English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 13 November 2021 — The Cuban authorities today withdrew the press credentials of the EFE Agency journalists in Cuba, on the eve of the civic march on Monday the 15th to demand a political change on the island, a march the authorities have declared illegal. Those responsible for the International Press … Continue reading “Cuban Regime Withdraws Press Credentials of Spanish Agency EFE”
14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 11 April 2023 — The Cuban specialists who arrived last January in the Mexican state of Morelos and proclaimed their experience in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Guatemala and Pakistan, “are not in position” because they lack a professional identification card. According to the president of the Federated Colleges of Medicine A.C., María … Continue reading “About Twenty Cuban Doctors in Mexico, Rejected for Lacking Professional Credentials”
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 2 October 2022 – The night of Saturday, October 1, 2022 will be remembered in our Havana neighborhood of Nuevo Vedado as the moment we came to think of ourselves as protestors. After more than 100 hours without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Ian, only few lights could be seen … Continue reading “A Neighborhood with Proven Revolutionary Credentials Turns to Protest”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 22 February 2022 — On Monday, the Cuban authorities restored the accreditations — withdrawn last November — of three journalists from the EFE team on the island, a decisive step towards the normalization of the journalistic activity of the Spanish agency in the country. The International Press Center (CPI) took this … Continue reading “Cuban Government Restores the Accreditations of three EFE Journalists”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 3 February 2022 — The Cuban government said this Tuesday that it is willing to “find a solution” with respect to the Spanish news agency EFE, after limiting the work of most of its journalists on the island. The International Press Center (CPI) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs thus responded … Continue reading “EFE Will Be Able to Work in Cuba if it Exercises ‘Objective, Truthful Impartial and Non-biased Journalism’”
14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 7 January 2022 — The Cuban activist and businesswoman Saily González Velázquez, along with others such as Salomé García Bacallao, and family members of those detained on July 11th (11J), have started a social media campaign for the Spanish news agency, EFE, to cover the prisoners’ trials. “There is still time for … Continue reading “Family Members of Those Arrested on July 11 in Cuba Plea with EFE to Cover Their Trials”
14ymedio, Havana, February 16, 2024 — The presidential office of South Korea described on Thursday the restoration of its diplomatic relations with Cuba as “a significant political and psychological coup” that will “inevitably” affect communist North Korea, according to the AP agency. Under lock and key this Friday, with several posters of “esteemed comrade” Kim … Continue reading “Total Silence From North Korea in the Face of the Resumption of Relations Between Cuba and Seoul”
14ymedio, Yaiza Santos, Madrid, 24 December 2023 — Intending to violate the 7,500 kilometers of distance between Havana and Madrid, a message from State Security arrived last week for Amelia Calzadilla and her husband, Antonio Díaz. Both are regulated — the regime’s term of choice to mean ’forbidden to travel’ — and will not be able to return … Continue reading “The Long Arm of Cuba’s Political Police Reaches Amelia Calzadilla in Spain”
14ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, December 6, 2023 — When Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, Cuba’s future was uncertain. The Americans had made it clear that they were not interested in annexation but there was no clear path to sovereignty either. The island’s fields had been torched by war, small … Continue reading “Public Indifference”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 18 November 2022 — The Consulate General of Spain in Havana is already receiving appointment requests to process nationality applications under the new Democratic Memory Law (LMD). They will address this procedure from November 21, as reported by the diplomatic headquarters on its networks on Thursday night. There is a … Continue reading “The Spanish Consulate in Cuba Receives an Avalanche of Nationality Petitions”
14ymedio, Madrid, 28 April 2022 — The authorities are addressing, at the highest level, the departure of Armando Franco Senén as director of Alma Mater; his dismissal was announced on Tuesday and has generated a strong controversy between the readers of the university magazine and the Cuban intelligentsia, close to officialdom, or not, who believe … Continue reading “Controversy Grows Within the Cuban Regime Over the Dismissal of the Director of ‘Alma Mater’”
14ymedio, Madrid, 28 April 2022 — The departure of Armando Franco Senén, former director of the university magazine Alma Mater, continues to generate reactions, and the Communist Party has taken notice. In a message on Twitter, Enrique Villuendas Calleyro, an official of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee and in charge of the press, said that he met … Continue reading “Silvio Rodríguez Regrets the ‘Closeness’ of the Cuban Leadership and the ‘Powers of Impunity’”
14ymedio, Havana, 13 January 2022 — Alberto González Casals, director of the Cuban International Press Center (CPI), has been included by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FDHC) in its database of repressors. In a statement issued this Thursday, the Miami-based organization details that they have included González Casals as a “white-collar repressor” and as … Continue reading “Cuba’s Director of the International Press Center Joins the List of Repressors”
14ymedio, Madrid, 26 November 2021 — On Friday, two weeks after the Cuban government withdrew the credentials of the EFE agency journalists without explanation, the State website Cubadebate published an extensive article intended to justify the measure, which it attributes to the “prominent role” of the Spanish media in the “manufacture of news.” The official … Continue reading “‘Cubadebate’ Tries to Give Lessons in Journalism to the International Press”
14ymedio, Brussels, 15 November 2021 — The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured this Monday that Spain “will not give up” until the Cuban authorities return “all credentials” to all journalists from the Efe Agency in Havana, stripped of them on Saturday without receiving an explanation. The Secretary of State for Latin America … Continue reading “Cuban Embassy in Spain Hides Behind Covid to Ignore the Call of the Spanish Government”
