Another raft with Cuban refugees sinks, this time near Cancun: Two people drowned and at least 11 went missing, when a raft bearing 23 refugees from Cuba sank off the coast of Isla de Mujeres, near Cancun, Mexico Friday, according to immigration authorities. Ten adult survivors, nine men and one woman, were taken into custody, [...]

Relieved that their oil supply is safe, at least for now, the Castro's are busy at what they do best: Complaining about the non-existent embargo, promoting failure as accomplishment, and repressing peaceful unarmed women wearing white. From Capitol Hill Cubans: AI Concerned For Safety of Ladies in White Amnesty International Calls on Cuba to Allow [...]

If Cuban officials admit a decline in Cuba's Healthcare, how bad is it really? Cafe Fuerte reports a drastic fall in medical services in Cuba. 18.5% decrease in patient beds 33% decrease in the number of hospitals and clinics 9.6%  decrease in the number of public health employees (there are no private health employees in Cuba) [...]

In normal countries, the family of murder victims have the right to attend the trial of accused perpetrator.  They have a right to witness the judicial process, to know that justice has been fairly served.   We've all seen televised high-profile murder trials over the years, and empathized with the grief and anger displayed by members of [...]

I just woke up out here on the left coast, checked Twitter, to see this: Cubanet @CubanetNoticias HablemosPress: Yoani Sanchez, Reinaldo Escobar y Agustin Diaz presos en Dpto Instruccion de #BayamoCuba desde ayer 6pm. Capitol Hill Cubans: Yoani Sanchez Has Been Arrested Prominent Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been arrested by the Castro regime, along [...]

Prayers for Sonia Garro's health and safety... Sonia Garro, a female pro-democracy activist and member of the Ladies in White, was imprisoned on March 18th of this year. According to Garro's sister, she has been receiving numerous death threats at the women's prison of "El Guatao", where she remains incarcerated without charges or trial. She [...]

A Cuba healthcare reality check for those who confuse propaganda with fact. Translating Cuba: Open letter from the General Surgery Department of the “Calixto Garcia” Hospital to the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro Ruz The “Calixto Garcia” hospital in Havana [...]

For IMMEDIATE Release – September 27, 2012 Freedom House Report on Oppression of Internet Freedoms in Iran, Cuba is Disturbing But Not Surprising, Ros-Lehtinen Says Responsible Nations Must Stand with the Oppressed and Support Their Calls for Democracy and Freedom (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today [...]

Update: Hablemos Press press is reporting that over the last 48 hours, 50 members of the Laura Pollen Ladies in White group have been arrested to prevent them from attending a meeting and Sunday Mass. The regime continues to fear the women of Cuba who wear white. More Castro thuggery: Yoani Sanchez reports that they've [...]

The repression of peaceful dissent in Cuba is relentless and violent.  God help those Cubans who dare to exercise their God given rights, and freely speak out against the regime's atrocities.  This is a sampling of the brutality of the Castro regime's daily method of silencing dissent excerpted from  Varios Arrestos en el Dia del Opositor .   (my [...]

Shocking, shocking news: ''Cuba is lying about negotiating release of Alan Gross'': The State Department says the Cuban government is lying about negotiating the release of a Maryland man. Cuba says it is waiting to hear from the U.S. about exchanging Alan Gross for five Cuban men held in an American federal prison on espionage [...]

Boo fucking hoo. When the Obama administration loosened travel restrictions to Cuba, the thought was that Americans were going to pour into the forbidden island on legal cultural exchanges. But if backers hoped to foster greater understanding between people on both sides of the Cold War's longest lingering disputes, critics saw an opening for rum-slurping [...]

For immediate release: Diaz-Balart: Cuban Hunger Strikers Need Our Solidarity and Our Support Washington, D.C. Sept. 13, 2012 Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart spoke on the House Floor regarding the hunger strike underway in Cuba by brave human rights and pro-democracy activists to protest the regime's brutal oppression and the unjust imprisonment of political prisoners. The growing [...]

PRESS RELEASE U.S. Policy Towards Castro Regime, Human Rights In Cuba Focus Of Ros-Lehtinen Meeting With State Department Official (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement after meeting with Raymond McGrath, the new Coordinator for Cuban Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. [...]

"Lamento tener que decirlo así, de este modo. La libertad, para mí, es un sueño. Un sueño que espero que pronto deje de ser sueño. Porque no puedo hablar de libertad si no la he tenido. No puedo hablar de libertad si lo que he conocido de ella es lo poco que he luchado y [...]