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Voz de Nuestra Sociedad Civil - Fundación Cubana de Derechos Humanos (Our Civil Society’s Voice - Cuban Human Rights Foundation) has published an online magazine/blog. It’s called Revista Cubana Amanecer (publication in Spanish only; loosely translated the name means “Cuban Magazine: The Dawning “).
We can only hope this is truly the […]

Satellite dishes are technically illegal in Castro’s Cuba, but the communist government would often turn a blind eye to them just as long as their sheep, er, I mean, their people, would only watch entertainment programming (something about “bread and circuses,” only there isn’t much bread–or much of anything else that’s edible–in Cuba).
But with word […]

Even though the Castro dictatorship loves to strangle any opposition in Cuba, thanks to the Internet, dissidents now have a voice that can be heard around the world. Reuters today published an article on this titled Cuban dissidents tap cyberspace from abroad (via Yahoo! News). Here is an excerpt:
Leading Cuban dissidents who are […]

CubaNet posted on its website today a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on abuses of the press in Cuba during 2006. The report notes that, despite the news interest in Castro’s infamous intestinal illness, foreign journalists were denied entry into Cuba as the communist government classified Castro’s medical condition as a […]