Representatives from Center for a Free Cuba, the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, and the Committee to Protect Journalists testified before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade which is part of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Human Rights in Cuba: Beyond the Veneer of Reform.” Below is the video along with the testimonies of the three presenters.
Wednesday, July 13, 1994 at three in the morning, three extended Cuban families set out for a better life aboard the "13 de Marzo" tugboat from Havana, Cuba and 37 of them were extrajudicially executed by Cuban government agents.
Many advocates of socialism claim that the Nordic countries are socialist, but this is not true. Finland (1), Norway (4), Sweden (6), and Denmark (12) rank higher on the annual International Property Rights Indexthan the United States (14). Unlike China (52), Vietnam (76), Venezuela (123), and Nicaragua (111) that all fall far behind the United States. Cuba, and North Korea are not even on the list. No doubt due to the lack of reliable data.
On July 4th, while millions of Americans were celebrating the birth of freedom in the United States, the Castro regime has issued a new decree tightening censorship on an already heavily censored people.
In responding to the June 16 Editorial in The Gainesville Sun there was so much to respond to that several facts were left out. One important fact is that OAS General Secretary Luis Almagro, a man of the Left, stated In a December 2018 conference on human rights in Cuba: “It is estimated that there are some 46,000 Cubans in Venezuela, an occupation force that teaches how to torture and repress, that performs intelligence, civil identification, and migration services.”
Given that the Cuba Internet Task Force (CITF) has had almost eighteen months and plenty of resources at its disposal one would have expected a lot more from this report.
Private property rights are also human rights, and their is a moral dimension to their violation that Fergus Hodgson explores in the viewpoint below published today in Epoch Times.
In the ongoing debate over U.S. Cuba policy and changes between the Obama and Trump Administrations it is useful to look at the facts and the analysis of a Cuba expert with a track record of predicting the behavior of the Castro regime. Below is an important analysis by Professor Jaime Suchlicki of the Cuban Studies Institute published this month in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. In this article Professor Suchlicki debunks some of the Washington DC establishment's long held beliefs.
Returning Cuba to the trafficking blacklist will have a positive impact in the global fight to end modern slavery because it recognizes the facts on the ground and holds the Cuban dictatorship to account.
The ramifications of the injuries to diplomatic personnel in Cuba continue to make news. Reuters reported on May 9, 2019 how the Canadian Embassy in Havana has stopped processing visas.
Freedom House reports that in Cuba “political parties other than the Cuban Communist Party are illegal,” that “the regime’s undemocratic character has not changed despite new leadership in 2018 and a process of diplomatic ‘normalization’ with Washington, which has stalled in recent years.”
Uno es una historia de éxito.
Today, less than 25% of Cuba’s arable land is in cultivation.
UN Watch announced today that Rosa María Payá, one of Cuba’s leading pro-democracy activists and the daughter of the late dissident Oswaldo Paya, will receive the Swiss organization’s highest human rights award at the 2019 UN Watch Annual Gala Dinner
(EFE).- El cantautor cubano Silvio Rodríguez suscribió este domingo las críticas publicadas por el también cantautor Vicente Feliú sobre la "represión absurda, vergonzante, peligrosamente evocativa" de la manifestación LGBTI convocada el sábado en La Habana por activistas independientes y sin permiso de las autoridades.
Hoy CUBABrief distribuye este resumen de noticias de Radio Marti, que incluye información sobre varios periodistas detenidos por reportar que activistas de la comunidad LGTBI ignoraron una prohibición del régimen al organizar una marcha alternativa en La Habana y Santiago de Cuba. Radio y Television Marti informa también sobre mayor racionamiento de productos básicos.
Many of the things advocated by some political leaders about Venezuela and "socialism" are not true. Senator Bernie Sanders says that socialism is a new idea. It is not. It is an old and discredited idea that failed at a huge cost of suffering, misery and millions of dead everywhere it has been tried. Senator Sanders should know better.
Years after President Barack Obama removed Cuba from the list of governments supporters of terrorism the FBI continues to look for American terrorists enjoying the hospitality of Raul Castro’s regime. They should be return to the United States to face justice.
It is Friday afternoon in Washington and the Venezuelan crisis continues. The Economist says that "an attempt to depose the dictator appears to have failed."
Mike Gonzalez on Venezuela: Cuba the "Fountainhead of All the Evil" in the Western Hemisphere
