Cuba: Thousands Participate in Annual Pilgrimage
Region: Cuba
Shrine of St Lazarus attracts uniquely Cuban festival. By Osniel Carmona Breijo Tens of thousands of Cubans flocked to the shrine of St Lazarus near the capital Havana for the annual p... more
Views: 765Foreign Investments Designed to Revive Sugar Production in Cuba
Region: CubaPlans to revive processing and use waste to make biomass fuel. By Alejandro Tur Valladares Two foreign-funded projects designed to revive sugar production in C... more
Views: 843Cuban Journalist Forced to End Hunger Strike
Region: CubaAuthorities order water withheld from Calixto Martínez Arias. By Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez Independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a r... more
Views: 704Cuba: Travel Restrictions for Citizens Lifted
Region: CubaBy Ellery Roberts Biddle On October 16, the Cuban government announced plans to eliminate controversial travel restrictions on Cuban citizens. For decades, Cubans have been required to apply for government permission to... more
Views: 930Cuban Journalist Charged with Disrespecting Castros
Region: Cuba
By Yaremis Flores Press rights group highlights absurdity of arresting Calixto Ramón Martínez Árias for reporting on matters of public interest. An independent journalist in Cu... more
Views: 1153Cuba: Who will the Pope Support?
Region: CubaWritten byRafael Gonzalez and Translated by Kathryn Morgan At 2:00 p.m local time on 26 March, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Santiago de Cuba, making this the second visit by a Supreme Pontiff of the... more
Views: 1025Cuba: Bloggers Continue to Speak Out about Papal Visit
Region: CubaWritten by Janine Mendes-Franco Pope Benedict XVI [1]'s upcoming trip to Cuba will be the first from the head of the Catholic church in more than a decade. As the pontiff's arrival draws ever closer, bloggers continu... more
Views: 1110Cuba: Bloggers React to Death of Hunger Striker
Region: Cuba
Written by Janine Mendes-Franco t has been a sad day for the Cuban blogosphere, as netizens received news of the death [1] [ES] of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza, who was on a hunger ... more
Views: 1081Cuban 5: Terrorism, Spies, and American Justice
Region: United States
(Originally published at the Daily Censored for Project Censored.) On June 14, 2011 Carlos Hernandez, the mayor of Hialeah, a city in Miami-Dade County, “honored” the FBI and CIA funded terrorist Luis ... more
Views: 2287In Cuba, “Police Brutality” or “Natural Causes” in Dissident's Death?”
Region: CubaWritten by Janine Mendes-Franco Several months ago, Soto Garcia was examined by doctors and of the many ailments suffered by the activist and documented in their report, pancreatitis was not one of them. The panc... more
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