How easy it seems for the monsters running Cuba to impose a death sentence with no verdict named; all they have to do is ignore humanity, and mock God.  
Dania Virgen Garcia reports on Cubanet that Leonardo Brindis, age 22, died after being denied medical treatment by prison doctors.  He had been on a hunger strike [...]

It's Groundhog Day, and if Punxsutawney Phil is correct, we are in for six more weeks of winter before we can look forward to spring.  Sadly, the weather's temperature is not the only measure of warmth for humans.  As it is, there is no need for a weather predicting rodent in Cuba, because there is [...]

Of course they do, because:
"Cuba is Canada's largest market in the Caribbean and Central American region, with two-way trade topping $1 billion in 2010. A Canadian oil and gas company, Sherritt International, is the largest foreign investor in Cuba."
From this article wherein the Canadian minister for Latin America trips all over herself  trying to display concern [...]

Really folks, you couldn't make this up.
From Capitol Hill Cubans:
U.S. Bishops' Absurd Foreign Policy
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has unveiled its 2012 legislative agenda.
Among its priorities is ensuring that U.S. trade with democratic Colombia doesn't violate human and labor rights, while lobbying to expand trade with totalitarian Cuba despite no existing human and [...]

Friday night thinking about Cuba, these lyrics came to mind.
How many freedoms must Cubans be denied
 before their humanity is recognized?
How many must die at sea
Before they’re allowed to sail free?
Yes, how many times must the executioner prevail
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
 Yes, how many [...]

This New Year's Day marks fifty-three years of Castro's iron fisted rule in Cuba. Fifty-three years of repression and misery for the Cuban people, a reality usually ignored by the press and so-called Cuba experts.  However, occasionally the truth slips through the wall of propaganda.
Good friend Roland Alum, a political anthropologist, wrote this timely article on [...]

So far this isn't part of the tourist tour in Cuba, but at the rate violent repression is increasing who knows, perhaps those seeking "Forbidden Fruit" in Cuba will someday share the very real Cuban experience of having your head cracked open by one of Castro's mobs.
Photo captured from video posted below at [...]

Gorki Aguila Carrasco, Yoani Sanchez, and others on Twitter and Facebook report that popular Porno Para Ricardo guitarist Ciro Diaz has been arrested in Cuba.

Also rounded up on eve of Human Rigts Day, Guillermo Fariñas, Antúnez and his wife Yris Perez, Darsi Ferrer and his wife, Librado LInares, Angel Moya, José Ferrer, Jorge Cervantes, and many many [...]

We all know while in Cuba the limo-lib elites do not do as the Cubans do. They enjoy the fabricated tourist island paradise the world media paints, some even enjoying the company of the Castros themselves. Some people discover the harsh disparity themselves.
Right now there are thousands of useful idiots occupying and soiling the streets [...]

This was taken November 24, 2011 around 10:30 am, on the corner of 23 and L in La Habana.

By marisolmarquez1:

"Protesters were trying to express their ideas and support the "Damas de Blanco" and Laura Pollan. Everyone was supportive except for one lady who decided to rip the sign apart. The police [...]

While the MSM continues to parrot Cuban state press run by a murderous outlaw dictator, they ignore the brutal violent acts of repression against Cuba's peaceful dissidents. 
The life of Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) is in danger.

I am pleading with the MSM and international human rights organizations to please speak out [...]

The pile of mierda from official sources in Cuba gets higher every day.  Now that Cubans can supposedly buy and sell cars and real estate, it seems they now also need to respect the image of their cities.  (The article is printed on toilet paper;  I won't link, but you know where to find it.)
Cuba, to [...]

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I will forever hold in my heart the image of Laura Pollán, dressed in white, carrying gladiolus, leading the column of  Las Damas de Blanco. How many of us waited every Sunday for news of their weekly act of brave resistance, their peaceful, dignified walk down Havana’s 5th Avenue, as we prayed for their [...]

Not much is uglier than people vacationing in a Potemkin village while ignoring  human rights atrocities  right under their noses.   However, I think Congressmen Jeff Flake and Charles Rangel naming a bill allowing  just that the "Export Freedom to Cuba Act," is an affront to all those in Cuba struggling for freedom.  Ugly Americans indeed.
From The Hill: 

Inspired by Cuba's [...]

 
Photo by Orlando Luis Pardo @OLPM
Week after week the Las Damas de Blanco, the Ladies in White peacefully march in Cuba, and week after week, the criminal Castro dictatorship sends violent state sponsored mobs to terrorize them.  With impunity the Castro dictatorship is beating innocent women on the streets of Cuba.  Berta Antunez provided graphic, heartbreaking [...]

Berta Antunez, Women's rights activist in Cuba speaks at the Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution. 
Powerful testimony on the horrors of Castro's Gulag.

En espanol here.

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Really, is this the best propaganda Havana can come up with?  What an embarassment, considering that in Cuba before Castro,  the island nation of Cuba was ranked fourth in the region for rice production.  A fact from the UN FAO Yearbook 1961, p. 50.
Excerpt from Commodity Online:
Training course on rice cultivation techniques lectured by Vietnamese experts [...]

VIENNA -- Iran was praised and Israel criticized Wednesday at a 151-nation meeting, with Cuba and Venezuela defending Tehran's right to run a nuclear program and Syria saying the Jewish state's undeclared nuclear arsenal is a threat to world peace.
The two Latin American nations are among Tehran's greatest supporters and Washington's strongest detractors, depicting it [...]

Cuba - Disbarred lawyer and Human Rights activist Rene Gomez Manzano spoke to Cuban-American congressional representatives by telephone during a Human Rights briefing hosted by the Cuban American Bar Association (CABA) in Washington DC.  Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, David Rivera and Albio Sires participated in the briefing. 
Mr. Manzano said, "Lawyers like me are dedicated [...]