Entrenar a los niños a denunciara sus padres no se inició con la revolución castrista como reporta El Pais (Madrid). Los lectores que tengan forma de hacerlo llegar a la isla, por favor háganlo.
Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) is dead. Thomas was hated by Francisco Franco and Fidel Castro for “The Spanish Civil War,” and “Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom.”
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CUBABRIEF: MADURO PUNTS BUT PUTIN COMES TO THE RESCUE. Venezuelan subsidized oil shipments to Cuba have fallen, while the announced Russian oil shipments raise eyebrows in Washington.
In this CubaBrief we focus on the very urgent Venezuelan crisis where thousands continue to demonstrate on the streets demanding a return to democracy and the rule of law and where a growing number of young people have been killed by the security forces which have been trained by Havana’s seguridad de estado.
“Fếlix Yuniel Llerena, a 20 year-old religious freedom activist and university student, was detained [last Friday] and threatened on his return to Cuba following a visit to the US, which included meetings to raise concerns about continued violations of religious freedoms on the island," reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).
The Center for a Free Cuba is sending these two videos of a Cuban demonstrator carrying an American flag and chanting “human rights for Cubans” to President Barack Obama in the hope that he will call on General Raul Castro to stop the police beatings of this Cuban peaceful demonstrator whose only crime was to yesterday demonstrate peacefully for the type of change Mr. Obama promised to the Cuban people when he visited the island.
On this May 1st what is left of the communist world celebrated their “International Workers’ Day.” In Moscow the parade featured a huge photograph of Josef Stalin, the tyrant responsible for millions of deaths including the government engineered famine of 7 to 10 million Ukrainians.
This week Havana’s rhetoric returned to the old Cold War pronouncements. In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the regime denounced “imperialism” [that means the United States], the Organization of American States and numerous democracies across the region appalled about the ongoing economic and political crisis in Caracas.
CUBABRIEF: The Economist Daily Dispatch focused today on “The declining quality of Venezuelan propaganda.” The British magazine reports that democracy has been extinguished, and that there are food shortages and people killed.
The Miami Herald reports today that "Growth returns to Caribbean Basin, but recovery is uneven" "Economic performance in the Caribbean will be uneven this year: Some economies will grow by 5 percent or more, but others will be lucky to eke out even negligible economic growth."
Raul Castro's government continues to warn against "foreign countries meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela," while Cuban security forces continue to train President Maduro's political police.
CubaBrief: Today we highlight an article from Nora Gamez Torres about an unprecedented Harvard meeting of "30 Cuban activists, writers, academics and entrepreneurs, mostly of African descent" based on the island on the Afro-Cuban experience.
CubaBrief: Today we highlight an article from Nora Gamez Torres about an unprecedented Harvard meeting of "30 Cuban activists, writers, academics and entrepreneurs, mostly of African descent" based on the island on the Afro-Cuban experience.
A group of mostly young bigots desecrated the symbol of freedom erected by the students at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
There is no doubt that Cuban rulers are concerned about the progressive isolation of Nicolás Maduro's chavista (inspired by the legacy of the late Hugo Chávez) government.
RAUL CASTRO AND THE NEW TENANT: Just in case the Cuban dictator had not realized fully the implications of the new tenant in the White House, the U.S. missile attack against a Syrian air force base, and the unanimous Congressional support it has receivedhas reminded him of the new reality. The shorthand for what has happened in Havana, Tehran and Pyongyang is that “Trump is not Obama.”
While the Cuban government lobby and its friends continue to distribute a Potemkin narrative of Cuba, the facts on the ground remain.
AS REPORTED BY CUBABRIEF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS called on governments, and media around the world to helpthree siblings from Holguín who had been on a hunger strike since March 7th.
According to Cuba press reports Bolivian president Evo Morales underwent a successful throat surgery at a Havana hospital a couple of days ago. CubaBrief notes that Havana's media also reported Hugo Chavez's "successful" medical treatments on the island.