the Spanish-language
edition of Popular Mechanic, according to an employee
of WSP, the company that distributes foreign publications
in Cuba.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Jailed spy may hold key to fallen pilots' case
• Lawmakers call U.S. wrong to push eviction of
Cubans
• Families remember fallen Brothers to the Rescue |
Yahoo
News
• Cuban bishops reorganize structure |
Argentine
writer blocked at Havana airport
The Committee
to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday's deportation
of writer, columnist and historian José Ignacio
García Hamilton by Cuban authorities at Havana's
José Martí International Airport.
Committee to
Protect Journalists |
Czech
senators support Cuban dissidents' request for help
The Open
Democracy Club (KOD) group of senators has supported
the call by Cuban dissidents on the international
community to help stop repressions against leaders
of the opponents of Fidel Castro's regime and create
a special international committee for this purpose.
Prague Daily
Monitor |
Cuban
ophthalmologists will treat patients in MST encampments
The MST signed
a partnership with the mission, which should begin
offering treatment to patients in the encampments
at the end of March.
Agência Brasil
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February
21
FROM
CUBA
Thieves
steal 140 pounds of freshly delivered chicken
The butcher
at the state-run shop was briefly held because
he had violated a norm of the Interior Commerce
Ministry under which an employee must be on the
premises at all times after a shipment of merchandise
or food has been received.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Police
seize two sacks of oranges destined for a fruit
stand
Highway patrol
officers stopped and boarded a bus and seized two
sacks of oranges from two brothers who said they
had bought them in order to make juice for their
fruit stand in Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Home
of independent journalist searched by police
Independent
journalist Abel Escobar Ramírez says two police
officers spent two and a half hours searching his
home last week and removed personal effects and
tools of his trade.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
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FROM
CUBA
Dissident
union members warned by authorities
Two state security agents visited the homes of independent
union members Aurelio Bachiller Álvarez and Enrique
Pérez González last week and told the two men that
their "counter-revolutionary activities" were being
monitored.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Collector
of signatures for Varela Project threatened
Members of
the political police have told dissident Humberto
Vigoe Chirino of San Cristóbal in Pinar del Río
province that he could be put on trial if he did
not stop collecting signatures for the Varela project.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
vendor tries to flee police on his bicycle
A pacifist
group says a self-employed vendor trying to flee
a police raid on his bicycle was beaten by police
in the Matanzas municipality of Colon.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• The intelligence community has placed Cuba on
a watch list of nations facing potential instability
• U.S., hotel chain discuss handling Cuba sanctions
• A gift for Cuba
• The freedom fliers, 40 years later |
Yahoo
News
• Castro asks pope to visit Cuba |
Bolivian
neopopulism spreading
Former Spanish
Prime Minister José María Aznar has announced that
he will devote much of his time and energy to fighting
against Latin American neopopulism, the elegant
name given in the region to the Banana Left.
The Miami Herald.
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Iran,
Cuba sign banking agreement
Iran Export
Development Bank and Cuba Foreign Bank signed an
agreement to facilitate export of Iranian goods
as well as engineering and technical services to
Cuba, IRNA reported.
IranMania.com
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Experts
prepare Angola/Cuba Joint Commission meeting
Experts of
Angola and Cuba are discussing since Monday here
issues of common interest in the domain of bilateral
co-operation, in the ambit of the 12th session of
the joint mission between the two countries, Angop
was informed.
Africast.com |
Cuba
winks at 'back-door travelers' from U.S.
The Cuban
government cooperates with backdoor travelers; customs
officials generally do not stamp the passports of
Americans when they enter. "All travelers are legal
as far as we're concerned," said Miguel Alejandro
Figueras, a Cuban tourism official.
Los Angeles
Times |
Cuba's
provisional roster announced
The Cuban
Baseball Federation, whose agreement to participate
in the World Baseball Classic was made official,
submitted the following 60-man Provisional Roster
to World Baseball Classic, Inc., it was announced
today.
MLB.com |
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February
16
FROM
CUBA
Police
stop dissident couple from celebrating St. Valentine's
Day
Dissident
Jesús Francisco Corrales Serrat and his wife Iris
Días Pérez and were detained by the political
police en route to celebrate St. Valentine's Day.
PINAR DEL
RIO
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FROM
CUBA
Dissident
facing restrictions on telephone calls
The wife
of imprisoned independent journalist Héctor Maseda
says that, as a condition for being allowed to make
more than 25 minutes of telephone calls a week,
he must reveal those he plans to call and their
telephone numbers.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Two
dissident groups offer solidarity to those under
attack
The Cuban
Civil Rights Defense Council and the Father Francisco
Santana Union of Independent Libraries have issued
a joint communiqué saying they were preoccupied
about "violent acts" against peaceful opposition
members.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Five
political prisoners call Cuba an "island prison"
Five political prisoners held at the Cerámica Roja
in Camaguey province have signed an open letter
in which they say "Cuba has become an island prison."
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Paramilitary
threaten to publicly disrobe dissidient
A dissident
says paramilitary members stopped him on the way
to a Pro Human Rights Party last week and threatened
to leave him naked in the street.
MATANZAS |
The
Miami Herald
• Violence against dissidents up
• U.S.-owned hotel caught in the middle
• Spy-case study criticized for bias
• Cuban spy case nears crucial point
• Walesa warns exiles about power vacuum |
Yahoo
News
• Venezuela, Cuba Said Invest in Projects
• Cuban doctor working in E. Timor seeks asylum
in Indonesia
• U.S. Pledges Enforcement of Cuba Embargo
• Cuba Sells 160 Million Cigars in 2005
• New Film Explores Cuban Paticipation Within America's
Negro League Baseball |
Call
for release of journalist after prison doctors say
he is "incurable in prison"
Reporters
Without Borders called for the immediate release
of José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández, jailed since
the March 2003 crackdown, and whose prison doctors
have said his state of health is incompatible with
imprisonment.
Reporters Without
Borders |
Cuba
scrambles to shine in baseball's Classic
Its all-star
team went into seclusion on Wednesday for almost
three weeks of power training before heading to
the World Baseball Classic (WBC), where it has a
chance of a showdown with its archrival, the United
States.
NBC News |
Cuban
offers support to Iranian on nuclear issue
Cuba's parliament
speaker on Thursday offered support to his visiting
Iranian counterpart in an escalating international
dispute over the Middle Eastern nation's use of
nuclear power.
HAVANA |
Pope:
Cuba must open to the world and open the heart to
god
"Cuba must
open to the world and the world must open to Cuba".
Pope Benedict XVI repeated today the appeal of John
Paul II during his visit to Cuba, in a letter he
sent to cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino.
AGI |
Cuba
libre?
While thousands
of students on spring break will bask in the sun
and sand of Cuba, Kenneth Wenger takes a harder
look at daily life in the country he calls home.
The Eyeopener
Online, Canada |
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February
9
FROM
CUBA
National police stage roundup in Matanzas province
The national
police staged a series of raids last week in the
Matanzas town of Pedro Betancourt, making arrests
and seizing goods used in private businesses,
but which the government calls illicit.
MATANZAS
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FROM
CUBA
Government paramilitary group breaks up dissident
meeting
When representatives
of three dissident groups met at 8:30 a.m. last
Saturday in the town of Manguito, they were soon
confronted by government paramilitary members.
MATANZAS |
FROM
CUBA
Spontaneous near-riot over defective appliances
A spontaneous
march by residents of the Lenin district in Camagüey
province prompted government authorities to set
up an impromptu facility to try to repair the appliances
they had just sold the consumers who now claimed
they were inoperable.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Cuban authorities foil presumed rafters
Police in
Sibanicú, Camagüey province, foiled a presumed escape
attempt when they intercepted a tractor hauling
a barge during a routine patrol through the Basic
Unit of Cooperative Production "Battle of México."
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Toxic products transported through city
Residents
of the Sagua de Tánamo municipality in Holguín province
complain that toxic products destined for mining
operations in nearby Nicaro are being trucked through
the city, without any apparent measures being taken
to safeguard from a spill.
HOLGUÍN |
FROM
CUBA
Czech model arrested for photographing the poor
New York based Czech fashion model Helena Houdova
was arrested in Havana January 23 after two local
government officials warned them not to photograph
poor children in the Havana district known as la
Guinera.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Video riles Cuban exiles
• Hotel caught in embargo trap
• Walesa achieves solidarity with exiles in Miami
• Passion over Cuba, Castro endures
• Landing on sandbar a break for migrants
• U.S.-owned hotel could face fines
• Spy culture takes toll on exiles' psyche
• Film depicts plight of Cuban rafters
• U.S. turns over Cuban castaways
• 'Viva Cuba' is a tale of humanity, not politics
• Boat people lived by forage |
Yahoo
News
• Cubans surround US mission with black flags
• Castro invites Iranian leader to Cuba
• Chavez Honored in Cuba With U.N. Prize |
Cuba exchange program has come under suspicion
Elizabeth
Cerejido collapsed in a surge of painful memories
four years ago while walking up the broad steps
of Cuba's notorious 18th-century prison, La Cabana.
As she toured the fortress, she began looking for
the jail cells. ''What are you talking about?''
Cerejido says a young Cuban resident asked her.
"This had never been a prison.''
Myrtle Beach
Sun News, SC. |
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February
1
FROM
CUBA
Would-be rafters threatened with jail terms
The political
police in Batabanó, a town on the south coast
of Havana province, have warned a group of would-be
rafters to give up their attempts to leave Cuba
if they don't want to go to jail.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Communist Party bars doctor from attendance at medical
course
Officials
from the Communist Party at the "14 de Junio" clinic
have barred Dr. Jorge Luís Fundón from continuing
his ultrasound studies because of his dissident
beliefs.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Telephone company refuses service to independent
journalist
Independent
journalist Antonio Femenías Hechemendia thought
he'd finally obtain a telephone when the ETECSA,
the national telephone company, assigned numbers
to those living in the historical center of the
city of Ciego de Ávila.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Some 400 books seized from independent library
Caridad González López, director of the Frank País
independent library, said a State Security agent
seized some 400 books from the library last week.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident sentenced to year for failing to pay fine
Rolando Aguirre
Patterson, a member of the Cuban Liberal Movement,
has been sentenced to a year in jail for failing
to pay 10 fines for illegally operating a pedicab.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Early Cuba roster devoid of many young prospects
• Exiles, ex-communists are new medical partners |
Yahoo
News
• U.S. Execs to Discuss Cuban Oil Reserves
• Hugo Chavez Denies Oil Deals a Giveaway
• Cuba Selects 60 Baseball Players to Train
• Cuba willing to share film-making experience with
Malaysia
• Puerto Rico Invited to Play in Cuba
• Cuban Film Reaches Universal Audience |
Top model to exhibit photos of Cuba she hid in bra
during arrest
Czech top
model Helena Houdova, who was arrested in Cuba last
week while taking photographs of Havana's slums,
told journalistS today that she will display the
pictures she took at an exhibition portraying the
island not only as a tourist paradise but also as
a land of political oppression.
PRAGUE |
Cuba, Venezuela trade at USD 1.2 billion in 2005
An undisclosed
portion of Venezuelan oil sales to Cuba can be paid
"with the supply of (Cuban) goods and services."
El Universal,
Venezuela |
Election Opponent Accuses Chavez of 'Giving Away'
Oil
A candidate
challenging Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for the
presidency said his top campaign issue will be what
he calls a massive waste of billions of dollars
through generous oil deals for friendly countries.
FOX News Network
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CzechRep dissatisfied with Cuba's explanation of
Houdova's arrest
The Czech
Foreign Ministry considers the explanation of the
arrest of Czech supermodel Helena Houdova and psychologist
Mariana Kroftova, which Cuba's Chargé d'Affaires
Aymee Hernandez presented today, incomplete and
unsatisfactory, Richard Krpac from the ministry
said.
Czech News Agency
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Cuban dissident faces an ultimatum
It has been
demanded that the blind dissident lawyer and leader
of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights go into
exile from Cuba or stop his opposition activity.
Prima News,
Russia |
Cuban Muslims' Union backs Iran in nuclear issue
The Union
of Cuban Muslims on Monday expressed support for
Tehran's pursuit of its indisputable right to develop
and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
IRNA |
Muzzling free expression in Cuba
Cuba has
escalated its attacks on dissidents -- as if that
could stifle the truth about its moral and economic
bankruptcy. Yet the harassment, beatings and jailings
have not deterred dissidents from calling attention
to human-rights abuses and pressing for change in
Cuba.
The Miami Herald.
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The Orange Revolution's Message
Throughout
much of his time in prison, Dr. Biscet has been
held in substandard punishment cells, often in solitary
confinement or with violent criminals.
Nat Hentoff.
Village Voice |
German throwing squad starts year under a warm Cuban
sun
Three of Germany's
World Championship throwing event medallists Franka
Dietzsch, Steffi Nerius and Ralf Bartels began 2006
with a two-week training camp in Havana, where they
took advantage of Cuba's warm weather to prepare
for the new season.
IAAF. |
Cuba crisis 'sparked UK war plan'
UK officials
worked to halve the time it would take the country
to go to war after the Cuban missile crisis, according
to newly released documents.
BBC, UK |
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