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December
27
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CUBA
Unannounced
curfew imposed in some parts of Havana
The National
Revolutionary Police have been imposing an unannounced
midnight curfew in some sections of the capital,
apparently because of a recent increase in crime.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Two
dissidents prevented from traveling to Havana
Carlos Collazo
and Roberto Jesús Estrella Salas, members of the
People's Party, say they were detained this week
when they were about to travel to Havana for a meeting
with fellow dissidents.
PINAR DEL RIO
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FROM
CUBA
Dissident
shouts "Down with Fidel!" as she's arrested
Maria de
los Ángeles Borrego Mir, vice president of the Hijos
de la Virgen de Regla dissident group, shouted "Down
with Fidel!" as she was arrested by police this
week, according to her daughter.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• 'My interest is the future'
• Castro calls Rice 'mad' |
Yahoo
News
• Fidel Castro Says Bush 'Very Much a Fool'
• Castro calls US diplomat 'little gangster' |
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December
20
FROM
CUBA
Rafter
arrested after return to Cuba
State security
agents arrested rafter Amaury Hernández Frómeta,
33, when he was returned to Cuba after being picked
up by an American oil tanker at sea.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Diabetic
says ironically will have to go to Venezuela for
treatment
Pérez Lara
said he needs an insulin injection every four hours
and that the local hospital is supposed to provide
him with all the material so he can treat himself
at home: the drug, syringe, alcohol and cotton.
He said the hospital now has only the cotton.
SANCTI SPÍRITUS
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FROM
CUBA
Truck
service paralyzed between Camagüey and Ciego de
Ávila
The new requirement
to show a receipt for gasoline purchases has halted
truck traffic between Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey
last weekend.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
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FROM
CUBA
Great-great-grandparents'
home seized from dissident
A rustic one-room house with outdoor plumbing that
belonged to the great-great-grandparents of dissident
Alejandro Miguel Novoa Saldívar has been seized
from him because of his political views.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban policy commission revived to take a fresh
look
• Lawmakers: Let Cuba play ball
• Mapplethorpe's work is exhibited in Havana
• U.S. tells Cuban team: 'You're out!' |
Yahoo
News
• Bolivia's Evo Morales praises Castro in Cuban
TV interview
• China Grants Cuba Credit During Communist Party
Official's Visit
• Ueberroth Wants Cuba in Baseball Classic
• U.S. Convenes Anti-Castro Panel
• Top Cuban Energy Official Invites U.S. Executives
to Meet in Mexico
• Top rights award ceremony held without blocked
Cuban winners
• After last week's Caribbean Summit in Barbados,
2008 White House Hopeful Daniel Imperato issued
a statement on US Relations with Castro, Cuba, and
the Caribbean. |
Police
cannot find file of ailing journalist held for past
five months without trial
Reporters
Without Borders today condemned journalist Oscar
Mario González Pérez's continuing detention as "arbitrary
and absurd" after the Havana police told his lawyer
they could not find his file.
Reporters Without
Borders |
Rice
Chairs Meeting of Commission for Assistance to a
Free Cuba
Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice chaired a December 19
meeting of the Commission for Assistance to a Free
Cuba, and she issued a statement later that day
calling for a speedy transition to democracy in
Cuba.
Washington File,
DC, |
CPJ
urges Castro to end persecut ion of independent
press
The sent
the following letter to Cuban President Fidel Castro,
urging him to end persecution of independent press
Committee to
Protect Journalists. |
An
unsilenced voice for change
Few things
endanger dictators as much as the free exchange
of ideas. Maybe that is why Fidel Castro's communist
government refused to allow Oswaldo Payá, Cuba's
most prominent dissident, an exit visa to let him
talk at a conference of European NGOs in London
on December 8th.
The Economist
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Ladies
in White
When Fidel
Castro ordered the lockup of 75 journalists, librarians
and democracy advocates in March 2003, he made a
calculation that, despite an outcry from abroad
at the time, his captives, sentenced to prison terms
as long as 28 years, would soon enough be forgotten.
Mary Anastasia
O'Grady, Wall Street Journal. |
Uncomfortable
questions regarding the inevitable succession of
power in Cuba
Four uncomfortable
questions arise, even in circumspect circles, regarding
the possible succession of power in Cuba. First,
assuming the nearly 80-year old FidelCastro is mortal,
"Who will succeed him when he dies?"
Dr. Max G. Manwaring,
Dr. Max G. Manwaring |
Cuba
cutting 'world class' trail in biotech research
Well-funded
government labs enable Castro's cash-starved nation
to produce high-quality vaccines and medications
for a global market.
Gary Marx, Chicago
Tribune |
MLB
undeterred in bid to include Cuba
Major League
Baseball will continue its pursuit of having Cuba
participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic
in March despite an adverse ruling this week by
the U.S. Treasury Department, MLB's top official
in charge of the tournament said on Friday.
MLB.com |
Give
baseball fans the gift of Cuba
Playing this
tournament without Cuba would be like proceeding
with the American League West schedule without including
the Seattle Mariners.
Mike Bauman.
MLB |
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December
13
FROM
CUBA
Women
stage protest march in Santa Clara
Ten Opposition women marched
through the center of Santa Clara on Sunday in
a protest against the imprisonment of political
dissidents.
SANTA CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
Hotel
chambermaid fired for criticizing Fidel Castro
The workers committee at the
Meliá Cayo Guillermo tourist hotel ratified management's
firing of chambermaid Leidys Morales Quinteros,
overheard criticizing President Fidel Castro.
CAYO GUILL
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FROM
CUBA
Disposable
plastic glasses reused in bars and cafeterias
Managers of bars and cafeterias
in Morón that charge in foreign currency say they
reuse disposable plastics glasses to save money.
MORÓN
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FROM
CUBA
Dissidents slapped and threatened
Directors of the Cuban Democratic
Socialist Current were threatened and hit while
leaving the offices of the dissident magazine Consenso.
HAVANA
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The Miami Herald
•
Envoy differs from predecessor in style, not substance
• President's man in Havana
• Castro attends summit, pays tribute at crash memorial
• Jeb: Castro dig an honor
• Castro urges 'fat' Gov. Bush to get fit
• Defector just looking for a chance |
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Yahoo! News
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Cubans Save Vacation for Havana Film Fest
• East Timor PM visits Cuba
• Menendez Inspires Pride in Cuban-Americans
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Mayo
says he wanted to die rather than remain in prison
Journalist Mario Enrique Mayo
Hernández, who was jailed along with 26 other journalists
in a crackdown in the spring of 2003 and who was
finally released on medical grounds, has described
to Reporters Without Borders his difficult time
in prison and the psychological ordeal it became.
Reporters Without Borders |
Castro,
the Mafia, the polls
U.S. diplomat Robert Blau
was met by a nauseating stench as he walked into
his residence in Havana. He soon learned that security
agents of the Cuban government had entered his home
surreptitiously and filled it with excrement.
Carlos Alberto Montaner, The Miami Herald.
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China,
Cuba, two African nations are top jailers of journalists
China, Cuba, Eritrea, and
Ethiopia are the world's leading jailers of journalists
in 2005, together accounting for two-thirds of the
125 editors, writers, and photojournalists imprisoned
around the world, according to a new analysis by
the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Committee
to Protect Journalists |
Colombia
rebels in Cuba for talks
Members of Colombia's second-largest
rebel group have arrived in the Cuban capital to
hold preliminary peace talks with the Colombian
government.
BBC
News, UK |
Cuba
pays for oil in goods
Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest
oil exporter, said Cuba has been paying in goods
and services this year for the oil it receives,
El Universal reported, citing President Hugo Chávez.
The
Daily Journal, Venezuela |
Europeans
decry Cuba's refusal to let women get prize
Both the conservatives and
the Socialists who make up the bulk of the European
Parliament blasted on Tuesday the Cuban Communist
regime's refusal to allow several women rights activists
to fly to France to receive a prestigious award.
Dominican
Today, Dominican Republic |
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December
5
FROM
CUBA
Prosecutor
seeks two-year sentence for "insult" to Castro
A prosecutor has requested
a sentence of two years imprisonment for former
political prisoner Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel,
accused of shouting denunciations against President
Fidel Castro.
SANTA CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
State
security prevents FLAMUR election
Agents of the Rapid Response
Brigades broke up a meeting this week to elect delegates
to the Cuban chapter of the Latin American Federation
of Rural Women, known as FLAMUR by its Spanish acronym.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Trombone
player suspended because of dissidient affiliation
Hugo Martínez López, a trombone
player for the municipal band, says local cultural
authorities have ordered his suspension from rehearsals.
CAIBARIEN |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
leader detained by police
Mario Izquierdo Sotolongo,
a candidate for the presidency of the Máximo Gómez
Báez National Civic Movement, was detained by police
this week.
PINAR DEL RIO |
FROM
CUBA
Cuba
doctors forbidden to stay at site of convention
Cuban doctors attending an
international medical convention at a tourist facility
in Ciego de Avila province complain they were not
allowed to stay at the same hotels as foreign participants.
CIEGO DE AVILA |
FROM
CUBA
Home
of dissident stoned by paramilitary members
The home of Alberto Moreno
Fonseca, president of the Rural Worker Party, was
stoned last week by paramilitaries, according to
another dissident.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
150
pedicab driver detained by police
Police last weekend detained
150 pedicab drivers in Old Havana, seized their
vehicles and sent back to their home towns those
who were not originally from Havana.
HAVANA |
The Miami Herald
•
Journalists detained over activist interviews
• Nine of 10 migrants saved at sea returned to Cuba
• Dissident set free
• Castro vows to go after the 'new rich'
• Chess mates: Cuban master mentors young players
• 10 migrants saved by cruise ship
• Cuba: Wilma losses to top $704M
• Backer's arrest clouds case
• Internet use restricted in Cuba, which blames
U.S.
• Posada ally could be sent to Cuba if convicted
• U.S. arrests key ally of Posada |
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Yahoo! News
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Cuba: US blocked dozens of experts from attending
biotech conference
• Communist Cuba's Military Marks 49 Years
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Polish
and Swiss journalists expelled from Cuba
Two European journalists,
a Pole Anna Bikont and a Swiss Nelly Norton were
expelled from Cuba after meeting with a leading
figure of the Communist island's political opposition.
Radio
Polonia, Poland. |
Communist
Party organises raids on journalists involved in
independent training
Reporters Without Borders
today condemned an operation by government agents
and paramilitaries on 22 November in which intimidation
and force was used to prevent participants in a
training workshop for independent journalists from
attending a party to mark the end of the course.
Reporters
Without Borders |
Two
Cuban sisters, principal dancers at two U.S. companies
Somehow, despite their artistic
differences, both sisters typify the style and training
of the National Ballet of Cuba, which has become
known for producing some of today's most talented
and highly sought dancers.
Gainesville
Sun, FL. |
Desperation
Rises in Castro's Cuba
Amid a surging wave of repression
by the Castro dictatorship, Cuba's prisoners of
conscience increasingly are resorting to "acts of
desperation" - including hunger strikes, suicide
attempts, and self-mutilation - in a cry for international
recognition and solidarity, and to advance the cause
of the island's liberation.
New York Sun. |
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Amid
a surging wave of repression by the Castro dictatorship,
Cuba's prisoners of conscience increasingly are
resorting to "acts of desperation" - including
hunger strikes, suicide attempts, and self-mutilation
- in a cry for international recognition and solidarity,
and to advance the cause of the island's liberation.
Guillermo
Vidal / LA Times.
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