Monthly Archives: February 2010
Blacks bear the brunt of Cuba's brutality
Posted on Sunday, 02.28.10
POLITICAL PRISONERS
Blacks bear the brunt of Cuba's brutality
BY CARLOS MOORE
carlosmoore2000@gmail.com
Orlando Zapata Tamayo — a young, poor, black Cuban worker imprisoned
since 2003 — died after an almost three-months-long hunger strike to
protest… Continue reading
Cuba slow to ease its grip on shopkeepers
Cuba slow to ease its grip on shopkeepers
By Marc Frank in Camagüey
Published: February 10 2010 02:00
Three years after Cuba's Rebel Youth newspaper published "The Big Old
Swindle" – a scathing series calling for reform of a state-managed… Continue reading
Cuba's public "privatization" debate
Cuba's public "privatization" debate
Cuba's Communist Party newspaper has been publishing unusually frank
criticisms of Cuban socialism.
By Nick Miroff
Published: February 9, 2010 06:29 ET
HAVANA, Cuba — Something unusual has been stirring lately in the pages
of Granma,… Continue reading
Cuba's Press & Telling the Truth
Cuba's Press & Telling the Truth
February 8, 2010
Rosa Martinez
HAVANA TIMES, Feb. 8 – I'm not a faithful follower of the popular
Brazilian soap operas shown on Cuban TV. However, a character in the
current soap, La Favorita,… Continue reading
Getting "outlawed news" in Cuba
Getting "outlawed news" in Cuba
In the democracies we all know about the student demonstrations in
Venezuela that started when the Chavez government closed down a popular
cable channel because it did not air all of Chavez's speeches or play… Continue reading