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Cubans Need Help Recovering From Hurricane Sandy
Cubans Need Help Recovering From Hurricane Sandy / Yoani SanchezTranslator: Unstated, Yoani Sanchez How You Can Help Hurricane Sandy has devastated the city of Santiago de Cuba and caused severe damage in several towns in the east of the country. The images of destruction speak for themselves, but the cameras barely manage to capture a [...] Continue reading
Independent Activism in Cuba
Independent Activism in Cuba August 5, 2012 June Fernandez* HAVANA TIMES — "Come wearing something red and kiss someone, because all forms of love are important." Last June 28, forty-six people who had received this message via instant messaging or e-mail met in the Havana bus terminal, near the Plaza of the Revolution, to kiss [...] Continue reading
Arrests show Cuba not yet ready for reform
Arrests show Cuba not yet ready for reform by Staff Writers Havana (UPI) Jul 25, 2012 Cuba’s wide-scale crackdown on dissent that led to arrests at a funeral shows the Central American country isn’t ready for credible political reform despite its ambition to embrace a market economy. For more than two years Cuba has been [...] Continue reading
Human Rights and Democracy -The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report – Quarterly update
Quarterly Updates: Cuba Latest Update: 31 March 2012 The Cuban government announced the release of around 2,900 prisoners in the framework of preparations for the Pope's visit in late March. Most of those freed had completed over half of their sentences and only a handful were considered by local human rights organisations to be political [...] Continue reading
An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated By Luis Eligio D'Omni and Amaury Pacheco D'Omni: (Artists currently on tour in the United States of America) 1- On The 13th of April, Hector Riscart Mustelier (El Ñaño), the leader of Cuban alternativity, musician for [...] Continue reading
Has Cuba’s regime eased up? Depends who you ask
Posted on Saturday, 04.28.12 Cuban government | Analysis Has Cuba's regime eased up? Depends who you ask Raúl Castro's grudging reforms have sparked an intense debate in Cuba and abroad on the current living conditions and future of the regime. By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Is the Cuban government sinking or swimming? Are dissidents gaining [...] Continue reading
Do We Have Changes? / Fernando Dámaso
Do We Have Changes? / Fernando DámasoFernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated Taking into account the time elapsed between the first and the second papal visit (fourteen years and two months), for most of my generation, this was the last chance to see a pope at home. The Pope came, bowed, prayed, celebrated two Masses, talked, met [...] Continue reading
Forget the Pope / Estado de Sats – State of Sats
Forget the Pope / Estado de Sats – State of SatsEstado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated Our rallying point: the Invisible Church.And our fundamental currency: freedom of thought.(Letter from Hegel to Schelling) In 1998, When John Paul II had not yet boarded the plane back the Holy See, I witnessed the following: [...] Continue reading
Havana Gets a Taste of the Free Market
03/23/2012 01:38 PM – Cuba's Pioneering Days Havana Gets a Taste of the Free MarketBy Jens Glüsing in Havana Inhabitants of the communist bastion of Cuba have been getting a taste of the free market lately with the introduction of market reforms by President Raúl Castro. The Catholic Church is supporting his endeavor, and Pope [...] Continue reading