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January
27
FROM
CUBA
Three dissidents imprisoned with no charges
Miguel López
Santos, Raúl Martínez Prieto and Francisco Moure
Saladriga, dissidents who had been held for six
months in the Acosta jail with no charges leveled
against them, were transferred to prisons last
week.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Dissident baseball fan kept off radio talk show
When baseball
fan Raúl Pérez Gavilán called Radio Rebelde to give
his comments on the upcoming World Baseball Classic,
the talk-show host soon hung up when he realized
the caller was a political dissident.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
300 books confiscated from independent library
Political
police raided the Rafael Díaz Balart independent
library in the municipality of Guanabacoa last weekend
and seized 300 books considered to be subversive.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Ex-military officer accused of illicity activities
Commerce inspectors and members of the national
police force raided the home of a former army lieutenant,
seized goods he had for sale and accused him of
illicit trade.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Operations suspended for lack of blood
Various patients
awaiting surgery in local hospitals were told to
return home as the operations could not be done
because of a lack of blood for transfusions.
SANTA CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Blood given in exchange for breakfast
Edrey Fleites
and Ortendo Rodríguez decided to donate blood when
they learned donors were given breakfast as well
as time off from work.
SANTA CLARA
|
The
Miami Herald
• Cuba names new Guantánamo boss
• Cuba travel curtailed further
• U.S. sign may be blocked
• Cuba appoints captain to command unit around U.S.
base
• U.S., Cubans wage flashy war of words
• Couple spied on president of FIU, FBI says
• U.S. diplomats in Havana flash messages to Cuban
protesters outside |
Yahoo
News
• Czech supermodel held in Cuba over photographs
• Castro Visits Construction Site at Night
• Castro Directs Anti-U.S. March in Havana
• "Should Americans Be Allowed to Travel to Communist
Cuba?'' A Lively Point-Counterpoint by Two Top Cuban
Analysts in the Newly-Launched "Cuban Affairs Journal'' |
'I have a dream' becomes Castro's nightmare in cultural
war with US
Strollers
soaking up the sea spray along Havana's famed Malecón
waterfront boulevard absorbed an impromptu lesson
on America's civil rights movement this week when
the US mission began flashing passages from Martin
Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech on a giant
screen.
The Guardian,
UK |
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January
23
FROM
CUBA
More than 200,000 "social workers" seek to stamp
out corruption
By deploying
more than 200,000 young people to audit and monitor
the operation of government-run establishments
that encompass the whole gamut of economic activity
in the island, the Cuban government seeks to curtail
a wave of rampant corruption that has become widespread.
PINAR DEL
RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
Government supporters prevent baseball game by pacifists
Officials
from the municipality of Santo Domingo last week
prevented a local team of pacifists, Coalición Juvenil
Martiana, from playing a visiting Santa Clara team
on the grounds government officials and the local
Communist Party had to give their approval first.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Home of dissidient in Santa Clara searched
The home
of dissident Idania Yanes Contreras was searched
last weekend by three members of the police force.
The lead officer said the police had received information
that illegal beef was stored in the house.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
No hotel for Cubans in provincial capital
There are no hotel rooms for Cubans in the provincial
capital of Pinar del Río, a city of 200,000; travelers
and those looking for a place to have an intimate
tryst must find other solutions since the three
hotels open to Cubans were diverted to other uses.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
No pork in Morón butcher shops
Consumers
in Morón couldn't find pork at their butcher shops
last week; some looked to the municipal government
to solve the problem, others say the government
is the one that caused the problem in the first
place.
MORON |
FROM
CUBA
Independent journalist Oscar Mario González moved
to prison
Independent
journalist Oscar Mario González, who has been held
since July 22, 2005 without being charged with any
crime, was transferred last week to the San Miguel
del Padrón Prison No. 1580, according to his wife,
Mirta Wong.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Jailed independent journalist lacks medical assistance
Normando
Hernández González, an independent journalist imprisoned
at the Kilo 5 ½ prison in Pinar del Río province,
hasn't been receiving any medical assistance, according
to his wife.
CAIBARIÉN |
The
Miami Herald
• Mob attacks on Castro's critics are increasing
• Cuba's powerhouse baseball team got the sign to
''Play Ball!''
• Conference set on 'wet-foot' policy
• Cuba can play, but will it show up?
• U.S. gov. allows Cuba to play in World Baseball
Classic
• Cuba's Alarcón may take questions at journalism
conference
• Chávez wants to weaken judiciary, rights group
says
• Castro announces electrical overhaul
• Activist ends hunger strike
• Hunger striker's goal may be met
• Journalists invite Alarcón to speak |
Yahoo
News
• Walesa to Cuba Dissidents: Be Prepared
• Castro slams new US "provocations" in diplo-row
• Deadline for Americans With New Property Claims
Against Cuba to File in Second Cuban Claims Program
is Feb. 13, Says Justice Dept. |
Ottawa man detained in Cuba after shoving match
An Ottawa
man has been detained in Cuba after an altercation
with a masseur who allegedly touched his wife inappropriately
during a massage. Police seized Clyde Carrière's
passport after the masseur's ankle broke during
a shoving match between him and Carrière.
CBC News |
Cuban-Americans deride U.S. limits on visits to
Cuba
Mario Ernesto
Romero is a proud new father, eager to tell a visitor
about his 5-month-old son. "His name is Mario, just
like his grandfather, just like me, just like his
great grandfather," Romero said.
Sun-Sentinel
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Cuba is in, adding credibility
After a month
of hiccups, Bud Selig's World Baseball Classic just
had a very good week. It started with a successful
arm-twisting campaign against the Yankees' Alex
Rodriguez, as the world's best player decided to
play in the event.
The Star-Ledger,
NJ |
Does the World Classic need Cuba?
Cuba has
been invited to the World Baseball Classic. So .
. . what?
Bradenton Herald
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January
17
FROM
CUBA
Prices go up for self-employed licenses
The cost
of a self-employment license for a photographer
went up, from 100 to 150 pesos, said one such
photographer in Morón.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Police captain kills a man
The 40-year-old
man, known locally as José the tank truck driver
because he drove a fuel delivery truck, had moved
into the Menocal neighborhood of San José de las
Lajas a few months ago, according to neighbors.
He lived alone in the home where he was shot.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Demand for psychotropic drugs rises, says study
The demand
for psychotropic drugs has increased in Cuba, according
to a recent report to the Center for Mental Health
and Hygiene.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Sanitation poor at AIDS sanatorium
A patient at an AIDS sanatorium in Menocal, Havana
province, complained here that sanitation at the
facility is so poor that it imperils patients' lives.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Cafeteria is short on drinking glasses
Customers
say a cafeteria in Santa Clara has so few glasses
they often have to wait for another customer to
finish and for his glass to be washed before they
can be served.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Boy, 8, hit by speeding police car
A police
car speeding through a residential neighborhood
hit an eight-year-old boy January 7 in the Virginia
district of Santa Clara.
SANTA CLARA
|
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban Americans foresee rise of a 'climate of
fear'
• Alleged Cuba spy identified years ago
• One of two accused spies was Maceo Brigade member
• Cuba policy: 'Something has to change'
• U.S. gets tougher on groups defying Cuba travel
rules |
Crime in Cuba
Cuba is rarely
thought of as a hotbed of crime, but the Department
of Foreign Affairs is warning tourists that increasing
numbers of Canadians have been victims of pickpocketing,
theft and assault - especially in Havana's Old Havana,
Centro Havana, the Malecon, and Vedado and on the
beaches of Playas del Este and Varadero.
Globe and Mail,
Canada |
New film resurrects Castro connection
I despise
conspiracy theories, but sometimes one has to surrender
to the evidence. With abundant proof at hand, German
documentary filmmaker Wilfried Huismann has attributed
to Fidel Castro the responsibility for the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
Carlos Alberto
Montaner, The Miami Herald. |
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January
11
FROM
CUBA
Medical
waste left untreated in open dump
Medical
waste from health facilities in Sagua la Grande
is being dumped alongside common refuse at the
municipal dump just outside the city, a human
rights activist said here.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Prisoner
commits suicide after pleas for help go unheeded
An inmate
at the Villa Clara Youth Prison committed suicide
after prison authorities refused to provide him
access to psychiatric help, said his sister, adding
that he had tried to kill himself several times
before.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
"The
situation must change," says former military officer
"The situation
must change," said a former military officer referring
to the country's political and economic situations.
"Otherwise, we must prepare for a violent end."
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
New
regulations leave some without ration book
A number of people here are complaining that new
regulations imposed by the government to obtain
the ration book at the beginning of the year have
made it harder, if not impossible to comply.
CAMAGUEY |
The
Miami Herald
• Alleged spy couple did not recruit
• Rare unease in Cuba on survival of revolution
• Socialist party recognizes fragile grip
• Film: Cuban secret service organized JFK's murder
|
Yahoo
News
• Venezuela to Keep Cuba Oil Sales Steady
• Decision to Repatriate Cubans Criticized
• Hunger Strike Continues; 15 Refugees Sent Back
To Cuba
• 15 Cubans Who Got to Fla. Bridge Sent Home
• Nilo Cruz Paints a Landscape of Tangled Lives
in 'Beauty of the Father,' Opening at MTC
• Two Florida university staffers charged as Cuban
covert agents |
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January
6
FROM
CUBA
Stores
of terror
The deterioration
of services to the general populace marches hand-in-hand
with the disaster of the Cuban economy. This situation
occurs in both the chains of stores where sales
are in convertible currency and in establishments
for Cuban currency.
PINAR DEL
RIO
|
FROM
CUBA
The
route of a crisis
The health
sector is the most critical point of the present
crisis of services in Cuba. The authorities have
as their political strategy to show that the island
is a world power in public health; but the reality
is very different.
PINAR DEL RIO
|
The
Miami Herald
• Santeria priests see bad omens in coming year
• Plane may help overcome Cuba's 'news blockade'
• Castro's home a surf away |
Yahoo
News
• 18 Cubans in Homemade Boat Rescued
• Dozens of Cubans Land on Florida Beaches |
German
film links Cuba to Kennedy assassination
Germany's
leading television broadcaster will claim in a documentary
film tonight that it was the Cuban secret service
that organised the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
Financial Times,
UK |
State
security agents threaten young journalist with imprisonment
Reporters
Without Borders today condemned the use of threats
by state security agents on 29 December against
21-year-old Liannis Meriño Aguilera, the editor
of the independent Youth without Censorship news
agency.
Reporters Without
Borders.
|
Restore
credibility to United Nations panel
The goal
should be to create an international protector and
promoter of human rights, one that punishes violators
and takes action before it's too late to stop genocide
and crimes against humanity.
The Miami Herald.
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Cuba's
idealist past -- and future -- live on in this one
elderly man
The last
of the original Cuban progressives lives in a subsidized
apartment off U.S. 1. The walls are covered in black-and-white
photographs, and the man in them is almost as old
as the Cuban Republic, though not nearly as woebegone.
Ana Menendez,
The Miami Herald. |
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January
2
The
Miami Herald
• Castro, next Bolivian leader vow cooperation
• One mysterious voyage links five
• Migration to U.S. soared in '05
• Old murder, new resolve for victim's daughter
• Pomp and praise for Morales in Cuba
• Shrimping boat captain recounts clandestine
trip to Cuba in 1995
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Yahoo
News
• Cuba, Bolivia Make Literacy, Health Plans
• In Cuba, Bolivian leader scolds US, seeks 'dialogue'
with Europe |
Bitterness
returns to D.C.-Havana relationsa
After months
of relative calm on the U.S.-Cuba diplomat front,
the two nations have returned to the caustic rhetoric
that has often characterized their relationship
since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
Macon Telegraph.
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Avoid
Castro overreaction
Care should
be taken not to play into Castro's hands by overreacting
to the swing to the left in Latin America.
Charleston Post
Courier Editorial. |
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