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Angel Carromero has been sentenced to four years in prison for the traffic accident that killed two opponents of the regime, Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero. The Granma Provincial Court issued the sentence Monday, October 15, after the public trial which took place on October 5. According to the official website Cubadebate, the leader of … Continue reading “Surprising Sentence for Angel Carromero for the Deaths of Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero in a Car Crash / Yoani Sanchez”

Cuban authorities, as has been their custom for years, have launched a new campaign against the U.S. embargo, taking advantage of the start of high-level United Nations General Assembly sessions. The worn-out script began with a press conference by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Havana on September 20. The only thing that could … Continue reading “A Rerun of the Embargo Show / Oscar Espinosa Chepe”

Diverse elements came together – this time – so that the hunger strike of the many Cuban dissidents demanding the release of a prisoner was successful. The very size of it was a critical factor in its positive outcome. It started with a dozen activists refusing to eat, and by the end more than thirty … Continue reading “Hunger Strikes: Do They Work or Not? / Yoani Sanchez”

We know that the trial of Angel Carromero — the Spaniard who was driving the car in when Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero were killed — will be held in Bayamo, 450 miles east of Havana. But we still don’t know when it will begin. Although Friday, August 31, was mentioned, the fact is that … Continue reading “Secrecy Shrouds Upcoming Trial in the Case of Oswaldo Paya’s Death / Yoani Sanchez”

Havana is celebrating Carnival. At least that’s what it says on TV. These carnivals dispensed like beer from a pipe, like the word “pipe” divorced from the individuality of the habit of burning tobacco to breathe the smoke through a mouthpiece. A pipe dragged by a truck, a container for water, fuel, beer, huge amounts. … Continue reading “The Devil Doesn’t Just Tap Us On the Shoulder, He Disdainfully Knocks Everything to the Floor”

I feel like I had a couple of days stolen from me last week. I remember staying up all night on Monday, leaving for the parish of The Savior of the World where the wake for Oswaldo Payá was held, and from there the hours run together. I don’t know if something happened on Tuesday … Continue reading “Inside the Skin of Ángel Carromero / Yoani Sánchez”

A lengthy editorial in Granma on Tuesday marked the beginning of legal proceedings for murder against Angel Carromero. The 27-year-old Spaniard, deputy secretary general of The People’s Party New Generation, Carromero was driving the car in which the regime opponent Oswaldo Paya and the activist Harold Cepero were killed. Also slightly injured in the crash … Continue reading “Ángel Carromero, Driver of the Car in Which Payá and Cepero Died, Charged with Murder / Yoani Sánchez”

I wanted to say hello to Jose Daniel Ferrer of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the next time he was in Havana. On Monday I learned that police had kidnapped him while he walked down a street of the capital, and sent him by force to Santiago de Cuba. How frightened they are of … Continue reading “Serene Among the Vile / Lilianne Ruíz”

He holds the microphone pressed to his mouth and his dreadlocks swing restlessly across his back. Raudel Collazo is on stage: sweating, singing, talking, the whole time a chorus of applause joining the music. After the concert he returns to his house in Guines, to the narrow broken sidewalk along which he walks his daughter … Continue reading “Despertar (Awakening) / Yoani Sánchez”

Sonia Garro Alfonso, a member of the Ladies in White and the Afro-Cuban Independent Foundation, was transferred to the women’s prison in Havana and will be processed by the investigative body of State Security, according to her sister, Yamile Garro, who informed this reporter on Tuesday. Sonia, in a note, managed to send the file … Continue reading “State Security Initiates Criminal Procedures Against Sonia Garro / Laritza Diversent”

The wife and son of Hector Riscart, El Ñaño from Fresa Chocolate on Vimeo. ZURAIMA’s Cell phone (Hector’s wife): 52519247 The trial is tomorrow, April 13th; we beg the international media to be there and document this political crusade against the Rastafarian movement in Cuba. Please don’t let Hector’s children grow up without him. The … Continue reading “‘El Ñaño’ of Cuba: One Less Rastifarian Priest / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”