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October
23
CubaNet
founder Rosa Berre passed away October 19
Overcoming
the illness that consumed her, Berre did not quit
her post until the very end. As late as last week,
she was still at her desk, sorting, editing, and
organizing articles and dispatches, despite her
increasing frailty and laborious breathing.
MIAMI
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FROM
CUBA
Holguín
pediatric hospital in critical condition
A member of
a women's movement here has drawn attention to what
she called the precarious condition of the Holguín
pediatric hospital.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Luis Esteban Espinosa |
FROM
CUBA
Authorities
refuse to issue exit permit for daughter of political
prisoner
Cuban migratory
authorities have refused to issue an exit visa for
a 12-year-old daughter of a political prisoner who
wanted to go live with an aunt in Perú.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Abel
Escobar Ramírez |
FROM
CUBA
Authorities
cover up dengue deaths
Municipal
authorities in Mayarí, Holguín province, have covered
up the dengue-caused deaths of a woman and her daughter,
according to medical sources who refused to be identified.
HOLGUIN, Jesús
Almaguer Pérez |
FROM
CUBA
State
Security threatens dissident
Dissident
activist Alberto Sigler, 45, said State Security
officer Terencio Camejo visited him at home October
8 and threatened to throw him in prison if he didn't
give up his work on behalf of human rights.
MATANZAS, Oscar
Sánchez Madan |
FROM
CUBA
Unemployed
threatened with prison
Cuban dissident
Yuniel Columbié said police have threatened to throw
him in prison for not having a steady job and for
visiting the home of his uncle Julio, a delegate
to the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Police
search home on suspicion of illegal enrichment
Police in
Batabanó searched the home of Héctor Ruiz October
12 for what they said was suspicion of illegal enrichment.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló |
FROM
CUBA
Two
in prison complain of medical neglect
Two imprisoned
independent journalists complain prison authorities
have ignored their need for medical attention, putting
their health in danger.
Abel Escobar
and Roberto Santana |
FROM
CUBA
Two exceed sentence while awaiting trial
Two men presumably
implicated in acts of vandalism have spent two years
and eight months in jail awaiting trial. In preliminary
documents in the case, the prosecution was asking
the court to impose a two year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Abel Escobar Ramírez |
The
Miami Herald
• Cuba's grip on Web is sophisticated
•
Cuban author Amir Valle: I'm not defecting
•
Bebo Valdés' piano power enrapturing
•
Turncoat analyst an effective spy for Cuba, book
says
•
Workers scam cash to cover basic costs
•
Top politicians, exiles plan for life after Fidel
•
Casamayor enjoying new reign as champion
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuba Replaces Transportation Minister
•
China, Cuba to launch biotech venture in China
•
US diplomat gives Castro's post-operative Cuba poor
prognosis
|
Cuba
quietly waits for change in leadership
The communist
island quietly carries on in the wake of a change
in leadership - but its fate is far from clear.
Houston Chronicle. |
Many
hope to strike it rich with Cuba's oil
Cuba has
become the latest country drawn into the frenzied
hunt for oil, hoping that a gusher in its Caribbean
fields will ease its energy dependence and revive
its economy.
The Philadelphia
Inquirer. |
Cuba
to go back to standard time
three years
of following the summer time schedule to save on
scarce electricity, Cuba's National Electrical Union
has decided to go back to the standard time schedule
from October-end, having ensured the generation
of the energy needed for the country.
New Kerala. |
Independent
Florida candidate for U.S. Senate visits Cuba
Independent
candidate Brian Moore traveled to Cuba on Monday
to underscore his opposition to U.S. trade sanctions
against the communist-run island after he was shut
out of a debate between top Democratic and Republican
candidates for one of the two Florida Senate seats.
IHT |
October
13
FROM
CUBA
To
be a street vendor in Cuba
"Agua" is
the cry that warns street vendors that a policeman
or inspector just hove into view. And being nabbed
by one of these usually entails the loss of one's
goods and money, and a fine that can go as high
as 1500 pesos.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana Rodríguez
|
FROM
CUBA
Free
education; a signal achievement of the Revolution
On September
4, the first day of the school year, a casual observer
could easily tell to what grade the incoming students
were going. Not by their apparent ages, but by the
state of their uniforms. Here's the code.
HOLGUIN, Karell
Infante Mantilla |
FROM
CUBA
More
than 30 days without running water
Residents
of the Mantilla neighborhood in Havana have gone
30 days without running water in their homes. Water
authorities blame the breakdown of a motor that
cut down pumping capacity, although they said whoever
was in charge of opening the valves shared the blame.
HAVANA, Amarilis
C. Rey |
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban exiles, dissidents sign plan
•
New task force to target Cuba ban offenders
•
Cuba waging war against dengue fever
•
Batista's widow dies at 82, 33 years after her husband
|
Yahoo
News
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Cuba's oldest man dies at age 126
•
Biltmore Hosts Gov., Cuban Democracy Summit
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Biltmore Hosts Gov., Cuban Democracy Summit
•
Japan names ambassadors to Finland, Ethiopia, Hungary,
Cuba
•
China, Cuba to cooperate in meteorology
•
Cuba's Fidel not dying: Raul Castro |
Castro
Reported to Have Cancer
U.S. intelligence
reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears
terminal, government officials tell TIME.
TIME. |
October
5
FROM
CUBA
Health
workers threatened if outbreak information leaks
Workers
at the Morón General Hospital in Ciego de Ávila
province say they have been warned that should
any of them leak any information about the current
outbreak of dengue fever they will lose their
jobs without any right to appeal.
MORON, Abel
Escobar
|
FROM
CUBA
Human
Rights Activist Harassed
Cuban human
rights activist William Cepero spent a night in
jail September 15 after being harassed by agents
of the Department of State Security.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez |
FROM
CUBA
Headaches
with the start of a school year
For Adela,
a housewife in the Cacocún municipality of Holguín
province, the fact that her two girls started school
has become a headache: her low salary does not stretch
to buy everything they need.
HOLGUIN, Marcelo
Jiménez |
FROM
CUBA
Townspeople
irked by housing decision
In spite of
a grass roots campaign by the people of Ranchuelo
to have housing authorities assign a house to a
woman who has a mental disorder, the house was granted
to an entity of the municipal government, irking
the population.
RANCHUELO, Félix
Reyes |
FROM
CUBA
Transportation
worsens in Santa Clara
Hundreds of
would-be passengers waiting for the few available
buses and horse-drawn carriages filling in attest
to the worsening crisis in transportation in Santa
Clara.
SANTA CLARA,
Alain Ramón Gómez |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist says firing was reprisal
Independent
journalist Julio Aleaga Pesant, who was recently
fired from his job charges the firing was in reprisal
for an article he wrote September 8 denouncing a
near epidemic of dengue fever in Cuba.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana |
FROM
CUBA
Resources
scarce in hospitals
Cuban hospitals
have become decrepit places with leaks and peeling
paint and so few resources that patients take their
own from home. Typically, patients take sheets,
towels, eating utensils and a bucket for water.
CAMAGÜEY, Marilyn
Díaz |
FROM
CUBA
Mother
arrested after complaining at pharmacy
María Rosales
was arrested, held for 24 hours, and fined 400 pesos
after protesting at a pharmacy that couldn't supply
the insulin her 6-year-old daughter needs to treat
her diabetes.
MORON, Tico
Morales |
FROM
CUBA
Trains
haven't run in a month
The trains
serving the route between Morón and Santa Clara
and points in between have not run since August
after the rains washed away some of the track.
MORON, Tico
Morales |
The
Miami Herald
• Minister says Castro will return to power
•
Newsroom philosophies differ
•
Cruz's 'Sisters' gets loving performance
•
Poll shows support for travel restrictions to Cuba
•
Cuban official: Embargo losses are more than $4
billion
•
Miami Cubans: Fidel era over
•
Herald publisher resigns
•
Cuban national's widow is granted U.S. residency
|
Yahoo
News
•
US opposes release of anti-Castro militant
•
B.C. girl forced to stay in Cuba, mom charged by
police says
•
Namibia: Namibians to Study in Cuba
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Putting
the pinch on tyrants' finances
In the U.S.
legal system, compensation for loss of life takes
precedence over property claims. In cases like Mr.
Ray's and Mr. Anderson's, in which tyrants commit
heinous abuses, the higher principle is clear.
The Miami Herald. |
Human
rights still under siege
The Cuban
government is nothing if not consistent. Faced once
again with a report in the U.N. Human Rights Council
condemning the way Cuba treats its citizens, the
government responded by denouncing Christine Chanet,
the French lawyer who prepared the report.
The Miami Herald. |
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