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Daily Archives: January 20, 2012

For the third time in 24 hours, roughly a dozen airline passengers arrived in Canada ill from the same vacation spot in Cuba Friday. Passengers from all three Air Transat flights were screened by ... Continue reading
Havana, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) Delegations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay will arrive in this capital next Monday as part of the 19th South American Voluntary Work and Solidarity Brigade ... Continue reading
Havana, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) Conferences on family, gender and erotic desire, among other topics, mark the activities of the 6th Cuban Congress on Sex Education and Therapy, to run Monday through ... Continue reading
HAVANA Cuba says island banks have approved $150,000 in loans for 500 borrowers in the first month of a lending program that aims to support homeowners, small-business people and farmers. The effort is Continue reading
Agencias La Habana La delegación la encabeza Alberto Gasbarri, encargado de los viajes de Benedict... Continue reading
Amnesty International said Friday that it was on the eve of designating a Cuban dissident as a prisoner of conscience when he died following a hunger ... Continue reading
in 24 hours, roughly a dozen airline passengers arrived in Canada ill from the same vacation spot in Cuba Friday. Passengers from all three Air Transat flights were screened by staff from the Public Health Agency of Canada after touching down, said Continue reading
Solo en Cuba, Guyana y Puerto Rico el aborto es legal en términos generales, y en los otros países … Cuba http://noticias.terra.es/2012/mundo/0120/actualidad/america-latina-a-la-cabeza-en-abortos-inducidos-pese-a-leyes-restrictivas.aspx... Continue reading
The responsibility for Wilman Villar Mendoza's death in custody lies squarely with the Cuban authorities, who summarily judged and jailed him for exercising his right to freedom of ... Continue reading
A flight from Cuba landed in Ottawa with 11 ill passengers. (CBC)Flights from Holguin, Cuba, arriving in Ottawa and Toronto have been flagged by Canadian public health officials after people on board complained Continue reading
Friday, 20 January 2012 20:12 After playing four games in five days the Cuba Wildcat boys were running on tired legs when Union came to town on Tuesday. But the CHS boys didn't let that slow ... Continue reading
HAVANA - Cuba says it received 7.3 per cent more tourist visitors in 2011 than during the previous year.Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero says about 2.7 million travellers arrived last year. ... Continue reading
Guillermo Farinas was released from prison Friday The release comes one day after another dissident died Farinas has undertaken several hunger ... Continue reading
Cuba who launched a hunger strike to protest his incarceration and he succumbed to pneumonia," Nuland said. According to family and colleagues, Villar had been convicted for peacefully ... Continue reading
A prisoner on hunger strike dies of organ failure, other Cuban dissidents say His hunger strike was in protest to his arrest for taking part in a demonstration A court sentenced him to four ... Continue reading
For 15 days I participated as a spectator in two trials held in the Havana Court, both pursued for the crime of murder. The first, on November 28th, I was counsel for the family of the accused, six poor people from Mantilla — a bad neighborhood of Arroyo Naranjo where I was born, grew up [...] Continue reading
Otros opositores políticos también culparon al gobierno cubano por la “inevitable” muerte del activista, y dijeron que a la lista de trágicos sucesos, hay que sumar a Orlando Zapata Tamayo y Juan Wilfredo Soto, todos fallecidos en los últimos cinco años. Continue reading
Muerte de Wilman Villar, Relaciones Cuba-EspañaLa organización política pide al Gobierno cubano que libere a todos los prisioneros políticos Continue reading
Cuba  El PSOE lamenta la muerte del disidente Wilman Villar y pide a Cuba que libere a todos los … su petición a Cuba para que libere a 'los prisioneros políticos que aún quedan en las cárceles … Cuba http://notic... Continue reading
Overcoming the objections of Fidel Castro, the Cuban government is beginning to consider large-scale ethanol production on the sugarcane-rich island, a Brazilian official said. Investment opportunities for Brazilian companies in ethanol production in Cuba are about to open up, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Tovar Nunes after a visit of Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota to Cuba in [...] Continue reading
El PSOE ha lamentado este viernes la muerte del disidente cubano Wilman Villar tras una huelga de hambre y ha reclamado al Gobierno de La Habana que libere a todos los prisioneros políticos. Continue reading
¿Qué dirán sobre este asesinato, los defensores de los cinco canallas espías, presos en Estados Unidos? Continue reading
… de los DD.HH. en Cuba  El Gobierno de Estados Unidos deploró hoy la muerte 'sin sentid … al Gobierno de Cuba a permitir el pleno acceso a las prisiones y los presos políticos al relator e … Cuba htt... Continue reading
By NBC's Jamie Novogrod Follow @JamieNBCNews   TAMPA, FL -- The battle over the Latino vote is heating up in south Florida. Newt Gingrich is out with a radio ad playing on local Spanish-language Continue reading
Before the ballots are even cast in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich is battling Mitt Romney for Latino voters in Florida with radio ads linking him to Communist dictators and saying he is anti-immigrant. Continue reading
Cuba  La Casa Blanca reitera su apoyo a 'la libertad del pueblo cubano' tras la muerte de Wilman … el 'futuro de Cuba' … Cuba http://noticias.terra.es/2012/mundo/0120/actualidad/la-casa-blanca-reitera-su-apoyo-a-la-libertad-de... Continue reading
It’s daylight robbery. Every time a Cuban residing abroad decides to visit their home country, the must pay a crude ‘revolutionary tax’ to the Castro brothers government. Let’s get out the calculator. In 2012 nearly 400,000 Cuban emigrants visited the island. Before unpacking the plasma TVs, computers, video games and smartphones for their relatives, all [...] Continue reading
La Casa Blanca ha lamentado este viernes la muerte del disidente cubano Wilman Villar, al que ha definido como "un valiente defensor de los Derechos Humanos y las libertades fundamentales", y ha reiterado su apoyo a "la libertad del pueblo cubano". Continue reading
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Muerte de Wilman Villar, Derechos Humanos“Creo que en el 2010 el mártir fue Orlando Zapata, en 2011 fue Wilfredo Soto y ahora en 2012, Villar”, aseveró el psicólogo y periodista independiente Continue reading
Varios miembros de la disidencia interna en Cuba acusaron hoy al gobierno de la isla por la muerte del preso opositor Wilman Villar Mendoza, fallecido este jueves en un hospital de la ciudad oriental de Santiago de Cuba tras mantener una huelga de ha... Continue reading
A flight from Cuba landed in Ottawa with 11 ill passengers. (CBC)An airplane returning to Canada from Cuba was delayed and then briefly quarantined at the Ottawa airport early Friday morning after 11 Continue reading
ELIZARDO SANCHEZ of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights. The jailed dissident Wilmar Villar Mendoza has died in Cuba from the effects of a hunger strike and what fellow opposition activists believe was Continue reading