NEWS ARCHIVE / 2004

DECEMBER - 2004

-State seeks more control
-Cuban leaders seize dissident's documents
-Christmas in Havana
-U. S. eggs undersell resellers in Santa Clara
-A contestatary cinema cycle began in the Isle of Pines
-Net for Cuba International condemns the Bahamian Government for the latest forced repatriations to Cuba
-Press Release / Meeting with the Honorable Congressman of the United States Elijah E. Cummings
-Cuban dissident takes refuge in Argentine embassy in Havana
-U.S. rejects Cuba demand to remove Christmas lights
-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE / BAHAMAS
-Press coverage in Bahamas in connection with the Cubans retainted at the Carmichael Road Detention Center.
-Cuban freedom fighters, published a Human Right Declaration at the International Headquarters of U.N.
-M.A.R. POR CUBA - PRESS RELEASE
-The Partial List of injured Cuban detainees in Nassau, Bahamas
-Proclamation by the President: Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week, 2004
-BC-FL...Bahamas-Detention Riot,0427
URGENT: Riot in Bahamas migrant detention center leaves 20 injured
-Press Release from Net for Cuba International in spanish
-Urgent, hunger strike in the Nassau Detention Center.
-Three years demanding justice.
-The forgotten activist was released from the Guantanamo Prison.
-US: Spain's move on more flexible approach to Cuba is wrong

NOVEMBER - 2004

-Cuban dissident writer freed, joining other jailed government opponents released this week
-Press release M.C.U.D.
-Cubans retained in Bahamas sent an urgent call in the last few hours to the International Community.
-Denouncement of abuses against Cuban Refugees retained at the Carmichael Detention Center in the Bahamas.
-Official Press release
-European Parliament Resolution On Cuba
-Opponents detained in the Regla Municipality.
-They denounce inefficiencies in State companies in the Isle of Youth.
-Denouncement and picture agressor in the case of Mirta Villanueva Almeida.
-Brutally beaten Mirta Villanueva Almeida, the Mother of former cuban political prisoner Camilo Pérez Villanueva.
-Imprisoned Cuban independent worker confined with common prisoners.
-An increase in beatings and abuses at the prison Kilo 8.
-Wife of prisoner of conscience writes letter to  Fidel Castro after husband's most recent beating.
-Doctor began a hunger strike in Cuba
-More difficulties with the public transportation in the Isle of Youth.
-Letter to the Chairman of U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
-Juan Carlos González Leyva cited to appear before a Tribunal In Ciego de Ávila.
-Payá denounces "massive tortures" against imprisoned dissidents.
-President Bush declares victory 'historic'
-Mel Martinez to become first Cuban-American in US Senate
-Kerry Calls Bush to Concede
-A Support Group for the Ladies in White was created in Havana.

OCTOBER - 2004

-Bush promises to rid Cuba of 'tyrant' Castro
-LETTER TO AMERICA FROM FAMILY MEMBERS OF 9/11 VICTIMS
-Bush meets advisors over new bin Laden tape
-Sanctions Prompt Cuba to Eliminate Dollar
-The health of polítical prisoner Raúl Arencibia Fajardo is deteriorating.
-Red China Endorses Kerry
-Castro Falls...Literally
   Watch video here
-Vigil Requesting Liberty for the Political Prisoners and those Conscience.
-Wife of René Montes de Oca was detained.
-I am a Social Democrat who shows support, but not an accomplice to wrongdoing.
-New Independent Project Houses in Zones of Silence Listen to Radio Martí.
-Product warranties meaningless in Cuba
-Payá denounces abuse against Berta Soler
-Montes de Oca ratifies his position from prison.
-Freedom for Independent Cuban Trade Unionists demanded in Cuba.
-Two Cuban refugees brutally beaten by agents at the Nassau Refugee Detention Center.

SEPTEMBER - 2004

-Opposition leader René Montes de Oca Martija was sanction for Contempt (Desacato).
-Cuba's Lonely Dissident
-CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, DR. OSCAR ELIAS BISCET CONTINUES CONFINED IN CRITICAL CONDITIONS
-Members of the Independent Investigative Reporting Unit support the National Dialogue.
-Persecution, harassment, and jail against members of the MCL and citizens in favor of the Project Varela intensifies in Cuba.
-Pacific Act celebrated at the José Martí Park in the Boyeros Municipality
-Hundreds of Human Rights defenders in Cuba are condemned to die of hunger in the Island.
-They demand liberty for the political prisoners and those of conscience in Havana
-Pacific opponent denounces harrasment by the Cuban State Security
-Copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were distributed in Guanabacoa.
-Many joined in prayers for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners at the Catholic Church in Santiago de Las Vegas.
-Wives of members of the opposition that left Cuba in a raft in the last 72 hours are desperate!
-7 Members of the November 30 Party were forced to abandon Cuba at dawn on August 31.

AUGUST - 2004

-Worsening repression against political prisoners in Cuba.
-Nurse lost her job due to pressures from the State Security in Mazanillo.
-Slogans of down with Fidel and down with dictatorship appeared in Havana.
-Medical attention denied to imprisoned dissident.
-Lux Info Press in Havana alerts that dissidents in hunger strike are in danger.

JULY - 2004

-CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER NORMANDO HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ: WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN!
-With Friends Like These? Kerry's Latin Fans
-MARTHA BEATRIZ ROQUE CABELLO RELEASED FROM PRISON! -WIVES OF CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT MANIPULATION
-Human Rights activist working for the State was fired.
-Political police threatens leader of the cuban opposition with jail and death.
-Cruel and degrading treatment of political prisoners by military personnel at Combinado de Guantánamo exposed.
-Agenda Cuba sends an SOS to international community on behalf of 4 prisoners of the Cuban Spring in danger of dying.
-Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart Blasts Kerry for Two-Sided Cuba Policy
-CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN SENT FROM CUBA
http://www.marporcuba.org/PDF/MarporCuba.pdf
-Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" brutally beaten in front of his sister in the Ariza prison.
-DECLARATION FROM NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL
-The Call of the International Committee to Demand Justice for the Victims of the "13 de Marzo" Massacre.

JUNE - 2004

-URGENT PETITION FROM DR. OSCAR ELIAS BISCET, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA.
-Migdalia Herández Enamorado, prisoner of conscience of the group of the 75 remains forgotten in a cell of Combinado de Guatánamo.
-A Permanent Humanitarian Support Committee Was Constituted To Assist a Gravely ill Political Prisoner On Conditional Release.
-National Police fines visually challanged and disabed illegal private vendors.
-Cuban political prisoner transferred to the Quivicán Prison.
-Venezuela approves presidential recall election

MAY - 2004

-Workshop in alternative journalism began in Havana.
-Independent journalist María Elena Alpizar Ariosa was arrested in Havana.
-Normando Hernández González brutally beaten in the prison Kilo 5 ½.
-Political prisoner sent to punishment cell for having a magazine edited in the exterior
-Political Prisoner Stabbed at the Guanajay Prison.
-Mercenaries or independent journalists.
-CELEBRA LIBERTAD / MONUMENT TO FREEDOM
-HAVEL SENDS GREETING TO THE CUBAN PEOPLE.
-Political police tried to impede rosary on behalf of Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and other political prisoners.
-Medical Attention Denied to Randy Cabrera Mayor at Combinado de Guantánamo.
-Political police arrested members of the opposition.
-3 members of the opposition arrested in 2002 were tried and convicted in Havana.
-VARELA CONTINUES, IT IS SPRING STILL
-New Posters Outsting Fidel appeared in Havana

APRIL - 2004

-Wife of former political prisoner calls for the release of the political prisoners and those of conscience
-Family of political prisoner humiliated at Guanajay
-Independent journalist blows cover as agent of the state in the trial of the Cuban blind lawyer Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva
-Message from political prisoners at Combinado de Guantánamo
-Two Activists and promoters of the Varela Project arrested in Guantánamo.
-Cuban mother requests her son's release from prison.
-Political Prisoners In a Hunger Strike At Prison Ceramica Roja In Camaguey.
-Cuba and Mexico Clash Over U.N. Rights Vote
-U.N. watchdog adopts resolution criticizing Cuba
-Wife of Roberto of Miranda threatens to the Security of the State with strike with strike of indefinite hunger.
-Cuban Prisoner Of Conscience Leonardo Bruzón Transferred To Military Hospital in Havana.
-DELEGATION OF CUBAN EXILES TO MEET WITH MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN PARIS
-Alberto Martínez Fernandez denounces to international community death threats received at the prison El Corojo in Guantánamo
-Member of the peaceful opposition is detained
-Open letter to Human Rights Commissions
-Leonardo Bruzón Ávila near death, proper medical attention denied in a Havana Hospital.
-URGENT! Public Letter sent from Cuba on behalf of the right to life of the peaceful dissident Leonardo Miguel Bruzón Ávila.
-Political prisoner on hunger strike due to dietary reduction Combinado de Guantánamo
-SOS for Julio Antonio Valdés Guevara in critical condition in penal section of Julio Trigo.
-Cuban independent workers union was reorganized.
-Cuban situation denounced before the Commission of Human Rights in Geneva.

MARCH - 2004

-Message from Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas to the UN Commission of Human Rights
-Orlando Tamayo Zapata "plantado" in prison.
-Documentary and Message from the Cuban Internal Opposition shown in Geneva despite Repressive Maneuvers.
-Letter from Héctor Palacios Ruiz to the Cuban "Secretary" of Foreign Relations.
-PRISONNER OF CONSCIENCE SELF INFLICTS WOUNDS IN HIS LEGS
-The Raúl Rivero support committee hands out books to tourists leaving for Cuba
-Reporters Without Borders seeks meeting with Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman of Telecom Italia's board of directors.
-Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the award of the World Press Freedom Prize to Raúl Rivero
-Europe urged to remember Cuban repression on 1st anniversary of crackdown.
-The support, help and solidarity with the Cuban political prisoners is appreciated.
-URGENT: FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION
-The M.C.U.D. Speaks about Cuba with the Commitee on Foreign Relation of the United States Senate.
-The Home Of Lux Info Press Collaborators In Havana Was Attacked.
-Family members of political prisoners joined fast in solidarity with Luis Campos Corrales.

FEBRUARY - 2004

-Bush tightens rules on travel to Cuba
-Cuba's transition cannot be negotiated with tyranny
-Rights abuses seen in Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela
-Cuban regime condemned, in the VIII Anniversary of the Shooting down of airplanes of Brothers to the Rescue in Havana.
-“Resist until the End in the Path of God”
-Oscar Elías Biscet: Unpublished documents on the beginning of his fight for Human rights in Cuba.
-Denounced Disappearance Of Member Of The Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País" In Havana.
-The Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País" Strengthens in the Island.
-U.S. identifies 10 companies controlled by Cuban governments
-NO MIRRORS
-Cubans' Buick pulled over at sea
-HON. JIM BUNNING OF KENTUCKY IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE
-Cuba's debt to Venezuela soars as oil keeps flowing

JANUARY - 2004

-THE U.S. AND CUBA: Bush, exiles plotting to kill me, Castro says
-Four more Cubans are `prisoners of conscience'
-Reporters Without Borders demonstrates in Paris against imprisonment of journalists in Cuba
-International Press: MCUD visit to Washington DC.
-Inician huelga de hambre contra los abusos en Cuba (Spanish)
-Abuse in the prison of Quivicán denounced
-SOS for political prisoner "plantado* " in critical condition at the Quivicán prison.
-Transcript: Bush, Fox Meet
-CALL OF THE FUNDACION PATRIA LIBRE
-New Cuban law limits access to the Internet
-A Resident Of The United States Serving Prison Term in Combinado del Este Since 1999.
-In Cuba's Gulag: OUR OPINION: FREE DR. BISCET AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS (Herald.com)
-Top Bush administration official warns Castro
-Actor Duvall Slams Spielberg Over Cuba Trip
-U.S. Decries Venezuela's Ties to Cuba
-In danger life of incarcerated Cuban Physician Dr. Oscar E. Biscet
-What We Will Do in 2004.