November 20, 2007 – 7:56 am
I’m sure even fleas live better than anyone imprisoned in Castro’s gulag, simply for what he believes in. Just ask Mr. Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, prisoner in Castro’s Kilo 8 Prison in Camaguey, Cuba:
I’m letting it be known that my state of health is failing at an extremely dangerous pace. My physical well-being [...]
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November 8, 2007 – 10:41 pm
The Miami Herald, Babalu Blog and other blogs are reporting a new initiative to help those repressed by the Castro government in Cuba. The initiative was launched by the Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio Democrático Cubano in Spanish), so I looked them up and found the press release here.
Basically, they plan to staff (24 hours [...]
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November 6, 2007 – 8:49 pm
President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Yan Valdes Morejon and Winnie Biscet in honor of their father Oscar Elias Biscet during a ceremony Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room. “Oscar Biscet is a healer — known to 11 million Cubans as a physician, a community organizer, and an [...]
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September 27, 2007 – 12:11 pm
The Miami Herald is reporting Judge Jeri Cohen has decided the father is fit to have custody of the five-year-old foster girl whose mother brought her and her brother to the U.S., paving the way for her return into Castro’s clutches.
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September 27, 2007 – 7:31 am
…for the little Cuban girl whose life is in the hands of a judge who had previously said “If we deport people back to Cuba, we could empty our jails:”
The judge in a contentious child custody dispute is expected to reveal today her ruling on whether a Cuban father is a fit parent to [...]
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August 26, 2007 – 1:39 pm
Tomorrow (Monday) a big court date is set for the custody battle between the foster, and would be adoptive parents of a young Cuban girl in Miami, and her father from Cuba:
Nearly eight years after the battle over young Elian Gonzalez divided this city, another Cuban child has become the center of a bitter [...]
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August 21, 2007 – 8:10 pm
Of course, when you’re talking about Fidel Castro’s Cuba, being “freed” from prison is a relative term. After all, Cuba under the Castro brothers is nothing but a huge, open-air prison.
But I digress.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt Reina was released Monday. [...]
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the health of journalists unjustly condemned to Castro’s Gulag during the Black Spring of 2003 suffers:
Families and friends of eight independent Cuban journalists who have been unjustly imprisoned since 2003 say that the health of their loved ones has seriously deteriorated in recent months amid poor prison conditions and insufficient health care.
In a series [...]
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He wouldn’t want to live in Cuba:
“Their rights and protection from potential genocide and violence depended on them never trying to organize politically as blacks,” said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA professor who spent 11 months in Cuba researching his recently published book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba.
That kind of talk also likely scares [...]
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