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ISHR: Raul Castro should lift travel restrictions
over Mother’s Day for Cuban doctor
Dr. Hilda Molina and her mother are
not allowed to visit their children, grandchildren, and great grand
children due to Dr. Molina’s criticism of the government
Havana—Frankfurt am Main (May 8, 2008)—The International Society for
Human Rights (ISHR) calls on Cuban head of state Raul Castro to allow
Dr. Hilda Molina to travel outside of Cuba, in consideration of Mother’s
day this coming Sunday. She would like to visit her Son and his family
in Buenos Aires . Dr. Molina is one of the most well known Cuban civil
rights activists and an honorary member of the ISHR. Dr. Hilda Molina
has not been allowed to travel outside of Cuba for years. This
restriction is an attempt to force her to stop criticizing the Castro
regime and to retract what she has already said. Her own home country
has become a prison for Hilda Molina, criticizes Martin Lessenthin,
Speaker of the Board of the ISHR. (More)
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Bush dismisses changes in communist Cuba as
cosmetic
Wed May 7, 6:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged
communist Cuba to free political prisoners and dismissed as "cosmetic"
social and economic changes Raul Castro has made since becoming
president.
"Until there is a change of heart, and a change of compassion, and a
change of how the Cuban government treats its people, there is no change
at all," Bush said in a speech here to officials from North and South
America.
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Bush Talks To Cuba Dissidents About Political
Prisoners
HAVANA (AFP)--U.S. President
George W. Bush spoke by phone Tuesday with dissidents in Cuba about the
plight of political prisoners on the communist island, opposition
leaders said in a press release.
Bush spoke with opposition leaders Martha Beatriz Roque, Jose Luis
Garcia " Antunez" and Berta Soler, wife of imprisoned dissident Angel
Moya.
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Fugitive financier Robert Vesco reported dead in
Cuba
Sat May 3, 2:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Robert Vesco, the fugitive financier who left a trail
of alleged bribery, embezzlement and drug trafficking that reached to
the White House, died in Cuba late last year, The New York Times
reported Saturday.
Vesco, who fled to Costa Rica in 1971 to avoid a US Securities and
Exchange investigation into charges of cheating investors of more than
200 million dollars, died of lung cancer on November 23, the newspaper
said, citing people close to him. (More)
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FROM CUBA
Prisoners at Nieves Morejon are not receiving any
correspondence.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA - May 1st (
Yoel Espinosa Medrano/Puenteinfocubamiami.org)-
The prison population in the prison "Nieves Morejón", province of Sancti
Spiritus, hve not received correspondence for the past two months
because of alleged contradictions between Prison authorities and the
post office at the town of Guayos.
According to political and prisoner of conscience Omar Ruiz Hernandez,
letters to family and friends sent through the post office in Cuba, are
retained in the town of Guayos because they do not have personnel to
deliver the correspondence to the prison. (More)
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FROM CUBA
Cuban peaceful opponent was threatened in San
Antonio de los Baños.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA - May 1
(Guillermo Farinas Hernandez / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- The peaceful opposition Abdiel Contreras Castro was threatened by an
officer of State Security,on April 19th, at his home in San Antonio de
los Banos because of his opposition activities.
A major that goes by the name of Orlando Diaz Segui stated that went to
a house located at Avenue 37 #4814, between 48 and 50 Streets in Havana,
where officers threatened Contreras Castro who is a member of the
National Council for Civil Rights in Cuba. (More)
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FROM CUBA
One died another injured in tunnel for the defense
that collapsed.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA - May 1 (Guillermo Farinas Hernandez / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
– Last April 20th, one worker died and another was wounded in Santa
Clara, when the underground tunnel they were constructing collapsed.
The builder Pedro Pablo Aguilar Melis 56-year-old died instantly, while
his companion Aleixis Gonzalez Linares age 37, is in critical condition
in the intensive care room of the Provincial Hospital "Arnaldo Malian
Castro”. (More)
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INTERNATIONAL PRESS
Qatar emir in Cuba for talks on hotels, hospital
Wed Apr 30, 1:54 PM ET
HAVANA (AFP) - Qatar Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, was to
meet Cuban President Raul Casto Wednesday to discuss plans to build
hotels here and for a new Qatari hospital to be staffed by Cuban
doctors.
The talks came after the two countries last week "signed important
agreements on cooperation in the areas of health and tourism, among
others," said a brief notice published in the official daily Granma. (More)
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FROM CUBA
Neighbors in Santa Fe complain to Popular Power
about lack of doctors in their area.
RANCHUELO, CUBA – April 29 (Felix Reyes Gutierrez/Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- Residents of Santa Fe, in Havana, have complained to the Popular Power
regarding the lack of medical personnel in their area.
A group of residents in Santa Fe, are demanding a response from
representatives of the Popular Power in their area, regarding the
absence of doctors in their area, but only receive evasive responses and
justifications. (More)
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INTERNATIONAL / CHINA
Repression continues in China, six months before
Olympic Games
When the International Olympic
Committee assigned the 2008 summer Olympic Games to Beijing on 13 July
2001, the Chinese police were intensifying a crackdown on subversive
elements, including Internet users and journalists. Six years later,
nothing has changed. But despite the absence of any significant progress
in free speech and human rights in China, the IOC’s members continue to
turn a deaf ear to repeated appeals from international organisations
that condemn the scale of the repression. (More)
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Bloggers offer glimpse of uncensored Cuba
Those who dare post about
life in communist-run country
By Andrea Rodriguez
Associated Press
updated 11:37 a.m. ET, Sun., April. 27, 2008
HAVANA - Only a month has passed since ordinary Cubans won the right to
own computers, and the government still keeps a rigid grip on Internet
access.
But that hasn’t stopped thousands from finding their way into
cyberspace. And a daring few post candid blogs about life in the
communist-run country that have garnered international audiences.
Yoani Sanchez writes the “Generacion Y” blog and gets more than a
million hits a month, mostly from abroad — though she has begun to
strike a chord in Cuba. On her site and others, anonymous Cubans offer
stinging criticisms of their government. (More)
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FROM CUBA
" I'd rather die in my homeland”- an interview
with Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA – April 25 (Yoel
Espinosa Medrano / Puenteinfocubamiami.org) –
Puenteinfocubamiami.org) – On April 22nd,
marking the first anniversary of the release from prison of the
emblematic former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez
Antunez, Cubanacan Press interviewed him at his home in Placetas, Villa
Clara.
Q: How do you feel today?
A: Well, for me every day that passes by is a journey of pain
because my homeland is been suffering under the dictatorship of the
Castro brothers for almost 50 years and hundredths of innocent people
suffer under inhumane conditions in Cuban prisons. (More)
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FROM CUBA
They put in a watch point to monitor Cuban
independent journalist.
SANTA CLARA, CUBA- April 25 (Yoel
Espinosa Medrano/Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - A watch point was placed
near the home of independent journalist and director of Cubanacan Press
Guillermo Farinas Hernandez in order to monitor his every move in Santa
Clara.
A reddish metal container of approximately 5 meters long, 2 wide by 3
high was connected to the electricity grid with drillings to install
video cameras and placed in the areas of the Provincial Palace of the
Pioneers ¨ Jose Luis Miranda¨ in Carretera Central and Street Aleman. (More)
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Cuba's old Communists must keep active
Posted on Thu, Apr. 24, 2008
By WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
El Nuevo Herald
In an effort to limit the losses within its ranks, Cuba's Communist
Party of Cuba has called on members near retirement not to shirk
party-related tasks and cautioned that ``disease is not a reason for
deactivation.''
Party militants may not quit even if they have senile dementia,
according to an internal document issued in January by the Organization
Department of the party's ruling Central Committee. (More)
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FROM CUBA
Agenda for the Transition repudiates the Cuban
government’s actions against the Ladies in White.
Agenda for a Transition needs
to be on record regarding the abhorrence of the Cuban regime against the
Cuban Ladies in White, wives and sisters of political prisoners of the
Groups of the 75.
The Ladies in White were subjected to physical abuse today, while they
were calling at the Plaza of the Revolution in the city of Havana, for
the release of the prisoners of the Group of 75, whom have already
completed more than 5 years of an unjustly prison term imposed by the
Cuban Regime. (More)
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REPRESSION IN CUBA
Cuba arrests Ladies in White
The 'Damas de Blanco,' a
group of Cuban women seeking the release of political prisoners, held a
protest in front of Raúl Castro's office Monday.
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Gallery at Nuevo Herald
 By Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer of The
Christian Science Monitor
from the April 22, 2008 edition
Havana, Cuba - – When Laura Pollán's husband, a journalist, hosted his
colleagues at their house in Havana, she busied herself in the kitchen
making coffee. When their talk turned "too political," she left. (More)
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FROM CUBA
Press Release from Cuban Political Prisoners on
the Agenda for a Transition
SANTA CLARA, CUBA- April 21
(Guillermo Farinas Hernandez, Cubanacan Press
Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
– Cuban Political prisoners and that of conscience Felix Navarro
Rodriguez and Pablo Pacheco Avila, convicted during the wave of
repression in 2003, known as "Black Spring of Cuba "and serving their
time at the Moron Prison in Ciego de Avila, issued last week a press
release over the telephone motivated by the creation of the "Agenda for
the Transition", created by a group of Cuban opposition leaders, which
we reproduce below: (More)
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