NEWS ARCHIVE / 2006

DECEMBER - 2006

-Re launching a new site for Information Bridge Cuba Miami
-Prisoner of Conscience tortured
-Women’s Association Urges Use of Single Currency in Cuba
-Red Cross to seek access to Cuban prisons
-Study: Journalists jailed around the world for Internet work on the rise
-PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CRITICAL STATE
-For Cuba to live freely Cubans must all be free
-Dissidents ask Raul Castro to release prisoners, reduce tensions
-U.S. Lauds Press Freedom Advocates’ Criticism of Cuba

NOVEMBER - 2006

-Massachusetts Democrats love Venezuela's strongman.
-Castro appearance remains uncertain as birthday celebrations near
-Venezuelan Government Prepares World to Accept Massive Fraud
-Things get a little chilly for Canada at United Nations: Human rights abuses: Cuba, four others join Iran in calling for censure
-WRITER TELLS OF DIRE DAYS IN JAIL; CUBAN JOURNALIST WAS DETAINED FOR 16 MONTHS AFTER RALLY
-Suspicions growing that Castro is terminally ill
-Independent journalist aged 62 is freed after being held without trial for 16 months
-Cuban Journalist's Health Deteriorates in Prison
-Cuba's Military Rehearses for Parade
-The US-Cuban Investment Committee, a Private Exploratory Group, will Evaluate Potential US Investment Opportunities in Cuba
-Dual economy could trouble Cuba's future
-Cuba blasts Swiss banks for cutting off business
-EU to send reps to Cuba to give women rights prize
-More Cubans Take Trip To USA, Using Alternate Routes (Gomez, USAT)
-Cuba bars dissident from traveling abroad to accept award
-Cubans adjust to new life without Castro and his rhetoric.
-Under Castro's Brother, Army
Built Joint-Venture Empire;
From Hotels to Dolphins
-European, Canadian tourists to Cuba down
-The World; Smoke clears on a Cuban epidemic; Spraying has curbed dengue fever, which has killed up to 100. State secrecy slowed initial response, doctor says.
-U.S. officials say Castro believed to have terminal cancer
-Young Cubans yearn for more material comforts, less propaganda
-Cuban dissident tries to rally support for release of political prisoners
-Cuba applauds Democratic victories in U.S. elections
-Actor-director Andy Garcia hopes for `revolution of democracy' in Cuba
-Sculpture of Castro dumped in Miami "dustbin"
-Military leader envisions aiding Cuba in the future: The former Southcom chief said the U.S. military can help train and supply the Cuban military in a democratic future
-Cuba's Transition to Democracy Has Begun, U.S. Secretary of State Claims
-Independent journalist held on “social danger” charge, others harassed
-Dissident says Cuban people shut out of Ibero-American Summit
-Cuban political prisoner beaten then placed in solitary confinement
-Castro video shows illness is serious
-EDITORIAL: The last dictator: OUR OPINION: DIFFERENT CASTRO, SAME POLICE STATE IN CUBA
-OAS unit blasts Cuba for rights violations; The human rights branch of the Organization of American States condemned Cuba for the arrest of 75 dissidents and for three killings, the first specific condemnation in seven years.
-Cheering on a dictator: Cuban workers have no rights. So why does the communist regime enjoy the support of the Canadian Labour Congress?
-A Branch of the Information Bridge Cuba Miami Press Bureau opened in Manicaragua.
-Press Group Deplores China, Cuba Attacks on Internet Journalists
-Major victory for Cuban democratic opposition in Uruguay conference

OCTOBER - 2006

-Cuban-American lawmaker reacts to Castro images
-Lawsuit claims Cuba forced citizens to work at Curacao shipyard
-Cuba's Dissident Movement Grows Stronger as Castro Weakens
-Brazilians reelect Lula da Silva
-Cubans Begin to Just Say No
-Funeral for a Tyrant
-Cuba examining socialism for flaws; The Cuban government has launched a study with a surprising focus: What about socialism causes people to steal?
-Martí begins aircraft airings; RADIO AND TV
-Man Sews his Mouth Shut Due to the Silence of Many in the Face of Injustice and Extreme Cruelty in Cuban Prison against Juan Carlos Herrera
-VOA NEWS: MEDIA WATCHDOG RANKS CUBA AMONG WORST VIOLATORS OF PRESS FREEDOM
-Unlikely alliance forged in N.J.
-Cuba replaces transportation minister
-Cuba to go back to standard time
-Cuban writer stranded abroad demands right to decide when to go home
-Castro missed chance for democratic opening: Brazil's Lula
-SOS for the health with Cuban doctor and political prisoner.
-SYLVIA G. IRIONDO’S STATEMENT / CUBA TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY SUMMIT - INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY PANEL DISCUSSION THE BILTMORE HOTEL
-Reporters Without Borders publishes a report on how the authorities control the Internet in Cuba
-Independent press bureau ratifies commitment with liberty and democracy for the Cuban people.
-European Nations Form New Group in Support of Democratic Cuba
-Turncoat analyst an effective spy for Cuba, book says
-U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZ EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR CUBA’S TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY
-Government operative against illegal satellite antennas in Havana
-United States Announces Actions on Cuba, Haiti Embargoes
-Hugo Chávez’s intervention in Latin American countries
-Only next time, keep your mouth shut.
-Time Magazine: Castro May Suffer From Cancer
-B.C. girl forced to stay in Cuba, mom charged by police says

SEPTEMBER - 2006

-PRISIONER OF CONSCIENCE SERVING A 20-YEAR SENTENCE IS THREATENED WITH ANOTHER TRIAL
-Herald publisher will resign
-Statement of Violation of Human Rights
-U.N. Official Criticizes Cuba's Human Rights Record
-Situation of prisoners of conscience in Cuban prisons awaiting due process for more than a year.
-Informant of the Cuban regime now in U.S. soil.
-Cuba wages war on tiny enemy: the mosquito that spreads dengue
-“THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT HAS TORTURED ME DURING EIGHT YEARS…TRYING TO DRIVE ME INSANE…”
-Non-Aligned summit promises already forgotten as one journalist is arrested and another goes on hunger strike in prison
-CRUELTY AGAINST THE POLITICAL PRISONERS THAT THE SUMMIT DID NOT WANT TO SEE
-AGUADORES PRISON: AN EXTERMINATION CAMP?
-"Dengue epidemic", cause of death of Cuban doctor
-Cuban police arrest independent journalist in Havana
-IMPORTANT UPDATE ON MARITIME ACTIVITY ORGANIZED BY THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
-Carta de Sylvia G. Iriondo, Presidenta de M.A.R. Por Cuba a El Nuevo Herald. (español)
-Letter from the Cuban engineer Oswaldo Paya Sardiñas to Mr. Kofi Annan on his visit to Cuba on the occasion of the Summit of the Non-Aligned Nations
-MESSAGE FROM THE CUBAN ENGINEER OSWALDO PAYA SARDINAS TO THE DELEGATIONS ATTENDING THE SUMMIT OF NON-ALIGNED NATIONS IN HAVANA
-Letter of a Cuban librarian and political prisoner addressed to his daughter who recently turned fifteen.
-President's Address to the Nation
-Cuba says Castro appearance uncertain
-CORRECTED: Developing nations summit gathers U.S. foes in Cuba
-March echoes a cry out of Cuba
-CUBAN DISSIDENT DOCTOR DETAINED, FIVE YEAR OLD SON NEARLY KILLED BY STATE SECURITY.
-Cuba seemingly unchanged in Castro's absence

AUGUST - 2006

-Secretary General of the O.A.S. unsupportive of the Cubans
-PRISON AUTHORITIES THREATEN PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IN SEVERAL CUBAN PRISONS WITH EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD
-CUBA: VIOLENT THREATS AND SURVEILLANCE ON FAMILIES OF PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
-Chávez may be buying Cuba's future with oil
-Jail would be better than harassment, dissident says
-U.S.: Democracy could end embargo Washington offered Cuba a chance to lift the economic embargo -- but only if it moves toward democracy.
-CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER IS BRUTALLY BEATEN IN KILO 7 PRISON
-SOS for the Cuban prisoners of conscience
-Hunger strikes continue at the Kilo 8 prison
-Headquarters of the Independent Library Project in the Isle of Pines surrounded by mobs of government sympathizers.
-Cuban Political Prisoner transferred to a remote prison
-Miami school board wants Cuba book off its shelves
-AT LAST, A RECKONING
-Urgent declaration of the Cuba Miami News Bridge Bureau.
-Psychologist and independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas transferred to new unit.
-Lifting Embargo on Cuba "Still on the Table," U.S. Official Says
-INFORMATION ABOUT “I DO NOT COOPERATE WITH THE DICTATORSHIP CAMPAIGN” WILL BE PROVIDED AT M.A.R.’S MONTHLY BREAKFAST
-U.S. deplores Cuba transition plans
-Mob of communist militants besieged the headquarters of the “Comision Nacional Cuba” in Havana.
-Cuba keeps expectations low with scant Castro news
-Cubans brace for life without Castro While Castro's illness is still shrouded in mystery, Cubans are starting to realize their country will never be the same.
-PRESS RELEASE / OFFICE OF CUBA BROADCASTING
-Cuba mourns the death of Gustavo Arcos Bergnes
-Cel phones hard to get, expensive, for Cubans
-Video depicts a crude side to Raúl Castro
-Cuba’s dissident democrats stir as the Castros lie low
-Communist paper says Castro is walking
-Fidel Castro's Nuclear Legacy
-Castro loyalist turned dissident dies
Gustavo Arcos Bergnes fought alongside Castro, was later jailed
-CUBA: MOB THREATENS TO BURN THE HOUSE OF THE WIFE OF A DOCTOR WHO IS A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Message to the People of Cuba
-Letter from Senator Mel Martinez to The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, DC

JULY - 2006

-Castro seems to be running show in Cuba
-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-WHO IS RAUL CASTRO?
-Castro Steps Down Temporarily, Says Cuba
-Cuban regime feeling heat from Czechs The Czechs are stepping up their efforts to aid the Cuban dissident movement, triggering an angry response from Havana.
-Prison inmates complain of isolation
-Public health "precarious" en eastern town
-Cuba: Human rights à la Havana
-Embassy opened in Cuba
-The Voice of Cuba in the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly of the OAS
-Exiles Concerned Over U.S. Plans in Cuba
-The ACLU and Miami's Book 'Ban'
-Second Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and the Compact With the Cuban People
-Remembering the Sinking of the Tugboat “13 DE MARZO”
-Concerns over current situation of detainees at Bahamian Detention Centre
-Cuba: Release of Political Prisoners An Urgent First Step Towards Credible Membership on the Un Human Rights Council
-Mexico poll 'too close to call'

JUNE - 2006

-An Open Letter to the Victoria and Albert Museum
-DEATH PENALTY-CUBA:
Dissidents Call for Legal Moratorium
-Personnel changes reflect decline of Communist youth organization
-One-time rising political star in Cuba going to jailOne of the youngest members of Cuba's ruling Politburo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for influence-peddling.
-Cuba loses fight to competitor over its trademark cigar
-One-time rising political star in Cuba going to jailOne of the youngest members of Cuba's ruling Politburo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for influence-peddling.
-Cuban Exile Organizations Declare Their Solidarity with Lic. Guillermo Fariñas Hernández
-Former Cuban Prisoner Requests Your Help to Release Seriously Ill Journalist
-Cuba book to be removed from Miami-Dade schools, School Board votes
-CITIZENS UNITE – URGE SCHOOL BOARD TO RESPOND TO COMMUNITY’S CONCERN
-MIAMI-DADE SCHOOL BOARD LYING TO KIDS
-STATE OF HEALTH OF CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, DR. JOSE LUIS GARCÍA PANEQUE, IS BECOMING MORE CRITICAL
-INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA CALLS FOR A NATIONWIDE FAST AND PRAYER VIGIL ON BEHALF OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST GUILLERMO FARIÑAS WHO IS DYING
-U.S. labor leaders appeal to Castro to release imprisoned trade unionists
-A wakeup call to the Cuban exile for their authentic organization.
-Guillermo Fariñas rushed to surgery 153 days into his hunger strike.

MAY - 2006

-Florida Bill Cuts Cuba Student Travel
-151 days on a hunger strike: Fariñas Hernandez' health takes a turn for the worse.
-BLIND LAYWER, PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN FOUNDATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, EXPOSED TO CONSTANT STATE OF TERROR
-Physician who died in Venezuela buried
-Alleged tormentor's gone, but not anguish of exiles
-Trade fair of Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela ends
-Castro's wealth debated
-U.S. witness is called a spy
-Cuban independent journalist denounces reprisals against his family.
-THREE CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS, TWENTY ONE DAYS ON A HUNGER STRIKE TO THE DEATH.
-15 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALL MARTHA BEATRIZ ROQUE IN CUBA TO EXPRESS THEIR SOLIDARITY
-US Cites Venezuelan Links to Iran, Cuba in Arms Sales Ban
-European tour by Cuban activists concluded.
-Repression on the increase in Eastern Cuba
-EU relaunches talks with Cuba
-NEW THREAT AGAINST MARTHA BEATRIZ ROQUE CABELLO LINKED WITH THE DATE OF MAY 20TH
-MARTINEZ INTRODUCES BILL TO BLOCK CUBA OIL PRODUCTION
-EU LAC SUMMIT / ANTI-SUMMIT / VENEZUELA
-Condemning the April 25, 2006, beating and intimidation of Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque.
-U.S. senators condemn beating
-Cuban prisoner dies in a hunger strike in the provincial prison Kilo 5 in Pinar del Río.
-President of cuban civil society movement sentenced by a military
tribunal to 4 years in prison.
-Resolution ratified by delegates and participants to the annual Conference of the International Society for Human Rights
-14 join Nelson bid to bar Cuban oil search off KeysLawmakers joined a bid to prevent Cuba from drilling for oil near the Keys as Congress looked eagerly at opening Florida waters to energy exploration.
-ISHR Conference: Ing. Cesar Alarcon is requesting the union all cubans and to use an effective method of fight against the communism
-CHAIRMAN BURTON EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER THE FORCED NATIONALIZATION OF BOLIVIA'S NATURAL-GAS SECTOR BY PRESIDENT EVO MORALES
-Revealing Cuban American Documentaries
-AN ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY

APRIL - 2006

-Cuba second only to China in number of jailed journalists
-Washington: Cuba, Venezuela not helping in war on terrorism
-Rally in Support of Martha B. Roque and all Opposition Groups within Cuba
-“Cuba and Iran Forge Strategic Alliance Against U.S.”
-CUBAN EXILES WILL MEET WITH MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS
-Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia cement left alliance
-Senator to speak against Cuba's oil exploration
-Official joint press release of the Cuban Movement for a Unified Democracy and SOS Justice.
-Cuban doctor Darsi Ferrer Ramírez detained.
-Legislation aims to restrict academic missions to Cuba
-Cuba: Embargo and Dictatorship
-House Resolution - A resolution designating April 25, 2006, as "Free Cuba Day" in Florida.
-Martha Beatriz Roque is assaulted!
-CUBAN DENTIST, A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA, GRAVELY ILL CLAIMS HE PREFERS TO DIE RATHER THAN RENOUNCE HIS IDEALS
-The revolution's toll
-No change in EU stance on Cuba: Spanish minister
-Youth wanted to throw stones at police chief; broke glass instead
-'Lost' and found
-FM hopes for stronger ties with Cuba
-THE TORTURES OF CASTRO
-Agustin Blazquez's The Rats Below (Las Ratas Debajo) with Spanish subtitles will be featured at the Palm Beach International Latin Film Festival
-They pay tribute to the Historic Cuban Political "Presidio" in the Isle of Pines.
-Washington opposes seats for Venezuela and Cuba on U.N. bodies
-Repression from Dept. of State Security incremented in the Isle of Pines.
-Popular interest for independent workers magazine grows in the Isle of Pines.
-They Demand in the Isle of Pines the release of 11 Cuban Independent librarians in prison.
-Bay of Pigs Museum & Library: A moment in history... Fighting for freedom
-Kazecky says Cuba expelled him over human rights support
-Independent library inaugurated in The Isle of Pines.
-Independent Press Bureau in Cuba denounces detention and persecution of Director.
-Prisoner put in solitary confinement after wife falls ill
-Dissidents stopped and told they were illegally in Havana
-45th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION
-Cuba: Repression on the rise
-More than 100 demonstrate outside dissident's home
-Independent journalist Roberto Santana Rodríguez cited by police
-Wife and sister of imprisoned journalist strip searched
-Thousands of denunciations against communist militants filed away in Cuba
-Castro's long shadow
-Cuba keen to expand ties with Iran
-DECLARATION OF THE V HUMAN RIGHTS PARALLEL FORUM
-REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CUBA 2005-2006
-Senator Bill Nelson meets with Administration officials in regard to reforms to the "wet foot, dry foot" policy.
-Prison officials try to forcibly reeducate independent journalist
-Cuba's House speaker raps refusal of bank services by BNS Jamaica
-Cuba Looks to China for Help Jump-Starting Transit

MARCH - 2006

-Student trip to Cuba rare as U.S. curbs travel
-Journalist threatened with arrest under Law 88
-Dissident accused of being responsible for anti-government graffiti
-Freedom of Opinion and of the Press for all Cubans - Perspectives for a Democratic Change in Cuba-
-Appearance of anti-government signs sparks repression
-Feds bugged bedroom, phones of FIU pair
-Political police threaten journalist for Abdala Press
-STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART REGARDING “MR. MAS’ LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH”
-Consumers complain government-sold stoves malfunction
-SOS Justice and the Cuban Movement for a Unified Democracy (MCUD) summons all organizations and individuals that would want to support and/or participate in the following international campaign:
-500 people surround home of Lady in White
-Sugar mill worker fired because he's a dissident
-AN URGENT CALL FOR THE LIFE OF DOCTOR GUILLERMO FARIÑAS IN CUBA
-Speaker talks about life in Cuba without books
-Cuban dentists 'mistreated'
-Visitors Seek a Taste of Revolution in Venezuela
-Cuba for Iran’s right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy
-Police raid house after meeting with European diplomats
-Latin American Leftists Redefine Politics
-Total success with the protests on March 18.
-DIAZ-BALART REITERATES HIS OPPOSITION TO UNILATERAL CHANGES TO HELMS-BURTON
-The Cuban cell returns to Wenceslas Square
-Cubans not finished yet
-March 18, 2003 to March 18, 2006: Three years after "black spring" the independent press refuses to remain in the dark
-Eight youths seek to leave Cuba on a homemade raft
-International protests March 18.
-Urgent SOS for the life of doctor Guillermo Fariñas Hernández
-MARTINEZ APPLAUDS STATE DEPARTMENT EFFORT TO FREE CUBAN DOCTORS
-Independent journalist threatened
-Police threaten women on International Women's Day
-Cuba to send surveyors to Venezuela
-False Friends
-Castro Continues Violating Human Rights
-Martinez calls Cuba policy 'immoral,' urges changes
-Coast Guard suspends search for missing Cubans off Dry Tortugas
-Cubans claim that they are missing items
-Homeless dies, remains in the street
-Cuba continues violating Agreement 111 of the OIT.
-AMBASSADOR MARTIN PALOUŠ TO SPEAK AT UM
-All in the Family, Brothers Wage War on Uncle Fidel
-New prison for women being built in Havana
-Prison inmates not allowed to pray
-The "face slasher," real threat or rumor?
-Groups demand report
-Cubans urge U.S. boycott
-Russian aircraft co. gives Cuba second long-range plane
-Dissident loses his house because of anti-government activities
-Youths fined for selling lobsters
-Backdoor travelers to Cuba face fines
-Dissident ready to be `martyr for freedom of information'
-Proposal for council irks Cuba, U.S.
-Big protest against Bahamas today
-BAHAMIAN AUTHORITIES BLATANTLY VIOLATE MIGRANTS RIGHTS, CENSORS THE PRESS AND BEATS UP REPORTERS
-Cuban exile activist is an advocate for a nonviolent protests
-Corporate Collaborators
-The Information Bridge Cuba-Miami Independent Press Bureau is committed with lberty and democracy in Cuba until the last consequences.
-Future Cuban Memorial Design
-Coast Guard waffled over 15 Cubans
-Cuba, my lovely
-Telephone repair ordered to cut clandestine TV connections
-Liberian Students Face Hardship in Cuba
-U.S.-owned hotel ordered closed

FEBRUARY - 2006

-Open letter to leaders of the U.S., Canada and European Union
-"Ladies in White" ask for liberty for cuban political prisoners during their visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Santiago de Cuba.
-Downed exiles' story told in documentary
-Successful demonstration of the Cuban Memorial at the seat of the dictatorship
-Jailed spy may hold key to fallen pilots' case
-A judge in Cuba threatens to send independent journalist Jorge Olivera Castillo back to prison.
-The Federation of Electric, Gas and Water Plants in Cuba outlines new strategy.
-Families remember fallen Brothers to the Rescue The families of four aid workers killed by Cuban missiles 10 years ago are still searching for answers
-New Bahamas protests in Miami
-THE CUBAN MEMORIAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-BLIND ACTIVIST AND PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS BEING SERIOUSLY THREATENED
-U.S.: Cuba facing potential instability
-Thieves steal 140 pounds of freshly delivered chicken
-ALBITA AND FORMER PRESIDENT FLORES JOIN EVENT TO HONOR MARTHA BEATRIZ ROQUE.
-Home of independent journalist searched by police
-Majlis speaker: Iran determined to bolster cooperation with Cuba
-U.S., hotel chain discuss handling Cuba sanctions
-Colombia meets with Marxist rebels again in Cuba
-Venezuela and Cuba defend Iran's nuclear policy
-Latest news on the health of the Cuban independent journalist in hunger strike Guillermo Fariñas Hernández.
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