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April
28
FROM
CUBA
Women's
organization denounces violence against women
Sixteen
women were murdered and 20 others were left wounded
in 2005 alone in the municipality of Palma Soriano,
a not-particularly-populous municipality in eastern
Cuba, according to a recent report by the Latin
American Federation of Rural Women.
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA
|
FROM
CUBA
Police
repress independent librarian
Abigail Ortega
Beltrán was detained by forces of the Cuban political
police on the main street of this city and was taken
to the provincial police's station for interrogation.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Dr.
Oscar Elías Biscet's health is deteriorating
Dr. Oscar
Elías Biscet González, incarcerated in Combinado
del Este Prison in Havana, is showing a very noticeable
deterioration in his health, according to a telephone
conversation from his wife, Elsa Morejón, to Villa
Blanca Press. Biscet suffers from various chronic
illnesses.
YAGUAJAY |
FROM
CUBA
Customs
inspectors shake down Cuban visitors
Cubans who
live abroad arriving at Havana's international airport
are the preferred target of customs inspectors who
solicit bribes to smooth their way.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Two
policemen tried for soliciting and accepting bribes
Two patrol
officers were tried and found guilty of corruption
after the police internal affairs department learned
they had accepted bribes from someone transporting
onions to Havana.
MATANZAS |
FROM
CUBA
Youth
wanted to throw stones at police chief; broke glass
instead
A young man
who was arrested after breaking the windows of a
government dollar store in Sibanicú said he had
been carrying the stones to throw at a sector chief
of police and only broke the glass when he couldn't
find the officer.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Man
loses job as elevator because of his political views
The government's
housing authority cancelled a job offer to Rafael
Moreno Rodriguez as an elevator operator when it
learned he was a political dissident.
MATANZAS |
Yahoo
News
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Cuban woman dissident, 60, beaten en route to
meet US diplomat
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New York director hopes to warm U.S.-Cuba relations
with musical in Havana
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Young Cuban girls embrace their Spanish heritage
with flamenco dance
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Cuba Militant Applies for U.S. Citizenship
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Jamaica to Get Cement Shipment From Cuba
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The
Miami Herald
• Senator to speak against Cuba's oil exploration
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Nelson: Block Cuban oil drilling
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It's like old times under the arches
•
The Bridge Generation
•
Cuba agrees to buy another $20 million in farm goods
from US state of Alabama
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Lawmakers would ban public universities from Cuba
trips
•
Book on Cuba will remain in school's library
•
Cuba book to stay on school shelves; new appeal
filed
•
Orishas bring island style hip-hop to Miami
•
Cachao has the audience in his hands |
Cubanet
contributor threatened under law 88 and told he
cannot leave home
Roberto Santana
Rodríguez, a contributor to the Miami-based website
Cubanet, has been harassed by State Security agents
since February and ordered to stop writing, Reporters
Without Borders said today, reiterating its criticism
of the use of Law 88 (about Cuba's independence
and economy) to threaten dissidents with heavy prison
sentences.
Reporters Without
Borders. |
Cuban
dentist, a prisoner of conscience in Cuba, gravely
ill claims he prefers to die rather than renounce
his ideals
On April
18, 2006, Rebeca Rodríguez Sauto went to Kilo 7
Prison in the province of Camagüey for a family
visit, which is permitted every 45 days, with her
husband, Dr. Alfredo Pulido López, and found that
his health has significantly worsened.
Coalition of
Cuban-American Women. |
Hunt
begins for rare woodpecker
Cuban ornithologists
have received permission to search for the long-lost,
ivory-billed woodpecker in heavily wooded areas
of the island that have been off-limits even to
scientists since Fidel Castro seized power here
almost 50 years ago.
Sun-Sentinel. |
An
ugly past relevant to Cuba's future
To reconcile
the past, you must know the truth about it. To that
end, Armando M. Lago and María C. Werlau are producing
priceless work that promises to benefit post-tyranny
Cuba.
The Miami Herald. |
Taking
Sides
In August,
Fidel Castro will turn 80, with no final reward
in sight. The small island nation he has tyrannized
for an astonishing 47 years has played an outsize
role in modern history.
The New York
Times. |
April
19
FROM
CUBA
Advisor to dissident cause found innocent
Independent
journalist Julio Aleaga Pesant, who is an advisor
to the Cuban Liberal Movement, was found innocent
this week of lascivious behavior.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Crackdown
of street vendors continues
Authorities
are cracking down on street vendors in the capital
in the hopes of eradicating them before September's
meeting here of the Non-Aligned Movement, according
to a police officer involved in the activities.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
sentenced to one year for resistance
Alexander
Hernández Rico, member of the Neo-Catholic Party
of Cuba, has been sentenced to a year of forced
labor for the crime of resistance.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
arrested, home searched by police
A dozen policemen
arrived at dawn one day last week, arrested activist
Alberto Michel Martínez Llerena, 26, a member of
the November 30 Frank Pais Democratic Party, and
spent an hour searching the home where he lived
with his parents.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Undercover
agent Manuel David Orrio reappears on Internet
Manuel David
Orrio, whose testimony in 2003 helped lead to prison
terms of up to 28 years for fellow independent journalists,
has been seen in public and his writings now appear
on a Web site.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
President
of association for the deaf arrested
Yoandy Quintana
Sarría, president of the Independent Association
of the Deaf, says he was forcefully arrested by
the police last week.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
The
Miami Herald
• Venezuela, Cuba likely to get U.N. spots
•
Washington opposes seats for Venezuela and Cuba
on U.N. bodies
•
Cuba book ban fails; appeals process to continue
•
Some Cubans are converting to Islam
•
Brigade of exiles takes a look back
•
19 Cubans dropped on beach
•
Lawmaker cites Cuba in case for drilling
•
Bay of Pigs veterans recall invasion
•
Book on Cuba to stay, for now
•
Brigade veterans fear their sacrifice will be forgotten
•
Felix Rodriguez, 64, was part of the infiltration
team
•
Vets plan home to cherish memory
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Yahoo
News
•
Cuba launches program with Canadian firm to increase
nickel and cobalt production
•
Ex-Caracas Oil Head: Don't Invest in Cuba
•
Demonstrators Bring 'Vamos A Cuba' Protests To School
Board
•
Chavez Seeking to Militarize Venezuela |
Kazecky
says Cuba expelled him over human rights support
Czech diplomat
Stanislav Kazecky, whom Cuba refused to extend his
visa and accused of subversion and work for the
US, thinks that the Cuban government thereby reacted
to the Czech foreign policy in support of human
rights, he said in an interview for Spanish news
agency EFE today.
Prague Daily
Monitor. |
Foreign
minister denies report Iran to send nukes to Cuba,
Venezuela
Venezuela's
foreign minister denied Tuesday a local media report
alleging that Iran was planning to send nuclear
missiles to Venezuela and Cuba.
Sun Sentinel,
FL. |
CzechRep
to propose steps towards Cuba in EU - Svoboda
The Czech
Republic is preparing steps and proposals for the
EU talks on the relations to Cuba, Foreign Minister
Cyril Svoboda told reporters at an extraordinary
press conference after the return of expelled Czech
diplomat Stanislav Kazecky from Cuba today.
Czech Happenings. |
Cuba
To Buy Another $30M In Food From Nebraska
Cuba agreed
Wednesday to buy another $30 million in food from
Nebraska, strengthening trade relations with a U.S.
farm state already selling corn, wheat, soybeans
and other products to the communist-run island.
CattleNetwork.com. |
Ruprecht
defends Cuban trips
Premier Dalton
McGuinty said it's up to voters in Tony Ruprecht's
Toronto riding to decide if he's been away from
the Legislature too much.
Toronto Star. |
April
14
FROM
CUBA
Prisoner
put in solitary confinement after wife falls ill
Dissident
prisoner Orencio Rafael Guerra Ramírez was placed
in solitary confinement last weekend after demanding
medical attention for wife, who lost consciousness
after falling ill during a visit to the Cerámica
Roja prison, according to reports from another
prisoner.
CAMAGUEY
|
FROM
CUBA
Dissidents
stopped and told they were illegally in Havana
Two dissidents
from Santiago de Cuba were stopped by police last
week and told they were in the capital illegally
because they did not have transportation documents
authorizing their visit.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Wife
and sister of imprisoned journalist strip searched
Lidia Lores
and her sister-in-law, Clara Lourdes Prieto Llorente,
say they were forced to completely disrobe and undergo
a body search before being permitted to visit Lores'
imprisoned husband, independent journalist Fabio
Prieto Llorente.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Authorities
demolish stands of independent sellers
Municipal
authorities last weekend destroyed the stands used
by independent sellers of farm products.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist Roberto Santana Rodríguez cited by police
Independent
journalist Roberto Santana Rodríguez was ordered
last week to appear before State Security officials
who told him this was his last chance to give up
independent journalism or face a prison term.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
More
than 100 demonstrate outside dissident's home
More than
100 people congregated outside the home of Apolinar
Borroto, 63, president of the Cuban Foundation for
Human Rights in the municipality of Jatibonico in
Sancti Spíritus province last week and shouted pro-government
slogans.
CIEGO DE AVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuba:
Repression on the rise
Cuban prisons
remain packed full of political prisoners and as
if this weren't enough, repression against dissidents,
opponents of the regime, independent journalists
and correspondents is on the rise.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
The
Miami Herald
• Smuggling of Cuban migrants investigated
•
Sales of U.S. food up 20%
•
Bahamas on tightrope between U.S. and Cuba
•
Patriot Act bars Cuban rebels from asylum
•
Hurricanes forge a Cuban connection
•
Cuban Jews' rituals aim to preserve a unique heritage
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Yahoo
News
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Cuba, Venezuela to Refurbish Oil Refinery
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Cuba Signs Agreement to Buy Aircraft
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Cuba
accuses expelled Czech diplomat of subversion
Cuba today
accused Czech diplomat Stanislav Kazecky, whose
visa it had refused to extend, de facto expelling
him, of subversion and work for the USA, the Spanish
news agency EFE writes today.
Ceské noviny. |
Capturing
Old Havana
Ever since
Walker Evans created his classic series of portraits
from pre-Revolutionary Havana during the early 1930s,
American photographers have had a love affair with
the land and people of Cuba.
The Baltimore
Sun. |
Czechs
retaliate for diplomat expulsion
The Czech
government has refused to extend the visa of a Cuban
diplomat in Prague in retaliation for the expulsion
of a Czech diplomat in Havana.
UPI. |
Russia,
Cuba consider new projects in transport industry
Russia and
Cuba consider new projects in the transport industry.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro is interested in the development
of bilateral trade ties, head of the Federal Agency
for Industry Boris Alyoshin who headed the Russian
delegation in Cuba told Itar-Tass on Monday.
Itar-Tass, Russia. |
Does
her brain belong to Castro, too?
Hilda Molina
says her brain belongs to her. Cuban authorities
apparently think otherwise. Molina, 62, claims a
top immigration official gave her the word in 1997
and again in 2000: "You can't leave Cuba because
your brain is the patrimony of the state."
Gary Marx, Chicago
Tribune. |
45th
Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April
17, 1961, approximately 1,300 courageous Cuban patriots
belonging to the Assault Brigade "2506" landed on
Cuban beaches.
CAMCO. |
April
10
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
under house arrest in Mazanillo
Alberto
Moreno Fonseca, president of the Farmworkers Party,
says State Security is keeping him prisoner in
his home in the Eastern Cuban municipality of
Manzanillo, where the dissident party is based.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Ban
on transportation of pigs increases price of pork
The ban was
imposed in an attempt to stop the sale of pork in
private markets in this provincial capital. Since
then, the shortage of pork has caused the price
to reach a record 25 pesos a pound.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Political
prisoner fears conjugal visits being taped
Political
prisoner René Montes de Oca Martija says there's
a possibility hidden microphones and tape recorders
are recording conjugal visits by his wife to the
Cerámica Roja prison where he's being held.
CAMAGUEY |
FROM
CUBA
Anti-government
graffiti appears in Santiago de Cuba
Anti-government
graffiti saying "Down with Fidel" and "Down with
the Dictatorship" appeared in Santiago de Cuba last
week.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Whatever became of people on the first Freedom
Flight?
•
3 weeks after fleeing, return to Cuba fatal
•
Cuba fires on U.S. boaters
•
Posada seeks release from federal detention
•
Dade district plans to yank book about Cuban children
|
Yahoo
News
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Venezuela Sees Boosting Trade With Cuba
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Castro brothers meet top Malaysian diplomat
|
April
5
FROM
CUBA
Prison
officials try to forcibly reeducate independent
journalist
Imprisoned
independent journalist Normando Hernández González
says he was thrown down a flight of stairs by
the "reeducator" of the Kilo 5 prison where he's
serving a 25-year sentence.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist held by police in Havana
Independent
journalist Julio Aleaga Pesant has been held since
March 31 by the national police at a station in
the capital's Vedado district on a charge of lewdness.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Journalist
threatened with arrest under Law 88
Ana Leonor
Díaz Chamizo, director of the Grupo de Trabajo Decoro
independent news agency, was picked up by police
last weekend and threatened under Law 88, under
which a person with consorting with the enemy.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident
accused of being responsible for anti-government
graffiti
Dissident
Miguel Ángel López Herrera was detained by State
Security agents in Guantanamo last week and accused
of being the author of anti-government graffiti
which appeared on the walls of the state library
in 2005.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Appearance
of anti-government signs sparks repression
The recent
appearance of anti-government signs here in Palma
Soriano and in the towns of Palmarito, Mella, San
Luís , Alto Songo, La Maya and the city of Santiago
de Cuba has brought a wave of repression against
dissidents.
PALMA SORIANO
|
The
Miami Herald
• Parts of Castro bio parrot his speeches
|
Yahoo
News
•
Cuban dissident recovering in clinic after ending
hunger strike
•
Puerto Rican Protest Against Cuban Erupts
•
Cuba's Contreras signs extension with Chicago
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Cuba
jails evangelical church leader
Cuban authorities
jailed an evangelical pastor who until last year
served as national president of his denomination,
apparently on charges of aiding emigrants who sought
to leave the country illegally. The arrest was made
Feb. 20.
Christian Examiner. |
Confused
Students Travel In Cuba
Pravda reports
on a group of American University students who are
visiting Cuba The article begins with the usual
claims that the Bush administration is tightening
the embargo.
Paxety Pages. |
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