NEWS ARCHIVE / 2002

DECEMBER - 2002

-Varela Project supporter loses land.
-Institutionalized Racism
-U.S. may tighten Cuba travel
-FREE OSCAR ELIAS BISCET
-Castro foe's human rights award puts world spotlight on Cuba
-'Alternative parliament' of dissidents meets in Cuba
-Cuban Dissidents Hold Meeting
-US-CUBA SALE OF CUBAN PLANE TO COMPENSATE FORMER SPY'S WIFE HAILED
-Slum removal will leave 20 families homeless
-Housing problems put squeeze on many Cubans
-Lead signature drive organizer says university students expelled for backing effort

NOVEMBER - 2002

-Cuba Struggles to Maintain Railway
-Wife of Randy Cabrera Mayor describes physical abuses her Her husband suffers at Combinado de Guantánamo.
-We Love You, Fidel, Oh Yes We Do!
-Car Trouble Hindered Cuba Escape
-Mr. Castro's Prisoners
-Cuban family escapes on plane Pilot, 7 relatives land in Key West
-Video peeps at Castro's family life
-Cuban prisoners' minds still free
-The Cuban people need to live in freedom', oppositionist Biscet affirms.
-U.S. Expels Four Cuban Diplomats
-Governor easily beats McBride

OCTOBER - 2002

-Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet returns home to Lawton, in Havana.
-Americans for a Free Cuba
-321 dissidents form coalition against Castro
-URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION
CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER'S LIFE IN DANGER AFTER MORE THAN 50 DAYS ON A HUNGER STRIKE
-Civil courage prize of $50,000 to be awarded to Vladimiro Roca Antunez and special recognition to Gustavo Arcos Bergnes
-Labor conditions in Cuba.
-On eve of Cuban missile crisis anniversary, Castro lays some blame on the Soviet's Khrushchev.

SEPTEMBER - 2002

-Cuba accused of harboring Basques;
Spanish group not exporting terror, Havana maintains
-Florida exhibitors
-Havel assures Cubans island will be free; Democratic values the key, he says
-Castro suspected of giving false data for war on terror
-Support for Embargo Continues
-Should American Taxpayers Subsidize Fidel Castro?
 

AUGUST - 2002

-Official: Keep Rules on Trips to Cuba
-Bolton: Iraq, Cuba seek materials banned by Bio weapons pact
-CASTRO'S HELP ON THE WEST NILE VIRUS EPIDEMIC?
-U.S. Looking More to Cuba After Castro...
-Two Cuban fencers fail to return to Cuba with team from Portugal - AP
-Venezuelan lawmakers ask Supreme Court to annul oil pact with Cuba -AP
-Cuba Transition Project, "Cuba's Foreign Debt,"
-Fidel Castro hampers democracy in Peru.
-Fidel's daughter calls for continuation of US embargo against Cuba.
-Orthopedic patients must have dollars in Güines
-TO THE EXILE AND THE PEOPLE OF CUBA / List of the organizations supporting the August 5th
-List of DISSIDENTS ARRESTED in Cuba, AUGUST 5, 2002
-Cubans hear upbeat message
-Reputed Cuban torturer convicted of concealing past from immigration agency
-3 DAYS BEFORE AUGUST 5,
THE CUBAN POLICE ARRESTED 3 POLITICAL DISSIDENTS.
 

JULY - 2002

-Statement from Governor Jeb Bush Regarding Congressional Votes to Lift the Travel Ban to Castro's Cuba.
-New Cuban exodus 'speculation'; Officials defend migration pact
-Inspect Cuba for production of biological weapons
-Residents won’t abandon leaky building in danger of collapsing
-The disaster is now “irrevocable”
-Cuba expresses solidarity with Iraq
-Cuban Communists Expel Former Foreign Minister
 

JUNE - 2002

-In danger, life of incarcerated blind human rights activist.
-US-Cuba Florida Governor: U.S. will react strongly against Cuban Exodus
-Millions of workers get two days off to watch National Assembly session on television
-Infiltration, seduction among Cuban spy tactics in U.S.
-Castro: Sign up and declare Cuba's system 'untouchable'
-Independent press agency files for formal recognition
-Independent journalists denied service at internet
café
-U.S. Senate Votes Unanimously to Support Cuban Dissident Efforts
 

MAY - 2002

-Miami man accused of spying for Cuba
-Diplomat says U.S. support key to democratic change in Cuba
-Following is the full text of President Bush's speech Tuesday in Miami and Washington on U.S.-Cuba relations:
Washington.
Miami
-Bush will not ease hard-line stance on Cuba in Washington and Florida appearances.
-Jimmy Carter tells Cubans about referendum project in live speech on government television
-Full text of Jimmy Carter's speech broadcast to the Cuban people
-Cubans Deliver Petitions Proposing Referendum to Change Socialist System.
-Jimmy Carter on Sunday became the first U.S. president to go to Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
-Quayle Criticizes Trip to Cuba
-U.S.: Cuba Developing Biological Weapons
-Amplio informe sobre Cuba y el Bioterrismo en Español. (18 Páginas)
-Cuba Frees Political Prisoner
-Cuban American officials meet with Carter on upcoming Cuba visit
 

APRIL- 2002

-Santiago street sweepers demand better working conditions
-Step Up, Latin America
(Editorial LA Times)
-Cuba's Last Gamble?
-U.N. human rights body calls on Cuba to give its citizens basic freedoms.
-Cuba Scandal Widens Rifts in Mexico
(Full conversation in Spanish, please click here)
-Venezuela's Interim President to call elections in a year, cuts oil to Cuba
-Iran, Iraq Welcome Return of Venezuela's Chavez.
-Sale of TV sets a source of strife for friends and neighbors
-Vote on Cuba in Geneva: How they voted
-Uruguay Breaks Ties With Cuba
-Cuba: Beating and Incarceration of Human Rights Activists Condemned
-Miami expects presidential visit
-Cuba Accuses Mexican Foreign Minister of Lying
-Medical attention denied to prisoner.