Cable or Carrot?
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The mystery has been solved, the enigma of the fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela has been cleared up because of an indiscretion. The Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology affirmed a few days ago that it “is absolutely operational,” and what it is used for will depends on the government of Raul Castro. Just when we thought that the tendon lying in the depths of the sea had been eaten by sharks and turned into a home for coral, comes a sign that it is working. For now, it is just about words because there is no evidence that kilobytes are running through the cable, circulating data. No office has opened offering a domestic connection to anyone who wants to contract for it, and the prices of an hour’s navigation from a hotel continue to be prohibitive and abusive. In workplaces and schools the monthly quotas to peek into cyberspace continue scarce and supervised, while the official press makes no allusion to an immediate three thousand times increase in our bandwidth. The cable is, but it doesn’t exist; it exists, but not for us.
Between La Guaira, Venezuela, and Santiago de Cuba runs an umbilical cord that should turn us into a 21st Century country, remove our technological and communications handicaps. When it arrived at our shores in early 2011, not even the most pessimistic calculated that a year later we would remain in the same poverty of connectivity. There is not a single valid argument to delay any longer the mass influx of Cubans on the Web, other than the eternal fear of our authorities before the free flow of information. Every day that they delay our initiation as Internauts, they compromise the professional and social capital of this nation, they condemn us to the caboose of modernity. On the other hand, so much control only opens the door to a million and one illegal ways for people to get content from digital sites, blogs and on-line newspapers. Like the satellite dishes that are a reality which neither police operations nor threats from the newspaper Granma can eradicate, something similar will occur with access to the great WorldWideWeb. Pirate accounts, resold in the black market by State institution network administrators themselves, are already a preview of this cyber underground.
Amid so many calls for information transparency, it is paradoxical that one of the most pressing issues in our national life continues to be steeped in secrecy. Also too painful for the official journalists is that an official of a foreign government is the only person who has alluded to the actual state of such an expensive link. But even more sad is that the Internet is the new battlefield of the Cuban government and the fiber optic cable is the weapon — selective and hidden — in its media war.
Junio 17th, 2012 at 23:44
I am a citizen of the USA.The people in our country are voting out the politicians in the oval office soon before they can cause more havoc than they already have. Its depressing that they want to turn us into another Cuba. We already rose up against one government set on ruling us unjustly in the 1700’s. Now we have to fight our own people who want to subjegate us! Which makes me wonder about Cuba. You have had 50 years to make your country an ideal place, yet your politics has only led you down the wrong path. You starve for food, for knowledge, for the right to exsist all so a handfull of demigods can control your every move. Do they think you are not smart enough to rule yourself or are they just plain power hungary ?What are they feeding you to keep you under their thumb ? Some of our politicians think we are dumb and only they have the right to rule. Fortunately we can vote them out of office, which is what we’ll do in November. So Castro’s daughter can “love” our black president all she wants to. Because its not going to get her shit.We found out he’s no good, so we are voting his butt back to the ghetto. You can do it too if your people stop believing the regime, stop ratting on your neighbors, storm the palace if need be. Pass the word that if the government is unfair to its people, the people can take over and vote new rulers.Its happening in the middle east as we speak ! Your FREEDOM as a human being is worth more than free medicine,free schools,free substandard housing and no access to the rest of the world.You deserve the right to pick and choose what you want to be and do. All those “free” things the government gives you just makes you a modern slave and they hold the whip because you fear them.When you get rid of the fear, they no longer have the power !!
Junio 16th, 2012 at 22:36
Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis GarcĂa PĂ©rez, known as AntĂşnez, was released by police on Wednesday after being detained last Saturday in a violent incident at his city of birth, Placetas, in Villa Clara province.
“My first words are to express my thanks to all those persons of good will who, somehow or other, decidedly contributed to my release,” said Antúnez in a statement made available by the Miami-based Directorio Democrático Cubano (Cuban Democratic Board).
On Saturday, AntĂşnez was arrested, beaten and sprayed with pepper gas in a police jail cell.
The domestic opposition movement and human rights activists had consistently denounced his detention.
Last Thursday, AntĂşnez participated in a teleconference before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with the domestic situation in Cuba and the recent acts of harassment against the peaceful opposition.
The U.S. government had demanded Antúnez’s immediate and unconditional release. At a recent press conference in Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland deplored the oppositionist’s arrest.
Criticism has become strongest because Raúl Castro’s government seems to have activated a campaign to block the opposition’s plans to honor political prisoners on the occasion of Fathers’ Day, next Sunday.
In the past 48 hours, the cell phones of several dissidents in Villa Clara and Santiago appeared to have been blocked by the authorities so they could not speak with supporters or journalists.
“These actions highlight once again the repressive nature of the Cuban government, particularly with regard to citizens who peacefully express opposite points of view,” Nuland said. “We shall continue to support the Cuban people in its desire to determine their own future.”
Joining the chorus of figures and personalities in U.S. politics who demanded Antúnez’s release was Senator Bill Nelson. In a letter to the chief of the Cuban Mission in Washington, Jorge Bolaños, the senator asked for an explanation.
“I beg you to determine at once all the facts surrounding this affair and notify my office about Antúnez’s whereabouts and well-being,” Nelson said in his letter.
AntĂşnez, 46, was released from prison in April 2007 after serving a 17-year sentence for allegedly engaging in enemy propaganda, attempts at sabotage and other crimes punishable by the Cuban penal code.
Two weeks ago in Miami, groups of Cuban exiles showed a documentary that contains testimony from former political prisoners about the coercive methods used by the island’s prisons, and the consistent violation of the immates’ basic rights.
The documentary, titled “Cuba’s Prisons: A Sequence of Terror,” was filmed and edited surreptitiously by members of the Oriental Democratic Alliance (ADO), a coalition of opposition groups in Cuba’s eastern provinces. The documentary included a testimony by Antúnez.
Junio 6th, 2012 at 01:07
ASK A CASTRO! ISNT THAT A T.V. SHOW?? MARIELA CASTRO ON THE FIRST VIDEO TOWARDS THE END, AS SOON AS SHE IS ASKED ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS SHE GOES ON TO BLAME HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH AS LINKED WITH “MERCENARIES” AND OF COURSE USED THAT VERY TIRED EXCUSE “COLONIALISM” BY SPAIN FOR MANY OF CUBA’S CURRENT PROBLEMS!
VIDEO INTERVIEW Part 1: A rare exclusive with Mariela Castro: The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro opens up about her fight for gay rights in Cuba and what the fight could mean for political rights in that country. http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/
VIDEO INTERVIEW Part 2: A rare exclusive with Mariela Castro: Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela speaks about Alan Gross case. On Tuesday Christiane has the second part of her interview with Mariela Castro on CNN International. The niece of Fidel Castro and daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, discusses Cuba’s political future and her fight for acceptance of gays in that country.
Junio 5th, 2012 at 15:56
…”continuing to support the totalitarian regime in Havana”……..will create there more zombies and perhaps the growing of the cannibalism shown in the west;
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs.....30016.html
Junio 5th, 2012 at 15:13
U.S. State Department takes Twitter questions from independent journalist in Cuba
Q: What new initiatives must North American diplomacy adopt in order to prevent the majority of the governments from continuing to support the totalitarian regime in Havana within the framework of the various UN voting blocs on matters such as the embargo, which is a key decision on your country’s sovereignty, or to achieve full consent in Geneva for condemning the unpunished violation of the most element human rights by the Castros’ regime?
MIKE HAMMER: Well, thanks for this question. In fact, the important thing here is, when are the Castro brothers going to let a true democracy exist in Cuba? Where will there be freedom of expression? When will there be no more political prisoners? When will human rights be respected? And that is why we continue to pressure, through our embargo, through what… through what we do with respect to international cooperation in order to be able to pressure Cuba, i.e., the Castro brothers’ regime, to change and allow there to be freedom. We want to support the Cuban people, and we will continue to pressure the Cuban government until the day that we truly see a free Cuba.
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....t-in-cuba/
Junio 5th, 2012 at 12:02
6 will be released and other 6 milions will be jailed for sure because many jails and camps are build to fit all cuba’s concentration camp there…so what to talk… about 6 or 6 milion? Try not to be in the camp…because we liveback on time,in 1940
Junio 5th, 2012 at 11:53
gibrish…is good humberto…because the world is so stupid and it creates the misery in every moment for itself…so the white is black and the black is white.
look greece this month and see…because that will be the fate of the west and world which just jumped in the clif and now is falling down not known where….
Junio 5th, 2012 at 08:44
THE BALTIMORE SUN: Castro daughter: Trade Gross for Cuban Five- ‘I think that the six must be released,’ she tells CNN - By Matthew Hay Brown,
A daughter of Cuban president RaĂşl Castro says the United States should release five imprisoned Cuban intelligence officers in exchange for the Maryland aid worker held for more than two years in Havana.
“I think that the six must be released — both the five Cubans and Alan Gross,” Mariela Castro Espin told CNN’sChristiane Amanpour in an interview to be aired Tuesday.
The Cuban Five — Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino — were arrested in 1998 and accused of espionage against U.S. Southern Command, headquartered in Miami, and several Cuban exile organizations in South Florida.
They were convicted on charges related to monitoring exile groups and attempting to infiltrate military installations and given sentences that ranged from 15 years to life.
René González was released from prison in 2011 but must remain in the United States while on probation until 2014. He was granted permission by a judge this spring to visit Cuba for two weeks to visit an ailing brother.
Gross was working as a subcontractor to the U.S. Agency for International Development in an attempt to helpCuba’ssmall Jewish community set up an intranet and gain better access to the Internet.
The veteran aid worker, who had not worked in Cuba and did not speak Spanish, made several trips to the Caribbean island nation before he was arrested.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne.....8227.story
Junio 5th, 2012 at 08:37
third wave,red cardinal! USTEDES NO SE CANSAN CON ESAS BOBERIAS??
Junio 5th, 2012 at 08:30
we live in interesting time…the morning process when the night and day fight,blsnd and replace each other…so what is coming is called day and thereshine lights the sun in the world which is flat…so the vision’s plato philosophy returns.
it will be not like in east,nor like west which replaced,copied each other but it will be something new which comes created from both.That means that the good change does not come from east,nor from the west but by unitinh,blending the two as jin-yang
Junio 5th, 2012 at 07:28
what is going on is a very old evil system with as we know is so called now of the 1 and 99%…and which together is 100 % evil…considered….a long night living,runing,keeping,fedding,protecting the evil system…evil kingdom continuening….to keep runing even when its time passes.So it refuse to change…
But what about if the sun comes,returns?Than the day starts and the night…changes and it becomes day…it is natural process.The dark clouds do hidde the sun rising up,crossing,passing as a visitor…but the question is where the sun belong..in the 100%(1+99%)?…when the sun is present…than 100% changes…both the 1 and 99%.Who wins and who loses…which stay and which doesnt?They both lose…because they both change,the 1 and 99% (as 100%)….And the change now happen fast and the 100% loses.
This is called a miracle..are there now present as 101 % or some stars are falling?
“a star from east swallow the 7 stars in the west”…what does that mean…that a day begins…or that asia eats…2 americas,2 europes,africa,middle east and oceania
than sun rises in the east and that pass or cross to the west also.Cuba changes too.
that is why is said; sun to light all the world first it must be not around but flat
Junio 5th, 2012 at 01:12
“I am aware that I am on this Island when I open my eyes in the morning and the first question that comes to mind is: What will I find to eat today?”
this is the question that all the humans in the west ask today…since the west became like east…like east use to be…like russia,east europe,china,india etc…
yet cuba was the fitst country to copy the east 5 decades ago…before everyone else in the west who now ask;”What will I find to eat today?”…but the food is gone all to east who dont ask anymore;”What will I find to eat today?”
who eats is stronger…so the plan of the world leaders is to starve,weaken all the west,get rid of its people…and replace the peasents of the west with the east’s….
as we know that cuba is in the west so it is part of the mission;the big starvation
Junio 5th, 2012 at 00:33
“Cubans tell pollsters that RaĂşl Castro’s reforms are having little impact”
Dont you guys understand that the old ways of controlling people is to keep them weak and poor and build a big army not to protect them but scare them. This stupid old way is done now everywhere in the west and the plan is to spread everywhere in the world. The problem is that the east which was fed by the west…refuse the old way and a world vision or reality that looks like present cuba. So this may cause a big war between east and west about the two different missions
1.to make all the world like cuba (now chosen as the west vision,copy of the east)
2,to make the whole world like china (east vision copy of the west)
so the change of the magnetic field happen and east became west and west became east
As old they are both wrong ways and visions because their structure is the same but the only difference is that easterns work harder and are paid $300,consume fast,more than before and the westerns work less,non and are paid nothing or $ 20 dollars…and cant consume like before which means that some third power is over both east and west and manipulate and use them,balance,changes,connect and separate or put them in war tomorrow to destroy both and who wins will be the chosen fate for all.This is crazy…because there is a true path where none has walk yet..which is called good way…and good order. Still is chosen the big conflict maybe,the anihilation to bring the depopulation…and this is a big insanity but they have decide to follow the evil path which is easy to walk…flying to the cliff than walking up to climb up where the land flat is.They chosen the other flat land down
Junio 5th, 2012 at 00:06
MIAMI HERALD: Cubans tell pollsters that Raúl Castro’s reforms are having little impact -Though hints of optimism creep up, most Cubans say in a poll that Raúl Castro’s reforms have a long way to go before they begin to benefit.- By Juan O. Tamayo
Five in six Cubans say they have not benefitted from ruler Raúl Castro’s economic reforms and nearly 75 percent say their family’s economic situation is the same or worse than a year ago, according to a poll made public Monday.
The survey by the International Republican Institute (IRI) also showed the growing disgruntlement among huge majorities of younger Cubans, hinted that optimism is creeping up, and showed an odd slip in those who favor capitalism and democracy.
IRI’s figures backed up the complaint from Cuba analysts that Castro’s reforms have been too few and too slow to fix the sluggish economy. But they also hinted that the reforms have sparked some level of optimism on the island.
It was the seventh Cuba poll conducted since 2007 by IRI, a Washington nonprofit that works to advance freedom around the world. Like its counterpart, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, it is technically nonpartisan.
The poll involved face-to-face interviews of 787 Cuban adults Feb. 29-March 14, and has a 3.5 percent margin of error. IRI says it works “discreetly” in Cuba because the communist government bans independent surveys, but declines to provide further details.
Eighty-five percent of those polled said they have not benefitted directly from Castro’s reforms, and three-quarters said the economic situation of their families is the same or worse than last year and 60 percent expect it to stay the same in the next year.
Asked more generally how things are going, those who said “well” dropped from 27 to 19 percent while those who picked “so-so” rose from 24 to 37 percent. Cubans who replied “very badly” slipped from 9 to 8 percent.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....-raul.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 23:43
HUFFINGTON POST: Americans in Cuba: ‘Why Doesn’t My Blackberry Work?’ Cubans in Cuba: ‘What Will I Find to Eat Today?’ - by YOANI SANCHEZ
It’s already been half a century that American citizens have been denied the legal right to visit our country. While they have had to learn the names of 11 different leaders who have passed through the White House in those five decades, our Plaza of the Revolution has had only two tenants, both with the same surname. In all that time most of America’s enemies have evolved into business partners, like Russia, China, or Vietnam, or into NATO allies, like the various Eastern European nations. On the other hand, former friends have become adversaries, like Iran or Venezuela, but the name of Cuba (along with North Korea) remains on the same list.
So from the other side of the Straits of Florida, the image of Cubans has been shaped with a great deal of imagination, a lot of past memories, and the stories of the exiles. As a result, it is not strange to view us as if we were living in one of those old sepia postcards, forever frozen in an image from the mid-20th century. A people who still travel in old cars made by Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Plymouth, cars that came off the assembly lines of American factories. An Island trapped between the beauty of nature and the deterioration of its architecture, with neighborhoods that at times seem to be located in New York or Washington, D.C., while at others recalling Calcutta or Somalia.
Among the Americans who have been treading this earth in the last five decades, there are many exceptional people, from academics to TV stars, movie directors like Steven Spielberg (why not travel to a Jurassic Park?), and ex-presidents like Jimmy Carter, all full of good will more than ingenuousness. Thousands of others come each year, daring to challenge the controls imposed by U.S. law, using the old trick of traveling through a third country and taking advantage of the customs authorities who do not stamp their passports so no one will find out they entered this demonized territory.
Among these intrepid visitors was Jaime, a boy from New York; not content with immersing himself in a passion for Cuban literature, he fell helplessly in love with a young brunette with almond eyes and the hands of a healer. One day, more than five years ago, someone asked him how, exactly, he saw Cuba. “My experience is unique,” he said, “so I can’t make generalizations. I am aware that I am on this Island when I open my eyes in the morning and the first question that comes to mind is: What will I find to eat today?”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....69380.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 23:20
I don’t know about this “I love Obama” talk. I don’t think you can take what Mariela says seriously and assume she means what she says.
The Castros love playing the “embargo” card and might prefer worsening of relations to better relations.
Even if the US ever imposes a financial embargo or cracks down on US tourism to Cuba, Raul’s shift to capitalism will ensure the Chinese and other governments will prop them up.
But what are the chances of the US ever doing that? Just about zero, even Bush did next to nothing. The last US president who tried to overthrow Castro was JFK.
Junio 4th, 2012 at 22:37
John Bibb…and all rebelles…are now part of 99% which is majority against the 1 % minority who uses some of the 99% to destroy the majority which is junk because it is used easily…but still the nature is in balance and this balance never loses but it shows so,but still is the same which means that 1 % can never be deleted but it will be there and be created from the present 99%. The same for the 99%…it will be there always…and cant go anywhere…So far both 1 and 99% are to stupid…that’s all.
and for more watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....UkVg_bhPkg
Junio 4th, 2012 at 22:26
John Bibb # 100….you are 100% right but….it is an illusion that the humans who life as vizitors in this planet…do own it or a part of it which can be a coin made of a mineral called gold or silver…or other material things like home,furniture,cloths,car or electronics or what ever like trees,lake,rivers,hills,mountains,land,countries,empire or even the glob or more like moon,venus or maybe the whole solar system or the universe…It can maybe really a human own this but for how long…because the human cant be any longer than few decades around and than the worms eat its corpse…until it becomes dust…nothing.
So noone owns anything…example what owns now the pharaon who lived 4000 years ago?
Junio 4th, 2012 at 21:35
VOICE OF AMERICA EDITORIAL: Human Rights Still Suffer In Cuba - Citizens are harassed and intimidated to keep them from speaking out on the island nation’s political conditions. - 06-04-2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent Congress the Department’s assessment of human rights around the world during 2011. The reports, required by law, evaluate the human rights performance of the governments of every country and a number of territories, and lawmakers as well as authorities in the executive branch use the reports to help shape our nation’s foreign policies.
As in previous years, human rights conditions in Cuba are a particular concern. Most reported abuses were official acts committed at the direction of a government dominated by the Communist Party, so the perpetrators enjoyed impunity for their actions. Citizens are harassed and intimidated to keep them from speaking out on the island nation’s political conditions. There was an increase in the number of political activists detained for speaking out. The number of short-term detentions in December 2011 rose to the highest level in 30 years.
The Cuban government also placed severe limitations on freedom of speech and press, restricted freedom of movement and limited freedom of religion. Worker rights were restricted as well, particularly the freedom to form independent unions.
The United States is committed to the work of advancing universal rights, building the partnerships that will move us forward, helping every man, woman, and child live up to their potential. In cases of nations such as Cuba, we are also committed to speaking out for those unable to do so for themselves.
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http://www.voanews.com/policy/.....25445.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 21:15
THIS IS TREMENDOUS NEWS FOR THE CUBAN WORKER! THIS WILL ALLOW THEM TO BUY A CAR OR MAYBE A HOME IN LETS SAY 100 YEARS FROM NOW! OOPS, I FORGET! MOST OF THEM ARE GETTING LAID OFF! MAYBE THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY FOR THIS RAISE COMES FROM!! DUH! THOSE CASTROFASCISTS ARE GENIUSES AT ECONOMIC CHANGE!
NINEMSN: The average monthly salary in Cuba rose 17 per cent between 2006-2011 to the equivalent of $US19 ($A19.67), the state statistics office say.
That meant the average monthly wage of workers in Cuba - where the Communist-ruled state controls more than 90 per cent of the economy - climbed from the equivalent of $US16 ($A16.56) a month in 2006 to $US19 ($A19.67) last year, the office said on its website.
Low salaries are a key complaint in the Americas’ only one-party Communist regime. There is a very small salary range from unskilled to highly skilled labour; so a street sweeper might make $US17 ($A17.60) and a brain surgeon $US22 ($A22.77) a month.
In the Caribbean nation of 11 million, education and health care are free or nearly free, but the cost of putting food on the table remains a major everyday concern.
Cubans who have access to hard currency - those who work in tourism or who have relatives overseas - can spend it to supplement their incomes. But million have no such access.
President Raul Castro’s government has trimmed state payrolls and allowed a few crowd-pleasing changes like allowing Cubans to stay in hotels that once were only for foreigners.
But Castro, 81, has not launched any wholesale overhaul of Cuba’s decrepit centrally planned economy which is kept afloat largely by Venezuelan economic support.
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/.....19-a-month
Junio 4th, 2012 at 21:02
“No one goes to prison for an opinion”…but we watched the poor guy who was beaten in front of the pope in cuba…Why doesnt CNN go to cuba to meet dissident,the people in jail,the cuban people to visit their homes and make a documentary with all of them…Mariela should help CNN to make that documentary too….which should involve the cubns who left the country in the last 2-3 years…Let see what will show in it.
Junio 4th, 2012 at 20:59
GET YOUR BOX OF TISSUES OUT TO READ THIS STORY! ANOTHER TESTIMONY OF THE CASTROFASCISTS THUGGERY AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT!
N.Y. TIMES: Leaving Cuba to Pursue a Dream in United States - By JESSICA WEISS
Huerta, who defected in 1997 at age 13, says his Olympic journey serves as a “message to the Castro government.”
“I’m one of the Cubans that Fidel calls the Miami Mafia,” he said, in reference to the Miami exile community that the Cuban state-run news media often portray as malicious and anti-Cuban.
“But I am not a bad person. I’m obviously not invading anyone in Cuba. Actually, I’m going to the Olympics.”
Cuba has a strong Olympic tradition, and will send athletes to London in events including table tennis, boxing and track and field. But Huerta said he probably would have been unable to pursue his athletic ambitions in Cuba because of his family’s political history.
In 1980, his grandmother Consuelo left Cuba as part of the Mariel boatlift, when the Castro government allowed Cubans to board boats at the port of Mariel, west of Havana, to come to the United States.
The mass emigration occurred after five Cubans drove a bus through the gates of the Peruvian Embassy and were granted political asylum. When the Peruvian ambassador refused to return the citizens to the authorities, Castro removed the Cuban guards from the embassy, effectively releasing the thousands of asylum seekers who had gathered there. He called those who chose to leave “scum.”
“Even if I became the same caliber of athlete in Cuba as I am now, Castro would never have let me leave the island to represent Cuba, “ Huerta said. “Because of my family, we were marked.”
“Manny has so much drive, incredible body awareness, and is an amazing competitor,” said Roberto Solano, his coach, who is training Huerta in Costa Rica, on the side of an active volcano, until London. “But this has not been an easy journey for him.”
In recent years, Huerta was slowed by injuries and had trouble finding money to support his race calendar. In 2009, his father died of colon cancer. His mother has skin cancer. Solano said Huerta was close to giving up several times.
“But he really wanted it,” Solano said. “In San Diego, Manny executed perfectly and truly had the race of his life.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06.....dream.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 20:50
INTERESTING HOW TOWARDS THE END OF THIS SEGMENT CAROL COSTELL, THE OTHER CORRESPONDENT ASKS AMANPUR A QUESTION @ 2:00 BUT SHE DOES NOT ANSWER IT BUT CHANGES THE SUBJECT TO THE “CHANGES” IN ATTITUDE TOWARDS CUBA THAT THE CUBAN COMMUNITY IN THE USA HAS REACHED AND THE FAILURE OF THE “EMBARGO”! TOWARDS THE END @3:30 CAROL LAUGHS WHILE POSING A SECOND QUESTION, MAYBE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW AMANPOUR SEEMS TO BE NOT SO “UNBIASED” WITH HER REPORTING!
CNN: Obama wins endorsement from Raul Castro’s daughter - June 4, 2012
Castro said the nation had learned to acknowledge and correct past mistakes after its aggressive quarantine policy for HIV-positive men and women during the early years of the AIDS epidemic was abandoned in 1993.
“I never agreed with these quarantines,” she said. “There were several international health organizations that evaluated these quarantines as a positive thing at a time when not much was known about how the epidemic spreads.”
Amanpour pointed to a Human Rights Watch description of Cuba as “the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent.”
But Castro said the rights group “does not represent the opinion of the Cuban people. And their informants are mercenaries. They’re people who have been paid by a foreign government for media shows that do not represent Cuban positions directly.”
She defended her nation as one that allows dissent. “People who dissent don’t go to jail,” she said. “Everybody in Cuba expresses their view and there’s a political participation so that we can express ourselves and question everything.”
Holding an opinion contrary to that of the government “enriches the debate,” she said. “No one goes to prison for an opinion, rather for serving foreign interests who pay them. That’s called being a mercenary and that’s penalized in laws everywhere in the world, including the laws of this country.”
She said the island’s single-party system would disappear if other nations would stop trying to impose their will on Cuba.
“If Cuba’s sovereignty weren’t threatened, if the internal affairs of Cuba weren’t manipulated in media campaigns, if Cuba weren’t the subject of an economic and trade embargo, which has caused so many problems for us, then in Cuba, it wouldn’t make sense to have a sole party, just one party,” she said.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06.....index.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 20:43
Pamela, Damir was once a member of an asylum, but some bright doctor decided to open the door and let him run loose.
I think his posts are part of his “community involvement,” socializing with people is supposed to help his rehabilitation and make him less dangerous. But I don’t think it works, do you?
Junio 4th, 2012 at 18:15
But I didn’t know that Damir was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood!!
Junio 4th, 2012 at 18:14
LOL, same old..same old.
Junio 4th, 2012 at 17:52
Delusional pioneers of the team “yoani” keep ignoring a very REAL and INCONVENIENT FACT:
the capitalists were the first to start killing everyone around in order to “bring democracy” out.
Who killed french monarchs and whole families, including just about every “aristocrat” in the land?
Capitalists.
Who killed Italian monarchs and expelled surviving successors, including just about every remaining “aristocrat”?
Capitalists.
Who killed and/or expelled Austrian “emperors”, “regents” and “aristocracy”?
Capitalists.
Who ROSE AGAINST THE MURDEROUS CCAPITALISTS?
Communists.
So, naturally, you delusional, brainwashed, demented and deranged losers have no interest in recapping the TRUTH and the FACTS.
All you want is to keep killing and lying, and deluding others with your “righteous” posture that has no foundation whatsoever.
Thugs of the world unite.
You bet. The biggest thus, the nazist gulag usa are EXPANDING THEIR MILITARY FORCES INTO ASIA-PACIFIC REGION!!!!!!
Are Cubans EXPANDING their military presence ANYWHERE?
NO!!!
Are CHINESE, who would have every right to do so, expanding their MILITARY PRESENCE anywhere?
NO!!!
ONLY CAPITALIST CRIMINALS ARE EXPANDING THEIR MILITARY PRESENCE BEYOND THEIR BORDERS!!!!!!!!
So, drop that nuke on the nigger in washington and his white, obviously still bitter for having her husband entertained by another clitoris looking for pleasure, “god” assistant.
Citing “voice of america”, a cia and nazist usa government funded propaganda machinery only confirms who and what you criminals really are.
“patriotic act” and sopa/pipa now being the LAW, you have no right to bullshift about CUBA here!
There are MORE freedom and liberty in a little CUBA than in the nazist gulag usa.
Not that you would know, not being ALLOWED to visit Cuba, according to your nazist gulag LAWS that FORBID you to travel, talk, and trade with CUBA!!
Hypocrites.
Why is pin-up granny still free in CUBA!!!! Although she is clearly working AGAINST HER OWN COUNTRY, and is blatantly and openly serving her white “gods” and being PAID FOR HER TREASON!!!???
Because CUBA is MORE DEMOCRATICAL AND FREE than your nazist gulag usa.
And no one is saying that Cuba is a model society.
THAT is what makes the usa just a HUGE concentration camp. A nazist concentration camp which is now EXPANDING ITS MILITARY INTO THE PACIFIC REGION.
Who the f**k gave yo the right and permission to do so?
Junio 4th, 2012 at 16:39
Once again, the Castro regime defends Syria at the UN
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....n-problem/
Thugs of the world unite!
Junio 4th, 2012 at 16:20
VOICE OF AMERICA: Human Rights Still Suffer In Cuba - Citizens are harassed and intimidated to keep them from speaking out on the island nation’s political conditions. - 06-04-2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent Congress the Department’s assessment of human rights around the world during 2011. The reports, required by law, evaluate the human rights performance of the governments of every country and a number of territories, and lawmakers as well as authorities in the executive branch use the reports to help shape our nation’s foreign policies.
2011 saw some positive trends, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring, held successful, transparent elections for a Constituent Assembly, which in turn elected a former political prisoner as the country’s interim president. In Burma, the government took important steps toward political reform and released more than 200 political prisoners. And in Colombia, the government has been working to improve justice in human rights cases.
But problems persist in many countries and overall there are a number of disturbing trends. Flawed elections, restrictions on the freedom of expression, assembly, or association, censorship or intimidation of the media and attempts to control the activities of civil society and non-governmental groups indicate erosion of respect for human rights in some countries.
As in previous years, human rights conditions in Cuba are a particular concern. Most reported abuses were official acts committed at the direction of a government dominated by the Communist Party, so the perpetrators enjoyed impunity for their actions. Citizens are harassed and intimidated to keep them from speaking out on the island nation’s political conditions. There was an increase in the number of political activists detained for speaking out. The number of short-term detentions in December 2011 rose to the highest level in 30 years.
The Cuban government also placed severe limitations on freedom of speech and press, restricted freedom of movement and limited freedom of religion. Worker rights were restricted as well, particularly the freedom to form independent unions.
The United States is committed to the work of advancing universal rights, building the partnerships that will move us forward, helping every man, woman, and child live up to their potential. In cases of nations such as Cuba, we are also committed to speaking out for those unable to do so for themselves.
http://www.voanews.com/policy/.....25445.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 16:16
FASCISTS COMMUNISTS DONT LIKE THE LATEST NUMEROLOGY IN CHINA! INTERESTING!
China’s share benchmark has fallen foul of the country’s internet censors by appearing to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. In an unlikely coincidence certainly unwelcome to China’s communist rulers, the stock benchmark fell 64.89 points on Monday, matching the numbers of the June 4, 1989 crackdown in the heart of Beijing. In China’s lively microblog world, `Shanghai Composite Index’ soon joined the many words blocked by censors.
In another odd twist, the index opened Monday at 2,346.98. That is being interpreted as 23rd anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown when read from right to left. Public discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown, which the Communist Party branded a “counterrevolutionary riot”, remains taboo. Analysts refused to comment on the numbers. On the popular Sina microblog site, searches using `June 4′, `64.89′, `stock market’, and `benchmark Shanghai Composite Index’ were all blocked. Such searches draw the response: “According to law such words cannot be shown.” In Beijing, the anniversary passed without any major sign of protest. The front page of the party newspaper, People’s Daily, trumpeted the “Stable, fast development of the Chinese economy: Advancing to be the World’s No.2″.
CLICK LINK FOR ARTICLE!
http://news.smh.com.au/breakin.....1zsml.html
Junio 4th, 2012 at 15:07
Yoani Sanchez is the best thing that has ever happened to CUBA. Yoani is world famous and she will always have my support. The Regime apologist are always twisting the facts,blaiming others and lie to conceal the truth. Damir on this blog is a classic example of the crap Fidel has produced and what society should eliminate or punish. When the Castro thugs die , Cuba will get a new chance to be a great nation once again.
Junio 4th, 2012 at 14:04
The Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin: Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez demands explanation for why she’s banned from traveling abroad
DIssident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez filed a request with the country’s Ministry of the Interior for an explanation of why the Office for Immigration and Foreigners’ Affairs denied her permission to leave the island and travel abroad, reported El Nuevo Herald. According to Cuban laws, the Ministry has 60 days to respond to Sánchez’s complaint of “administrative silence,” and if she receives no response, the blogger can sue the Ministry to obtain a judicial order forcing a response, explained the Miami Herald. The Herald also noted that Sánchez’s complaint is just the latest in a series of legal actions undertaken by Cuban dissidents to challenge the country’s official decisions.
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu.....ing-abroad
Junio 4th, 2012 at 13:40
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HI RED_CARDINAL–#94. The North American Socialist clowns will die in the streets if they ever try to take over the U.S.A. Like Mexico’s revolutionary Emiliano Zapata said, “It’s better to die standing and fighting than living on your knees!”. There are many armed ex Military patriots in the United States who will defend our country and liberty with their lives. No matter what Mariela Castro and her traitors here want. We will hunt them in the streets if this day ever comes. Patriotic Cubans may be hunting the Castro Regime one day–like happened in Romania.
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HOLA RED_CARDINAL–#94. Los payasos de las Socialistas Norte Americanas van a morir en las calles si hagan los esfuerzos a tomar control de los Estados Unidos. Como dijo el revolucionero Mexicano Emiliano Zapata, “Es mejor morir a pie peleando que moriendo a rodillas!” Hay muchos ex Militarios en Los Estados Unidos quienes defenderan nuestra pais y libertad con sus vidas. Ni importa que quiere Mariela Castro y sus traiadores aqui. Vamos cazarlos en los calles si viene esa dia. Es posible que Cubanos patrioticos puedan cazar el Gobierno de Castro una dia–como paso en Romania.
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John Bibb
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Junio 4th, 2012 at 13:07
enemy or “cyber-terrorists”…are consider all people who use the internet and is in 99%…so yoani,humberto,griffin and others are included…because the 1 % of every country is part of the world elite and chosen to run their plantations,the parts of the world plantation. So the rest who is not part of the holy 1 % is considered rebel
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 23:03
Clueless Liar,
This reports from Al Jazeera quotes several Cuban state officials and state media who refer to Yoani Sanchez and other dissident bloggers as “cyber-terrorists”. The regime does indeed use that ridiculous terminology to describe free speech.
http://www.stream.aljazeera.com/story/cuba
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 21:37
MIAMI HERALD: Cuban dissidents criticize Havana bishops’ letter on Cardinal Jaime Ortega - Cuban dissidents took exception to a letter by Havana’s Bishops Council that denounced a campaign to discredit the archbishop of Havana.- By Juan Carlos Chavez
Members of the opposition inside Cuba openly criticized the content of a letter sent recently by representatives of the Cuban Catholic Church’s hierarchy in support of Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, archbishop of Havana.
The letter was signed by bishops and vicars of Havana’s Bishops Council. In three paragraphs, the text denounced what they call a campaign to discredit Ortega and his efforts to improve the national situation.
Martha Beatriz Roque, spokesperson of the banned Cuban Network of Community Communicators, denied dissidents were being malicious. She said criticism of Ortega’s role was based on concrete facts.
“We simply believe that the dialogue headed by Ortega was not done with dignity nor did it follow Christ’s doctrine,” Roque told El Nuevo Herald in a phone interview. “Had it been so, we would all be involved in that dialogue process. The Catholic hierarchy bowed their head before the regime and turned their back on the opposition.”
FIGHTING WORDS
The debate over Ortega’s handling of the prisoners’ releases and the rights of civil society recently intensified. In an April 24 forum at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies in Cambridge, Mass., Ortega called 13 opponents of the banned Republican Party for Cuba “criminals.”
The 13 occupied a church in Havana before they were pushed, beaten and kicked out of the church, according to Vladimir Calderón, director of the banned Republican Party. They were thrown out shortly before the pope’s visit to Cuba at the end of March.
Calderón told El Nuevo Herald on Saturday that the content of the bishops’ letter supporting Cardinal Ortega mischaracterizes the position of the internal dissidence.
The bishops who signed the letter are the six members of the Bishops Council. Among them are auxiliary bishops, Msgr. Alfredo Petit and Juan de Dios Hernández. Vicars Msgr. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Ramón Suárez Polcari and Rodolfo Loiz also signed.
“No one has tried to discredit the cardinal at any time,” Calderón said from his home in Havana. “The work he has done in the church has been criticized because we have not seen a recognition of the importance of the opposition.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....avana.html
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 15:42
” he has been treated with respect and dignity the way we always treat prisoners in Cuba. ”
That lying whore. How can she possibly say this with a straight face?
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 15:10
mariela mission is the same as the north american socialists mission for 2012;
1. to confiscate all the lands,natural resources
2. to confiscate all the private properties and wealth
3. to confiscate all the banks,corporations,big and small businesses
4. to delete and prohibit the different classes and unite all the people
5. to put all to work for free labor and punish the evil opposite by death
6. to chose the best and the most fanatic socialists as master race over the slaves
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 15:02
mariela is the key person to unite cuba with north american union so she is working on it and is financed by the north american union…and of course castros are behind her. She will release the 6 people who were put in jail to make mariela a star…and she will be loved by all and if she help the north american union why not to run it ?
when maiela is chosen leader of north american union she will change it as cuba,which is the best plantation…and of course people will work all as voluntares but they will not need 20 dollars per month because they will get free shelter and rice,beans and who work harder will get cuban bananas and cigars as a treat.Humberto will be jailed and maybe griffin too…but mariela will treat worse the miami’s cubans…and generation y…
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 13:47
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY : Raul Castro’s daugher calls for release of Cuban Five and Alan Gross - June 3, 2012
(JTA) — The daughter of Cuban head of state Raul Castro said that jailed American Alan Gross “has been granted everything that he’s asked for.”
In an interview on CNN’s AMANPOUR to be aired Monday, June 4, Mariela Castro told host Christiane Amanpour: “Alan Gross has been granted everything that he’s asked for: he has been able to see his wife, he has been able to have matrimonial, conjugal visits, and he has been treated with respect and dignity the way we always treat prisoners in Cuba. We haven’t received the same treatment on the other hand for our five prisoners who have very long sentences that are not right. I think that the six must be released—both the five Cubans and Alan Gross.”
Castro is referring to what are known as The Cuban Five, a group of intelligence officers being held in the U.S. for espionage. She said her husband’s request was similar to that of Rene Gonzalez, whose brother is dying of cancer in Cuba.
Gross was arrested in 2009 and sentenced last year to 15 years on charges related to his distribution of communications equipment to the island’s small Jewish community, working as a contractor for the U.S. Agency on International Development.
He has appealed for humanitarian leave of two weeks to visit his 90-year-old mother, who has inoperable lung cancer. A U.S. judge allowed Gonzalez, on parole after serving time for espionage, to return to Cuba for two weeks to visit his dying brother.
Gross’ daughter also has undergone cancer treatment since his arrest.
Castro told Amanpour that the release of both the Cuban Five and Gross would be the “happiest solution.”
A number of analysts have said that the Cuban government is detaining Gross in order to trade him for the Cuban Five.
http://www.jta.org/news/articl.....alan-gross
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 13:04
ANOTHER OF THE REASONS FOR PRINCES MARIELA CASTRO’S TRIP TO THE BAD OLD U.S.A.! SHE THINKS THAT OBAMA WILL LIFT THE “EMBARGO” IF HE GETS A SECOND TERM. WISHFUL THINKING ON HER PART, MR. OBAMA KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DEALING IN THE CASTROFASCIST OLIGARCHY MAFIA! THIS IS PART OF A LARGER INTERVIEW THAT WILL BE COMING OUT SOON AS I UNDERSTAND! FUNNY, MARIELA SAID SHE CAME TO WORK ON THIS TRIP AND WAS NOT GOING TO TALK TO THE PRESS!
CNN SHORT VIDEO: Raul Castro’s daughter wants Obama to win - Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, speaks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour during her U.S. visit.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/vid.....-obama.cnn
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 12:45
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT: On-Camera Press Briefing in Spanish (with transcript below) - Special Briefing - Michael A. Hammer- Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs- Washington, DC- June 1, 2012
QUESTION: About Mariela Castro’s visit, many were surprised that the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs would say that she personally was disappointed about the position that even your closest allies had taken on the Cuba issue at the Summit of the Americas and a few weeks later, you issue a visa to the President Castro’s daughter to visit the United States. This is something that triggered criticism in both parties, including people in high places in the Democratic Party like Senator Menendez. What is the… let’s say, many people think about the inconsistency of the policy towards Cuba, what is it aiming to? Let’s say, I wanted to know what is the position, what is the reason for the decision to give this visa to Mariela Castro? Why do you allow her visit? And did it produce the result you expected by allowing her to enter the United States?
MR. HAMMER: Well, first let me say that this person has visited the United States twice before, under President Bush’s administration. The way in which we give visas to Cuban individuals is regularized by a presidential proclamation; I believe it is the 5377, which makes the rules on how visas are issued. Then, I cannot elaborate on specific details of why this person is given a visa, and another one is not. However, one should not mistake the fact that a visa was granted to this person with our general policy towards Cuba. In fact, we want, and we allow freedom of expression in our country, something, which in fact, does not occur in Cuba. Then, sometimes people come to express themselves, maybe sometimes we do not share the same ideas, and this is part of democracy, and that is part of why the United States is the kind of democracy that it is. And yes, our position is very clear that Cuba is not democratic and as understood within the framework of the OAS, it should not participate in these summits; there is great consistency. We are simply saying that Cuba is a country where there is no democracy today, there is no freedom of press, there is no freedom of expression, there are violations of human rights, there are political prisoners; and that is why they are not part of the OAS process; this has even been discussed in the OAS. You will remember that at the meeting of the General Assembly which took place in Honduras, the possibility was put on the table of exploring how Cuba could become a member if it took certain measures. And Cuba has never shown any interest. Then let’s not mix two issues that are quite different. One is having, is wanting to have exchanges in which we can talk about some different ideas, some people in particular, and another is the behavior of a Castro government that until today unfortunately, is not allowing the Cuban people to live in freedom. And the day they allow it, when democracy exists, as we have said, we wish obviously that Cuba is involved the process of the community of the Americas, as a participant in the OAS.
QUESTION: Did she meet with a member of the administration, and second is there some progress in the matter of Alan Gross. The Secretary met with [Judy] Gross this week. Is there anything to report in this regard?
MR. HAMMER: First, no one from the administration met with Mariela Castro. Second, the issue of Alan Gross is something we consider every day here. The State Department is very concerned about his health and situation. Secretary Clinton, as you mentioned, met with his wife, Judy Gross, and continues to urge the Cuban authorities, well, to release him immediately. It is a very unfair case, and even for humanitarian reasons they should allow Alan Gross to come to visit his 90 year-old mother, who is ill, just as René González was allowed to go to Havana in a similar humanitarian case. We will continue to insist. I really cannot understand why the Cuban regime does not allow Alan Gross to have his freedom. But at least it should allow a humanitarian release, given the seriousness of the illness of his mother, who is very old.
QUESTION: And the United States has always argued that this is a case that cannot be compared with the other case. Now you say that, it should now be with Gross just like it was for Rene. Isn’t this comparison just like that made by Havana?
MR. HAMMER: No, the only thing similar is that here, our judicial authorities gave humanitarian permission in a similar situation in the case of Rene Gonzalez, who had a relative who was also very sick. There are very different circumstances under which the Cuban spies were imprisoned here than for Alan Gross, who actually was working in an appropriate manner in Cuba. Therefore the cases are very different, but they are similar in that there sometimes are circumstances where you want to see that you can provide a way out for someone for humanitarian reasons; and one would like to see the same kind of understanding by the Cuban authorities. But let me be clear, Alan Gross should not be imprisoned. He has been unfairly imprisoned for more than two years and five months. In this case, he should be released immediately, and that is what we believe. But if they are not ready to do that now, at least in this case they should grant a humanitarian visit.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE BRIEFING
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/.....191680.htm
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 11:34
84Damir
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 18:08
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Heyyyyyy….. welcome back big asset…….. where was you????…… hidden of Interpol?????……… or prosecuted for war crimes together that bunch Nazis Serbians in Haya??????
I see you trying to place disinformation as usual…… tell me something……. if Cubans have access to internet as you said, how is there is no a single Cuban living in Cuba commenting in the www???????……….. tell me why you did not profited the opportunity and sent 20 or 30 comments to this site when you was in Cuba in order to prove your statements and not be discredited now so easily as a pathologic liar??????????
Hehehe……. Our big asset!!!!!!…….. always giving us the opportunity to present he as the liar he is!!!!!!
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 02:39
dont believe everything even this blog…it may be a play or game…but usa and cuba are in bed together…and cubais sugar…as allways was…a suhar plantation
Junio 3rd, 2012 at 02:34
cnn…show or play …but maybe the deal is done to free the eachothers spies…and mariela will get usa citisenship and live in beverly hills soon or close to humberto
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 19:24
MARIELA IS SOO TRANSPARENT AND SUCH A BAD ACTRESS, UNLIKE HER UNCLE FIDEL! THIS IS THE REAL REASON SHE IS HERE IN THE BAD OLD U.S.A! SHE FINALLY SPILLED THE BEANS ABOUT THE CASTROFASCISTS WANTING TO THE TRADE OF HOSTAGE ALAN GROSS FOR THE CUBAN 5 SPIES! THE WORLD GETS IT MARIELA, ITS CALLED EXTORTION!
CNN VIDEO: Raul Castro’s daughter speaks candidly- CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has a rare interview with LGBT activist Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raul Castro.
http://video.tvguide.com/Raul+.....tnerid=OVG
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 18:10
Damir, I tried to understand what you wrote in #83, but find it impossible to make any sense at all of your rambling. Between the outright nonsense, and the obvious lies it becomes gibberish.
I wonder if you and the jerk that writes under several phony names, if you are not the same person, might somehow get together and learn from each other. At present neither of you have a lick of understanding of the real world. Possibly if you add your common sense together the pair of you could work your way up to addle-brained.
Take your meds and search for red cardinal.
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 18:08
And I like the cr***ns who keep repeating the lie that this site is somehow BLOCKED in Cuba!!!!
Go to Cuba, if you dare risk your own government throwing you for 5 years in a jail and smacking you with $5000 fine for disobedience. See for yourself how”blocked” is this site.
It is NOT BLOCKED. I was in Cuba in April-May period and I wrote a few posts from my casa particular, using my host’s internet connection. Not only that, there are many INTERNET CABINAS around in HAVANA where this site can be viewed freely too. Then thre are hotels too, with free wi-fi.
But, we all know that the pioneer support brigade and the team “yoani” are a bunch of pathological liars.
And, as per “democratic” laws of usanian nazist gulag, all such terrorist get the death penalty.
Bring it on I say.
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 17:50
Plain st***dity of the team “yoani” this article.
Despite the fact that I personally have explained this “dilemma” three times already, and the team “yoani” know these facts anyway.
Let us address these cia-written “arguments” the team “yoani” pretend to came up with themselves (you did not. we all know how inept and incompetent in EVERYTHING you are):
“The mystery has been solved, the enigma of the fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela has been cleared up because of an indiscretion. The Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology affirmed a few days ago that it “is absolutely operational,” and what it is used for will depends on the government of Raul Castro.”
What mystery? Castros themselves said at the beginning of the works that “due to the lack of finances and infrastructure resources, the digital link will at first be available to educational and public institutions.”
Developing any kind of network in a country with 11 MILLIONS of people requires billions of EUROS.
And we all know that THANKS TO THE EMBARGO BY THE NAZIST usa, Cuba simply does NOT have the money NEEDED to build the internet network in the country.
So to declare a “mystery” and bullshift about some non-existent “media war” by the government is an open act of treason and terrorism.
Go get them, Cuban police. And judge them by the usanian nazist “patriotic act” criteria!!!
That would be a death penalty, thank you very much.
Fitting for domestic traitors, under their own preferred “democracy” and “freedom of expression” criteria by “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”.
Not that the team “yoani” have got ANYTHING INTELLIGENT to say, and answer legitimate questions about their lies and cia-made anti-Cuban propaganda they so faithfully, as all lap dogs do, promote here but here’s a very legitimate and valid question: how do you propose Cuba builds a NATIONAL NETWORK at all, let alone in a couple of months as you demand WITHOUT THE MONEY AND RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR SUCH A MONUMENTAL TASK!!!!!!!
Only a cr***n like the team “yopani”, and their pin-up granny, can suggest something this stu**d and think they said something smart…
Even if Cuba was given the money today, to build the network just for Havana would take two years at best!!!
But, hey, for as long as cia is sending the money, talking st**dities and bullshift is lucrative.
Who cares if it is actually a blatant nonsense.
White “gods” paid, so the bum-licker does. I wonder if she uses her clitoris to pleases the white “gods”, as she suggested recently in an utterly disgusting “article” here a few weeks back…
Or, is it just her mouth and hands? (speaking publicly and writing stup**ities on the intrnet to which the team “yoani” claim they do NOT have the access!!!)
Bunch of traitors and terrorists.
Death penalty. In accordance with the “patriotic act”. See how do you like the “democracy” then!!!
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 14:39
this may be the reason that the world,west,north america,canada,usa,mexico,cuba and others are enslaved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5Sc3vWefE
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 14:30
yoani and mariela can not change cuba corporation=concentration camp….so cuba and all the north america and the world need a new uncorrupted generation like this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....=endscreen
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 13:32
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HI CUBA_LIBRE–#74. You write “her ( brave Yoanni Sanchez) keep posting her lies”. While Fidel’s niece Mariela Castro tells the communist “truth” about the Prison Island to the communists in the United States.
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You are truly delusional. George Orwell wrote about people who “think” like you do in his 1984 book. Slavery = Freedom. Denial of travel rights = Liberty. No free speech = Freedom to speak. Jail for political views = Justice. George should be proud of you.
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HOLA CUBA_LIBRE–#74. Escribes “ella (valiente Yoanni Sanchez) siga posting sus mentiras”. Al mismo tiempo que la sobrina de Fidel Mariela Castro diga la “verdad” communista a las communistas en los Estados Unidos.
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Estas complemente delusional. George Orwell escribio de los quienes “piensan” como tu en su libro 1984. Esclavitud = Libertad. Negando derecho de viajar = Libertad. Nada de derecho hablar = Hablando libremente. Carcel por positiones politicos = Justicia. George debia ser muy orgulloso de ti.
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John Bibb
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Junio 2nd, 2012 at 13:24
MY GUESS IS THAT IT WILL BE MARIELA CASTRO NEXT IN THE CASTRO CLAN THRONE! WE JUST SAW HER IN HER POLITICAL “QUINCEAĂ‘ERA” BAD OLD U.S.A. TOUR!
FOX NEWS: Raul Castro’s 81st a reminder of aging leadership
Cuban President Raul Castro turns 81 on Sunday, another reminder to his countrymen and to the exiles who hate him that time is catching up with the island’s aging revolutionaries.
But even with the actuarial inevitabilities looming, there is no indication that Cuba’s leadership is moving quickly to prepare any younger possible successors to assume the mantle of Marxism under which the island has been guided for more than a half-century.
Even Castro’s April 2011 proposal to impose term limits on everyone in government including himself has yet to be enacted. His retired older brother Fidel is 85. His two top deputies are 81 and 80.
“Time and again they’ve postponed elevating figures from the next generation to the top levels of leadership,” said Philip Peters, a Cuba analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute. “It creates some uncertainty.”
Discussion of the Castros’ eventual demise crops up year after year in a testament to their staying power. But the march of time has been particularly hard on the brothers recently.
The Castros’ oldest sister, Angela, died in February at age 88 following a long illness. In September, the president lost a confidant in Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, his longtime ally and successor as defense minister.
“Casas’ death I think took his breath away, because Casas died instantly and Casas really was his right hand,” said Ann Louise Bardach, a Cuba expert and author of “Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington.”
“He had a heart attack and was gone, and at (75) he was their young spring chicken,” Bardach said.
But the president still carries a heavy load for a man 15 years beyond Cuba’s official retirement age, pushing his country to adopt free-market reforms that even he describes as the last chance to save the island’s socialist economy. With Fidel looking his years, and Cuba’s top patron, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, battling cancer, Raul’s health is especially crucial to the country’s future.
“Raul Castro is a military man, and like a good military man you expect him to prepare for the time that he leaves his post,” said Peters. “He has started a process of fixing the economy that has made it a lot easier for the next generation to carry on … but on the other front of choosing political leadership, it’s not at all clear what’s been done or how it’s supposed to work.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2.....eadership/
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 12:45
THE CASTROFASCISTS USING THEIR MAFIA EXTORTION TACTICS AGAINST THE CUBAN PEOPLE AGAIN!
CHINA DAILY: HAVANA - Cuba would soon reimpose taxes on imported food after four years of exemption, the country’s customs office said on Friday.
The new regulation would come into effect on June 18, the General Customs Office said in a statement.
Imported food had been taxed since 1979, but the levy was suspended in 2008 as an “exceptional” measure after Hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Paloma caused billions of dollars in losses to the Caribbean nation.
Cuba spends about $2 billion every year importing food, accounting for 80 percent of food consumption in the country, and the cost has been rising due to increasing prices in international markets.
In the past four years, Cubans living in the United States and visiting the island frequently have benefited most from the exemption.
It also greatly benefited the owners of restaurants and coffee shops spreading throughout the island as a result of the economic changes promoted by President Raul Castro, experts said.
According to official figures, 1,618 private restaurants have opened in Cuba since October 2010, when Castro reopened the door to “self-employment”.
Castro is currently developing a program to stimulate agricultural production in the country, including the distribution of about 1.4 million hectares of land to more than 160,000 farmers and granting credits to farmers to buy agricultural machinery.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/w.....456657.htm
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 11:25
Cuba Libre said: “But on the contrary, the revolutionary government allows her to keep posting her lies which in the end may be helping the cause of the Castro government.”
C.L.! ITS MORE LIKE THE CASTROFASCISTS ARE SCARED OF WORLD OPINION AND HAVE TO KEEP HANDS OFF YOANI! THEY ARE BANKRUPT NEED DOLLAR$$$$$$ TO SURVIVE, SO THEY HAVE TO BE ON THEIR “BEST” BEHAVIOR TOWARDS YOANI ! THAT IS WHY YOU ARE HERE OF COURSE! TO TRY TO PLACATE AND EXCUSE THE FASCIST BEHAVIOR OF “LA CHINA” RAUL & “THE MUMMY” FIDEL! WE ARE ALL CONNECTED AND INFORMATION IS GETTING IN AND OUT OF THE ISLAND PRISON OF CUBA, WETHER THE CASTRO CLAN LIKES IT OR NOT!
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 09:50
world isvcorrupted so much that you can not believe anyone talking or reading…it is all junk…stink in every country now,left,right,top,bottom…the same…
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 09:29
…or from what I understand in the article, Cuba is happy with a certain Juan Mendez visiting, which means he is a “friendly”
Too bad we can’t judge all states the same, regardless of political or economic system or alliances.
Why was torturing Castro’s prisoners with electric shock a “good thing”, while when Pinochet did the same thing it was a “bad thing”?
They were all human beings, and most didn’t deserve to be imprisoned, much less tortured.
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 09:28
# 61 Griffin,
If Yoani was considered a terrorist by the Cuban government as you state, she would have long ago been put in jail and the key would be thrown away. But on the contrary, the revolutionary government allows her to keep posting her lies which in the end may be helping the cause of the Castro government.
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 09:19
Thanks John Two, interesting info.
Humberto, we’ll have to see if the UN inspector insists on visiting and taking a good look around, or if he’ll just be another tool of the Castros. My guess is Castro will only allow a “friendly” in, who will be happy with a visit to a few model prison wards. Some on the UN committee, like the US member, will insist on an “unfriendly”. Other states on the committee will back Cuba. They’ll negotiate and “compromise”, which means a “pretty friendly” inspector at best.
He’ll visit and see whatever Castro lets him see, go back and make some watered down criticism about needed improvements, Cuba will say their prison system can be “even better”, and everybody will be happy. If this ever happens.
I hope I’m very wrong.
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 07:54
we areallmost there if north american union and european union=blue..but who has the symbol the purple…so we call the creation of the west rainbow done…?
cuba libre and humberto know more about the rainbows…keeping the rainbow flag in their homes or cars…and they should help mariela to start monarchy 3,to run cuba and so should help her all the socialists,gays etc of north america,UN,EU,SAU,etc
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 07:42
the union in north america…the rainbow in the west…(north america) is created by;
canada=red….
usa=pink (from mix of red and blue,fade of left-right parties)
mexico=orange
cuba=green
vatican=yellow (pope,vatican visits often these countries,blessed them)
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 07:35
This article is better about cuba
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....17282.html
if americans go to cuba like canadians without visa for tourism…than cuba will change faster and castros,procsstros will change and maybe castro 3,mariela will run the dynasty rule and lead the contry…run mostly by gays…like in usa,canada.
so the gays will create the north american union using their love bewteen this trio which together with mexico become four leftist rainbow colors; red,pink,orange,green
if you add yellow…from the religion group becomes allmost a rainbow.This is s sign
Junio 2nd, 2012 at 00:28
MIAMI HERALD: UN panel blasts Cuba on human rights abuses - THE U.N. called Friday for an independent body to gather, investigate and report on complaints of human rights abuses in Cuba - By Juan O. Tamayo
The U.N.’s Committee Against Torture hammered Cuba on Friday for a lengthy string of human rights abuses and repeatedly complained the island had provided few or none of the details about specific allegations of abuses that it had requested.
The panel noted that it was “concerned by reports denouncing the use of coercive methods during (police) interrogations, particularly the denial of sleep, detention under conditions of isolation and exposure to sudden changes in temperatures.”
On Cuba’s prisons, it wrote that it “continues to be supremely concerned by the reports received about the … overcrowding, malnutrition, lack of hygiene and healthy conditions (and) adequate medical attention.”
There have been thousands of complaints of short-term detentions of dissidents, it added, singling out JosĂ© Luis Ferrer GarcĂa and Oscar Elias Biscet. And Cuban officials never explained the deaths of dissidents Orlando Zapata Tamayo and Juan Wilfredo Soto GarcĂa.
Cuba should establish an independent body to gather, investigate and report on allegations of government abuses, and should meet its promise to allow a visit by the U.N.’s top official on several types of mistreatments, the committee noted in a 6,000-word report.
The report summed up the panel’s conclusions after its May 22-23 hearings in Switzerland on Cuba’s compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Marked “unedited,” it was issued by the U.N. media office in Geneva.
Using the U.N.’s typically diplomatic language, the report noted the panel “laments,” “expresses concern,” “still worries,” “disagrees,” “has serious reservations,” “views with concern,” “considers it indispensable” and is “seriously concerned.”
But the report Friday amounted to a harsh and detailed indictment of Cuba’s human rights record, especially in areas that involve physical punishments or abuses, such as the justice and prison systems and the harassment of dissidents.
Cuba’s own report on its compliance with the convention on torture, presented to the panel in May, was more than nine years late and “does not fully meet the guidelines” set by the panel, it noted. The 10-member committee reviews countries’ records on a rotating basis.
In a sharply worded section, the report urged Cuba “to investigate, without delay, exhaustively, without bias and in an efficient way, all deaths of prisoners.” Cuba told the panel that prison officials were not responsible for any of the 202 such deaths in 2010-2011, but gave no further information.
The report also blasted Cuba for the rapid increase in the use of short-term arrests of dissidents without any judicial orders, usually to keep opposition activists away from activities. Cuban officials told the panel last month that all detentions follow due process.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....human.html
Junio 1st, 2012 at 20:10
SO AFTER 23 YEARS THEY WILL “ALLOW” THE U.N. INSPECTOR INTO THEIR JAILS!!
FOX NEWS LATINO: Cuba to allow visit by U.N. torture official
Cuba pledged Friday to allow a visit by the United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture, whose predecessor tried unsuccessfully to obtain authorization to visit the Caribbean island.
The jurist and member of the U.N. Committee against Torture, Fernando Mariño, told Efe that the Cuban delegates who took part in the session in which the situation in his country was reviewed, “committed themselves to arranging a visit” by Juan Mendez, though he gave no specific date.
If that is done, “there would be an independent, competent international agency able to travel everywhere prisoners are held and would report autonomously on what goes on there,” he said.
For Cuba it would mean showing “that it has no political fear of a checkup by foreign organizations.”
The U.N. Committee against Torture also said in its report Friday that it was concerned about the continued complaints of arbitrary arrests for brief periods in Cuba, practiced against members of the political opposition, defenders of human rights and independent journalists.
Cuba has denied any such increase in this kind of arrests without a court order and moreover maintains that there are no political prisoners on the Communist-ruled island, instead referring to these individuals as “mercenaries” at the service of the United States.
Cuba has come under heavy criticism from the United States and Europe in recent years for locking up dissidents, most notably a group of 75 political opponents who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2003.
London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International had adopted all of the Group of 75 as prisoners of conscience and Havana came under international pressure to release them after one member, Orlando Zapata, died following a lengthy hunger strike in February 2010.
After Spanish-backed talks between the Castro regime and the island’s Catholic hierarchy, all of the Group of 75 members still behind bars were released last year. EFE
http://latino.foxnews.com/lati.....-official/
Junio 1st, 2012 at 18:13
FYI, Larry Press has a number of updates (and informed speculation) on the mystery surrounding the Venezuela fiber optic cable on his blog ‘The Internet in Cuba.’ Here’s a link: http://laredcubana.blogspot.ca/
Junio 1st, 2012 at 14:01
to stop the world rebellion there must be a big starvation caused so the peasents dont have any food and be weak as cubans…the best platation experiment of the controlling the slaves who are trying with their blogs to uprise
Junio 1st, 2012 at 13:44
even if the big world changes happen…the same chosen rulers will stay in power in cuba and everywhere…but the rebelle dissidents like yoani will be call,treated as dissidents everywhere…by mariela,the future castros and other dynasties put in every country… as plantations managers…put,protected,lead or run by the world plantation’s managers…the old and new masters…the human gods replacing the God…
so the picture shows 1% and 99 % hating each other and there are mercenaries like… cuba libre… protecting the 1%…in cuba or other plantations,as the lots of the world plantation where peasents as yoani are trying to rebelle, be free from slavery
Junio 1st, 2012 at 10:42
north american big plantation corporation wil have new ceos… the countries governments will not be needed…so the question is who will run the north american union. One of the post in nau…will be for mariela…but yoani will be considered rebel-heretic and there will be no carrots for her and no cabel so will be a big censure
Junio 1st, 2012 at 10:26
Cuba libre….read all the posts or comments because he is a spy,a cuban police or army,intelligence person who also is a double agent who is hired to be against blogs
now that cuba will be united with north american union …cuba libre will change his role to a dissident against cuba’s changes …and after that cuba libre… will be homeless,unemployed,but he will return to cuba and play as pro cuba’s changes again.
Junio 1st, 2012 at 00:24
Help,
What immigration reform? There was no mention of immigration reform. Furthermore, East-Asia has always been at war with Oceana…
Junio 1st, 2012 at 00:09
Clueless Liar,
Why do you think this blog is an “uprising”?
It’s just a blog. A thoughtful, somewhat ironic and wistful writer in Havana posts her thoughts on daily life. That’s what Yoani is and does.
Yet for some reason the regime considers her a terrorist, a threat , and a clear and present danger to their rule.
Why? Has she ever directly criticized the regime or named culpable leaders? No. Not at all.
Has she ever called for annexation, as Mariela Castro hysterically asserted? No, never.
Does Yoani have a guerrilla army hiding in the leafy valleys of the Sierra Maestra perhaps? No, not even that.
She has a blog. That’s all.
So why does CL parrot word for word the Castro regime talking points as if he was reading from Mariela Castro’s screed or the Granma frontpage?
Because that’s the spoon fed propaganda pablum he sucks up and just like the ideological infant he is, spews forth.
Time to powder and diaper the baby, Mama Mariela. Your Clueless Liar has soiled his nappy again.
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 22:44
Pamela! WRITE TO CUBADEBATE OR MARIELA CASTRO ON HER BLOG (good luck)! SHE IS IN THE BAD OLD U.S.A.! RIGHT NOW! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! THEY ARE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE NOLA CITIZENS!! WITH ALL THAT HISTORY! OUTRAGEOUS!!
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 22:41
Cuba Libre said: “Wow. with the enormous amount of anti castros in this blog, you sure have a long way to go before you will be heard. Wait, let me count the huge number of Castro opponenets here 1- Humberto,”
AWWW!!! CUCKS C.L.! YOU DID NOT HAVE TO MAKE SUCH A FUSS ABOUT THE OLD QUEEN FROM CALIFORNIA! BUTT! (rear pun!!)!! I WANT TO THANK ALL THE LITTLE CASTROFASCISTS AGENTS/APOLOGISTS FOR THIS GREAT HONOR! “I CANT DENY THE FACT THAT YOU LIKE, RIGHT NOW, YOU LIKE ME! THANK YOU!!!!!” JE JE JE!
YOUTUBE: Sally Field aux Oscars de 1985, meilleure actrice pour son rĂ´le dans “Les saisons du coeur” (”Places in the Heart”).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_NpdAy3WY
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 22:36
I wasn’t included in the list of anti-Castros? How insulting!!!
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 22:12
Speak of a useless idiot, and one shows up.
Cube Libra must think this blog is very important for him to read every word of it and every comment. Why does he do that?
The last two “Castro opponents” in this useless idiot’s list happens to be another of Castro’s idiots posting under the same name. Can’t useless idiots identify each other?
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 21:54
Wow. with the enormous amount of anti castros in this blog, you sure have a long way to go before you will be heard. Wait, let me count the huge number of Castro opponenets here 1- Humberto, 2 - Help, 3 - Griffin, 4 - John Bibb, 5 - third wave ( well at least I think so) 6 - red cardinal, that just about sums it up. Out of 55 posts on this article 53 are from 6 people, and 2 from yours truly.
Boy have you got a big uprising going, maybe by the turn of the century you will even reach 10 members who knows.
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 20:55
HAVANA TIMES : The (Non) Right of Cubans to Travel -Haroldo Dilla Alfonso-February 1, 2010-
The situation in Cuba concerning the freedom to travel is unfortunate. What I’m describing here is not for Cuban readers (who are all too familiar with this issue), but for those who are unaware of the matter and are forced to accept the information of those who close their eyes to this flagrant civil rights violation, a veritable wedge driven between the Cuban nation made up of both émigrés and those residing on the island.
Above all, travel for Cubans is not a right, but a legal privilege. It is a condition that can be granted or rescinded. It is a revocable concession by an unappealable power and is without a defined judicial framework.
In all cases, the departures of these people imply considerable fees that can end up in well excess of US $500, an immense sum for a population with exceedingly depressed wages that average $20 a month. In short, to leave, each person must be able to pay for a letter of invitation, a passport and an exit permit.
On top of this, once in the destination country, the traveler must make payments to the Cuban embassy in that country a sum that varies each month they remain in that country, which is a highly uncustomary practice. This sum fluctuates between $40 and $150 a month.
There are no laws or clearly written regulations covering these processes; rather, there are arbitrary and discretionary practices that mix starkly fascist reins of political control with mercurial motivations of the worst kind. In this way, the Cuban government denies a right that it alternately sells to those who can afford it.
But we must pay them, and pay them well, so they can continue reproducing their power with the same parasitic style they’ve displayed over the last fifty years.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=18972
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 20:55
LETTER TO Dilma Rousseff FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BRAZIL
http://www.amnesty.org/en/libr.....2012pt.pdf
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 20:54
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT - 27 January 2012- AI Index: AMR 19/002/2012
Brazilian Government must defend the rights of Yoani Sánchez, Cuban blogger and all other dissidents, journalists and human rights activists The news that Brazil has issued a visa for Yoani Sánchez, the Cuban blogger and human rights activist, to visit the country for a film festival is an important step in recognising her right to freedom of movement. The Cuban authorities must now grant her permission to travel to Brazil to attend the screening of a documentary by Brazilian documentary-maker Dado Galvão in Jequié, Bahia State, on 10 February. The film features the story of Yoani Sánchez and other bloggers.
Amnesty International is calling on the Brazilian government to intervene with the Cuban authorities so that Yoani Sanchez is given permission to travel freely to and from Cuba. On 20 January 2012 Amnesty International wrote to Brazil’s Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota, calling on the Brazilian government to intervene in this case and to discuss human rights violations in Cuba.
Dilma Rousseff will be visiting Cuba on 31 January 2012. Amnesty International urges her to raise Yoeni Sánchez’ case with the Cuban authorities as well as the issue of freedom of expression, association, assembly and movement which is of serious concern. The case of Yoani Sánchez and her visit to Brazil gives the Brazilian authorities an opportunity to engage on those issues with the Cuban government.
The Cuban authorities continue to severely restrict the freedom of expression, assembly, and association of political dissidents, journalists and human rights activists. Dissidents, journalists and human rights activists are subject to arbitrary house arrest and other restrictions to prevent them from carrying out legitimate and peaceful activities. In addition, the Cuban government is using the denial of exit permits as a punitive measure against government critics and dissidents.
Amnesty International trusts that President Rousseff will use her upcoming visit to Cuba to reinforce Brazil’s increasing global influence in the promotion and protection of human rights
http://www.amnesty.org/en/libr.....2012en.pdf
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 20:32
Humberto, what happened to the emigration reform that Castro’s useless idiots keep predicting for the last several years at least?
One of Castro’s idiots who populates this blog with his infantile barbs had told us that Castro was about to let Cubans travel freely. What happened?
Why did Marxist states keep their citizens prisoner and why didn’t anybody ever want to live in them?
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 19:58
GIVE THEM HELL FLACA!! MEANING THE CASTROFASCISTS OF COURSE! IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOANI TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF CUBA HELP TO PROPAGATE THIS STORY! TODO SE SABE, Y BIEN RAPIDO!! ENTIENDEN COMPAĂ‘EROS?? JE JE JE!
MIAMI HERALD: Yoani Sanchez files demand against Cuban Interior Minister - Blogger Yoani Sanchez filed the demand to know why she’s banned from leaving Cuba. - By Juan O. Tamayo
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has filed a notice with the Interior Ministry demanding to know why she’s not allowed to travel abroad, the latest in a string of daring legal challenges to the communist government.
Sánchez said the notice filed Wednesday asks Interior Minister Abelardo Colomé Ibarra to explain why the ministry office that is in charge of exit permits never answered her Nov. 18, 2010 request for the reasons behind the refusals.
Colomé Ibarra now has 60 days to respond to her complaint of “administrative silence,” Sanchez said. If he doesn’t, she will file a lawsuit against the minister seeking a court order that he must reply.
“Of course, I know what’s going to happen. But I want to maintain that innocence of having hope,” Sánchez added, referring to the high probability that her complaints will go nowhere in a country where the courts faithfully follow the government line.
Cubans who want to travel abroad require a government permit, known as a “White Card” and regularly denied to dissidents. It has turned down several Sánchez requests to travel abroad to receive prizes, attend conferences or for other reasons.
She has repeatedly asked for an explanation at the Interior Ministry’s Office for Immigration and Foreigners’ Affairs, but received none. Her notice Wednesday elevated her question to the minister’s office.
“It’s a step before a lawsuit,” she told El Nuevo Herald by phone from Havana. “It is a legal, juridical opportunity in the hands of citizens, which allow an appeal against Cuban authorities when the authorities have not responded to a petition.”
Her notice was the latest in a handful of bold attempts by dissidents and others to use Cuba’s legal system to challenge official actions. The courts have knocked down almost all the cases, including some filed against police.
But the Cuban Juridical Association is still fighting a three-year-old case seeking the legal recognition of the Justice Ministry as a group of lawyers that provides legal advice on a nonprofit basis, usually to government critics.
CJA chief Wilfredo VallĂn, who also is advising Sánchez on her case, took the first step required to register the group in April 2009 by asking the Justice Ministry’s Registry of Associations to certify that no other group had registered the same name.
The registry never replied so the 1992 graduate of the University of Havana Law School elevated his request to Justice Minister MarĂa Esther Reus. When she didn’t reply, he filed suit under Cuba’s Law for Civil, Administrative and Labor Procedures.
To his surprise, a three-judge panel first officially accepted VallĂn’s complaint, and then ordered Reus to appoint lawyers to defend her. Cuba’s highest court, the Supreme Tribunal found a technical fault with one of his filings last year but allowed the case to continue and later ordered the minister to reply to VallĂn’s initial request.
The Justice Ministry certified last June that no other group was registered with the same name or purpose as the CJA, but earlier this year it rejected the CJA’s application for recognition on technical grounds. VallĂn has vowed to appeal.
Ministry officials had never officially recognized any dissident group, making them illegal and therefore subject to sanctions for the crime of “illegal association.”
Cuba’s justice system argues that the role of the law is to promote stability and the development of a “socialist society.” Dissidents put on trial are almost always convicted.
Lawyers are required to work for the government or government-approved Collective Law Offices, where criminal defense attorneys can be hired. But lawyers who spend too much time defending dissidents are sometimes fired from the law offices.
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....ainst.html
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 13:42
Working the door at Mariela Castro’s Conference in New York
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....-new-york/
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 12:13
Mariela said;”What is needed is to “transform” society to avoid future problems, Castro argued, according to the EFE and AFP news agencies.
She also declared that Cuba’s electoral system “is so democratic that no one wants to talk about it
…. It looks like castros are sendin mariela like a missionar to talk about changes in cuba…so there can be more gays…the same as happen in the last decades in canada and usa where all youths turned to gays…socialist,leftist.
Mariela has come 20-30 years later because gays are not discriminated but run all north america…and as socialists are turning it as cuba…a nazi concentration camp
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 11:53
INTERESTING TAKE ON THIS ARTICLE!
ORLANDO SUN SENTINEL: Latest pro-Cuba campaign gets assist from people in U.S. - By Guillermo I. MartĂnez
Journalists generally do not believe in coincidences. We prefer to connect the dots and see the pattern that emerges.
In the case of Cuba’s new found hemispheric diplomacy, the pattern is obvious even to those not used to dig behind the news. The Cuban Government has launched a multi-pronged campaign to seek improved relations with President Barack Obama’s administration, with the goal that while rapprochement may not be possible in an election year, it aims to make it real if the president is re-elected.
The campaign is composed of high-level Cuban government officials traveling to the United States for international forums — backed by the Cuban Catholic hierarchy — and includes the support of some very powerful Cuban-American entrepreneurs.
In the last six to eight weeks:
Cardinal Jaime Ortega went to Harvard University, where he criticized the U.S. embargo, said Cubans who had occupied a church in Havana were delinquents or crazies and revealed that in a private conversation years earlier the late Miami Auxiliary Archbishop AgustĂn Román had urged him not to speak about reconciliation in Miami.
Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President RaĂşl Castro, attended a conference in San Francisco There, Castro said U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba was being held hostage by the “Cuban mafia” in Miami and said that, if she had a vote in the U.S. elections, she would vote for President Obama.
Eusebio Leal, who with millions of dollars provided by international organizations has tried to refurbish and rebuild parts of colonial Havana, traveled to Washington, D.C., where he spoke at three events — at the National Trust for Historic Preservation at the prestigious Brookings Institution and at the Council of Foreign Relations.
A Cuban scientist received the Pew Fellowship for Marine Conservation. The New York-based Environmental Defense Fund gave Fabian Pina Amargos $150,000 to study the goliath grouper, a species of fish in decline. This is the first award given by the EDF for research in Cuba.
Attending Leal’s conference in Washington were, among others, Florida sugar magnate Alfonso Fanjul and Paul Cejas, former President Bill Clinton’s Ambassador to Belgium and a prominent member of the Democratic Party.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne.....527.column
Mayo 31st, 2012 at 11:16
PRINCESS MARIELA CASTRO FOOLS ONLY THE CASTROFASCISTS DEVOTEE, NOT THE WORLD COMMUNITY! AS WE SAY IN CUBAN “QUE CARA TAN DURA” (a face made of stone) REFERRING TO SOMEONE WHO IS CYNICAL, HYPOCRITICAL! AND A LIAR! ALL THE MAIN TRAITS THE RUN IN THE CASTRO CLAN!
MIAMI HERALD: Mariela Castro: Cuba’s electoral system is open and fair - Mariela Castro’s New York presentation draws complaints that the audience was hand-picked. - By Juan O. Tamayo
The daughter of Cuban ruler Raúl Castro has told a New York Public Library audience that her country’s electoral system is democratic and that a government apology for its past persecution of gays “would be an act of hypocrisy.”
Sexologist Mariela Castro’s appearance Tuesday at a panel on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights also drew some complaints that organizers had cherry-picked the audience to avert hostile questions or other confrontations.
When one audience member asked whether the communist government needs to apologize for its persecution of gays in the past 50 years, she reportedly replied that “to ask for forgiveness now would be an act of hypocrisy that will not change the past.”
What is needed is to “transform” society to avoid future problems, Castro argued, according to the EFE and AFP news agencies.
She also declared that Cuba’s electoral system “is so democratic that no one wants to talk about it,” although she believes that “it could be even more democratic.” The Communist Party is Cuba’s lone legal political organization.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....toral.html
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 23:21
mariela’s socialism is to different from this socialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....QjF1IPgKQ#!
I am surprised why mariela doesnt think and talk like this in her meetings but it is more like the UN ’s socialism-feudalism…corporate people speech who are paid to be blind and play dumb and lazy
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 20:42
FIDEL “THE MUMMY” CASTRO, IN HIS OWN WORDS!! WORDS WILL COME BACK AND HAUNT THE CASTROFASCISTS!
“I WILL NEVER BEEN AGAINST ANY RIGHTS! I AM NOT COMMUNISTS!” IN HIS OWN WORDS FOLKS!
“NOT SO MANY EXECUTIONS, 2-3 DOZENS!! EXECUTIONS FOR THE “HAPPYNESS OF THE COUNTRY”!” IN HIS OWN WORDS FOLKS!
YOUTUBE: Fidel Castro on Face the Nation in 1959 - Shortly after leading rebel forces in overthrowing Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro appeared on the Jan. 11, 1959 edition of Face the Nation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....._embedded#!
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 20:31
Clueless Liar makes a fool of himself yet again!
“Had Cuba been an oil producing giant like Irak, Afghanistan, or Lybia,”
OK, we’ll ignore your embarrassing spelling errors. Firstly, It was the dictator Saddam (whom the Americans deposed) who was stealing Iraqi oil. The US is well on the way out of Iraq, and that Iraq owns their oil as guaranteed by the Iraqi Constitution which the US helped them write.
Secondly, Afghanistan doesn’t have any oil.
Thirdly, the Libyan dictator Gaddafi was stealing the Libyan oil. The US & NATO helped depose him too, and now the Libyan people control their own oil.
For the record, Cuba did once have weapons of mass destruction: remember the CUban Missile Crisis? And Cuba is still listed as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria. It’s funny how Clueless Liar is always defending those countries.
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 20:22
HOPEFULLY!! THE ENTIRE UNEDITED N.Y. CITY LIBRARY EVENT VIDEO WILL BE ONLINE SOON, UNLIKE IN CUBA! THEN WE CAN ALL SEE, HEAR & COMMENT ON WHAT PRINCESS MARIELA SAID! JE JE JE!
THE TASK FORCE BLOG: “Due to the popularity of the event, all available seats have been filled. However, there will be video after the event, and we’ll post the link here once it is available.”
YOUTUBE AL JAZEERA: Castro’s niece visits the US - Castro niece champions gay rights in New York. The daughter of Raul Castro, Cuba’s president, is taking her long standing fight for gay rights to the people of the US. Mariela Castro, the niece of Fidel Castro, has been speaking in New York about the persecution of gay and lesbian people. But for her critics say they want the political rights of all Cubans to be championed by the country’s elite. Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner reports from New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....AEkvIzmeKQ
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 20:05
Quote;
“Spain’s Repsol oil company announced Tuesday it was “almost certain” to withdraw from exploration in Cuba, after spending an estimated $150 million on a dry well and seeing far more profitable prospects in other countries such as Brazil and Angola.”
Now isn`t that the news of the century, lol. Had there been any oil on Cuban soil, the US would have long agao taken control of the country and overthrown the revolutionary government. Had Cuba been an oil producing giant like Irak, Afghanistan, or Lybia, the US would have long ago invaded it under pretext that Cuba had weapons of mass destruction or that they were a haven for terrorists.
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 19:32
Mariela say the truth but she doesnt know the truth and can not handle it…so to help her not be naive…there should be run in tv of all north america her live show about the cuba’s socialism…both inside and outside cuba (but not around miami where the big cuban mafia lives…).Yoani should call mariela and start a show with her so both run the show which yoani must contribute for free, voluntary…as is in common in cuba…and this means that both yoani and mariela will offer great change for the justice not just in cuba bot all north american union…enough with gay talk and lazy blogs
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 19:25
the live tv show about cuba ’s socialism experiment should be called “Mariela’s Show” and she will be famous as oprah….but yoani should help her with interviewing the cuban people when they land in mexico to live for a while cleaning there the bushes and create greenhouses to produce enough food to feed half billion starving north americans…so both these brave girls or princeses should act as suppose to act now to contribute for the big changes in the north american union…and not just deal with some small things like the rights for gays and dissidents of cuba,north america
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:54
red cardinal
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:20
Mariela said great words;”Within that sovereignty, we have the right to choose the path to maintain that freedom, and we have chosen through popular referendum a type of socialism which experiments towards the search for justice for all.”
It would be more accurate to say “Mariela said great lies.” The Castro dictatorship has never allowed the Cuban people a free and fair “popular referendum”. The system they live under was imposed by force and is maintained by force. There is no mystery to the “search for justice for all”…give the people freedom.
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:51
mexico can keep 9 million cubans in their soil because 30 milion mexicans are in usa as tourists too,and now north america will be a great union so cubans as mexicans can travel or relocate anywhere in the north american union without being discriminated
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:46
when 6 million cubans will arrive in mexico the cuba’s tv should there also and yoani to interview the cubans about their socialism…and castros should see live the show. I think it will be the great live show and for sure will shock the leaders of cuba who run the revolution and socialism.They will be surprised about the cubans talking horrible things happen to them in cuba’s concentration camp and plantation in paradise
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:35
So when the 9 million cubans arrive in mexico,the world media and bloggers should interview them and ask how good was the justice for all and the experiment of socialism in cuba.Mariela should be there to to find out what is going on in her country and what her people think and say…before she start running it as future leader,because she may be really a good rebel leader…So it is time to put a notice in the granma paper by her and UN should provide the cruise ships for the cubans now
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:28
cuba’s experiment “justice for all.” is not happening…not because the miami mafia think so but because the whole world think that there is no “justice for all.” in cuba
the free cruise ship runing from cuba to mexico for 3 months 24 hrs will show that cubans think the same as the rest of the world about the cuban experiment of a socialism with a stick in your head…which has created autocensure in cuba’s corporation,plantation,concentration camp…Can mariela suggest the free trip to mexico for all cubans?…I think yes, so she should put a notice for cubans to board the free trip cruise ship to mexico paid by the cuba socialist good government of the people
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:20
Mariela said great words;”Within that sovereignty, we have the right to choose the path to maintain that freedom, and we have chosen through popular referendum a type of socialism which experiments towards the search for justice for all.”
Maybe castros dont know that the system that they run is not socialism but despotism…the same as other countries….To find out the truth they should buy some cruise ships and put in the granma newspaper this notice; all cuban who think that they dont live in socialism have a free trip to mexico and see what is going to happen but I think that the cruise ships will be running for 24 hours because 9 million cubans will leave their socialist country…and tell to the world that they live in despotism run by a family dynasty…For sure mariela will be surprised…because I dont think that she is hypocrite not to know that at least 9 million cubans are discriminated,censured,beaten,scared,hunted,tortured for decades
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:16
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional Association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. With over 7,000 members, forty-five percent of whom reside outside the United States, LASA is the one Association that brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe.
ONE OF THE TWO EVENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS SPONSORED BY L.A.S.A.! I ALSO ADMIRE THE WRITINGS OF THIS CUBAN WRITER/INTELLECTUAL NOW LIVING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC!
HAVANA TIMES: LASA Conferences and the Cubans - Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
In the recent history of LASA, there have been a string of arbitrary actions taken by the government in Havana to block the participation of its citizens.
This can be seen in the cases of Espinosa Chepe, Yoani Sanchez and others. While it’s true that LASA policy should be careful when it comes to interfering in decisions by a government, a public suggestion would be desirable simply so that Latin American academia would have the opportunity to know what Chepe thinks about the Raulist “updating” or what Yoani’s opinion is concerning social networks.
The situation of my fellow islanders is even more delicate. I think it’s ethical and political nonsense that the Cuban members of LASA were invited to — and finally did — sign a letter to the US government asking for justice for the 11 (referring to the number of visas denied).
For the US government, this negative action is hardly a drop in the ocean compared to all of the violations committed by the Cuban government in this field, which is in fact also the government of the dissidents too. Therefore the acts by the Cuban government are not being committed against foreigners but against its own citizens, such as Espinosa Chepe and Yoani Sanchez.
I must confess that the Cuba section of LASA, with its nearly three hundred members, is working in this direction as a sounding board of the ideological department of the Cuban Communist Party and has been accumulating a fairly dishonorable record.
For example, about two years ago the Cuba section of LASA circulated a document calling for the US government to let its citizens travel to Cuba, but in no place did it invite the Cuban government to reconsider its archaic and repressive immigration laws.
It was a staggering case of moral paralysis if we look at the underlying differences between the two cases in the interests of the American side.
In that same year, the head of the section, a Cuban-American, attended the “Nacion con la emigracion” (Nation with Emigrants) conference on behalf of LASA, thus legitimizing a discriminatory and exclusionary act in the name of “flexible dialogue,” “critical support,” “orderly transition” and many other ideological trifles that justify these unilateral actions that are highly profitable for the Cuban government without inducing any change.
Now the Cuban section of LASA is returning to its old indiscretions. It is doing so by forcing Cuban academics to sign an outrageous resolution, incapacitated as they are, while not asking for something similar from their own government. Nor can they even refuse to sign, if they want to keep their jobs and the professional opportunities offered LASA.
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http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=71617
Mayo 30th, 2012 at 18:01
“Internet is the new battlefield of the Cuban government and the fiber optic cable is the weapon — selective and hidden — in its media war”.
Now…the best for cuba is to let the internet free run in cuba and not censured but to change somehow the people’s brains…maybe put a chip in the head of the 11 milion cubans…so they all think as castros,old and young castros…so all cubans think like them. Who has put chips in the castros heads and programed their brain’s software?