|
June
29
FROM
CUBA
Personnel
changes reflect decline of Communist youth organization
The plenum
of the provincial committee of the Union of Communist
Youth in Matanzas deposed the organization's first
secretary, José Anselmo Díaz, for "errors" committed
in the management of the organization, according
to an official announcement June 22.
MATANZAS,
Oscar Sánchez Madan
|
FROM
CUBA
Prison
inmate insulted by X-ray tech
"We have to
kill them all," said an X-ray technician at the
North polyclinic in Moron when she realized her
patient was a political prisoner brought in from
the nearby prison.
MORON, Antonio
Femenías |
FROM
CUBA
Price
of bus tickets up
"Tickets
are 132 pesos," said the announcer at Havana's bus
terminal after announcing the departure of a bus
to Santiago de Cuba June 13.
HAVANA, Abel
Escobar Ramírez |
FROM
CUBA
Residents
evicted to expand dairy
Housing officials
aided by police evicted the occupants of 14 houses
in the Boyeros municipality of Havana June 16. Critics
charged the whole purpose of the move was to expand
an adjacent dairy and that the displaced families
did not have a place to go.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez Albacia |
The
Miami Herald
• One-time rising political star in Cuba going to
jail
•
Cuba celebrates its place on U.N. rights council
•
U.S. visa call center back after overrun
•
Cuba loses fight to competitor over its trademark
cigar
•
U.S. visa call center back after overrun
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban official gets 12-year prison term
•
Cuban migrants anxious to leave island
•
Jamaica Gets Cement Shipment From Cuba
•
Cuba hails 'plantibody' breakthrough for hepatitis
vaccine
•
Cuba Plans to Increase Ethanol Production
•
Woman accused of being spy for Cuba freed
•
ACLU sues Fla. schools over Cuba book ban |
Bolivia
protest over Cuba medics
Doctors in
the Bolivian capital La Paz have staged a protest
against an influx of Cuban medics offering free
care in poor and rural parts of the country.
BBC, UK. |
American-born
college students keep flames of Cuban protest burning
"I would
say my parents are Cuban and they would say, 'Oh,
I want to go to Cuba for spring break.'" recalled
Diane Cabrera, 23, a graduate of Georgetown University.
"I would say, 'My cousin that lives in Cuba can't
go to the same beach that you can go to.'"
The Sun-Sentinel. |
Students
plug Cuba's water leaks
Four engineering
students from Bristol University are preparing to
fly to Havana in an attempt to improve the Cuban
capital's water supplies.
BBC, UK. |
D'Rivera
mourns for native Cuba
Holidayed
in Havana recently? Don't tell Paquito D'Rivera,
the Cuban-born clarinetist and sax-man who's as
revered and respected for his contributions to classical
music as he is to the realm of Latin jazz.
winnipegsun.com. |
LINKS
|
Cuban
musicians honor their roots but want to grow
Descemer
Bueno was born and raised in Havana and immersed
in his country's music -- accompanying his mother,
a singer, on guitar at parties, trained in Cuba's
superb music education system. He's a man whose
heart practically beats in rumba time.
Chicago
Tribune.
|
Habana
Abierta may help recharge Cuban music
From
the hot mambos of Perez Prado and the jazzy jam
sessions of Cachao to the lilting acoustic strains
of the Buena Vista Social Club, the sounds of
Cuba have always been an inevitable point of reference
for Latin music.
Chicago
Tribune.
|
June
16
FROM
CUBA
Mother
charges negligence in prisoner's death
The mother
of a 41-year-old prisoner who died recently charged
authorities with negligence in rendering timely
medical care to her son. Teresa Landrian Figuera
said she was told by hospital doctors that if
her son had received timely attention, his life
would have been saved.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez Albacia
|
FROM
CUBA
Diarrhea
outbreak overwhelms health system in Moa
Last Thursday,
Deysi Leiva walked out of the emergency room in
the Pedro Sota Alba pediatric hospital, where she
had taken her two-year-old daughter Dayrin for diarrhea,
saying the medical facility was full of mothers
with children in the same condition.
MOA, Juan Carlos
Garcell |
FROM
CUBA
Intensive
journalism course offered to independent journalists
in Santiago
A 45-day intensive
course in journalism aimed at improving the skills
of independent journalists in the region launched
June 15 in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second
largest city.
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, Virgilio Delat |
FROM
CUBA
Bolivian
students feted in Cuba
In recent
weeks there have been increasing reports of groups
of Bolivian students being feted at several locations
around the city of Havana.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaceda |
FROM
CUBA
Prisoner
singled out for abuse by guards
A prisoner
who had himself tattoed with anti-government slogans
all over his body is being singled out for abuse
at the Holguín provincial prison, said Alfredo Domínguez,
a political prisoner serving time there.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
The
Miami Herald
• Very quietly, they reject Fidel Castro
•
Communism will remain after Castro, brother says
•
Cuba's Alarcón blames U.S. for jailings
•
Bill easing Cuba sales rule OK'd
•
Miami-Dade Schools ban book on Cuba
•
Families torn by travel ban to Cuba come out in
protest
•
Keeping the beat
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuba hails U.S. absence from U.N. rights panel
•
Cuba's Alarcon denies 24 imprisonments
•
Cuban Cigar Company Will Continue Fight for COHIBA
Trademark in U.S.
|
Cuban
doctors investigate eye surgery problems
The Cuban
government has sent two of Its top ophthalmologists
to Jamaica to examine patients who have suffered
serious corneal damage following eye surgeries in
that country.
radiojamaica.com. |
Official
Urges Cuba To Stop Restricting Internet Access
A human rights
official for the Organization of American States
(OAS) has called on the Cuban government to stop
restricting access to the Internet.
Washington File. |
Alarcón's
gift for excuses reveals failures
Ricardo Alarcón,
the president of Cuba's national assembly, is an
immensely entertaining and gifted man. It's not
easy explaining Fidel Castro, and a less-experienced
performer might have flubbed it. In Alarcón's hands,
the difficult task was transformed Wednesday night
into a thing of beauty.
The Miami Herald. |
Cubans
deprived of the INQ
Cubans are
allowed to send email and have a look at government
Web sites on topics from the weather to literature.
But if you want to have a wibble round the world
outside you can forget it.
Inquirer, UK. |
Cuba
loses bid to stop U.S. firm from using famous Cohiba
name on cigars
The U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday stubbed out a case over
rights to the Cohiba brand name on cigars sold in
the United States, upholding the rights of a New
York company to use the name on products it makes
outside Cuba.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Cuba
trade on the table
United States
has become island's top food supplier.
Sun Sentinel. |
Tony
Soprano has nothing on Fidel Castro
Late last
year, a top diplomat in the U.S. Interests Section
entered his Havana home to find it covered in excrement.
It was payback for allowing Cuban dissidents access
to the Internet. Other diplomats have had tires
slashed and utilities cut.
Southern Illinoisan. |
Pastors
challenge sanctions against Cuba
A group of
pastors opposed to decades-old sanctions against
Cuba by the United States will begin a journey this
week with a truckload of medical supplies for the
Communist country.
Guelph Mercury. |
N.C.
Baptists, UNC keeping strong ties with communist
Cuba
A small group,
sponsored by the Cary-based North Carolina Baptist
Men, has just returned from working to build a retirement
home in the communist island-nation.
The Herald-Sun. |
June
14
FROM
CUBA
52
dead in traffic accidents in Havana in four months
In the first
four months of the year, 52 died and 251 were
hurt in 1,101 traffic accidents in the city of
Havana. Many of the dead were cyclists who hitch
rides behind buses and motorcycle riders who don't
wear the helmets required by law.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Makeshift
housing spreads in Havana
Cubans in
need of shelter in the city of Havana are erecting
structures of any material at hand and in any area
big enough to lie down.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Communist
Party officials "interview" independent journalist
Communist
Party officials, who in Cuba are called "community
factors" (don't ask) called in independent journalist
Juan González to scold him for an article he wrote
recently about Cuban President Castro's reputed
wealth.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Consumers
who haven't paid for rice cookers will be fined
Consumers
who bought one of the rice cookers the government
put on sale three months ago and who haven't paid
for them in full will be fined, according to signs
posted in retail establishments in San Miguel del
Padrón municipality in Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Two
attempt escape from high security prison
Two inmates
in the Camagüey province prison Cerámica Roja attempted
to escape during the night of May 30. The two, aged
23 and 34, were apprehended.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Construction
starts on TV Morón
Last week
a billboard appeared in the center of Morón announcing
the beginning of construction of a TV center for
TV Morón very close to the site housing 56-year-old
Radio Morón.
MORON |
FROM
CUBA
Political
prisoner decries prison conditions
Political
prisoner Virgilio Mantilla decried poor conditions
in the Kilo[meter] 9 prison in Camagüey province
where he is serving a seven year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Food
distribution delayed in Camagüey town
The townspeople
of La Gloria, a settlement about 30 miles from the
capital city of Camagüey province, say their allotment
of foodstuffs under the government's rationing system
had not come through as of June 3. The food is expected
to be put on sale by the first of the month.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Mascarade
Mrs. Novo
says she's a revolutionary. She's the wife of a
coronel in the armed forces. Coronel Cámara (that's
Mrs. Novo's husband's last name) is the head of
the Association of Combat Veterans in this province.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Officers
threaten independent journalist
Two officers
of the Department of State Security visited independent
journalist Ahmed Rodríguez and threatened to send
him to prison if he continues with his journalistic
activities.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
The
Miami Herald
• Cuba restores electricity to U.S Interests Section
•
School Board votes to remove Cuba book from all
Miami-Dade schools
•
State sued over Cuba-travel ban
•
U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana has no electricity
•
Confession in FIU Cuba case challenged |
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban soap opera sparks debate
•
School Board Makes Decision On 'Vamos A Cuba'
•
Pakistan, Cuba, HK To Set Up Missions In Bid To
Boost Trade
•
Cuba: U.S. lying 'shamelessly' about power cut to
American mission in Havana
•
Tropical Storm Alberto drenches Cuba
•
25,000 Cubans move from 'life-threatening' storm
Alberto
•
Castro: al-Zarqawi killing a 'barbarity' |
Lyndonville
man talks about being imprisoned in Cuba
Rick Schwag
of Lyndonville and his nonprofit organization, Caribbean
Medical Transport, have, over the past decade, helped
send to Cuba 18 40-foot containers filled with medical
equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
The Burlington
Free Press |
Human
Rights in Cuba Deteriorating, Says European Union
The European
Union (EU) says it deplores what it calls "further
deterioration" of the human rights situation in
Cuba since June 2005.
USINFO. |
Cuba
to provide advise to Venezuela in aeronautics
A group of
experts from the Cuban Civil Aeronautic Institute
(IACC) is in Venezuela to advise the National Civil
Aeronautic Institute (INAC), said the latter in
a communiqué.
El Universal,
Venezuela. |
Czech
government wants EU to get tougher with Cuba
Support within
the EU for a tougher stance on Cuba is strongest
in the eight eastern European nations that joined
the bloc in 2004 and where memories of the legacy
of communism are still fresh.
Pravda. |
June
29
FROM
CUBA
Personnel
changes reflect decline of Communist youth organization
The plenum
of the provincial committee of the Union of Communist
Youth in Matanzas deposed the organization's first
secretary, José Anselmo Díaz, for "errors" committed
in the management of the organization, according
to an official announcement June 22.
MATANZAS,
Oscar Sánchez Madan
|
FROM
CUBA
Prison
inmate insulted by X-ray tech
"We have to
kill them all," said an X-ray technician at the
North polyclinic in Moron when she realized her
patient was a political prisoner brought in from
the nearby prison.
MORON, Antonio
Femenías |
FROM
CUBA
Price
of bus tickets up
"Tickets
are 132 pesos," said the announcer at Havana's bus
terminal after announcing the departure of a bus
to Santiago de Cuba June 13.
HAVANA, Abel
Escobar Ramírez |
FROM
CUBA
Residents
evicted to expand dairy
Housing officials
aided by police evicted the occupants of 14 houses
in the Boyeros municipality of Havana June 16. Critics
charged the whole purpose of the move was to expand
an adjacent dairy and that the displaced families
did not have a place to go.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez Albacia |
The
Miami Herald
• One-time rising political star in Cuba going to
jail
•
Cuba celebrates its place on U.N. rights council
•
U.S. visa call center back after overrun
•
Cuba loses fight to competitor over its trademark
cigar
•
U.S. visa call center back after overrun
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban official gets 12-year prison term
•
Cuban migrants anxious to leave island
•
Jamaica Gets Cement Shipment From Cuba
•
Cuba hails 'plantibody' breakthrough for hepatitis
vaccine
•
Cuba Plans to Increase Ethanol Production
•
Woman accused of being spy for Cuba freed
•
ACLU sues Fla. schools over Cuba book ban |
Bolivia
protest over Cuba medics
Doctors in
the Bolivian capital La Paz have staged a protest
against an influx of Cuban medics offering free
care in poor and rural parts of the country.
BBC, UK. |
American-born
college students keep flames of Cuban protest burning
"I would
say my parents are Cuban and they would say, 'Oh,
I want to go to Cuba for spring break.'" recalled
Diane Cabrera, 23, a graduate of Georgetown University.
"I would say, 'My cousin that lives in Cuba can't
go to the same beach that you can go to.'"
The Sun-Sentinel. |
Students
plug Cuba's water leaks
Four engineering
students from Bristol University are preparing to
fly to Havana in an attempt to improve the Cuban
capital's water supplies.
BBC, UK. |
D'Rivera
mourns for native Cuba
Holidayed
in Havana recently? Don't tell Paquito D'Rivera,
the Cuban-born clarinetist and sax-man who's as
revered and respected for his contributions to classical
music as he is to the realm of Latin jazz.
winnipegsun.com. |
LINKS
|
Cuban
musicians honor their roots but want to grow
Descemer
Bueno was born and raised in Havana and immersed
in his country's music -- accompanying his mother,
a singer, on guitar at parties, trained in Cuba's
superb music education system. He's a man whose
heart practically beats in rumba time.
Chicago
Tribune.
|
Habana
Abierta may help recharge Cuban music
From
the hot mambos of Perez Prado and the jazzy jam
sessions of Cachao to the lilting acoustic strains
of the Buena Vista Social Club, the sounds of
Cuba have always been an inevitable point of reference
for Latin music.
Chicago
Tribune.
|
June
16
FROM
CUBA
Mother
charges negligence in prisoner's death
The mother
of a 41-year-old prisoner who died recently charged
authorities with negligence in rendering timely
medical care to her son. Teresa Landrian Figuera
said she was told by hospital doctors that if
her son had received timely attention, his life
would have been saved.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez Albacia
|
FROM
CUBA
Diarrhea
outbreak overwhelms health system in Moa
Last Thursday,
Deysi Leiva walked out of the emergency room in
the Pedro Sota Alba pediatric hospital, where she
had taken her two-year-old daughter Dayrin for diarrhea,
saying the medical facility was full of mothers
with children in the same condition.
MOA, Juan Carlos
Garcell |
FROM
CUBA
Intensive
journalism course offered to independent journalists
in Santiago
A 45-day intensive
course in journalism aimed at improving the skills
of independent journalists in the region launched
June 15 in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second
largest city.
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, Virgilio Delat |
FROM
CUBA
Bolivian
students feted in Cuba
In recent
weeks there have been increasing reports of groups
of Bolivian students being feted at several locations
around the city of Havana.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaceda |
FROM
CUBA
Prisoner
singled out for abuse by guards
A prisoner
who had himself tattoed with anti-government slogans
all over his body is being singled out for abuse
at the Holguín provincial prison, said Alfredo Domínguez,
a political prisoner serving time there.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
The
Miami Herald
• Very quietly, they reject Fidel Castro
•
Communism will remain after Castro, brother says
•
Cuba's Alarcón blames U.S. for jailings
•
Bill easing Cuba sales rule OK'd
•
Miami-Dade Schools ban book on Cuba
•
Families torn by travel ban to Cuba come out in
protest
•
Keeping the beat
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuba hails U.S. absence from U.N. rights panel
•
Cuba's Alarcon denies 24 imprisonments
•
Cuban Cigar Company Will Continue Fight for COHIBA
Trademark in U.S.
|
Cuban
doctors investigate eye surgery problems
The Cuban
government has sent two of Its top ophthalmologists
to Jamaica to examine patients who have suffered
serious corneal damage following eye surgeries in
that country.
radiojamaica.com. |
Official
Urges Cuba To Stop Restricting Internet Access
A human rights
official for the Organization of American States
(OAS) has called on the Cuban government to stop
restricting access to the Internet.
Washington File. |
Alarcón's
gift for excuses reveals failures
Ricardo Alarcón,
the president of Cuba's national assembly, is an
immensely entertaining and gifted man. It's not
easy explaining Fidel Castro, and a less-experienced
performer might have flubbed it. In Alarcón's hands,
the difficult task was transformed Wednesday night
into a thing of beauty.
The Miami Herald. |
Cubans
deprived of the INQ
Cubans are
allowed to send email and have a look at government
Web sites on topics from the weather to literature.
But if you want to have a wibble round the world
outside you can forget it.
Inquirer, UK. |
Cuba
loses bid to stop U.S. firm from using famous Cohiba
name on cigars
The U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday stubbed out a case over
rights to the Cohiba brand name on cigars sold in
the United States, upholding the rights of a New
York company to use the name on products it makes
outside Cuba.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Cuba
trade on the table
United States
has become island's top food supplier.
Sun Sentinel. |
Tony
Soprano has nothing on Fidel Castro
Late last
year, a top diplomat in the U.S. Interests Section
entered his Havana home to find it covered in excrement.
It was payback for allowing Cuban dissidents access
to the Internet. Other diplomats have had tires
slashed and utilities cut.
Southern Illinoisan. |
Pastors
challenge sanctions against Cuba
A group of
pastors opposed to decades-old sanctions against
Cuba by the United States will begin a journey this
week with a truckload of medical supplies for the
Communist country.
Guelph Mercury. |
N.C.
Baptists, UNC keeping strong ties with communist
Cuba
A small group,
sponsored by the Cary-based North Carolina Baptist
Men, has just returned from working to build a retirement
home in the communist island-nation.
The Herald-Sun. |
June
14
FROM
CUBA
52
dead in traffic accidents in Havana in four months
In the first
four months of the year, 52 died and 251 were
hurt in 1,101 traffic accidents in the city of
Havana. Many of the dead were cyclists who hitch
rides behind buses and motorcycle riders who don't
wear the helmets required by law.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Makeshift
housing spreads in Havana
Cubans in
need of shelter in the city of Havana are erecting
structures of any material at hand and in any area
big enough to lie down.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Communist
Party officials "interview" independent journalist
Communist
Party officials, who in Cuba are called "community
factors" (don't ask) called in independent journalist
Juan González to scold him for an article he wrote
recently about Cuban President Castro's reputed
wealth.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Consumers
who haven't paid for rice cookers will be fined
Consumers
who bought one of the rice cookers the government
put on sale three months ago and who haven't paid
for them in full will be fined, according to signs
posted in retail establishments in San Miguel del
Padrón municipality in Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Two
attempt escape from high security prison
Two inmates
in the Camagüey province prison Cerámica Roja attempted
to escape during the night of May 30. The two, aged
23 and 34, were apprehended.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Construction
starts on TV Morón
Last week
a billboard appeared in the center of Morón announcing
the beginning of construction of a TV center for
TV Morón very close to the site housing 56-year-old
Radio Morón.
MORON |
FROM
CUBA
Political
prisoner decries prison conditions
Political
prisoner Virgilio Mantilla decried poor conditions
in the Kilo[meter] 9 prison in Camagüey province
where he is serving a seven year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Food
distribution delayed in Camagüey town
The townspeople
of La Gloria, a settlement about 30 miles from the
capital city of Camagüey province, say their allotment
of foodstuffs under the government's rationing system
had not come through as of June 3. The food is expected
to be put on sale by the first of the month.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Mascarade
Mrs. Novo
says she's a revolutionary. She's the wife of a
coronel in the armed forces. Coronel Cámara (that's
Mrs. Novo's husband's last name) is the head of
the Association of Combat Veterans in this province.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Officers
threaten independent journalist
Two officers
of the Department of State Security visited independent
journalist Ahmed Rodríguez and threatened to send
him to prison if he continues with his journalistic
activities.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
The
Miami Herald
• Cuba restores electricity to U.S Interests Section
•
School Board votes to remove Cuba book from all
Miami-Dade schools
•
State sued over Cuba-travel ban
•
U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana has no electricity
•
Confession in FIU Cuba case challenged |
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban soap opera sparks debate
•
School Board Makes Decision On 'Vamos A Cuba'
•
Pakistan, Cuba, HK To Set Up Missions In Bid To
Boost Trade
•
Cuba: U.S. lying 'shamelessly' about power cut to
American mission in Havana
•
Tropical Storm Alberto drenches Cuba
•
25,000 Cubans move from 'life-threatening' storm
Alberto
•
Castro: al-Zarqawi killing a 'barbarity' |
Lyndonville
man talks about being imprisoned in Cuba
Rick Schwag
of Lyndonville and his nonprofit organization, Caribbean
Medical Transport, have, over the past decade, helped
send to Cuba 18 40-foot containers filled with medical
equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
The Burlington
Free Press |
Human
Rights in Cuba Deteriorating, Says European Union
The European
Union (EU) says it deplores what it calls "further
deterioration" of the human rights situation in
Cuba since June 2005.
USINFO. |
Cuba
to provide advise to Venezuela in aeronautics
A group of
experts from the Cuban Civil Aeronautic Institute
(IACC) is in Venezuela to advise the National Civil
Aeronautic Institute (INAC), said the latter in
a communiqué.
El Universal,
Venezuela. |
Czech
government wants EU to get tougher with Cuba
Support within
the EU for a tougher stance on Cuba is strongest
in the eight eastern European nations that joined
the bloc in 2004 and where memories of the legacy
of communism are still fresh.
Pravda. |
June
8
FROM
CUBA
Foreign
medical students complain about lost Internet
connection
Foreign
medical students at the Morón School of Medical
Science are complaining that the Internet connection
has been inoperative for as long as weeks now.
MORÓN
|
FROM
CUBA
Short-sleeve
rain coats cause wonder
In the Havana
neighborhood of Lawton the hard currency store La
Cima recently put on sale short-sleeve rain coats
causing wonder among the locals who say they have
never seen such a thing.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Septic
tank overflows next door to bakery
A septic
tank has been overflowing next door to a bakery
in a tony neighborhood of Havana since the beginning
of the year, complain municipal authorities can't
or won't address the problem adequately.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Train
derails - twice
The train
known in the city of Morón as the "Battle of Ideas"
derailed twice on May 20. The freighter, pulled
by an ancient American-made locomotive, ran off
the tracks near the town of Peonía.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Man's
choice: abandon wife or house
Linares, who
owns a house in Old Havana, said he cannot have
his wife move in with him because housing authorities
do not allow new residents to move into the historic
district.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Castro pitched in for lawmaker's visit
•
School Board to hear final appeal on Cuba book
•
Posada lawyer may call Kerry, North
•
Cuba on 'smuggling' nations list
•
Castro's standing tied to leftists' rise
|
Yahoo
News
•
Venezuela Signs Oil Technology Agreement With Cuba
•
India, Cuba and Syria reject US report on human
trafficking
|
CPJ
concerned about deteriorating health of two Cuban
journalists
Fariñas went
on hunger strike January 31. He has been in the
hospital for much of the time since then, receiving
fluids and vitamins intravenously. Fariñas is director
of the independent news agency Cubanacán Press.
CPJ. |
Reporter
jailed in Cuba after covering government evictions
The Committee
to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of
independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt
who was arrested a week ago while covering the evictions
of dozens of families from their homes in the central
city of Camagüey, sources told CPJ.
CPJ. |
Suspected
Cuban agents say FBI broke promises about not prosecuting
Charges that
a husband and wife acted as agents for Cuba should
be dismissed because the FBI's case is built on
broken promises not to prosecute if the man cooperated
with the investigation, defense attorneys say.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Oil
may grease attitudes toward Cuba trade policy
The imminent
release of a new Bush administration status report
on U.S.-Cuban relations is re-energizing the anti-embargo
lobby, which believes the skyrocketing price of
oil could provide a winning angle in its fight to
relax trade sanctions on the communist island nation.
The Hill. |
133
Cuban Migrants Repatriated
The crew
of the Coast Guard Cutter Drummond repatriated 97
Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba today;
and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Metompkin
repatriated 36 Cuban migrants Tuesday.
Military.com. |
Morales
says Cuban doctors in Bolivia to stay
Bolivia's
four-month-old Socialist government says that not
only will Cuban doctors and teachers working here
in "solidarity" teams sent by Fidel Castro not leave
this Andean nation, but more will come.
Dominican Today. |
U.S.
radicals find haven in Havana
Illinois
native Charlie Hill is one of dozens of Americans
who fled to communist Cuba in the 1960s and '70s
to escape U.S. justice
Chicago Tribune. |
June
2
FROM
CUBA
Forbidden
dreams
Dionisio
Herrera Rodríguez is 55 years old. He's worked
as a bus driver for a quarter of a century. Dionisio
had a dream which they shattered.
PINAR DEL
RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Physician
who died in Venezuela buried
A 47-year-old
physician who had been sent to Venezuela to participate
in the government's Barrio Adentro program died
there after ingesting wood alcohol. He was buried
Sunday in his native San Antonio de las Vegas, south
of Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Police
raid shoemakers in Morón
Critics here
say this is part of the government's efforts to
stamp out private economic activity, which they
say hurts consumers, who end up having to buy shoes
of lesser quality from dollar stores.
MORON |
FROM
CUBA
Airport
officials arrested
Two high officials
at Havana's international airport were arrested
May 12 on charges of corruption and are being held
at State Security headquarters.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Mexico
returned 57 who sought asylum
Mexican immigration
authorities returned 57 Cubans last week who had
arrived by sea in recent months.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Six
arrested on charges of illegal exit from the country
Police, border
guards, and State Security officers in Las Tunas
and Granma provinces frustrated an attempt to leave
the country without authorization and arrested five
men and a woman.
CAMAGUEY |
The
Miami Herald
• Preparing for life after Castro's death
•
Analyst's new job: visualizing Cuba after Castro
dies
•
Bond weighed for alleged FIU spy couple
•
Dwindling presence of Chinese immigrants in Cuba
•
Alleged tormentor's gone, but not anguish of exiles
•
Southcom general: Cuba policy needs fresh look
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban dissident to complete fourth month on hunger
strike
•
Castro's death could spark refugee crisis
•
Peru's Humala accused of being manipulated by Cuban
and Venezuelan governments
•
Cuba cracks down on cigar smuggling
•
Havana's China immigrants keep traditions
•
El Duque beats Marlins in 1st Mets start
•
Unbeaten Contreras takes on Jays |
Cuban
Eye Care Programme in Jamaica continues despite
concerns
According
to local eye doctors, several persons have returned
to the island with serious problems.
Radiojamaica.com. |
Cuban-American
director risks punishment for movie
Cuban-American
filmmaker Luis Moro expressed his disdain for the
long-standing U.S. trade and travel restrictions
against Cuba in a very public way: he made a movie
there.
Daytona Beach
News-Journal. |
Cuban
National Assembly president to speak in Fort Lauderdale
via satellite
Ricardo Alarcón,
president of Cuba's National Assembly, will be the
guest speaker at the kickoff for the National Association
of Hispanic Journalists' convention this month in
Fort Lauderdale, organizers said Thursday.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Can
Cuba continue to dodge hurricane bullet?
"When the
soldiers knock, people have no choice but to obey,"
said Hector Nuñez, a Havana taxi driver whose basement
apartment was robbed when he evacuated three seasons
ago. "They'll never make me leave my home again."
NBC News. |
Cuba
sends doctors to Botswana
Minister
of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,
Mompati Merafhe, thanked Cuba for medical cooperation
that will soon bring 160 Cuban specialists to Botswana.
Mmegi. |
Cuba
says US denied visa to U.N. AIDS delegate
Cuba complained
on Friday that the United States denied a visa to
the head of its delegation to a U.N. AIDS conference,
but a U.S. spokesman said he applied too late
Agencies, UN. |
Castro's
Doctor Boasts His Client Will Live to 140
Ditching
the cigars but not the army fatigues, Cuban leader
Fidel Castro leads a life that guarantees he'll
live more than a century, according to his doctor.
ABC News. . |
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