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United by pain, Cuba's Ladies in White vow to keep marchingauthor: Juan Tamayo
The women met each other in Villa Marista, tenebrous headquarters of Cuba's political police, while visiting some of the 74 husbands, sons and fathers arrested in a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
Divided Cuban Community meets on Facebookauthor: Jeff Franks, Reuters
Susana has never set foot outside of Cuba but she has seen plenty of pictures of her friends' houses in Miami, their new cars and even the fancy disco they went to the other night.
Cuba: Discovering personal independenceauthor: Ronald R. Cooke
For an economist, Cuba has been a perfect laboratory experiment. Fidel Castro was a charismatic leader, Cuba enjoyed economic and political support from Russia, it had a closed economy, and the revolution gave the government absolute control over the people. The government confiscated millions of acres of land and established collective farms under centralized planning. It all came together to create the perfect experiment in socialism. | .
Juanes' concert for peace -- reading the tea leavesauthor: Carlos Saladrigas
After watching the much talked-about Juanes concert on Sunday, I was left with a feeling that something transcendental had taken place.
Cuban blogger the voice of youth-oriented countercultureauthor: Lydia Martin, Miami Herald
Yoani Sánchez, the blogger who has gained an international following detailing the absurdities of daily life in Cuba, is on the phone from her 14th-floor apartment in Havana, where the elevators rarely work. She speaks plainly, boldly, with none of the hemming and hawing common among folks on the island who fear their phones are tapped.
Cuba Lags in Communication Technologyauthor: Juan O. Tamayo (for Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, MIAMI)
Cuba’s cellular telephone service mushroomed in 2008, but the remainder of its telecommunications and information technology sectors were stagnant or even shrank, according to the most recent report from the Havana government.
Anniversary of a Castroite Massacreauthor: Humberto Fontova
In the predawn darkness of July 13, 1994, 72 desperate Cubans - old and young, male and female - sneaked aboard a decrepit but seaworthy tugboat in Havana harbor and set off for the U.S. and the prospect of freedom.
Giving Solidarity to the Worldauthor: Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
"The triumph of Poland's Solidarity trade union movement in 1989 stands out as one of the most consequential victories for human freedom of this or any other century. Not only did it liberate the Polish people from the yoke of communism, but it set in motion the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in Central Europe and the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War."
Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?author: Washington Post
FOR ITS winners, the National Endowment for Democracy's annual Democracy Award can mean a brief respite from a dangerous life as a dissident: a trip to Washington, attention from Congress and the media, and -- during the Bush and Clinton administrations -- an Oval Office meeting or statement of support from the president. No such luck for this year's honorees, who are five leaders of Cuba's pro-democracy movement. Two of them -- Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera and Jorge Luis García Pérez -- were detained in the Cuban town of Placetas on Tuesday when they joined a peaceful meeting of the Rosa Parks Women's Movement for Civil Rights. A third, Librado Linares García, who is already imprisoned, was moved to a punishment cell before yesterday's Capitol Hill award ceremony.
U.S. Now Has Zero Tolerance for Cuban Spiesauthor: Juan Tamayo*
If Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers know their Cuban history, they might well blame their arrest last week on charges of spying for Havana on the 1989 execution of Cuban Army Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa and the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to The Rescue airplanes.
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2012-02-09
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