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Tag Archives: dissidents
October 12, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Talk to Cuba
An article published this week by The Cable ran with the headline “Top Romney Advisor supports negotiating with terrorists.” It told the story of Mitchell Reiss, named one year ago, to a top spot on the Governor’s campaign foreign policy team. In a 2010 book, Reiss presented “an argument that… read more »
September 19, 2012
Cuban dissidents end hunger strike, saying state to free opponent
Jeff Franks, Reuters – Prominent Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque and 29 others ended an eight-day hunger strike and declared victory on Tuesday when they said Cuban authorities would free a jailed opposition member whose release they had demanded. The dissidents said state security agents informed the wide of Jorge… read more »
September 5, 2012
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez praises Colombia-FARC rebel peace talks
AP- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday he is willing to help Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels broker a peace deal and congratulated both sides on taking steps to end the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running conflict. Earlier in the day, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced the deal to… read more »
September 3, 2012
Leading Cuba Dissident Oscar Espinosa Chepe Hospitalized
AP-A leading Cuban dissident who was once a state-economist has been hospitalized for 10 days with serious liver problems, but his wife said Monday he was responding positively to treatment. Oscar Espinosa Chepe has been on an intravenous drip at a Havana hospital for more than a week and unable… read more »
June 15, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Cold Warriors in the Congress and the lessons of overreach
Finally, they overreached. All too often, Congress’s Cold Warriors thwart changes in U.S.-Cuba policy and obstruct U.S. relations with Latin America – always with “red menace” rhetoric (think Obama and “appeasement”) at the ready. Few stand up to oppose them, which is costly to our national interest and the U.S…. read more »
June 13, 2012
Dissidents, US denounce Cuba on man’s beating
Paul Haven, AP- U.S. officials and an island human rights advocate have condemned the alleged beating and detention of a Cuban dissident days after he testified by video conference before a Senate subcommittee about harassment of the opposition in his homeland. Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the… read more »
June 13, 2012
Cuba dissident freed after 4 days in jail
EFE – Cuban dissident Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, known as “Antunez”, was freed Wednesday after four days in a police lockup in Villa Clara province, where, he told Efe, he had been beaten. In a telephone conversation, Antunez said that he is free pending trial on charges of “spreading false… read more »
March 24, 2012
Amnesty International Calls on Cuba to Release Journalists
Caitlin Dickson, The Daily Beast- On Christmas Day 2010, Antonio Michel and Marcos Maiquel Lima Cruz—brothers who are both independent Cuban journalists—were celebrating with their family and friends, like everyone else in their hometown of Holguín. The brothers, both fans of Los Aldeanos, a Cuban rap group known for its… read more »
March 23, 2012
As old saying goes, where you stand depends on where you sit. As the New York Times reported this week, Cuba’s Cardinal Ortega, the priests, the faithful, the protestors in Cuba, the diaspora in Miami, official Washington, and many others have assigned great expectations to the visit of Pope Benedict… read more »
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