Articles - journalists
No more deception, FREEDOM NOWauthor: Oswaldo Payá
The government representing the military regime has denied Cubans the universal right to travel freely for more than half a century and still denies this right without any clear prospects towards change. With the greatest cruelty, it has torn millions of Cuban families apart and it still does. Government spokesmen have speculated for months about possible immigration changes and some, as President of the National Assembly Ricardo Alarcon, justify the state of imprisonment in which they keep Cuban, saying they cannot lose the "human capital". This expression, characteristic of slave masters, reflects the views of those who hold power in Cuba and on Cubans, whom they consider their capital, their property and do not treat them as people with dignity and rights. For the regime the people of Cuba are not citizens but servants.
Cuba: What Do We Mean By Revolution?author: Yusimi Rodriguez
The question of what do we really mean by revolution came to me recently while I was reading the official Granma newspaper. It talked about how a group of self-employed workers had reaffirmed their commitment to the “revolution.”
With pain and without gloryauthor: Oscar Espinosa Chepe
The First Conference of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), was held on January 28th and 29th.It would be difficult to find in the national history an event that attracted less interest from the population. Only a few specialists paid any attention, and held very pessimistic predictions.
Eleven News Stories Not Reported in Cuba in 2011author: Ernesto Morales Licea
Only when the events in Egypt exceeded the predictions, did the Cuban press note (with tweezers) some isolated incidents. Nor had it published anything earlier about the riots in Tunisia and Yemen, nor did it later
dig into the deposition of Hosni Mubarak. On Libya and and the fall of Muammar Gadaffi, it limited itself to denigrating the role of NATO, without mentioning the popular movement against the dictator. On Syria,
Cuban press coverage remains minimal.
A Tower of Babel Exists in Cubaauthor: Alfredo Fernandez
That structure from the Bible in which all of the world’s languages mythologically and eclectically converged actually exists in Havana. Its location is on Lealtad Street, in the Centro Habana neighborhood.
Migration policy, updating or readjustment?author: Virgilio Toledo Lopez, Convivencia
Co-founder of Convivencia Cuba, Virgilio Toledo Lopez, analyses the announced updating or readjustment of Cuba's migration laws.
Time for Reflection and Prudenceauthor: Oscar Espinosa Chepe
On June 23, the Appropriations Committee of the House received a bill proposing the elimination of the measures adopted by President Obama allowing travels for Cuban Americans and remittances to Cuba. The amendment was presented by Florida Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart, and is one of several proposals from Cuban American legislators directed to boycott any steps to connect Cubans in the Island with their compatriots in the US. Should this bill, which is devoid of common and human sense, be approved, it would mean the return to the extreme separation of families and of Cubans in general, and is therefore overwhelmingly rejected by the population in the Island, the majority of the Cuban community abroad, and solid and respectable institutions such as the Catholic Church.
Talibans Abroadauthor: Oscar Espinosa Chepe
In Cuba, those who hold government positions and fiercely work to hinder changes that are urgently needed by the people are called Talibans. They organize groups of lunatics to persecute people who peacefully manifest their support for the release of the prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, as well as in favor of democratic changes for the island.
Cuba: Reason vs. Barbarismauthor: Jorge Olivera Castillo
The Cuban government has shown its true face to the world. However, what could be plainly seen was not an expression of goodness or sound judgment - what explanation could there be for a crowd attacking with impunity three or four dozen women dressed in white?
The Free Blogosphere Takes Off in Cubaauthor: Yoani Sanchez
Like the sneeze of a desired flu, the alternative Cuban blogosphere continues to propagate itself. It is no longer like the bleak wasteland that displayed -- if anything -- a few pseudonymous pages in April 2007,
when I started Generation Y. I've lost count of how many we are now, because every week I learn that at least two new virtual spaces have been born. The blockade of various blogger platforms and the constant
attacks have served only to make the virus of free opinion mutate into forms more complicated to shut up. The DNA of citizen expression will not concede in the face of vaccines based on intimidation and defamation; eventually everyone will be infected.
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2012-05-08
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