Damas de Blanco: El gobierno provisional no ha dado pasos a favor de los derechos humanos 1970-01-01 00:59:59
El gobierno provisional de Raúl Castro no ha realizado aún ningún paso "para tomar la senda del progreso", afirmaron este lunes las Damas
de Blanco en una carta enviada al presidente del Parlamento Europeo, Hans-Gert Poettering, informó la AFP. "Cuba atraviesa un momento histórico trascendental desde el 31 de julio de 2006, cuando podrÃa avanzarse en el respeto de los derechoshumanos
y la democratización", dijeron las madres, esposas y familiares de presos polÃticos cubanos en referencia a la delegación de poderes que en esa fecha hizo Fidel Castro en su hermano Raúl, debido a una crisis de salud. "Este proceso debe comenzar con la libertad inmediata e incondicional de los prisioneros de conciencia y polÃticos pacÃficos. No obstante, el gobierno provisional no ha realizado ningún paso aún para tomar la senda del progreso de nuestro pueblo", añadieron. Las Damas de Blanco, Premio Sajarov del Parlamento Europeo, recordaron a Hans-Gert Poettering que en marzo Read more:favor
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Miami Investment Fund Bets on Change in Cuba 1970-01-01 00:59:59
Thomas Herzfeld
With President Fidel Castro in declining health, a growing number of companies in the United States are making plans to do business in Cuba. They are doing so based on reports that Acting President Raul Castro is more pragmatic than his ailing older brother and could move Cuba towards the Chinese economic model. His seemingly conciliatory tone toward the United States recently also has led some firms to start considering future ventures on the island.
Shares in corporations set to do well -- if the U.S. embargo against Cuba is lifted -- have rallied over recent months. Steve Mort visited a Miami
investment adviser who is banking on change in the communist country.
In Miami, business leaders and investors are closely watching developments in Cuba. Many view potential political change there as an opportunity.Investment adviser Thomas Herzfeld has established a portfolio of American companies set to benefit if the U.S. embargo against Cuba is lifted. "From early on we Read more:Change
Take a look at this Dream Vacation in Cuba Video Below: Holiday hell in Cuba 1970-01-01 00:59:59
NOT IN THE BROCHURE: The tickets bring back bad memories for, front, from left, Isabelle Barnett, Dorothy Crake, Elaine Old, and, back, left, Derek Barnett and Robert Old.
A FAMILY are suing Thomas Cook after their dream trip to Cuba became the holiday from hell. Elaine Old, 44, claims their luxury hotel made the family sick.
She arrived at the resort only to find dirty beds, her toilet overflowing with human waste and food covered in flies.
Just three days into the four-star luxury break at the Brisas Guardalavaca Hotel, Holguin, Elaine and her family were left ill with a serious stomach bug.
But things turned from bad to worse when their elderly mother, Dorothy, 76, was left needing emergency hospital treatment after she slipped on the wet hotel floor and broke her leg.
Mrs Old, of Ryhope, said: "I've never seen anything like it. The minute we walked into our rooms, the smell just hit us in the face.
"We spent 13 days eating chips, egg and toast because they were the Read more:Dream
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Cubans on Medical Aid Mission Flee Venezuela, but Find Limbo 1970-01-01 00:59:59
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela
, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with a few belongings and holding just $1,300 among them, sneaked across the Colombian border and promptly defected."From the moment I got there, I thought of it -- leaving," Perez, 36, said in an interview in Bogota, where about 40 Cuban physicians and other medical professionals are living after fleeing from Venezuela.
Now, Perez and the other Cuban defectors are providing a rare inside look at a program that has helped define the close relationship between Washington's two most formidable adversaries in the Americas, the 48-year-old communist government in Cuba and the populist administration of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.Cuba has dispatched more than 20,000 doctors, as well as Read more:Cubans
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Cuba Eyes a Chinese Model 1970-01-01 00:59:59
Even as Fidel Castro made his first televised appearance (Bloomberg) in months in late January, the murmurs anticipating his passing—and what it might mean for communist Cuba—continued unabated. The United States has held out hope that political turnover might bring an opportunity to end the decades-long freeze in diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba. American officials hope to promote democratic change on the island by reaching out to Cuban civil society during a period of political transition, as the State Department's Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry describes in this new CFR.org Podcast.
Raul Castro, the country's acting president and Fidel's brother, added to speculation that change might be afoot with a series of speeches (Reuters) in December asserting his frustration with the country's bureaucracy and launching a campaign to bolster the country's low food output. For some analysts, Raul's recent statements amount to a move in the direction of China Read more:Chinese
FAREWELL TO AN UNBURIED CORPSE 1970-01-01 00:59:59
The recent images of a Fidel Castro as a crumbling shell of a man trying to pretend that he is more than just an unburied cadaver are so pathetic as to be ridiculous. The aging dictator does not want to accept the bitter reality of his destiny. Accustomed to imposing his will with a steel fist, he surely must feel humiliated when the mirror he faces shows him the mortal remains of a nauseating skeleton conveniently anchored in the anteroom of hell.
No longer does the diabolical "caudillo" of the Sierra Maestra represent anything. Destiny has condemned him to a sad past in the present, forcing him to be a witness to his own arid future, without throne or glory like a bleak wilderness. At his feet is now
the carpet where his mentors Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler passed on their way to the garbage heap of history. All indications are that the voyage of the tyrant to the immensity of nothingness, so desired by the Cuban people, is almost at hand. With not much pity, even i Read more:CORPSE
ARRESTAN A MADRE Y NIÑAS SIN HOGAR 1970-01-01 00:59:59 LA HABANA, CUBA - 21 de febrero (Jaime Leygonier/Puenteinfocubamiami.org)-
Autoridades de Gobierno - Poder Popular, Partido Comunista, Comunales - amenazan y reprenden por contrarrevolucionaria, y los policÃas arrestan a empujones a la madre paciente psiquiátrica que duerme con sus dos hijitas en la calle. Según informa la propia desamparada
Este acoso -- con arrestos, maltratos policiales de obra y de palabra y amenazas de meterla presa y quitarle sus niñas para recluirlas en un orfanato—coincide con gestiones telefónicas de este comunicador con el Poder Popular Provincial, su Asamblea Nacional, y la posterior publicación periodÃstica de la tragedia.
La reacción oficial a estas gestiones y publicación consiste en que los funcionarios de Gobierno Municipal y los policÃas procuran con amenazas y arrestos pasarles el problema a otros funcionarios.
Asà exigen a la enferma Rosa Bárbara Soberón Urrutia que calle, no hable a l Read more:ARRESTAN
Golpean a prisionero polÃtico 1970-01-01 00:59:59
La Habana - www.PayoLibre.com - VÃctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, preso polÃtico y uno de los 75 disidentes encarcelados en marzo del 2003, fue golpeado por un oficial carcelero cuando salÃa del comedor de la prisión el Yayal en la provincia de HolguÃn, denunció vÃa telefónica Elsa González Padrón, esposa del recluso, desde Pinar del RÃo, provincia de residencia de los cónyuges. El incidente ocurrió el pasado 6 de febrero alrededor de las 11 de la mañana, en el momento en que Arroyo salÃa del comedor con el almuerzo para ingerirlo en su cubÃculo. Entonces el carcelero, un oficial con grado de mayor y conocido por Juan Ramón Leiva, le inquirió que a donde iba. Arroyo le respondió que estaba autorizado por la dirección del penal a ingerir lentamente la comida debido a su mal estado de salud. Cuando Arroyo se volteó el mayor le dio un puñetazo en la cabeza que lo tendió en el piso y continuó pateándolo en el suelo y pisoteándole los espejuelos y la c Read more:prisionero
LA GUERRA ASIMETRICA DE REGIMEN CONTRA LA INTERNET 1970-01-01 00:59:59
Los nuevos escuadrones de internautas se aprestan para zarpar cada noche. Navegantes dotados de militancias y exuberantes escalafones, son los prodigios de una revolución en fase terminal. Los chicos de la Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas (UCI) penetran los laberintos del ciberespacio. Su misión consiste en dinamitar con cargas virulentas cuanto sitio Web atente en contra de los arios verde olivos. La XII Convención y Exposición Internacional Informática 2007 "llama a democratizar las tecnologÃas de la información y las comunicaciones". Asà anuncia el periódico Granma en la primera plana de su edición del 13 de febrero. En materia de democratización, según la entiende el gobierno cubano, contamos con una red interna en su versión Intranet. Esta red se alimenta de servidores centrales controlados por el gobierno, concebidos como filtros informáticos. La variante nacional de navegación interna nutre con información previamente seleccionada a centros de Read more:REGIMEN
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