Sheyla Hirshon, Havana Times – The non-governmental Center for Democracy in the Americas recently recently released a fascinating and highly readable study of gender relations in Cuba titled Women’s Work: Gender Equality in Cuba and the Role of Women building Cuba’s Future [1]. The document, the third installment of a series on 21st Century… read more »
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Archive for the ‘Cuba Blog’ Category
May 17, 2013 | CDA
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Settling with Alan Gross, DAI Changes Its Tune, If Not Its Talking Points
On Thursday, Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) agreed to make a secret financial payment to Alan and Judy Gross to settle the lawsuit the couple filed against it last year. DAI lured Alan Gross with a lucrative contract to smuggle banned satellite communications equipment into Cuba on a mission that left… read more »
May 17, 2013 | Recommended reading: Along the Malecón
“Satellite dishes don’t look like surf boards”
In Revisiting Operation Surf, investigative journalist Tracey Eaton converses with Robert Guerra, former director of Freedom House’s Internet Freedom Project, about the attempt to smuggle satellite dishes into Cuba by disguising them as boogie boards. Cuba’s government says that Guerra was the “handler” for the actual smuggler, Barry Fink, a… read more »
May 10, 2013 | CDA
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: A Mother’s Day Message for President Obama and Vice President Biden
Earlier this week, Vice President Biden said Cuba had made some “small encouraging signs of change,” but that the administration still wants to see “real change.” Unsurprisingly, this didn’t make headlines. It’s a little sad but it’s not news that their two-year-old message about Cuba, “your change isn’t big enough,”… read more »
May 3, 2013 | CDA
Just before we hit send, there was an important development in the case involving René González, a member of the Cuban Five. González, who was permitted by U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lenard to travel to Cuba for two weeks under strict conditions pursuant to his probation, will renounce his… read more »
May 3, 2013 | Recommended reading: Along the Malecón
In Cuba: USAID Flies Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
In his aptly named Into the Cuckoo’s Nest, investigative journalist Tracey Eaton provides three great examples of how schizophrenic U.S. policy toward Cuba can be, all drawn from USAID’s program there. Typically, development programs provide access to clean water, food, shelter and medical attention—that is, they seek to alleviate poverty…. read more »
May 3, 2013 | CDA
LA Times: Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and training to leftist rebels in… read more »
May 3, 2013 | CDA
New York Times: Amid Fealty to Socialism, a Nod to Capitalism
Victoria Burnett, New York Times - In many ways, it was a typical May Day: Hundreds of thousands of Cuban workers — doctors, sailors, dancers, bank clerks — marched Wednesday toward this city’s vast Revolution Plaza, waving flags, holding aloft banners that proclaimed fidelity to socialism and tooting plastic horns. But… read more »
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