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Amnesty International Invites Cuban Government to "Transform Confrontation Into Dialog"

14ymedio, Madrid, 16 April 2018 — On the occasion of the transfer of power that will take place this Thursday in Cuba, the independent human rights organization, Amnesty International, has prepared a “road map” with the title Transform Confrontation into Dialogue in which it draws up a series of recommendations for the new Cuban executive to improve the situation of … Continue reading “Amnesty International Invites Cuban Government to "Transform Confrontation Into Dialog"”

‘Cuban civil society fails to utilize the mechanisms to report human rights violations’

Diario de Cuba, 30 January 2018 — Forced into exile by the Cuban regime, the Legal Information Center (Cubalex) has undergone a “radical and painful change”. However, reorganized in the USA, it aims to continue along the project’s same line: “to internationally denounce the Cuban State for its human rights violations, and spotlight the situation in the country. ” … Continue reading “‘Cuban civil society fails to utilize the mechanisms to report human rights violations’”

‘Cuban civil society fails to utilize the mechanisms to report human rights violations’

Diario de Cuba, 30 January 2018 — Forced into exile by the Cuban regime, the Legal Information Center (Cubalex) has undergone a “radical and painful change”. However, reorganized in the USA, it aims to continue along the project’s same line: “to internationally denounce the Cuban State for its human rights violations, and spotlight the situation in the country. ” … Continue reading “‘Cuban civil society fails to utilize the mechanisms to report human rights violations’”

Populism Cuban Style: Conquests, Threats and Leadership

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, 6 June 2017 — The leader speaks for hours on the platform, his index finger pointing to an invisible enemy. A human tide applauds when the intonation of a phrase demands it and stares enraptured at the bearded speaker. For decades these public acts were repeated in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution, shaping the … Continue reading “Populism Cuban Style: Conquests, Threats and Leadership”

You Know Why Cubans Flee Cuba En Masse… / Cubalex

Cubalex, 30 March 2017 — Because there is no democracy or rule of law. Nor do the conditions exist to exercise civil, political, economic, social and cultural freedoms. The elite of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), maintains power through the structures of the State and the Government with repressive methods. Workers have no right to strike … Continue reading “You Know Why Cubans Flee Cuba En Masse… / Cubalex”

The European Union Includes The Detention Of Cuban Dissidents In Its Annual Report / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 22 September 2016 — A report from the European Union details that in 2015 Cuba continued “arbitrary and short-term arrests of opposition members, activists and human rights defenders.” This situation that has led the bloc to communicate “on several occasions” its concern to the authorities of the island. The document, released Tuesday, collects … Continue reading “The European Union Includes The Detention Of Cuban Dissidents In Its Annual Report / 14ymedio”

Cuban Exiles Demand The Release Of Danilo Maldonado / EFE, 14ymedio

EFE, Miami, 29 September 2015 — The Assembly of Cuban Resistance in Miami on Tuesday demanded the release in Cuba of artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto (The Sixth), who has spent 22 days on a hunger strike to demand his freedom after nine months of detention. According to the Cuban exile group, the graffiti … Continue reading “Cuban Exiles Demand The Release Of Danilo Maldonado / EFE, 14ymedio”

14 Minutes that Shook the Revolution / Cubanet, Victor Manuel Dominguez

Cubanet, Victor Manuel Dominguez, Havana, 29 May 2015 – “P.M.,” that short documentary made by Orlando Jimenez Leal and Saba Cabrera Infante, was the beginning of the end of freedom of expression in Cuban Culture. Conceived in the beginning as a four-minute report that would establish a parallel between the militants who installed canons on … Continue reading “14 Minutes that Shook the Revolution / Cubanet, Victor Manuel Dominguez”

How Cubans Make Ends Meet: What New York Times Editorials Miss* / Ivan Garcia

If someone told you would receive a monthly salary of 350 pesos, the equivalent of $15, for a job as a nighttime security guard at a dilapidated school in a country where credit does not exist and that you would need hard currency — currency in which the state does not pay you  — to … Continue reading “How Cubans Make Ends Meet: What New York Times Editorials Miss* / Ivan Garcia”

Sonia Garro’s Husband Speaks From Prison about the Accusation of Murder / Augusto Cesar San Martin

HAVANA, Cuba , September 17, 2013 , www.cubanet.org.- In a phone call this morning, from the Combinado del Este prison, political prisoner Ramón Muñoz described as embarrassing the prosecutor’s request for a sentence between 10 and 14 years in prison for his wife, the Lady in White Sonia Garro. “We are being accused of something … Continue reading “Sonia Garro’s Husband Speaks From Prison about the Accusation of Murder / Augusto Cesar San Martin”

The Cuban Government Before the Committee Against Torture / Dora Leonor Mesa

By Miriam Leiva, Havana 06/07/2012 Extracted from www.cubaencuentro.com Cuban authorities for more than nine years avoided the analysis of their violations of human rights in the United Nations Committee on Torture; a period that coincides with the uprising of March 2003, when it subjected 75 peaceful protesters to summary trials and shot three young boat … Continue reading “The Cuban Government Before the Committee Against Torture / Dora Leonor Mesa”

The Fate of the Cuban Taliban / Angel Santiesteban

Reading Carlos Alberto Montaner’s book, Conversation at the funeral of the Comandante. What will happen after the death of Fidel Castro?, from the first pages I could recognize a reality that was predicted by the author several years before it happened. Who could have predicted that Carlos Lage — the “majordomo” of the Palace who, … Continue reading “The Fate of the Cuban Taliban / Angel Santiesteban”

“The Internet is the brainchild of the CIA,” the Cuban government tells us / Iván García

When I started working at the independent press agency, Cuba Press, in December of 1995, internet sounded like a science fiction concept. Very few of us knew anything about it. In that highway of information we just saw a complicated trick of interconnections destined only for computer specialists. And according to what the government would … Continue reading ““The Internet is the brainchild of the CIA,” the Cuban government tells us / Iván García”

Abel Remembers the Last Days of Zapata in a Prison of Camaguey / Luis Felipe Rojas

The following is a testimony from Abel Lopez Perez who, a few days before the 3rd of December, was transferred from the Provincial Prison of Guantanamo (in his native city and where he served a political prison sentence) to the horrid dungeons of a prison in Camaguey, where Orlando Zapata was also taken. In that … Continue reading “Abel Remembers the Last Days of Zapata in a Prison of Camaguey / Luis Felipe Rojas”

Washington Believes Cuba To Be in Key Moment and Has Reasons for Hope

EFE (via 14ymedio), Madrid/Miami, April 3, 2024 — The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian A. Nichols, said on Tuesday that he believes Cuba is at “a key moment” and that there are reasons for hope because “people are protesting bravely in the streets.” During an official visit to Spain, Nichols stated, … Continue reading “Washington Believes Cuba To Be in Key Moment and Has Reasons for Hope”