Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
When the National Endowment for Democracy handed out its annual Democracy Award on Wednesday in Washington, all five recipients were Cuban, a first.
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
A statement from the White House today says President Obama "would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and commend the National Endowment for Democracy's 2009 Democracy Award recipients Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, Librado Linares, Ivan Hernandez Carrillo , and Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera and all the brave men and women who are standing up for the right of the Cuban...
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
... represented here by Bertha Antúnez, sister of Jorge Luis García Pérez. And Ms. Antúnez, an Afro-Cuban who was active in the Rosa Parks movement before she was forced into exile a year ago, has been snubbed by President Obama. Requests that he meet with her went unanswered. Only as the ceremony began did the White House issue a brief statement." The paper said that "Mr. Obama's hastily drafted...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
... in migration talks. Broader contact and leverage with Cuba through additional commercial and people-to-people contacts will in time help promote a more pluralistic, less impoverished, more open society. "While President Obama's incremental changes in policy toward Cuba are positive, they are also insufficient. Now is the time for decisive and rational efforts to bring Cuba back into...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
“I am waiting for a clarification about why he hasn’t accepted Obama’s proposal for U.S. telecommunications companies to provide Internet to the Cuban people. I demand, like many around me, a convincing argument for why we are not going to join the OAS…”: Generation Y says that “the list of unanswered questions is long [...]
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
The woman who accepted a democracy award on behalf of her Cuban dissident brother and four others says she was sorry not to get an audience with President Barack Obama. "Bertha Antunez...said today she was naturally disappointed at not having...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
... so critical supply of land, and the reasons that prevented them from reducing the gap between the Cuban peso and the convertible currency. A face must show itself to give us an account of what stopped the elimination of the need for permission to travel outside Cuba, what happened with the repeated slogan of reducing imports, or what path was taken by the so-called business improvement program....
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, led thousands of citizens in a rally on Saturday to promote LGBT rights. Mariela, who is the director of the Cuban Sex Education Center, kicked off a program of events promoting respect and tolerance of Cuba’s LGBT community during a carnival-style festival held in central Havana. Castro has [...]
PWW Daily Online (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The Supreme Court’s refusal June 15 to review the case of the Cuban Five, whose original trial began in November 2000, invites comparisons of their sentences with those handed out to others with convictions relating to espionage, especially involving countries other than Cuba.
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
... the Post inquired, commending"all the brave men and women who are standing up for the right of the Cuban people to freely determine their country's future."For a president who is already being criticized for his failure to speak out on behalf of Iranian freedom, Obama does not need anyone else to point out that he isn't exactly a champion of democracy. You can read the full editorial...
MisterBryans' (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
(photo by me) Here's a review of Anacaona at The Art of Jazz festival from Joyce at Live Music Report. On the first night (pictured above) Anacaona did a really slick show in front of a room full of jazz afficienados, who were all highly entertained. The next day, dressed in jeans, Anacaona gave a free concert to a bunch of (mostly) Cuban people - who all went nuts. I get the feeling...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
... and interactions. Travel promotes understanding, respect and shared values, which is good for Cubans and Americans alike. "Travel," observed Mark Twain, "is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on those accounts." Boost to ordinary Cubans, travel industry Travel by American citizens would directly benefit the...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
... guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Partly based on his own memoirs (Reminisces Of The Cuban Revolutionary War), Che Part 1 tracks his rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero.CHE PART TWOChe Guevara was a man of extreme integrity who believed that life should...
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
For the past eight months, Fidel Castro’s son Antonio has been in an online relationship with a male Cuban-American blogger pretending to be a young Colombian woman.
ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
... Claudia he was sending those messages to. It was 46-year-old Florida man, Luis Domínguez, a Cuban-born American who had set out to prove a point against the alleged security of the Castro family. Not only did Castro give Claudia his personal address and phone number, but he gave her forewarning and details of a trip to Mexico, and told her that he had no bodyguards around his home, The Miami...
