Daily Archives: March 8, 2017
Cuban Human Rights Group Denounces The Death Of A Political Prisoner Pending Trial / 14ymedio
14ymedio, Havana, 7 March 2017 — The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) has denounced the death of political prisoner Hamel Santiago… Continue reading
Havana Taxi Drivers Up In Arms / Iván García
Ivan Garcia, 27 February 2017 — After working twelve hours driving a vintage 1957 Chevrolet for a collective taxi company on the Cotorro-Central Park route, twenty-nine year old Osdiel sits down… Continue reading
Disappeared / 14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 7 March 2017 — The two personalities who represent the polar opposites of the so-called process of updating the Cuban model have disappeared. We have seen neither hide nor hair of… Continue reading
No sign of release for the last Cuban spy in a US jail Despite thaw in relations, Ana Belén Montes looks set to serve last nine years of quarter-century sentence PABLO DE LLANO Corresponsal en Miami Miami 8 MAR 2017… Continue reading
Repression in Cuba Comes in Many Forms March 7, 2017 By Osmel Ramirez Alvarez
HAVANA TIMES — Every Sunday, there is the “Los Chinos” agro-market fair in the city of Holguin in eastern Cuba. Trucks loaded with produce come from… Continue reading
Raúl Castro slams Trump – and I’m forced to agree with the dictator. How sick is that? BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO fsantiago@miamiherald.com
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro has no moral authority to condemn any democratically elected world leader.
Not when the most… Continue reading
PlaneSense jets to fly to Cuba, Bermuda By KIMBERLEY HAAS Union Leader Correspondent
PORTSMOUTH — New Hampshire residents who participate in PlaneSense’s fractional aircraft ownership program can now travel to Cuba and Bermuda.
“We have received many inquiries about travel… Continue reading
She’s aging in the hemisphere’s oldest nation and survives by digging through Cuba’s trash BY MARIO J. PENTÓN Y LUZ ESCOBAR mpenton@elnuevoherald.com
HAVANA At 67, struggling against the challenges that come with aging and a meager pension, Raquel, an engineer… Continue reading
Nauta Hogar: expensive, slow and bug-ridden Internet service JORGE ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ | La Habana | 8 de Marzo de 2017 – 08:51 CET.
The Nauta Home project, implemented as a free pilot test starting in January by the telecommunications monopoly… Continue reading