Letting Cuban Prisoners Die During Hunger Strikes Doesn’t Make Sense…
…unless the Cuban government really does not value their lives which may very well be the case. Orlando Zapata Tamayo died in prison in February 2010 after a hunger strike of more than 80 days. Rene...
View ArticleA Cuban’s Prayer for Pope Benedict
What will the Castro brothers hear during the first papal visit in over a decade? From: The Wall Street Journal By Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Havana, Cuba Next week, Pope Benedict XVI is coming here to...
View ArticleElizardo Sanchez (CCDHRN) UPDATE – March 26, 2012
Update from Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation 1. The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, has been unable to identify the...
View ArticleNo More Statues of Che
No More Statues of Che By Matthew Brady and M. L. Brillman The Galway City Council scuttled plans to erect a statue to Ernesto “Che” Guevara but the very idea is repulsive to those who know about...
View ArticleStrategy VS Tactics- A Lesson from Game of Thrones
Stategy vs. Tactics- A Lesson from Game of Thrones By: Jose Luis Martinez An exchange from HBO’s GAME OF THRONES (Season 2, Episode 7), in a scene between Tyrion Lannister (played by Peter Dinklage)...
View ArticleCuban Economy out of Global Competition
According to the new ranking of global economic competitiveness by the World Economic Forum released this week, Latin America is losing ground in the global economy and is not taking the necessary...
View ArticleReina Luisa Tamayo Arrested days before the one-year anniversary of her son’s...
Reina Luisa Tamayo, mother of former political prisoner and martyr, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, was arrested at her home in Banes, Holguín. State officials brutally entered the 62-year old's home this...
View ArticleCubans Rally Around Laura Pollan, Founder of the Ladies in White
I often complain about this self-sufficient little fatty in every Cuban home -- the television -- and its excessive influence on our lives. This week, for example, the nightly programming has been...
View ArticleLetting Cuban Prisoners Die During Hunger Strikes Doesn’t Make Sense…
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died in prison in February 2010 after a hunger strike of more than 80 days. Rene Cobas died in prison several weeks ago after a hunger strike during which the Cuban government...
View ArticleMiami Herald Op-Ed “Thinking Allowed” Labels New FHRC Program “Innovative”
The Miami Herald published an editorial piece this past weekend, detailing FHRC’s latest educational program: “The innovative program called We Are One People has opened new doors on the path to higher...
View ArticleIn a Photographer’s Own Words: “I Have A Dream: The Ladies in White”
I have a dream: Ladies in White By Hana Jakrlova I feel sorry for the Pope for not meeting the dissidents while in Cuba. Going to Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) silent march in Havana was the...
View ArticleA Farewell Letter From El Sexto
Valle Grande Prison From the “cell” (of punishment) September 16, 2015… Where I am there is little light and I am in my underwear because I do not want to wear the prison uniform. They give me a...
View ArticleOpen Letter To Ms. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur Of The...
Dear Ms. Giammarinaro, We truly welcome your visit this week to Cuba and, in this regard, wish to express our willingness to assist your efforts in any way you may deem appropriate. While we are aware...
View Article“Sonic Attacks” in Uzbekistan Suggest Russian Involvement in Similar Cuban...
An incident in Uzbekistan, similar to the”sonic attacks” that took place in Cuba, have raised suspicions that Russia could be involved in the mysterious events that targeted US diplomats in 2016. CBS...
View ArticleDoctors find brain abnormalities in victims of Cuba mystery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory...
View ArticleThe Russian roulette of Cuba’s power elite
Three recent economic news exemplify the disastrous situation of most Cubans due to the obsolete nature of the regime that prevails in the country and the reactionary nature of Raul Castro and his...
View ArticleCUBA: WITHOUT FREEDOM POVERTY GROWS, BUT NOT PROSPERITY
As the surging private sector is attacked by Cuba’s regime poverty will increase. The Cuban economic czar, Marino Murillo, demonstrated once again how Castro’s “civilian”- military power, behaves like...
View ArticleRESOLUTION HONORING LATE CUBAN DISSIDENT OSWALDO PAYÁ ADVANCES
WASHINGTON—In advance of the sixth anniversary of Oswaldo Payá’s death, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) applauded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s...
View ArticleDenunciados por sus víctimas, reprimieron en Cuba y ahora viven en EEUU
Se trata de los expolicías Julio Orta Mateo, de Cárdenas, Matanzas, y Makbel Grau Rodríguez, de San Antonio de Las Vueltas, Villa Clara, dos casos expuestos este jueves por una organización de derechos...
View ArticleCASTRO’S DICTATORSHIP CHARGES AGAINST PROJECT ON CUBAN REPRESSORS
Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC) is attacked for denouncing repressors The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba reports that since the denunciations of the victims of two Cuban repressors now...
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