Kathy Castor, Tampa’s representative in Congress, has got courage. Of the twenty-seven members of Florida’s delegation, only five have more Cuban Americans in their districts than she has living in hers. None but Castor has made the effort, as she did a few weeks ago, to visit Cuba. When Ms…. read more »
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Tag Archives: El Salvador
March 24, 2013
Salvadorans Urge Sainthood for Martyred Archbishop
Associated Press – Salvadorans marched through the streets of San Salvador on Palm Sunday to honor the slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and express hope the new Pope Francis will advance him along the path to sainthood. Hundreds were forced to stand outside during services at the thronged hospital chapel… read more »
March 22, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Cuba and Climate Change
There is a scientific consensus that climate change is real. Not everyone agrees, but the people who don’t believe it are answering to an awfully scornful title: climate change deniers. Since assuming leadership in 2006, following the illness of his brother, President Raúl Castro initiated a gradual process to update… read more »
March 19, 2013
El Salvador: Who Pays for the Broken Plates?
When peace agreements are signed and the guns are finally silenced, the cries for justice from victims and survivors are often drowned out by demands to “forgive and forget.” After civil war in places like El Salvador, the search for truth is considered, domestically and internationally, as a threat to… read more »
March 18, 2013
The US government view of the truce
The most recent monthly El Salvador Update from the Center for Democracy in the Americas has a description of where the US has stood with respect to the gang truce in El Salvador: The U.S. Embassy has remained aloof from any endorsement of the truce. But, according to one government official,… read more »
March 15, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Cuba A-Z (from Aruca to Zoo-bio)
The New York Times once described him as “a cheerful, box-shaped man with a face like a friendly bulldog.” Like a bulldog, Francisco Aruca was resolute and courageous, friendly with strangers and, when provoked, he was a force to be reckoned with. So, we were stricken when friends like Silvia… read more »
March 4, 2013
El Salvador: Informe mensual febrero del 2013
Ya ha pasado casi un año desde que comenzó la incipiente y aún controversial tregua entre las pandillas. En la noche del 8 de marzo y la madrugada del 9 de marzo del 2012, bajo el manto de la oscuridad, se transfirió de una prisión de máxima seguridad a una de mínima seguridad a diversos dirigentes pandilleros, con lo cual dio inició un proceso de paz que continúa hasta la fecha. En pocos días, disminuyó de forma dramática el índice de homicidios. Por ello, El Salvador ya no está incluido en la lista de los países más violentos del mundo y la seguridad ya no encabeza la lista de preocupaciones del pueblo salvadoreño.
March 4, 2013
El Salvador Update: February 2013 / Informe mensual febrero 2013
It has been nearly a year since El Salvador’s nascent and still-controversial gang truce started. During the night of March 8-9, 2012, under the cover of darkness, gang leaders were transferred from maximum to minimum security prisons, and so began the peace process that continues to this day. Within days, the homicide rate dropped dramatically. As a result, El Salvador is no longer on the list of the world’s most violent counties and security no longer leads the list of Salvadorans’ concerns.
March 1, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Reality Check
The same day that a bipartisan Congressional delegation left Cuba, the Boston Globe triggered a brief and unsatisfactory debate when it reported that “High-level US diplomats have concluded that Cuba should no longer be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.” That Cuba should be removed from the list has long been the… read more »
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