|
August
23
FROM
CUBA
Home
of independent union leader raided by security
agents
State security agents on
Saturday raided the apartment of Maybell Padilla,
assistant secretary general of the dissident Unitarian
Council of Cuban Workers..
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Human
rights activist says young communist leader beat
him up
René Montes de Oca, president
of the Pro Human Rights Party of Cuba, says Hassán
Pérez Casabón, second secretary of the Union of
Young Communists, kicked him in the head as he
lay defenseless on the ground.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Santa
Clara dissident beaten and detained
Martín Fraga said he was about
to take his son to a nearby swimming pool when some
20 men came to his home and attacked for what he
said was his opposition to President Fidel Castro.
Martín Fraga is vice coordinator of the Christian.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalists demand liberty for jailed colleague
Colleagues of Oscar Mario
González Pérez, an independent journalist held by
police for the past month, have issued a public
appeal for his release.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Four
dissidents imprisoned since 2003 have been hospitalized
Four dissidents imprisoned
since the 2003 crackdown, including three independent
journalists, have been transferred to the hospital
at the "Combinado del Este" prison in Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Post
office in Ranchuelo has run out of envelopes
The post office in the town
of Ranchuelo has been without envelopes for nearly
two weeks, preventing residents from mailing their
correspondence.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Government
supporters taking repressive measures against dissidents
Members of the Democratic
Christian Movement of Cuba in Santa Clara say supporters
of the government have been taking repressive actions
against them.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
threatened with eviction from his home
Dissident Reinier Rodríguez
Salgado, a member of the Cuban Orthodox Renovation
Party, has been threatened with eviction from his
home, which the government says he has been occupying
illegally.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Street
vendors detained in Cienfuegos
The National Revolutionary
Police detained and fined a group of street vendors
who were selling fruits and vegetables at lower
prices than those in state stores.
CIENFUEGOS |
FROM
CUBA
Father
obliges daughter and son-in-law to leave family
home
Independent journalist Niurvys
Díaz Remond says her father insisted she and her
husband leave the family home where they lived because
authorities planned to arrest her..
SANTA
CLARA |
The Miami Herald
•
Search continues for 31 Cubans
•
Coast Guard searches for missing Cuban migrants
•
Chávez slams U.S. in show with Castro
•
U.S. sends 234 back home
•
Blackouts in Cuba generate crisis
•
When time stands still, call on master 'relojero'
•
Deflated blimps limit broadcasts to Cuba
•
Rumsfeld seeks views on Cuba, Venezuela
|
Yahoo! News
•
Cuban crackdown brings arrests of 50 dissidents
•
Cuba Confiscates Land Where Dissidents Met
•
Cuba, Panama Restore Diplomatic Ties
•
Washington worried by Venezuela, Cuban socialism
•
Cuba to trade 17 million for US agro products
from Nebraska
•
Rumsfeld meets with Paraguayan president amid
concerns over Cuba, Venezuela
|
Critical
ill health of dentist, prisoner of conscience in
Cuba
"Dr. Alfredo Manuel Pulido
Lopez, was summarily tried and sentenced to serve
14 years in prison for defending in Cuba something
as dignified as the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights."
Coalition
of Cuban-American Women. |
Cuban
bank to operate in Venezuela
Under a resolution published
in the Official Gazette on Monday, the Cuban institution
is to operate as a commercial bank and, therefore,
its equity amounts to USD 7.4 million, as provided
for under the Bank Law, article 88.
El
Universal, Venezuela. |
Rumsfeld
meets with Paraguayan president amid concerns over
Cuba, Venezuela
Ask 1,000 people when President
George W. Bush's birthday is, and 999 probably will
shrug. Ask 1,000 Cubans when President Fidel Castro's
birthday is, and most likely 999 will know.
Houston
Chronicle. |
Cuba,
Iran's Ahmadinejad stress closer ties
Jose Ramon Rodriguez, the
outgoing Cuban Ambassador to Tehran met Saturday
with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
La
Nueva Cuba. |
English
puts Cuban on cigar roll
If you're looking to score
a hand-rolled Cuban cigar, Guillermo "Willy" Carrazana
is ready to talk business.
The
Arizona Republic. |
Cuba:
an island of despair; Castro regime professes hope,
but basic services are abysmal, many say
There are no signs of an exodus,
the report said, but unhappiness with Fidel Castro's
socialist government is growing. Tensions are mounting,
Cuban dissidents agree.
Tracey
Eaton, Dallas Morning News. |
August
23
FROM
CUBA
Home
of independent union leader raided by security
agents
State security agents on
Saturday raided the apartment of Maybell Padilla,
assistant secretary general of the dissident Unitarian
Council of Cuban Workers..
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Human
rights activist says young communist leader beat
him up
René Montes de Oca, president
of the Pro Human Rights Party of Cuba, says Hassán
Pérez Casabón, second secretary of the Union of
Young Communists, kicked him in the head as he
lay defenseless on the ground.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Santa
Clara dissident beaten and detained
Martín Fraga said he was about
to take his son to a nearby swimming pool when some
20 men came to his home and attacked for what he
said was his opposition to President Fidel Castro.
Martín Fraga is vice coordinator of the Christian.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalists demand liberty for jailed colleague
Colleagues of Oscar Mario
González Pérez, an independent journalist held by
police for the past month, have issued a public
appeal for his release.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Four
dissidents imprisoned since 2003 have been hospitalized
Four dissidents imprisoned
since the 2003 crackdown, including three independent
journalists, have been transferred to the hospital
at the "Combinado del Este" prison in Havana.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Post
office in Ranchuelo has run out of envelopes
The post office in the town
of Ranchuelo has been without envelopes for nearly
two weeks, preventing residents from mailing their
correspondence.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Government
supporters taking repressive measures against dissidents
Members of the Democratic
Christian Movement of Cuba in Santa Clara say supporters
of the government have been taking repressive actions
against them.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
threatened with eviction from his home
Dissident Reinier Rodríguez
Salgado, a member of the Cuban Orthodox Renovation
Party, has been threatened with eviction from his
home, which the government says he has been occupying
illegally.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Street
vendors detained in Cienfuegos
The National Revolutionary
Police detained and fined a group of street vendors
who were selling fruits and vegetables at lower
prices than those in state stores.
CIENFUEGOS |
FROM
CUBA
Father
obliges daughter and son-in-law to leave family
home
Independent journalist Niurvys
Díaz Remond says her father insisted she and her
husband leave the family home where they lived because
authorities planned to arrest her..
SANTA
CLARA |
The Miami Herald
•
Search continues for 31 Cubans
•
Coast Guard searches for missing Cuban migrants
•
Chávez slams U.S. in show with Castro
•
U.S. sends 234 back home
•
Blackouts in Cuba generate crisis
•
When time stands still, call on master 'relojero'
•
Deflated blimps limit broadcasts to Cuba
•
Rumsfeld seeks views on Cuba, Venezuela
|
Yahoo! News
•
Cuban crackdown brings arrests of 50 dissidents
•
Cuba Confiscates Land Where Dissidents Met
•
Cuba, Panama Restore Diplomatic Ties
•
Washington worried by Venezuela, Cuban socialism
•
Cuba to trade 17 million for US agro products
from Nebraska
•
Rumsfeld meets with Paraguayan president amid
concerns over Cuba, Venezuela
|
Critical
ill health of dentist, prisoner of conscience in
Cuba
"Dr. Alfredo Manuel Pulido
Lopez, was summarily tried and sentenced to serve
14 years in prison for defending in Cuba something
as dignified as the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights."
Coalition
of Cuban-American Women. |
Cuban
bank to operate in Venezuela
Under a resolution published
in the Official Gazette on Monday, the Cuban institution
is to operate as a commercial bank and, therefore,
its equity amounts to USD 7.4 million, as provided
for under the Bank Law, article 88.
El
Universal, Venezuela. |
Rumsfeld
meets with Paraguayan president amid concerns over
Cuba, Venezuela
Ask 1,000 people when President
George W. Bush's birthday is, and 999 probably will
shrug. Ask 1,000 Cubans when President Fidel Castro's
birthday is, and most likely 999 will know.
Houston
Chronicle. |
Cuba,
Iran's Ahmadinejad stress closer ties
Jose Ramon Rodriguez, the
outgoing Cuban Ambassador to Tehran met Saturday
with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
La
Nueva Cuba. |
English
puts Cuban on cigar roll
If you're looking to score
a hand-rolled Cuban cigar, Guillermo "Willy" Carrazana
is ready to talk business.
The
Arizona Republic. |
Cuba:
an island of despair; Castro regime professes hope,
but basic services are abysmal, many say
There are no signs of an exodus,
the report said, but unhappiness with Fidel Castro's
socialist government is growing. Tensions are mounting,
Cuban dissidents agree.
Tracey
Eaton, Dallas Morning News. |
August
15
FROM
CUBA
Province
of Santiago de Cuba hit by unidentified virus
Special rooms have been
set up in the Ambrosio Grillo y Clínico Quirúrgico
hospitals to handle patients suffering from an
outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea that has been
affecting the province of Santiago de Cuba for
the past two weeks.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
|
FROM
CUBA
A
thief takes shortwave broadcasts off the air
Shortwave radio broadcasts
to Venezuela and Central America were interrupted
for two days this week when someone stole aluminum
insulators from transmission towers.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Woman
loses job after caught trying to flee country
Ileana Pérez Ramírez, who
was returned to Cuba June 21 after being seized
at sea by the U.S. Coast Guards, has lost her job
as a helper in a restaurant.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Paramilitaries
prevent dissidents from holding meeting
paramilitary group forcibly
prevented 10 dissidents from holding a meeting this
week. The dissidents, members of the Assembly to
Promote Civil Society in Cuba, had scheduled a Tuesday
morning meeting in the municipality of Arroyo Naranajo.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Shortage of water prompts protest
Residents of the neighborhood
known as Alturas de Ciudamar recently went into
the streets with empty pails to protest a water
shortage that has lasted more than 40 days.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Cubans
on the brink of a panic attack
Six o'clock in the morning,
Cuba. Felipe, 77 years old, leaves his house. He
arrives at the corner cafeteria and waits for his
first customer to arrive. A 20-year old mulato man
approaches him. Felipe puts his hand in his pocket
and takes out two cigarettes. The mulato pays him.
PINAR
DEL RÍO |
The Miami Herald
•
Dissident meeting usurped
•
Cuban torture suspect released from detention
•
Nebraska trade group seeks deals in Cuba
•
Dad's Cuba flight foiled
•
Cruise terminal contract canceled
•
Spy trial likely to start anew elsewhere
•
Bay
of Pigs plotters predicted failure
•
Group
seeks release of 5 accused spies
•
Court
overturns spy verdicts
•
U.S. withdraws subpoena for Posada interview tape
•
U.S.
withdraws subpoena for Posada interview tape
|
Yahoo! News
•
US governor touches down in Cuba on trade mission
•
Cuba Marks Castro's 79th Birthday
•
Castro urges US to free suspected Cuban spies
•
Cuba's Menendez Sets World Javelin Record
•
Castro reaches 79 still driving Cuba's revolution
•
Castro supporters mob dissident homes
•
Group in D.C. to Support Jailed Reporter
|
Another
independent journalist arrested
Reporters Without Borders
condemned the arrest of physician and independent
journalist Florencio Cruz Cruz today in Aguado,
in the central province of Cienfuegos. Cruz is the
deputy editor of the Línea Sur Press independent
agency. He also works for Nueva Prensa Cubana.
Reporters
Without Borders. |
Isle
of Youth journalist faces trial on trumped-up charges
Reporters Without Borders
voiced deep concern today on learning that independent
journalist Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero of the Nueva
Prensa Cubana news agency is to be tried tomorrow
for civil disobedience and resisting the authorities
before a municipal court in Nueva Gerona, on the
western Isle of Youth.
Reporters
Without Borders. |
Bay
of Pigs secrets
Even in Washington, where
official secrecy is a handy way to cover up mistakes
and embarrassments, it's hard to believe that bureaucrats
still are sitting on most of the CIA's own history
of the Bay of Pigs.
The
Miami Herald. |
Iran
and Cuba to issue joint stamp
Iran and the Republic of Cuba
will issue a joint stamp in order to foster bilateral
cooperation, the Iranian ambassador to Cuba announced
on Monday, MNA said.
IranMania.com. |
MEMO
sending more to Cuba
Gary Cooper says he's amazed
at how smart Cubans are at setting up medical equipment,
relying on their brains rather than instruction
manuals.
The
Chronicle-Journal. |
Cuba
journal: Impressions from a road trip
Our Cuban driver needed to
make a brief stop. Ten hours east of Havana, near
Cuba's far eastern tip, he pulled over in this sleepy
farm town and jogged up the broken tile steps of
a ramshackle wooden house, tapping on his aunt's
front door.
GJ
Sentinel. |
Castro's
Cuba - Interview with Author Humberto Fontova
Humberto Fontova is the author
of "The Helldiver's Rodeo" (chosen by the Publisher's
Weekly as their Book of the Week in August 2001),
"The Hellpig Hunt", and "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite
Tyrant."
Global
Politician, NY. |
External
links
|
Central
Americans, young professionals displacing Cubans
in Little Havana
Today Little Havana is a neighborhood in transition.
A longtime haven for Cubans adjusting to life
in the United States, the area is now home to
many Central Americans. At the same time, the
neighborhood is attracting young professionals,
many of them returning Cuban-Americans eager to
buy condominiums less pricey than those in the
Brickell financial district.
Florida
Sun-Sentinel.
|
Wheels
Keep On Turning in U.S. for Cuban Cyclist
When cyclist Ivan Dominguez identifies a small
opening during a race, he takes advantage of it,
shooting through the aperture. The same can be
said in life for Dominguez, 29, who defected from
Cuba at one of the earliest opportunities he had.
LA
Times.
|
August
9
FROM
CUBA
Prisoner
of conscience denied drugs for ailment
Authorities at the Kilometer
7 prison in Camagüey province have denied drugs
to dissident prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez,
according to his sister, Bertha Antúnez Pernet,
president of the National Civic Resistance Movement.
PLACETAS
|
FROM
CUBA
Anti-government
slogans and drawings left on park benches
Colored strips of cardboard
with caricatures and anti-government slogans were
placed on benches in the Plaza de la Revolución.
CIENFUEGOS
|
FROM
CUBA
State
security agents detain blind dissident lawyer
Juan Carlos González Leiva,
a blind lawyer and president of the Ciego de Avila
chapter of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights,
was detained by state security agents last week
while participating in a meeting of the chapter.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Shortage
of doctors results in the closure of five clinics
A shortage of doctors caused
mainly by the loan of doctors to Venezuela has resulted
in the closure of four of five clinics in a Cienfuegoes
district.
CIENFUEGOS |
FROM
CUBA
Sanitary
facilities stolen at close of carnival
At the close of carnival celebrations
last week, local residents dismantled and carted
off some of the temporary sanitary facilities the
municipality had installed for use of celebrants.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
No
reply to suit against prohibition of Cuban guests
in hotels
There has been no reply after
five months to a lawsuit launched by independent
journalist José Antonio Fornaris Ramos against the
government asking that a ban on Cuban citizens staying
in hotels used by foreigners be lifted.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Vignettes
A meeting. The group was assembled
in the doorway of the house. They had been summoned
there because it was considered the safest place.
Then one of them realized they were being watched.
PINAR
DEL RÍO |
FROM
CUBA
Ailing
independent journalist returned to prison cell
Independent journalist Normando
Hernández González, serving a 25-year sentence,
was returned last week to prison from a hospital,
where he was treated for stomach disorder.
CIEGO
DE AVILA |
The Miami Herald
•
Post-Castro Cuba will be 'a big mess,' speaker
says
•
Castro's sister wins suit
•
1,524 Cubans interdicted since Jan.
|
Yahoo! News
•
Cuban Agents to Get New Trial
•
Cuban Trova Musician Noel Nicola Dies
•
Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies at age 78
•
Swimmers Find Sunken Ship Off Cuba Coast
|
Husbands
for sale in Cuba
A wedding is a big occasion
in any society, but in Cuba it can also be big business.
Many Cuban women see a foreign husband as a ticket
out of the country - a passport, possibly, to new
prosperity.
Stephen
Gibbs. BBC News. |
Cuba's
new crackdown
Once again, Cuba is detaining
dissidents and charging them with crimes that don't
exist in any free country on Earth.
The
Miami Herald. |
Dissidents'
goal: A national dialogue
There are many myths about
Cuba and speculation about its future. Yet its people
have not had a chance to express themselves freely
-- and now, for the first time in many years, citizens
have to opportunity to offer their opinions about
a democratic transition and to show the path to
the future. This is the National Dialogue.
Stephen
Gibbs. BBC News. |
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