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You can tell that it hurts them
22. February 2011 10:02
Feb. 22 - Since we started this website in 2005 to let the world know about the real Cuba, we have been victimized by all kind of virus, denial of service attacks and hacking attempts.
Most of them have [...]

Just in from Payo Libre:  Darsi Ferrer has been transferred to Valle Grande Prison, which is a maximum security prison.  Word is he is on a  hunger strike.    Please spread the word, and pray:
La Habana – www.PayoLibre.com – Detenido por 4 agentes de la seguridad del estado ayer 21 de julio el Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, y llevado [...]

Last week Dr. Darsi Ferrer and his wife were arrested; their alleged crime? Inviting a group of friends for a walk on Havana’s Malecón. The Real Cuba has the photos showing Dr. Ferrer’s injuries and the damage done to his home by Cuban state thugs while they were detained.
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Obama has said no talk just for the sake of talking, but that's exactly what any dialogue with Cuba will be until Cuba is free of the communist dictatorship that has ruled the island for 50 years.
A few years ago Babalu published a letter stating what we believe are the minimum requirements that [...]

As we prepare to commemorate the brave men and women who perished in defense of our freedom, please remember our Cuban brothers and sisters who also made the ultimate sacrifice for that great cause, and for those who remain imprisoned and defiant against their oppressor.
“I am of the opinion that as long as a Castro-communist [...]

Hmmm.
BEIRUT: Police from seven nations arrested 17 people in the island of Curacao Tuesday suspected of involvement in an international drug ring with links to Hizbullah, Dutch authorities said. "The organization had international contacts with other criminal networks that financially supported Hizbullah in the Middle East. Large sums of drug money flooded into Lebanon, from [...]

Take that you intransigent hardliners! Chalk up another one for the ruling military junta. Not because as the media would have you believe, it is a sign of the eroding support for holding said misgoverning body accountable, but rather because it is a win-win situation for the Havana strongmen. They have gained [...]

Senator Menendez said he would continue to use every available tool to preserve U.S. sanctions until political conditions change in Cuba, although he attributed much of his earlier ire to the fact that the provision had been inserted with no notice into an unrelated bill.
"If you want to change Cuba policy, fine, let's duke it [...]

Amnesty International, normally silent when it comes to human rights abuses in Cuba released the following statement in response to Cuban authority's harassment of  Damas de Blanco members marking the sixth anniversary of the Black Spring crackdown.
The Cuban authorities took action on Tuesday to suppress peaceful demonstrations marking the 6th anniversary of a crackdown against dissidents. [...]

Early photos are in, a sampling: 

 My favorite is this one of the inimitable Paqutio D' Rivera playing the Cuban Hymn:

 And  here, flashing a t-shirt that makes a statement: 

 
See these and more at:
 
The Real Cuba
Cuba Independiente
Cuba Companioni
 
Listen to live coverage via Blog Talk Radio here; I was privileged to be invited on the show, and a good part [...]

By Yoani Sanchez

Every day I run into someone who’s been disillusioned and has withdrawn their support for the Cuban process. There are those who turn in their Communist Party cards and emigrate to their married daughters in Italy, or those who concentrate on the peaceful work of caring for their grandchildren and waiting in [...]

Would you be willing to give up all your God granted Human Rights for this:
Rural community left without a doctor
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, February 17 (Yoel Espinosa / Cubanet) – Residents of the rural community of El Jiquí in the province of Villa Clara have been without a doctor ever since the last one left for [...]

The dead-castro rumors are coming from somewhere. They seem to come every Friday night anymore, almost as if on some kind of pattern.
castroites of course are prime suspects as leakers, desperate to give the Bronx cheer to the Miami Cubans who are always so disappointed when the monster doesn't die. They even have a sense [...]

castroites must take the world for idiots because they're trying to fob off on us castro's version of pre-revolutionary history in some old tome as proof that their dictator is alive and well. Today they ran an essay purported to be by the bearded beast in today's Juventud Rebelion (in a dictatorship that kills youth [...]

For a long time, I've been concerned about Colombia. Here is it, best friend the United States has right now in Latin America and congressional Democrats are treating it like an enemy, slamming the door on free trade to this valued friend and the most important country out there opposing castro and Venezuelan dictator Oogo [...]

raul castro cannot stand the big lunkheaded Thug Of Caracas. Sure he likes his money, but Hugo Chavez's persona is a different matter. raul, after all, is a disciplined military man of sorts. He's also a Marxist ideologue, far more so than his evil bearded brother. While fidel is grandiose and theatrical, cold and calculating, [...]

Fausta Wertz, who's originally from Puerto Rico, has been monitoring the castroite press and has a very insightful take on the meaning of the monster's imminent passing. Read it here.

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