First the lying dictators said there were no political prisoners in Cuba; then they announced they were releasing them. Where are they? Still in prison, behind bars, or the prison of forced exile.
Today is Dr. Oscar Biscet's birthday, he is 49 years old. Why isn't he free?
We demand the unconditional release of all Cuban political [...]

HAVANA (AP)  -- The Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that Cuba has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and let them leave the country in what would be the island's largest mass liberation of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
Five are to be released into exile in Spain as soon as possible, while [...]

CubaNet reports that at checkpoints on entrances to Havana,  the PNR (Agentes de la Policía Nacional Revolucionaria) stopped citizens transporting seafood to Havana, and seized fish, lobster, and other products.  They also arrested  some citizens because they possessed more than their allowed limit of of food items- onion, garlic, fish, yogurt, alleging that the objective was to sell [...]

George (and hopefully Alberto) will be on my BTR show tonight, "Infidel's Watch", to discuss the background, details, and political aspects of the developing Cuban prisoner release.
You can listen to the show here starting @ 10:00pm eastern time (7pm west coast).
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The Cuban political prisoners that reportedly are being freed and allowed to leave are neither.  They are mere slaves in a $cam to prop up a murderous dictator for the $ake of business as usual.  How is the current practice of the state selling the labor of Cuban workers , more here, and here, to [...]

How many emancipated abused victims have to suffer in Cuba before the U.N. and international human rights organizations condemn and demand sanctions to end the outlaw castro dictatorship? Watch this video and bear witness to why the monsters running Cuba will not permit the U.N. or the Red Cross to perform human rights inspections.

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While the Ladies in White are right in doing everything they can for their imprisoned family members, it seems to that softening their position undermines the opposition position Zapata died for, and Coco Fariñas and others follow.   It seems to me that when the regime is making concessions, if you want to free the prisoners, that [...]

Last week at Cuba Nostalgia, we were privileged to meet a group of young people in Miami that go by the name of "O-JEC" which stands for "Organizacion de Jovenes Exiliados Cubanos" (Organization of Young Exiled Cubans). The young men and women of O-JEC are going to march for 7 days. Yes. SEVEN DAYS.

Val with [...]

Guillermo Fariñas is one hell of a warrior, a modern day David armed with a will of steel and his very brave heart.
From #OZT:
Cuban independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas clarified that he will continue his already three month long hunger strike if the government of Raul Castro does not free “all” the political prisoners because his [...]

Our friend George Utset from The Real Cuba has a very good question for the mafia running Cuba. 
If Cubans are now allowed to have construction materials at home, why is Dr. Darsi Ferrer in jail?

April 29 - Facing intense demand for housing, dictator Raul Castro is granting permits that let Cubans build homes with their own [...]

In this latest act of  repression by the castro regime, Cuban independent journalist Dania Virgen Garcia has been swiftly and arbritarily imprisoned for exercising her God given Human Rights. 
Shown here with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (Dania is the blonde on the right) , and below with the Ladies in White (carrying the Cuban flag just behind and to the right [...]

According to media reports, one of my heroes, Cuban political prisoner Darsi Ferrer, ended his hunger strike today after he was told by officials that they would meet his demands.
Marc has the story at Uncommon Sense, and you can read the Agencia EFE article in Spanish, here.
Please everyone, continue to spread the word about Cuba's [...]

The U.S. and Cuba held a rare, unusual, unprecedented meeting over at the United Nations yesterday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills was there, sitting down to talks with Bruno Rodriguez, the foreign minister of Cuba.
It would be normal to think the topic of this meeting would be Cuba's political prisoners, given that Cubans [...]

It's an unprecedented time in Cuban/U.S. history.
Cubans are mobilizing all over the U.S. like never before to bring to light the abuses of the castros and their gulags.
You all saw the turnout in Miami on Thursday for the march in solidarity with the Cuban Ladies in White and all the Cuban prisoners of conscience. The [...]

Well technically the event was located in Hollywood, but I wouldn't want anyone to confuse the  important subject matter of the documentary, Oscar's Cuba, with the triviality of tinsel town.
Over 300 Cubans and friends from all over Southern California, and as far away as Miami joined together with Jordan Allott, Executive Producer/Co-Director, his brother Daniel [...]

An inspirational new documentary brings to
U.S. audiences an American filmmaker's
message of Cuba's prisoners of conscience.
 
  IN ALTUM PRODUCTIONS & THE PAN-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, Los Angeles (March 15, 2010) - - OSCAR'S CUBA, a documentary about Amnesty International's prisoner of conscience and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Oscar E. Biscet, will be pre-screened in [...]

During the 2003 Black Spring crackdown in Cuba, among the dissidents rounded up and arbitrarily sentenced, were fifteen librarians.  They were members of an Independent Library movement that collected books , newspapers and periodicals banned by the regime,  and loaned them to interested readers. In Cuba this is a crime. 
 At the time of their arrest, thousands of books and [...]

You'd think that 51 years of barbaric tyranny would be enough to capture world opinion. I came across these powerful words written to free Mandela; change a few of them and they more than apply to Cuba, except of course that there is NO international campaign to free Cuba's political prisoners, or to liberate [...]

Please sign this petition by clicking HERE:
I would like to bring to your attention the case of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an imprisoned Cuban and human rights advocate. On a hunger strike since December 3, 2009, for purely requesting some of his most basic human rights, it appears Zapata Tamayo is on the brink of death, [...]

I can't think of any one more deserving to win, or who would do more to restore the status of the prize.
To wit:
To:  The United Nations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the Organization of American States (OAS, OEA), the European Union, the US Congress, and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
We, the undersigned, would like to nominate [...]