NEWS ARCHIVE / 2005

DECEMBER - 2005

-Despite Government Efforts, Cubans Hold Tight to the U.S. Dollar
-Counting Castro's Victims
-87 Cuban migrants arrive on Florida's coast
-SOS for the release of the Cuban prisoner of conscience Francisco Chaviano González.
-Employment denied to pacific opponent.
-Bolivian leader to visit Cuba
-Fidel Castro and his Chinese Friends
-Cuba: Imprisoned Human Rights Worker's Health Failing
-Dissident shouts "Down with Fidel!" as she's arrested
-Rafter arrested after return to Cuba
-Bolivia's President-Elect Sees Cuba as Model
-U.S. Convenes Anti-Castro Panel
-U.N. & Cuba
-NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL
Base, structure, and fundamental purposes
-Ladies in White
-Colombia, Rebels Open Peace Talks in Cuba
-Diabetic says ironically will have to go to Venezuela for treatment
-Great-great-grandparents' home seized from dissident
-FACED WITH THE REPUGNANT ABUSES ORDERED FROM HAVANA AGAINST WOMEN, RELATIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA.
-Groups of the opposition in Pinar del Río celebrate Human Rights Day.
-Diplomat slams Cuba for rights abuses
-Support Cuba's courageous Ladies in White
-Women stage protest march in Santa Clara
-They search the home of a Cuban independent journalist.
-Prisoners report inadequate diet in penal institution commonly known as "El Chivo".
-Hotel chambermaid fired for criticizing Fidel Castro
-Disposable plastic glasses reused in bars and cafeterias
-Dissidents slapped and threatened
-CUBA: CPJ alarmed by worsening health of journalist held without charge
-Political police searched premises of the Information Bridge Cuba-Miami Independent Press Bureau in the Isle of Pines.
-Report: Diplomat met with rebels
-Cuba deports Polish journalist who met dissidents
-State security prevents FLAMUR election
-Prominent Cuba dissident released.

NOVEMBER - 2005

-Desperation Rises in Castro's Cuba
-VICTIMS OF THE CUBAN COMMUNIST REGIME.
-Government measures against the self-employed increased
-150 pedicab driver detained by police
-Interview with the secretary of the Independent National Workers' Confederation of Cuba.
-International Youth Committee Commemorates and Offers Solidarity to Cuban Youth
-Cuba doctors forbidden to stay at site of convention
-Home of dissident attacked two days in a row
-Iran, Cuba explore avenues for promotion of mutual ties
-The Executive Committee of the Liberal International convening in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 6 November 2005
-Farmer fined week's salary and peanut bars seized
-Iran, Cuba keen to expand bilateral ties
-79 migrants repatriated to Cuba
-Concern about state of health of 25th journalist to be imprisoned
-SPEECH OF HON. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART
OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
-Havel praises Czech stance on Cuba
-Wave of arrests following deaths of tourists
-Repatriated rafter criticized for being unemployed
-Independent journalist held among common criminals
-Dissident imprisoned in 2003 forced out of his home
-Bush challenges influence of Chavez and Castro
-CRDP directors meet Mexican consul
-Remembering a Cuba before the Revolution
-MCUD participates in important political event in Baltimore.
-HIV-AIDS rights advocate sentenced to jail
-New restrictions on religious services in homes
-US withdraws offer to send hurricane team to Cuba
-Ladies in White say they are not an organized group
-Teachers punished for maintain relationship with dissident
-Looting occurred in Havana following Hurricane Wilma
-US Appeals Court Will Hear Cuba Spies' Case Once Again
-Chávez threatens to send F-16s to Cuba, China
-BLIND CUBAN LAWYER AND ACTIVIST IN THE ISLAND, JUAN CARLOS GONZÁLEZ LEIVA, MAKES AN URGENT PLEA FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY.

OCTOBER - 2005

-Anti-government posters appear in Batabanó
-Varela Project activist and brother of Cubs shortstop arrested
-Venezuela Is Cuba's No. 1 Trading Partner
-Women with a cause
-Award to "Ladies in White" Cheers Pontifical Council Member
-Cuba paid $3 million to Lula campaign - magazine
-Layman seeks religious freedom in communist Cuba
-EU AWARD FOR CUBAN ACTIVISTS WELCOME, BUT MORE PRESSURE NEEDED
-Cuba to allow U.S. aid officials to visit
-SPEECH OF HON. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART OF FLORIDA, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005
-Sakharov Prize to Ladies in White on Cuba
-After floods, saltwater a concern in Cuba
-U.S. business eyes post-Castro Cuba
-Nearly 250 Rescued From Flooded Cuba Homes
-Mother of dissident harassed by Rapid Response Brigade
-A group of the opposition emits declaration against repression in Havana.
-Cuban political prisoner in hunger strike is gravely ill.
-Political police threatens independent journalist in Havana.
-Prisoner of Conscience, Virgilio Mantilla Arango, Savagely Beaten in Kilo 9 Prison in Camagüey
-The Role of the European Union in the Support of the Civic Democratic Movement in Cuba: Some Observations.
-Lady in White victim of an ¨act of repudiation¨in Havana.
-Mobs of paramilitaries brutally attack pacific opponents in Villa Clara.
-Political police mistreat rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard
-Dissidents in Pinar del Rio threatened by the political police
-Jailed independent journalist Oscar Mario González hospitalized
-Cuban 'blockade'? U.S. objects to word
-Annan urges cuts in farm subsidies
-Crowd blocks entrance to building, preventing dissident meeting
-Human rights activists harassed by police
-CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE OMAR PERNET HERNANDEZ DECLARES HIMSELF ON A HUNGER STRIKE
-FRANCE DEMANDS CUBA RELEASE POLITICAL PRISONERS
-Recalling de Céspedes: true hero of the nation
-Cuban dissident held at MIA, misses event
-“Welcome to Cuba where journalists have no rights”
-UBS Dealings in Iran, Cuba to Be Probed
-Police break up dissident meeting before it begins
-Independent journalist jailed nearly 3 months with no charges laid
-Woman, 65, prevented from attending Ladies in White activity
-Raul Rivero: A poet unbowed by Cuba's jails
-Invitations create diplomatic flap
-CANF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ARRIVES IN SPAIN IN PREPARATION FOR IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT
-Félix Navarro Rodríguez ends hunger strike.
-Canada presses Cuba over human rights concerns
-Germany breaks EU ranks on Cuba for unification day
-Arroyo 23 days in hunger strike, 18 days for Navarro: Arroyo replies to Cuban Cardinal's remarks on his hunger strike.
-Independent journalist placed in isolation cell
-Water Crisis
-U.S. sees democracy in post-Castro Cuba.

SEPTEMBER - 2005

-21 days into hunger strike: Arroyo has no saliva in his mouth and renal shut down expected at any moment.
-SOS Let us not be accomplices of another crime
-EU requests Cuba to release political prisoners
-Fewer Americans visiting Cuba
-THREAT OF AN “ACT OF REPUDIATION” DIRECTED TOWARD THE WIFE OF A CUBAN DOCTOR WHO IS A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE AND THEIR FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN
-Cuban authorities allowing Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona to die in penal hospital.
-They denounce repression against members of the Cuban Liberal Party in Holguín.
-Mother and baby die due to medical negligence.
-The official press in Cuba does not publish crime stories
-Three rafters await trial alter being caught trying to leave Cuba
-Crackdown against private merchants continues
-ACCION DEMOCRATICA CUBANA
-Ros-Lehtinen aims for powerful post
-A bittersweet scene for Cubans' kin
-Medications denied to prisoner of conscience Pablo Pacheco Ávila.
-Prisoner of conscience exposed on purpose to tuberculosis.
-CUBA: CPJ concerned about health of jailed journalist on hunger strike
-Communist "posse" harasses and physical attacks peaceful opponents in Santa Clara.
-Hunger Striking Cuba Prisoner in Hospital
-Police prohibit "foreign and subversive" rock music
-Independent journalist fined for living in family home
-Dissident denied material to rebuild after Hurricane Dennis
-Dissident's home the target of several attacks
-Slow tourism causes closure of Old Havana hotels
-Agricultural workers intoxicated by insecticide
-Customs seizes 80 pounds of goods from Miami resident
-Wife rejects offer of prison facilities for conjugal visit
-Congressman Dan Burton and Hugo Chavez: Buddies? Burton Going Soft?
-Castro requested Soviet missiles in 1981, book says
-SOS for the life of the prisoner of conscience Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona.
-Ex-prisoner in Cuba sues Castro for $50 mil.
-Government supporters prevent independent journalist from making pilgrimage
-Cubans' landings, captures on rise
-Physical education professor fired for being a pacifist
-Operation postponed for lack of blood plasma
-Cigar factory workers complain of conditions
-Rubio Elected Fla. House Speaker-Designate
-Another dissident prisoner forced to strip naked in Santa Clara
-Five-year-old penalized because mother tried to leave Cuba
-Government denies private repairmen access to faulty appliances
-BLIND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SUFFERS BRUTAL ACT OF REPUDIATION IN CUBA
-U.S.-Cuba trade advocate tells of disappointment
-White House swipes at Castro after Katrina aid offer
-Calm seas, warm weather a magnet for Cuban rafters
-Violent eviction leads to near-riot
-CUBAN PHYSICIAN, PRISIONER OF CONSCIENCE, IS CONFINED IN PSYCHIATRIC WARD OF THE  BONIATO PRISON HOSPITAL IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA
-Cubans await Castro's elusive Chinese kitchen
-Independent journalist receives death threat
-EU lawmakers say dialogue with Cuba ineffectual
-Well known doctor among those drowned trying to flee Cuba.

AUGUST - 2005

-Imprisoned independent journalist forced to strip naked
-Public transportation in Havana worsens
-Policemen try to rundown independent journalist
-Independent Library in the Isle of Pines presented "Avispas y Topos", a book on Cuban Espionage in the United States.
-EU's British presidency asked to intercede in new crackdown in Cuba
-'Katrina' batters island nation
-Iran to assist Cuba in transportation field
-Castro resolute in repressing his people
-CUBA: Second independent journalist jailed in less than a month
-CUBA: Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike
-U.S. hotel firm's land seized only recently
-31 Cuban migrants feared dead
-CUBAN DEMOCRATIC DIRECTORATE LAUNCHES RADIO PROGRAMMING
-Home of independent union leader raided by security agents
-Human rights activist says young communist leader beat him up
-Santa Clara dissident beaten and detained
-Independent journalists demand liberty for jailed colleague
-Four dissidents imprisoned since 2003 have been hospitalized
-Post office in Ranchuelo has run out of envelopes
-31 Cubans missing after shipwreck off Florida
-Cuba, Iran’s Ahmadinejad stress closer ties
-Cuba Confiscates Land Where Dissidents Met
-Cuba: an island of despair
-Dissidents say government supporters are taking repressive measures against them
-Dr. Rene Gomez Manzano has begun a hunger strike.
-Dissidents say government supporters are taking repressive measures against them
-Dr. Rene Gomez Manzano has begun a hunger strike.
-Cuban crackdown brings arrests of 50 dissidents
-Dissident threatened with eviction from his home
-Members of the Democratic Party 30 of November "Frank País" subjected to infamous pogroms.
-Martha Beatriz Roque and Vladimiro Roca meet with prominent U.S. Senator.
-A call of alert.
-Castro's Cuba - Interview with Author Humberto Fontova
-Iran and Cuba to issue joint stamp
-Cubans on the brink of a panic attack
-A thief takes shortwave broadcasts off the air
-Province of Santiago de Cuba hit by unidentified virus
-Cuba journal: Impressions from a road trip
-Castro backers block dissident meetings with shows of force
-Woman loses job after caught trying to flee country
-Cuban independent journalist was sentenced to 7 month in prison by a Tribunal in the Isle of Pines.
-Government mobs besiege the home of Martha Beatriz Roque
-Physical integrity of political prisoners in jeopardy due to lack of medical attention in Cuban prisons.
-Shortage of water prompts protest
-GERMANY(ISHR) - On Behalf of Peaceful Cuban Demonstrators Detained
-Kharrazi hails Iran-Cuba relations
-REPRESSIVE FORCES ARREST BLIND ACTIVIST, JUAN CARLOS GONZÁLEZ LEIVA
-Chain of vigils in Nueva Gerona demand liberty without forced exile for political prisoners in Cuba.
-They condemn repression against trade union activist in Nueva Gerona.
-Citizens stone police cruisers in Santa Clara
-Young Communist leader fired for thievery
-Post-Castro Cuba will be 'a big mess,' speaker says
-Buena Vista Social Club Singer Ferrer Dies
-Husbands for sale in Cuba
-1,524 Cubans interdicted since Jan. 1
-Cuba's new crackdown
-Economy conference addresses Cuban issues
-Three Cubans Face Anti-Government Charges
-Protect Cuban Activists Arrested in Latest Government Crackdown
-Anti-government slogans and drawings left on park benches
-Shortage of doctors results in the closure of five clinics
-Sanitary facilities stolen at close of carnival
-No reply to suit against prohibition of Cuban guests in hotels
-Prisoner of conscience denied drugs for aliment
-Cuba bristles at Bush 'transition' plan.

JULY - 2005

-Top critic of Venezuela, Cuba resigns U.S. post
-Open letter to Jacques Chirac, President of France
-'Friend' named to Cuba post
-McCarry Named to New State Dept. Post
 -Announcement of Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry
-CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART / Resolution
-Cuba opposition concerned about dissidents
-Venezuela and Cuba intervened in Bolivia, said Noriega
-Prisoner who refuses to wear prison garb denied treatment
-Jóvenes por una Cuba Libre Condemns the Cuban Government’s Most Recent Wave of Repression
-Patience wears thin on eve of July 26
-US says Cuba, Venezuela targeting Bolivia
-Independent journalist included in wave of arrests of dissidents
-Cuba releases more dissidents
-Mysterious illness appears in Cuba
-LEADING CUBAN DISSIDENT CHIDES EU OVER CUBA POLICY AFTER CRACKDOWN
-EU CONCERNED OVER NEW CUBA CLAMPDOWN
-US slams communist Cuba for latest crackdown on dissidents
-SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN AGAINST REPRESSION IN CUBA
-MARTHA BEATRIZ IS BACK AT HOME
-Dissident leader Marta Beatriz Roque arrested in new Cuban crackdown
-FOUR DISSIDENTS ARRESTED IN CUBA; ROQUE'S WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
-U.S. grants asylum to 50 performers from Cuba
-Rotting produce sold in the wake of hurricane Dennis
-Eight newborns died in June in Havana hospital
-Lightless nights hint at dark days for Cuba's economy
-Cuba releases three dissidents rounded up after rare protests
-Cuban spy ruling irks U.S.
-Launching the Cuba Corps Website
-Imprisoned journalist threatens to starve himself to death
-Ex-wife of dissident threatened with job loss
-Vignettes
-Chavez Urges Venezuelans to Embrace Socialism
-Teo Ballvé (NACLA) & Isaac Saney: Is Venezuela the New Cuba?
-Castro declares war on hurricanes
-Cuban political prisoner on hunger strike
-BOYCOTT AGAINST THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT
-Protests lead to arrests in Cuba
-Declaration Condemning the Arbitrary Arrests of 400 Young Cubans
-US says Cuba has declined disaster aid
-Independent journalist suffers broken ankle and bruises in attack
-THE CUBAN REGIMEN DENIES HUMANITARIAN AID FROM THE CUBAN EXILE COMMUNITY
-CANF TO SEND DIRECT AIDE TO CUBAN FAMILIES AFFECTED BY HURRICANE DENNIS
-NOTICE OF ACTIVITIES FOR JULY 13th, 2005 TO COMMEMORATE THE “13 DE MARZO” TUGBOAT MASSACRE AND THE RAMMING OF THE LEAD VESSEL “DEMOCRACIA”
-Dennis lashes Cuba, kills 10
-Hurricane Dennis Kills at Least 10 in Cuba
-Damage reports from Cuba
-The Cuba Corps (sm) is launched
-Career diplomat likely to get post in Havana
-London terror bombings kill 37, wound 700
-Bush offers U.S. condolences to London
-BSO holds terrorism conference
-Text of British Prime Minister's remarks
-U.S. opens call center for London blasts
-Pope deplores 'barbaraic' London attacks
-Speech by U.S. Chief of Mission James C. Cason on the Occasion of the Fourth of July Celebration
-Minister in charge of energy suffers a blackout
-President of the MCUD receives Honorary Degrees.
-Cuba 'blacked out for weeks'
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