Solidarity with Cuba

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 Cuba

Migration policy, updating or readjustment?

Co-founder of Convivencia Cuba, Virgilio Toledo Lopez, analyses the announced updating or readjustment of Cuba's migration laws.

Time for Reflection and Prudence

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 Abroad

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. Barbarism

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 Cuba

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.

A great leap

While crisis is on, there are emerging new projects of rebuilding and development of the economy. The Cuban socialism, as their authorities say, has potential to fill in the gaps, to enjoy the high productivity, that the others can only envy, and to keep the social unity regardless uncomfortable situations that are faced everyday.

Dismissals are continued

A short note in the Granma was published on June 5^th : “The State Council upon the recommendation of its President, and after the consultations with the Political Bureau of the Party, decided to dismiss a comrade Francisco Soberon Valdes, the Minister and President of the Cuban Central Bank. (…) The Comrade Soberon asked also to accept his resignation from membership in the Central Committee of the Party and the membership in the State Council after 48 years of his work, so that he could dedicate himself to writing and to conducting the research on international finances in order to put the results of this work at the disposal of the Cuban government and Communist Party. He also affirmed his willingness to keep cooperating in any task assigned to him by Fidel and Raul.”

The whole truth, to achieve justice for all - Statement on the repeal of Cuba’s suspension from the OAS

This is not a matter of interpretation, but of facts that can not be disputed: in Cuba there is no democracy. Citizens cannot choose a political, social or economic system; instead, they are imposed. Cubans want to change the system, but a totalitarian power prevents them from doing so, by force. It has even imposed on the Constitution itself an illegal and illegitimate contradiction and roadblock that denies the people’s sovereign right to decide their fate and their model of society. The Cuban people will never opt for an order without rights. We Cubans have not renounced our popular sovereignty – it has been taken away from us.

Eleven News Stories Not Reported in Cuba in 2011