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April
29
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
ministry owes workers back pay since August
The Ministry of Construction
owes back pay to workers who rebuilt and refurbished
schools in Havana July and August last year and
officials claim they have no budget to settle.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
cattle rustlers becoming more brazen in Jaruco
Cattle rustlers are becoming
more brazen in Jaruco, a small community south
of Havana, taking 11 head of cattle in 39 days
and slaughtering them, in one case, very close
to the owner's home.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Six
Cuban families being kicked out of their houses
The Housing Institute has
declared illegal six houses in the Guanabacoa district
and ordered the six families living in them to return
to their towns or cities of origin.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
political prisoner Orlando Fundora placed in solitary
confinement
Political prisoner Orlando
Fundora has been placed in solitary confinement
for refusing to follow orders in the maximum security
Combinado del Este prison, according to his wife,
Yolanda Triana Estupiñán.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
The
Ladies in White meet monthly to read their husbands'
letters from prison
About a dozen wives of dissidents
imprisoned a year ago, known as the Ladies in
White for the color of the clothes they've adopted,
have met once a month to read out loud the letters
received from their husbands.
HAVANA
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Cuban Refugee Recovers At NAS Jax After Rescue
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Suspect in Corruption Lands in Mexico
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CREW Files FEC Compliant Against Martinez for
Senate and U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC
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The Miami
Herald
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Former exile criticizes Cuba dissidents, praises
Spanish election
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Blind
dissident freed on parole after getting a 4-year
sentence
A blind lawyer accused of
insubordination to Cuban President Fidel Castro
said Tuesday he was released on parole shortly after
being sentenced to four years in prison.
The
Miami Herald. |
Cuba:
Release Political Dissidents
Cuba's trial and sentencing
of a blind human rights lawyer and nine other dissidents
violates their rights to freedom of expression,
association and liberty, Human Rights Watch said
today. Human Rights Watch called for their immediate
and unconditional release.
Human
Rights Watch. |
Two
Activists and promoters of the Varela Project arrested
in Guantánamo
Two young human rights
activists and promoters of the Varela Project arrested
on April 19th for their civic activities against
the regime are being held "incommunicado", declared
Alberto Martínez Fernández, president of the Prisoner
and Former Political Prisoner's Club, also promoter
of The Varela Project during a telephone interview
with Agenda Cuba last Sunday, April 25.
Information
Bridge Cuba Miami. |
Dr.
Biscet's struggle
Miami Dade College is bestowing
an honorary degree on a man who can't be at Saturday's
graduation ceremony to accept it. Dr. Oscar Elías
Biscet is serving a 25-year prison term in Cuba
for nothing more than his opposition to the island's
totalitarian regime.
The
Miami Herald |
Condemning
the Cuban delegation
The 60th session of the U.N.
Commission on Human Rights, which recently ended
in Geneva, witnessed outrageous acts of intimidation,
threats and aggression on the part of the Cuban
delegation.
The
Miami Herald. |
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links
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Cuban
activist unrepentant
On his first day at home after more than two years
in prison, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, a blind
attorney and one of the leaders of Cuba's rural
opposition movement, called his long-awaited trial
a "circus" and said he would not renounce his
defense of human rights.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
Cuba deports
Mexican businessman
Carlos Ahumada, arrested in Cuba last month at
Mexico's request, was put on a charter flight
to Mexico City, Cuban officials said. Mr Ahumada
has been on the run since videos appeared in which
he was shown allegedly giving bribes to a politician
close to the mayor of Mexico City.
BBC,
UK.
|
Kerry's Cuban Problem
But what Kerry should be most worried about is
the Cuban vote. If he handles his Florida campaign
right, Kerry could win a much larger share of
this exile constituency than the paltry 18 percent
Gore won in 2000 and do as well as Clinton's 39
percent, which would make victory in the state
likely. But if he keeps going the way he has been,
Kerry will get fewer Cuban votes even than Gore
did and in all likelihood lose the state.
Ann
Louise Bardach / Slate Mahazine.
|
Compassionate
conservative policy toward Cuba
Want to help the poor and oppressed of Cuba without
aiding and abetting the Castro regime? There is
a way, and it starts with milk and medicine.
Town
Hall, DC.
|
Leader
touts 'more and better socialism'
Cuba's top labor leader said this year's May Day
celebration will be dedicated to showing the United
States that the island nation is working toward
"more and better socialism" -- not a transition
to U.S.-style democracy.
CNN.
|
Documentary
revisits 7 from Cuban exodus
Seven years later, the same Spanish TV program
tracked down the same balseros now living here
and updated their earlier reports for "Balseros,"
the Oscar-nominated documentary showing tonight
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union
Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, WI.
|
April
26
FROM
CUBA
Unexplained
railway incidents could endanger trains in Cuba
In the last ten days several
unexplained incidents have been reported by passengers
and crew of the Morón-Havana rail line that could
be endangering the trains.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Government
weekly in Cuba acknowledges public apathy for
the first time
In what some observers called
a first, the Cuban government weekly La Vanguardia
acknowledged a general lack of interest on the
part of the population toward participation in
Revolutionary organizations.
CIEGO
DE ÁVILA
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'Brothers' recalled during dedication
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Miami station fined for its Castro prank
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Report: U.S. Fugitive Relaxing in Cuba
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Suit Filed Over Arrests After Elian Raid
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Cuba
dissidents 'in closed trial"
Ten activists have been put
on trial behind closed doors in Cuba, a local human
rights group says.
BBC
News. UK |
Message
from political prisoners at Combinado de Guantánamo
Cuban dissidents gave Oliver
Stone's second documentary on Fidel Castro Alberto
Martínez Fernández, president of the club of Prisoners
and Former Political Prisoners in Guantánamo and
promoter of the Varela Project, revealed a message
given to him by a group of the 75 peaceful oppositionists
tried summarily by the Castro regime in 2003.
The
Information Bridge Cuba Miami |
Cuban
dissidents give Oliver Stone bad reviews
Cuban dissidents gave Oliver
Stone's second documentary on Fidel Castro bad reviews
on Friday, saying it failed to present an objective
view, said a Reuters dispatch from Havana.
Agencies,
MIAMI |
In
Cuba, books can lead to prison time
There are certain things about
democracy in the United States that we sometimes
take for granted - things as simple as going to
the library and checking out a book about any subject
we are interested in.
Maria
Elena Salinas. San Antonio Express-News |
Oliver
Stone's Twist
"I do maintain that if
it were a Stalinist state … they certainly do a
great job of concealing it".
Ann
Louise Bardach. Slate Magazine |
Cuban
chicken deal good news for Alabama
It's time we dropped more
trade embargoes placed against Cuba during the Cold
War with the old Soviet Union.
The
Decatur Daily, AL |
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links
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Dance
Cuba Documentary Tracks Washington Ballet's Unprecedented
Visit to Cuba
One Washington Ballet dancer, Laura Urgelles,
came from Cuba but was granted political asylum
in the United States. She did not accompany the
troupe to Havana, because the Cuban authorities
did not grant her a visa..
Voice
of America, DC.
|
Cuba
falls short in effort to embarrass U.S. on human
rights
When it comes to being accused of keeping political
prisoners incommunicado and denying them access
to international human-rights monitors, Cuba is
generally in the hot seat.
Orlando
Sentinel, FL.
|
Excitement
builds for course in Cuba
As May closes in, many college students are preparing
for warmer, study-free days. Call it "summer vacation."
Maria R. Harvey's plans for the month involve
a trip to an exotic Caribbean island 90 miles
off the southern coast of Florida. Call it "Cuba."
The
Saginaw News, MI.
|
Marian
College professor will give talk about life in
Cuba
Marian College professor Shane Boeder will give
a presentation, "Cuba: Helping Hands Defy U.S.
Embargo," at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27 at
Marian's Hornung Student Center's Giddings & Lewis
Lounge, 45 S. National Ave.
Fond
du Lac Reporter, WI.
|
Close,
but No Cigar on Cuba
I was surprised at the naivete of Courtland Milloy's
April 19 column, "Cuba's Desire for Equality Ignores
Obvious." He seems to think that racial issues
would be dealt with "if only Fidel knew" what
effect they have on the future of Cuba.
The
Washington Post, DC.
|
Cuba
remembered
In the May issue of National Geographic Magazine,
photographer Jim Richardson's story begins: "Every
time I headed back to Cuba, I was afraid the town
would be gone."
Salina
Journal, KS.
|
'I've
committed many sins'
So it might not have been judicious to accept
chocolates from Saddam, but George Galloway is
happy to discuss swimming with Castro, his new
party's chances in the Euro elections - and his
own on Judgment Day.
The
Guardian, UK.
|
Mediterranean
Cuba? No thanks
As Cyprus prepares to vote on a UN plan today,
one thought comes to mind. It is strange how northern
Cyprus and Cuba have much in common. Both the
internationally unrecognized Turkish statelet
in the eastern Mediterranean and the globally
isolated Communist holdover in the Caribbean are
strategically positioned island states that have
been shunned by many in the outside world for
decades. Prisons in the sun, some call them.
Daily
Star, Lebanon.
|
Cuban
Contreras is smoked
Jose Contreras pitched perfectly awful last night.
Perfect for the Red Sox [stats, schedule]' interests,
awful for the Yankees. "Of all my outings, this
is the worst I've felt after one because aside
from the fact I usually work hard, I worked extra
hard and prepared myself,'' said Contreras, who
coughed up five runs, all earned, in only 3 innings
in the Yankees' 11-2 loss to the Red Sox last
night.
Boston
Herald, MA.
|
One
Cuba, Two Realities
Lance Johnson, The Day's managing editor, traveled
with other members of the Associated Press Managing
Editors executive committee on a fact-finding
mission to Mexico City and Havana. The following
article is based on travels in Cuba and numerous
interviews with Cuban and American officials and
Cuban dissidents.
The
Day, CT.
|
April
23
FROM
CUBA
Vitamins
are hard to find in Havana pharmacies
For the last two months,
two vitamin supplements that used to be widely
available in pharmacies have become hard to find.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
children besiege tourists despite police efforts
A substantial number of
children here besiege tourists that go through
the city, lately using their bicycles to stay
one step ahead of police whose job it is to safeguard
those very tourists.
MORÓN
|
FROM
CUBA
Political
organizations said to encourage beatings of Cuban
dissidents
Political organizations affiliated
with the government are said to be encouraging their
members to beat any dissidents speaking up about
human rights or the Varela project, a dissident
initiative asking for more open government.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Police
carry out sweeps in several areas in Cuba
Some 60 police officers
and paramilitary brigades carried out a sweep
in the Cayo Hueso neighborhood of Havana.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
pedicab drivers arrested
Three pedicab drivers were
arrested and fined 500 pesos for transporting
foreign tourists in their vehicles.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Drought
in western Cuba: no yams to propitiate the gods
Enrique is country folk
from Dimas, in the westernmost end of the island,
an area that has been suffering from drought for
over a year now.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
minister said eggs will be available next month
Eggs, an important part of
Cubans' diets, have been in short supply for months
now, reaching prices of up to three pesos in the
black market and 12 cents in the dollar stores when
consumers can find them.
HAVANA |
Cuba:
Trial Violates Dissidents' Right to Free Expression
Cuba's planned trial of a
blind human rights lawyer, along with nine other
dissidents and independent journalists, on charges
of "disrespect for authority" demonstrates a continuing
pattern of political repression, Human Rights Watch
said today. Human Rights Watch has learned that
the trial of the 10 defendants is scheduled to be
held on Tuesday, April 27.
Human
Rights Watch |
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Herald
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Funds raised for four convicted in Panama
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6 Cubans who hijacked jet receive long prison
terms
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Panama sentences dismay Miami exiles
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Bridge Cuba Miami
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Cruz Delia Aguilar Moras' statement after her
husband's temporary release from prison
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State company and dollar store robbed in Havana
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Political Prisoners In a Hunger Strike At Prison
Ceramica Roja In Camaguey
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Wife of Roberto de Miranda in guarded condition
in the hospital Hermanos Almejeiras
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Present condition of political prisoner Jorge
Olivera Castillo
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Lt.
Gov. Dubie recounts recent trip to Cuba
Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie just
returned from a trade mission to Cuba, and he's
already planning his next trip - this time with
100 Vermont heifers.
The
Times Argus, Vermont |
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links
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US court
sentences Cuba hijackers
A US court has sentenced six Cuban men to prison
terms of 20 years or more following their convictions
for hijacking a plane from Cuba to the US.
BBC
News, UK.
|
Debating
policy toward Cuba
The compassionate conservative way is to push
for openings that will help the poor without bulwarking
the Castro regime: The provision of material help
should work alongside the future liberation of
Cuba, not run counter to that hope.
Town
Hall, DC.
|
Cuba comes alive
in one-day photo exhibit
Cuba, a land so close to the United States yet
so far away, will be the focus of an exclusive,
one-day show of photographic works by Roberto
Salas, who along with his father Osvaldo has chronicled
Cuba from Castro to Che to the present day.
Sacramento
State University, CA.
|
Cuban
odyssey
For more than 20 years, saxophonist Jane Bunnett
has immersed herself in the rhythms and folklore
of Cuba.
Kansas.com,
KS.
|
Vermont
couple faces fines for Cuba trip
A retired couple from Strafford, Vermont is facing
$55,000 in fines for trips to Cuba they made while
writing a travel book for bicyclists.
Capital
News 9, NY.
|
President
Bush may reduce amount of money families can send
to Cuba
The Bush administration is considering making
significant cuts in the amount of money Americans
are allowed to send to family and others in Cuba,
according to sources familiar with the discussions
of the president's Commission for Assistance to
a Free Cuba.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
Mugabe,
Castro to SA?
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his Cuban
counterpart Fidel Castro may be among the guests
to celebrate South Africa's ten years of democracy
next week.
News24.com,
SA.
|
'Dance
Cuba': Politics and Pirouettes
When he led the Washington Ballet to Cuba for
a groundbreaking string of performances in 2000,
Artistic Director Septime Webre was carrying a
load of personal as well as professional baggage.
As "Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight," a documentary
about the trip, makes clear, it was a highly charged
adventure.
The
Washington Post .
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Alejandro
Sanz Finds His Voice
There are also songs with a socially conscious
edge not previously evident in Sanz's work, including
the anguished protest of "Sandy a Orilla do Mundo
(Sandy at the Edge of the Earth)," about an oil
spill that spoiled Spain's Costa de la Muerte
in 2002, and the melancholy "Labana" (a slang
name for Cuba's capital), which chronicles the
great risks taken by common folk trying to escape
Cuba's political oppression in rickety vessels
aimed at Florida.
The
Washington Post.
|
God's
'amazing grace' at work in Cuba convention
The Florida Baptist Convention has been faithful
partners with Haitian Baptists since 1995 and
Cuban Baptists since 1996. Our participation in
these countries was encouraged and supported by
their fellow countrymen who are members of the
235 Hispanic and 261 Haitian congregations affiliated
with the Florida Baptist State Convention.
Florida
Baptist Witness.
|
April
21
FROM
CUBA
Vandalism
directed at Cuban dissident's home
Someone pelted the home
of Cuban dissident Henry Saumel with jars of human
excrement during the nights of April 15 and 16.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
women must register to be able to buy sanitary
pads
Women in Villa Clara province
must have registered by April 16 to be allowed
to buy their allotment of sanitary pads seven
times a year, according to an announcement by
CMHW, provincial radio net.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
dissident arrested at work
Dissident Augusto Hernández
was arrested April 2 at his workplace because
of his activities in opposition to the government.
HOLGUÍN
|
FROM
CUBA
Trial
against blind lawyer González Leiva and fellow
activists
ten activists of the Cuban
Foundation of Human Rights, incarcerated since
March 4, 2002, will be brought to trial any time
after next week .
HAVANA
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4 Cuban exiles convicted in plot to murder Castro
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High court to decide fate of refugee
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Miami Cop Has Million-Dollar Cuban Baseball Collection
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Canada's Fed Cup team opens qualifying tournament
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Making
the Law in Cuba
On June 6, 1898, in one of the first significant
battles of the Spanish-American War, the United
States Navy cruiser Marblehead entered Guantánamo
Bay, Cuba, and repelled the Spanish artillery
mounted on the hills overlooking the bay. Four
days later a battalion of American marines arrived,
inaugurating the American occupation that has
continued to this day.
The
New York Times (sub).
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Cuba's
Desire For Equality Ignores ObviouS
Whenever Fidel Castro, 78, announces a new program
to advance the cause of social justice, his comrades
in this tropical socialist republic lavish him
with praise. Even when the inner workings of his
central government muck up and fail to deliver,
there is no public criticism of the leader --
just a hopeful refrain from the faithful that
the problem would be fixed "if only Fidel knew."
The
Washington Post.
|
A
Better View Of Our Neighbor To the South
I was here as part of a research project, sponsored
by the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies
based at Delaware State University, to examine
the influence of Africans in the Americas.
The
Washington Post.
|
Cuba
inspires artist
Leopoldo Castano of Olympia captured Cuba on film
during a trip to Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad
in 2003. His work will be on display during the
upcoming Arts Walk.
The
Olympian, WA.
|
April
19
FROM
CUBA
High-ranking
Cuban government officials arrested in corruption
sweep
At least 26 persons, including
the Provincial and the Economic Directors of the
Internal Commerce Ministry, were arrested March
20 in Camagüey on suspicion of corruption by the
Department of State Security.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Police
take their time to investigate robbery at PhysEd
school in Cuba
Monday at 2:00 p.m. employees
of the Manuel Fajardo PhysEd school were still
waiting for police to come investigate a robbery
that took place between last Saturday and Sunday.
HAVANA
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During unrest, Cuban doctors treated Haiti's many
wounds
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Other view of Cuba base: a migrant promised land
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Cuba's human rights record censured; activist
punched
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A
slap on the wrist for Cuban regime
The Theater of the Absurd
continues in Geneva. A resolution that ''laments''
the Cuban regime's brutal repression narrowly gained
approval yesterday from the United Nations Human
Rights Commission. It is ludicrous that this weak
resolution won passage by only one vote after a
year in which the regime.
The
Miami Herald. |
Criminal
threatens to kill political prisoner
According to the note
received from El Corojo prison in Guantanamo, political
prisoner Alberto Martinez Fernandez receives threats
from a convicted criminal. The man threatens to
kill him if Martinez continues to speak against
Fidel Castro or about revolution during the walk
in the prison courtyard.
Prima News, Russia. |
Media
silent over imprisoned Cuban doctors
The WMA is urging its
80 national medical association members to write
to their governments and to the European Commission
requesting them to put pressure on the Cuban government
to disclose information about what, if any, trials
the six are facing and the exact nature of their
sentences, and to ask for their fair and humane
treatment in prison.
NewsMax.com
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UN
must condemn Cuba for beating of NGO representative
The beating by Cuban
officials of a member of a nongovernmental organization
at the United Nations in Geneva should be considered
a criminal act for which the Cuban government
must be censured, Freedom House said today.
Freedom House
|
World's
worst regimes unveiled
Freedom House released
its annual list of the world's most repressive
nations before the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights. Five of the fifteen countries are
members of the UN body, which is charged with
monitoring and condemning human rights violations.
World's
worst regimes unveiled Freedom House
|
Commission
adopts measures on situations in Cuba
The Commission on Human Rights
acted on a series of draft resolutions on country-specific
situations this afternoon, approving by roll-call
vote measures criticizing human rights matters in
Cuba, Turkmenistan, the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, and Belarus.
Commission
on Human Rights. |
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links
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Cuban
delegate 'sucker-punches' rights activist
A Cuban delegate felled anti-Castro activist Frank
Calzon with a sucker punch in Geneva yesterday
during a fracas after the U.N. Human Rights Commission
decided by a single vote to censure the communist
regime for its human rights record.
The
Washington Times.
|
U.N.
Vote Lost On Cuba
A vote castigating Cuba's government for terrible
rights abuses by a U.N. human rights body should
have been a no-brainer. But this is Cuba we're
talking about, and there are no no-brainers when
it comes to votes on Cuba at the U.N. commission.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel.
|
Cuba spends
$100m on US food
The US says much of the produce is destined for
the tourist market The Cuban government has agreed
to buy more than $100m worth of American food
and agricultural produce.
BBC,
UK.
|
Miami
man builds vast Cuban baseball memorabilia collection
A 1935 Havana baseball team jersey worn in a game.
A payroll detailing how a young Tommy Lasorda
made about $1,400 for four months of pitching
in the Cuban Professional League. A silver coffee
pot given to Leo Cardenas for the 1968 All-Star
Game. Sandy Amoros' spikes.
San
Jose Mercury News, CA.
|
Cuba slams
US over Guantanamo
Hundreds of suspects are being held at Guantanamo
Bay At the UN Human Rights Commission meeting
in Geneva, the Cuban delegation has tabled a resolution
on arbitrary detentions in Guantanamo Bay.
BBC,
UK.
|
U.N.
panel criticizes Cuba over freedoms
The U.N. human rights commission narrowly passed
a resolution Thursday criticizing a lack of basic
freedoms in Cuba and urging the socialist government
to allow international observers to inspect conditions
on the island.
The
Dallas Morning News.
|
Stone
puts tough questions to Castro for documentary
A select few Cubans witnessed the unthinkable
Wednesday night: American filmmaker Oliver Stone
shone a bright light in Fidel Castro's face and
grilled the Cuban leader.
The
Dallas Morning News.
|
U.S. firms peddle their
wares in Cuba
The Cuban government can't get enough of American
farm products. This week 400 U.S. farmers and
food traders arrived in Havana to peddle their
wares.
MSNBC
News.
|
Doing
Business With Havana
It used to be called "trading with the enemy"
and still is, in some quarters. But a growing
number of U.S. businessmen, like Florida rancher
John Parke Wright IV, say they're selling to their
"amigos Cubanos."
CBS
News.
|
April
16
FROM
CUBA
Peaceful
ceremony classified as terrorist act by policea
Agents of the Department
of State Security told a group of dissidents planning
a quiet ceremony for April 11 in commemoration
of three youths executed by the government last
year that the ceremony would be considered a "terrorist
act" and that participants would be punished accordingly.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
independent journalist evicted for the third time
Independent journalist Richard
Roselló, 39, was evicted for the third time as
a result of a campaign waged against him by State
Security operatives, he said.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Municipal
water system cannot deliver in Santa Clara
The city of Santa Clara, capital
of central Villa Clara province, has experienced
serious shortages of water for more than three weeks
now as the municipal water works tries to cope with
drought and breakdowns in the system.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Swedish
tourist assaulted on Havana's waterfront boulevard
Three prostitutes and their
pimp assaulted a Swedish tourist on Havana's fashionable
Malecón, the city's waterfront boulevard, and
took his wallet late at night on April 10. Police
apprehended the four and recovered the wallet
a short while later.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Secondary
school roof collapses in Havanad
The roof over two classrooms
in a recently-refurbished secondary school collapsed
over the weekend, probably as a result of a rain
storm.
HAVANA
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Cuba Frees One of 75 Dissidents Jailed
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Cuba to seek support in UN to censure US over
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Castro tells US filmmaker Stone he has no intention
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Miami pays $90,000 to Los Van Van promoter to
settle legal case
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Latest
power struggle in Cuba: Fidel vs. Raul?
Here's the latest theory about
the power struggle taking place inside Cuba: It's
not between President Fidel Castro and the dissidents,
nor between modernizers and conservatives within
the ruling Communist Party. It's between Fidel and
his brother Raúl.
Andres
Oppenheimer, The Miami Herald. |
A
glimpse at Castro's delusions, Stone's imagination
Before seeing Looking for
Fidel, I was certain that I'd be angry at Oliver
Stone. Afterward, I was flushed with anger -- but
at Fidel Castro. Marifeli
Perez-Stable, The Miami Herald. |
April
14
FROM
CUBA
Some
residents of provincial town forbidden from traveling
to Havana
Local authorities have forbidden
certain residents of the town of Amancio Rodríguez,
in Cuba's eastern province of Las Tunas, from
traveling to Havana.
HAVANA
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CUBA
Twenty
arrested in eastern Cuba for smuggling beef
About 20 people were arrested
April 5 and 6 in raids directed against illegal
butchers and distributors of beef cattle in the
municipality of San Cristóbal in Pinar del Río
province.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
private drivers fill in for non-existent public
transportation
Transportation between the
towns of López Peña and San Cristóbal, in Pinar
del Río province, relies on the drivers of private
trucks because public transportation is not available.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
The
Passion of the Christ hot item in Havana video
rentals
Mel Gibson's most recent
movie, The Passion of the Christ, is the hot item
in Havana's clandestine video rental houses.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
U.S.
editors meet with Cuban independent journalists
Eleven editors from the
Associated Press news service met with three Cuban
independent journalists in Havana.
HAVANA
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Information
Bridge Cuba Miami
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Political party unified after a two year division
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A fast in solidarity with the political prisoners
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The Miami Herald
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Selling the farm? Americans flock to Cuba talks
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Migrants' boat is sold on eBay
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Vote on U.N. human rights resolution on Cuba nears
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Miami man is top Bush campaigner
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Yahoo! News
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Cuba Agrees to Buy $13M in Food From U.S.
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Bush, Fox, discuss UN rights meeting
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HBO to air Oliver Stone's revamped documentary
on Castro
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Cuba's
businesses feel pinch as dollar is squeezed from
economy
For years, Cuba's cash-starved businesses and
state-run agencies have been allowed to develop
specialities far outside their mandates to stay
afloat. This practice appears to be ending.
Financial
Times, UK.
|
Old
Havana restoring hidden treasured murals
Painstakingly recovered from under 27 layers of
paint, the colonial-era murals at 12 Tacon St.
are known to local art historians as the "Sistine
Chapel of Old Havana." Located halfway between
Old Havana's cathedral and the port, the colorful
floor-to-ceiling murals offer a window into the
city's past.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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Castro
Stays Confident, Even Fierce, in His Twilight
When Mr. Stone asks if a person who protested
would be in trouble, Mr. Castro suddenly drops
the virtuous indignation and looks at his guest
through narrowed eyes. "Hombre," he says, "he
is sentenced to 20 years in prison." And then
he smiles, a crafty, wizened grin that signals
that he is in the final throes of his tenure as
president-for-life.
NY
Times.
|
Cuba
May Buy South Dakota Products
Farm leaders say Cuba wants to buy at least ten
million dollars of agricultural products from
South Dakota. South Dakota Value-Added Agricultural
Center President Gary Duffy says making that happen
will take persistence and patience.
KELOLAND,
United States.
|
Feds take
on Cuban 'godfather'
A former Cuban policeman, who was captured by
Fidel Castro's soldiers at the Bay of Pigs, is
facing trial in Florida accused of heading a multi-million
dollar organised crime network known as The Corporation.
But is Jose Miguel Battle Snr really El Padrino
(The Godfather) or just a sick old man?
BBC,
UK.
|
A
stone for Castro
Only a handful of people are likely to remember
this, but in the late 1950s, about the time Cuban
revolutionary Fidel Castro embraced the Soviet
Union and became the bane of U.S. presidents,
a novelty song about him was a minor hit. A chorus
that went something like "Fee-del, Feeee-del,
why don't you go back to Oriente Province, go
back to the hills?" occasionally would be interrupted
for spoken-word zingers such as "When poor Fidel
was only nine, he lost his mother - man, what
a crap game that was!"
Newsday.
|
April
12
FROM
CUBA
Bus
receipts and the new inspectors
Sometimes
a government decision uncovers a situation that
was otherwise hiding in plain view. Such was the
case of the 80 new inspectors that, the announcement
said, would begin monitoring the payment of the
appropriate fares on city buses starting April
1.
HAVANA
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Cuban Band's Visas Denied Before U.S. Tour
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Salem plastic surgeon planning on taking supplies
to Cuba
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Cuba ready to buy from South Dakota, farm leaders
say
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Cuba's
Rastas: the religious, the philosophical and those
making a fashion statement
Rastas
neither cut their hair nor comb it, based on an
interpretation of the Bible, nor do they eat meat
or consume drugs - legal or illegal - with the exception
of marijuana, which they consider sacred.
The
Jamaica Observer. |
Letter
sent from Cuba on behalf of the right to life of
the peaceful dissident Leonardo Miguel Bruzón Ávila
Translation
of a letter sent from Cuba to Sylvia G. Iriondo,
President of M.A.R. for Cuba and to Luis Zúñiga,
Director of the Cuban Liberty Council. This letter
is to be presented to the United Nations Human Rights
High Commissioner during the 60th Session of the
United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva,
Switzerland.
M.A.R.
for Cuba. |
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links
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Old
Havana restores historic murals hidden under paint
Painstakingly recovered from under 27 layers of
paint, the colonial-era murals at No. 12 Tacon
St. are known to local art historians as the "Sistine
Chapel of Old Havana." .
Orlando
Sentinel (subscription), FL.
|
A
sailing voyage to Cuba requires provisions and
planning
The departure date for a sailing trip to Cuba
that has been in the planning stages for months
is approaching with increased speed. When I first
thought of this adventure, at least six months
ago, the specific date in April was a long, long
way off.
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, FL.
|
Photos
reveal friendship with Hemingway
In the spring of 1933, Ernest Hemingway had escaped
the Great Depression on a borrowed boat to Cuba,
where he fished, drank and gathered material for
his next novel, "To Have and Have Not." With him
for three weeks in the bars and bistros was a
young Walker Evans, who would soon become known
as one of the great American photographers of
the 20th century.
The
News-Press, FL.
|
Sierra Leone
And Cuba Come Together
The Federal Republic of Sierra Leone and the Republic
of Cuba yesterday, April 7th, 2004 signed an agreement
to strengthen the friendly relationships existing
between the two countries.
AllAfrica.com,
Africa.
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Congressman,
farm leaders head to Havana
Congressman Butch Otter and leaders of a half
dozen farm groups head for Cuba today for a week-long
mission to sell Idaho commodities. Otter and representatives
of the state's bean, dairy, grain, potato and
lentil industries will meet in Havana with Foreign
Minister Felipe Perez and Pedro Alvarez, president
of the Cuban food important company, Alimport.
KTVB
(subscription), ID.
|
Cuba, Mexico and the
UN vote on human rights
Cuban officials persist in their recurrent suppression
of truth regarding abuses of human rights committed
by the Communist government led by Fidel Castro.
This as the annual April vote on a resolution
- sponsored this year by Honduras - before the
Geneva-based United Nations Commission on Human
Rights, condemning human rights practices on the
island, approaches.
Mexidata.info,
United States.
|
Cubans
risk prison for a steak
Cattle graze along the vast grasslands and gentle
hills of eastern Cuba, but Giorgina Brooks cannot
remember the last time she had a good steak. "It's
been years and years," said Brooks, 47, as she
gazed at a few nearby cattle munching on grass.
Billings
Gazette, MT.
|
April
9
Dissident
in a coma after hunger strike
A Cuban
human rights activist, jailed for hatching plans
to honor the late Brothers to the Rescue fliers,
has lapsed into a coma after a prolonged hunger
strike, according to sources monitoring his health.
The
Miami Herald |
FROM
CUBA
Tourist
attraction neglected by administrators
"They
not only mistreat the employees; they are also
cheating the tourists of a quality experience,"
said an employee of the La Redonda lake tourist
attraction.
HAVANA
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Mother of Cuba Hijacker Mourns Son
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Two Cuban Migrants Acquitted of Assault
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April
8
FROM
CUBA
Fines
in Cuba more lucrative for city than issuing licenses
In
spite of the scarcity of licensed pedicabs, the
municipal government in Morón refuses to grant
would-be entrepreneurs licenses to operate them.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Police
raid self-employed vendors in Santa Clara, Cuba
A
number of police and price inspectors made a sweep
directed against self-employed vendors offering
their wares on the periphery of the No. 2 Agricultural
Market in Santa Clara April 1, levying fines on
some and dispersing them.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Humiliating
experience for passenger on ferry in Havana
A passenger
on the ferry serving the route between the Isle
of Youth and the main island complained she received
humiliating treatment from the crew during a crossing
March 28.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Pneumonia
in Havana on the increase in March and April
An
increasing number of cases of pneumonia have been
reported in Havana during March and April, mostly
among children.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Roaches
proliferate in Havana
Cockroaches
are proliferating in several Havana municipalities
and the Public Health department doesn't seem
capable of solving the problem.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Private
vendors reappear in Cuban agricultural markets
In
what appears to be a 180 degree turnaround in
government policy toward them, private vendors
started showing up again in the agricultural markets
April 1.
HAVANA
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The Miami Herald
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Officer overreacted, rafter testifies
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Yahoo! News
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Cuban speaker defends crakdown of dissidents to
American editors
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Oliver Stone Goes 'Looking for Fidel'
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Hospital Releases Last Of 3 Surviving Migrants |
U.S.
knew of Cuba bioweapons effort
The
United States suspected for some time that Cuba
was trying to develop a bioweapons capacity, but
did not go public with the allegations in part because
of doubts about the intelligence now blamed on a
Cuban spy in the Defense Department, U.S. officials
tell United Press International.
The
Washinton Times |
One
year later, CPJ renews calls for release of Cuban
journalists
The
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) renews its
call for the Cuban government to release the 29
independent journalists sentenced to lengthy prison
terms last April 7.
Committee
to Protect Journalists. |
External
links
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Cuba
divides Chilean ruling coalition
During a heated debate with visitors dislodged
from the galleries the initiative was presented
by the junior partner of the ruling coalition,
Christina Democrats and the two main Conservative
opposition parties.
Marco
Press.
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Present
Proof On Bio-Weapons
It's time for Bolton to speak candidly, either
in a public setting or behind closed doors. If
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice can
testify before Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks,
surely John Bolton should be delineating in greater
detail the bio-threat he sees in the Caribbean.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
April
5
FROM
CUBA
Anti-government
slogans pop up again in Cuba
Anti-government
graffiti showed up a scant two hours after similar
slogans had been erased from the lobby of a building
in the Vedado section of Havana.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Water scarce
in areas of Havana
Several
areas of Havana have seen water become more scarce
for at least a month.
HAVANA
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Martha Beatriz
Roque Cabello refuses to receive visits and food
Maria
de los Angeles Falcon Cabello, niece of Martha Beatriz,
informed us during a telephone conversation on this
date, that when she arrived at Carlos J. Finlay
today for her weekly visit to her aunt, she was
informed by the officer in charge that Martha Beatriz
refuses to receive any visits or food.
M.A.R.
por Cuba |
The Miami Herald
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U.S.-based flying clinic ends eye visit to Cuba
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Editorial:
Don't forget plight of Cuban dissidents
Express-News
readers will perhaps recognize the name Claudia
Márquez Linares, a freelance journalist in Cuba
who has written occasional columns about the plight
of her husband, one of 75 dissidents imprisoned
by the Fidel Castro regime last year.
San
Antonio Express-News. |
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Congressman
sets second trip to Havana
Republican Congressman Butch Otter is headed back
to Cuba this month to cash in on the island's
demand for agricultural products. The five-day
trade mission beginning next Monday includes representatives
of the state's bean, dairy, grain, potato and
lentil industries.
KBCI
2, IH.
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Once
scorned, tattoos are now the rage
When Che Alejandro got his first tattoo with a
sewing needle 12 years ago his parents were so
angry they threw him out of the house. Ink on
skin was synonymous with prison life and "anti-social"
behavior; too much rock 'n' roll, too little revolution.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
The
'Crimes' of the Jailed Cuban Librarians
We hope that librarians everywhere read "Mr.
Castro's Prisoners"and write the United Nations
Human Rights Commission not only to ask that the
United Nations condemn the human rights abuses
in Cuba but also explicitly to call for the immediate
release of the 75 dissidents rounded up in the
March 2003 crackdown. .
The
New York Times.
|
Cuba
tests Jews' faith
Growing up in Cuba, they were typical Jewish kids.
But as the years rolled by and they became men,
one abandoned his faith for the sake of revolution
while the other fought to save his Jewish community
from the ravages of change.
The
Dallas Morning News.
|
Union
City man makes documentary about Cuban tradition
Set to the sounds of Rumba beats reminiscent of
its street corner glory days in old Havana, Union
City-raised Juan Carlos Rojas captures this aspect
of his Cuban heritage in a 20 minute documentary
entitled Rumbo a la Rumba.
The
Hudson Reporter, NJ.
|
Boxers Prepare
for Cuba Trip
Uganada's Olympic-bound boxers will, in a trip
to Cuba in July, have an opportunity of getting
closer to the lucrative prizes set by tycoon Michael
Ezra for excellence at the Athens Games.
AllAFrica.com.
|
Cuban
Connection
One of the most striking photographs in Pamela
Thompson's exhibit, "Cuba on the Wall," which
opens tonight in Anchorage, is a picture of Thompson
herself. She's somewhere in the town of Trinidad,
in the middle of Cuba's southern coast, beating
the heck out of a bongo drum. Backward ball cap.
Eyes closed. In the moment.
Anchorage
Daily News.
|
Drama
out of a crisis
It was a play about the Beatles that took me into
the heart of Havana. Four years ago, in a park to
the west of the city, Fidel Castro unveiled a statue
of John Lennon. At the foot of the fab one's feet
is inscribed: 'People say I'm a dreamer.' Castro
looked down, mouthed the words, and nodded: 'Me,
too.'
The
Observer, UK. |
April
2
FROM
CUBA
Authorities
to prosecute dog fights
Authorities
here have announced they will prosecute illegal
dog fights that have proliferated for years under
the shadow of official indifference.
HAVANA
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Honduras to Sponsor Resolution on Cuba's Human
Rights Situation
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Cuba opens doors to journalists in campaign to
polish human rights image
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Migrant Released From Hospital
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The Miami Herald
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Cuban bishop celebrates 25 years at Mass
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Reporters Without
Borders Canada presents a public conference with
Alina Fernandez
While
Cuba is one of the most popular tourist destinations
for Quebecers and Canadians, Reporters Without Borders
Canada wants to remind people that Cuba is also
the world's biggest prison for journalists.
Canada
Newswire. |
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links
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Another
Survivor Released; Body Found Believed Migrant
William Villavicencio Perez, 31, is expected to
be released from Holy Cross Hospital Thursday.
Carlos Bringier Hernandez, 38, was released Monday.
Only Milena Gonzalez remains hospitalized.
Local10.com,
FL.
|
Cuba
allows reporters into two prison hospitals
Although two jailed dissidents, Orlando Fundora
and Roberto de Miranda, had recently been treated
in the hospital's intensive care unit, they were
transferred out, officials said. Fundora was still
at the hospital in another unit, and de Miranda
was transferred to a medical ward at another prison,
officials said. Reporters did not have access
Wednesday to any jailed dissidents or to inmates
outside the medical centers.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
Exiles
worry they help Castro by sending cash to Cuban
relatives
América Puig does not own a home or expensive
clothing, and the closest thing she has ever come
to a vacation is a weekend road trip across Alligator
Alley. The daycare worker, 52, saves every extra
penny for something closer to her heart: sending
cash and gifts to her twin sister in Havana, Rita
María, whom she has not seen in seven years.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
Foreign
Minister On Cuba Official Visit
Angolan Foreign minister João Bernardo de Miranda
will on Thursday start a three-day official visit
to the Republic of Cuba. A note from the Department
of Information and Documentation of the Foreign
Ministry released today here states that the head
of the Angolan diplomacy will start common interest
conversations with local authorities, which could
lead to the signing of political and diplomatic
cooperation agreements.
Angola
Press.
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Inside
Castro's Prisons
For five hours on Wednesday, uniformed Interior
Ministry officers rapidly ushered a bus load of
media through the freshly-painted rooms and halls
reeking of disinfectant. Intensive care units
were outfitted with air conditioners and freshly
starched sheets topped with yellow towels twisted
into the shape of a swan dressed beds.
CBS
News.
|
Give
Me a Rebel, but Hold the Politics
Why the renewed interest in Che, when so many
communist governments have failed? Mr. Trigiani
said, "I think there are many reasons for this
and one of them is Mike Tyson."
The
New York Times.
|
Morality
for Sale
The best hope of breaking their grip may be the
creation of a democracy caucus now being pushed
by Chile, Poland, South Korea and the United States.
Caucus supporters are meeting here to discuss
how to outmaneuver the dictatorships and steer
the commission back to the core values of the
United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
The
New York Times.
|
Course
gives students a new perspective on Cuba
Most students' sense of "the classroom" is limited
to the 50 minutes spent sitting behind a desk. But
for the 20 students in Tufts' "Special Topics in
Cuban Culture and Society" class, "the classroom"
extends all the way to a different country and continent.
The
Tufts Daily, MA. |
Faces
of Globalization: From Cuba to Miami
Remedios Diaz-Oliver's story is not an unusual one
for south Florida. But it is one of the most successful.
She and her family came to this country from Cuba
in 1961 -- "on Pan American Airways. There was a
Pan Am then."
UPI. |
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