English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Ivan Garcia,25 September 2017 — If you want to go to the house of the 58-year-old dissident lawyer, Julio Ferrer Tamayo, the busy Esquina de Tejas, which is ten minutes by car from central Havana, can do as a reference point. Four important city streets meet at the famous corner; Monte, Infanta, Calzadas de Cerro, … Continue reading “Interview with Julio Ferrer Tamayo, Independent Cuban Lawyer / Iván García”
Cubalex, Lic. Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo, 13 November 2019 — Unfortunately, in the Cuban legal context, there is no Constitutional Tribunal, or, to put it another way, there are no constitutional guarantees. Along with many lawyers, non-lawyers, and legislators as well, I was hoping for a change. Along with other colleagues, I had confidence in the … Continue reading “I Have No Confidence in the Cuban Constitution / Cubalex, Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo”
Lic. Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo REVOLUTION, for Fidel Castro Ruz, Historic Leader of the Cuban Revolution, is the sense of the historic moment; it’s changing everything that should be changed; it’s full liberty and equality; it’s to be treated and to treat others as human beings; it’s our own emancipation through our own efforts; it’s … Continue reading “Counter-revolution / Cuban Law Association, Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo”
Instruction No. 193 of 8 July 2007, of the Government Council of the People´s Supreme Court, affirms in the first that INASMUCH AS: The administration of justice in our country has as a priority the adequate speed in the processing of judicial proceedings in general and in virtue of that there having been adopted various … Continue reading “Justice Without Delay: A Human Right / Cuban Law Association, Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo”
CUBALEX, 3 April 2020: The Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, coordinator of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) has been given his freedom along with three other activists who had also been jailed. Ferrer was locked up October 1st, 2019, and was tried last February 26th, along with the other members of the opposition, Roilán … Continue reading “Jose Daniel Ferrer Released From Prison / Cubalex”
Cubalex Center for Legal Information, Havana, 15 November 2016 – The Cubalex Center for legal Information is initiating a campaign in support of Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo, an attorney by profession and a defender of human rights by conviction. For years Ferrer Tamayo has faced alone a system where officials charged with following the law have … Continue reading “Cubalex Launches Campaign For The Release Of Lawyer Julio Ferrer / Cubalex”
14ymedio, Havana, 17 March 17, 2023 — The letter sent on Wednesday to US President Joe Biden by three senators, calling for the end of the embargo on Cuba and more aid for the private sector of the Island, was answered the next day by the US-Cuba Commercial and Economic Council (Cubatrade), with several clarifications. … Continue reading “Three US Senators Ask Biden To End the Embargo and To Help the Cuban Private Sector”
14ymedio, Havana, 31 December 2022 — Cuban opponents Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and Julio Ferrer Tamayo met this Friday morning with US Democratic Senator Ron Wyden visiting Havana. “The topic of the conversation was the political prisoners and their relatives,” Roque wrote through her Twitter account. Wyden, who two days before held a meeting with Cuban president … Continue reading “Two Cuban Opponents Meet in Havana with US Democratic Senator Ron Wyden”
Ivan Garcia, 28 September 2016 — After passing the crossing of La Palma, two kilometers from the old bus stop of Mantilla, El Calvario is found nestled, a district of one-story houses, roads without asphalt and a multitude of dogs without owners. At the end of a narrow alley the Cubalex Center of Legal Information … Continue reading “Laritza Diversent, Devastated by the Police Operation Against Cubalex / Iván García”
14ymedio, Havana, 23 October 2023 — With a delegation diminished by desertions and with few renowned athletes, the Cuban authorities did not dare to predict more than 18 gold medals for these Pan American Games in Chile. Much less was it imagined that, a few days after the start of the sporting event, the athletes … Continue reading “The Cuban Rowing Team Wins Gold in Chile, Despite Multiple ‘Desertions’”
14ymedio, Havana, 25 April 2023 — The rowers Maykol Julio Álvarez, Yoelvis Javier Hernández and Osvaldo Pérez left the Cuban team participating in the qualifying tournament for the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023 that ended on April 19. According to photographer Yuniet Ávila, the desertions occurred in Chile and Mexico. The habanero … Continue reading “Three Cuban Rowers ‘Desert’ After Participating in a Qualifying Event for the Pan American Games in Chile”
14ymedio, Havana, 1 February 2023 — Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) has responded in writing to the request of the Council for Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC) to include an assembly bill on this year’s legislative agenda that addressed the right to assemble and demonstrate. The response, however, is not encouraging and is … Continue reading “Signatures of 10,000 Cubans Sought for the Legal Right to “Assemble and Demonstrate””
14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 7 October 2021 — Las Tunas joined the initiative for a peaceful demonstration called by the Archipiélago collective for this coming November 20th,[Ed. note: now moved to the 15th] just as Havana, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Holguín and Pinar del Río did before. Archipiélago reported that a group of citizens signed the … Continue reading “Las Tunas Joins Peaceful November Marches in Cuba”
14ymedio, Ines Casel, Havana, 12 April 2021 — Since November 27th of last year my heart has had no peace. That day, my son Julio César Llópiz Casal and a group of young Cubans waited for more than 12 hours to be seen by the Minister of Culture to present their concerns. Finally, at dawn on the 28th, … Continue reading “Letter to All Cuban Mothers: Let Us Not Remain Silent”
Cubalex, Lawyer Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo — I myself, Julio Alfredo Ferrer, filed a complaint against President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez with the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) for the crime of spreading epidemics. José Luis Reyes Blanco, promoted in August 2019 to FGR prosecutor by the State Council, quoted me and responded verbally. Reyes … Continue reading “Diaz-Canel vs Ordinary Cubans: Equal Before the Law?”
