- Why is Europe so two-faced about repression of the media in Cuba?
- Watch this video - to see how Cuba treats the wives and widows of dissidents
- Ask yourself why the European Commission and several EU governments financially underwrite Cuban propaganda from the Inter Press Service which reports only "balanced news" from Cuba
- A Good Old Age in Old Havana typical propaganda from IPS, funded by EU taxpayers
- European Parliament finally condemns Cuba for 'avoidable' death of Hunger striker
- European Commission and individual countries subsidize Cuba's propaganda machine
Recently in cuba Category
- Spain (the EU Presidency) coddles the Cuban dictatorship, but a US diplomat joined a march by the womens' opposition protest group that was set upon by a pro-government mob
An open Letter to Europe on behalf of jailed Cuban journalists
March 18, 2010
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
President of the Government of
In charge of the presidency of the European Union
Palacio de Moncloa
Madrid,
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Continue reading Dear José Luis....show some backbone on Cuba.
The lady raises the stamp and brings it near the paper, then finally sets it off to the side without having stamped your permission to leave. "You are not authorized to travel," she says, and the whole office hears the phrase that condemns you to remain confined on this island. At other tables the applicants look at their feet to avoid meeting your eyes looking into theirs, searching for solidarity. The soldiers passing by scrutinize you from above with the reproach of those who think, "She must have done something, not to be allowed to leave."
Until this last minute you thought that maybe the archives of the Ministry of the Interior would not be too well organized and your history of nonconformity would not come to light. You often imagined that a secretary would go for pizza at the exact moment she checked your file and the rumblings of her stomach would make her put it, as quickly as possible, in the pile of those approved. You know well the effect that melted cheese and tomato sauce can cause in a bureaucrat who looks at her watch at three in the afternoon.
Continue reading Once Again, Refused Permission to Leave My Country.
Amnesty International has urged Cuban President Raúl Castro to immediately and
unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience after a political
activist died following a hunger strike.
Orlando Zapata Tamayo
was reported to have been on hunger strike in protest at prison
conditions for several weeks before his death in Havana on Monday.
"The
tragic death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo is a terrible illustration of the
despair facing prisoners of conscience who see no hope of being freed
from their unfair and prolonged incarceration," said Gerardo Ducos,
Amnesty International's Caribbean researcher. "A full investigation
must be carried out to establish whether ill-treatment may have played
a part in his death."
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Luis Felipe Rojas
If you're a Cuban independent journalist, you know you have the dictatorship's attention when the secret police summons you to headquarters to deliver an ominous message: If you keep reporting and writing your stories, you risk being sentenced to a long prison term. Considering there are some two dozen journalists in the Castro gulag, that is not an empty threat.
Continue reading Cuba journalist-blogger threatened with long prison term.