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July
28
FROM
CUBA
Police
warn former political prisoner
Former political
prisoner José Manuel Pereira said he was called
in by police and promised he would get four years
in prison if he attempted to leave the country
"by irregular means."
HAVANA José
Antonio Fornaris
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FROM
CUBA
Rafters charge three times they were ignored
A group of
five men who became stranded at sea as they attempted
to leave Cuba charged their pleas for help were
ignored in three separate instances by Cuban navy,
coast guard, and merchant vessels.
MOA, Juan Carlos
Garcell |
FROM
CUBA
Plantains
lost for lack of transportation
More than
100 hundredweight of plantains went bad in government
warehouses in Banes while the government agency
in charge of collecting farmers' produce searched
for a means of transporting them to market.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
FROM
CUBA
The
city prepares for carnival
Evidently,
at the last minute, local authorities mobilized
and the signs of the approaching carnival became
apparent by its start July 21.
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, Rosa M. Montoya |
FROM
CUBA
Inmate
shot attempting to escape
Juan Carlos
Calzadilla, also known as "El Loco," or the crazy
one, to other inmates of the Playa Manteca prison,
in Mayarí, eastern Cuba, either crossed or was trying
to cross the security fence when a guard saw him
and fired with his rifle.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
FROM
CUBA
Dissidents
warned to lie low during anniversary
Dissidents
in Bayamo, in the eastern Cuban province of Granma,
report they have been warned by State Security officials
they would be jailed "immediately" for any activities
carried out during the official celebration of the
anniversary of Castro's revolution July 26.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
FROM
CUBA
Police
warn former political prisoner
Former political
prisoner José Manuel Pereira said he was called
in by police and promised he would get four years
in prison if he attempted to leave the country "by
irregular means."
HAVANA, José
Antonio Fornaris |
FROM
CUBA
Public
health "precarious" en eastern town
Residents
of the municipality of Antilla, in Holguín province,
call the public health situation in their community
"precarious," citing the scarcity of doctors and
medicines.
HOLGUIN, Liannis
Meriño Aguilera |
FROM
CUBA
Prison inmates complain of isolation
Inmates at
the provincial prison in Holguín, in eastern Cuba,
say they are kept practically isolated from their
families, since their mail does not get through
and they find it very hard to make phone calls.
HOLGUIN,
Liannis Meriño Aguilera |
FROM
CUBA
New
dengue fever wave strikes Havana
More than
600 new cases of dengue fever have been recorded
in the Havana municipalities of El Cerro, Centro
Habana, and Arroyo Naranjo, said employees of the
Public Health department who wished to remain anonymous.
HAVANA, José
Antonio Fornaris |
FROM
CUBA
Man
arrested had anti-Castro tattoo
Ángel Enrique
Fernández, 41, was arrested July 9, after an Interior
Ministry official noticed a tattoo on his arm that
reads: Down with Fidel. Murderer.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares |
FROM
CUBA
So
near, yet so far
I admit it,
I shudder every time the U. S. government announces
new measures designed to hasten the arrival of democracy
in Cuba.
HAVANA, Luis
Cino |
The
Miami Herald
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Castro's
image of bravery doesn't match reality.
The 79-year-old
leader is still regarded by many as an icon of courage,
when in fact he is the biggest coward among Latin
American leaders.
Andres Oppenheimer,
The Miami Herald |
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July
17
FROM
CUBA
School
uniforms go on sale, Cuban style
Authorities
have placed school uniforms on sale in Havana
and in the process have generated long lines and
other peculiarities of the Cuban system.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaseda
|
FROM
CUBA
Assailants
becoming bolder in Havana
When two men
of about 30 held up a man at the entrance to the
Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital at about 9:00
p.m. last Friday, the 20 or so eyewitnesses expressed
anything but surprise.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaseda |
FROM
CUBA
Rats
make unwelcome fellow travelers
Virgilio
Delat said a rat bit him on the train in which he
was traveling between Santiago de Cuba and Havana.
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, Rosa María Montoya |
FROM
CUBA
Police
presence on the upswing in Pinar del Rio province
An increase
in police activity has lead residents of Pinar del
Rio province to conclude that operation "Containment"
has reached the province, said Felipe Gil, a local
journalist.
PINAR DEL RIO,
Rafael Ferro Salas |
FROM
CUBA
Prison
inmate hangs himself after serving 17 years
An inmate
of the Guamajal prison in Villa Clara province hanged
himself after serving 17 years of a 29 year sentence.
Luis Enrique Martínez was found in the number 8
ward of the prison.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez Albacia |
FROM
CUBA
Two
arrested for aiding an illegal exit
Two men who
work as drivers for the Cuban phone company were
arrested June 24 and stand accused of people trafficking.
They were being held in isolation cells at State
Security headquarters in Villa Marista.
HAVANA, Odelín
Alfonso Torna |
FROM
CUBA
Theft
in school for foreign students
There was
a theft Sunday night at the Salvador Allende school
for foreign students in the outskirts of Havana,
and authorities reportedly consider any incidents
related to the school a sensitive matter.
HAVANA, José
Antonio Fornaris |
FROM
CUBA
Permits
to rent to foreign lodgers could be rescinded
After a meeting
of representatives of the Popular Power focused
on supposed problems created by Cubans renting rooms
in their homes to foreign visitors, the discussion
among those present turned to possibly rescinding
permits that allow the rentals.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaseda |
FROM
CUBA
Government
puts pressure on foreigners to restrict Internet
access
Several foreigners
living in Havana have complained that State Security
police have pressured them not to allow Cuban acquaintances
to use their Internet access.
HAVANA, Juan
González Febles |
FROM
CUBA
Police
search several homes in Batabanó
The economic
police in Batabanó, a small port city in the southern
coast of Havana province, were unusually active
in the last three weeks in June, searching several
homes for signs of prohibited economic activity.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló |
FROM
CUBA
Social
workers ride shotgun on freight trucks and school
buses
Authorities
have assigned a batallion of social workers to ride
along with the drivers of freight trucks carrying
merchandise out of the port of Havana, and of school
buses, starting July 3.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló |
FROM
CUBA
Wife
says imprisoned husband fears for his life
The wife
of political prisoner José Luis García Paneque,
one of the 75 dissidents arrested in 2002, says
her husband is in danger of being killed by common
criminals.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Luis Esteban Espinosa |
FROM
CUBA
Political
prisoner seeks shelter in solitary confinement cell
Political
prisoner Virgilio Mantilla Arango says he has accepted
solitary confinement because of threats from common
criminals.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Luis Esteban Espinosa |
The
Miami Herald
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Cuba
warns dissidents over US aid
A top Cuban
official has warned dissidents they will face consequences
if they accept funds from a new US plan to promote
political change in Cuba. Cuba's National Assembly
president, Ricardo Alarcon, said the plan was a
"politically delirious provocation".
BBC, UK. |
As
Fidel Castro turns 80, Havana and U.S. wonder: What
happens next?
As Cuban
President Fidel Castro approaches his 80th birthday
next month, the once taboo topic of succession is
becoming more public in Havana.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. |
Shots
at Cuban boat off Fla. Criticized
A leading
Cuban rights group criticized the U.S. Coast Guard
on Monday for firing shots at the engine of a boat
overcrowded with U.S.-bound migrants during a confrontation
that killed one woman and injured several other
people off the Florida Coast.
Florida Today. |
Passenger
claims boaters weren't smugglers and actually rescued
29 Cubans
Two of the
men accused in a fatal alleged smuggling attempt
actually rescued the Cubans found aboard their speedboat,
a passenger on the ill-fated trip said Monday.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. |
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