Exile
Alleged Cuban smuggler pleads guilty to sex trafficking
Never belonging – Random reflections on my last visit to Cuba
Normalizing The Communists Who Run Cuba Makes This Survivor Sick
Fidel Castro is dead
Why Do We Cubans Put Up With All This?
Why prostitution is a powerful metaphor in Cuban film
‘Special’ should not be a negative term
Press Workshop with Raul Rivero
The Ladies in White Should Change Their Political Profile
Cuba and the Perversion of Language
An eyewitness account of Cuba’s shocking wretchedness
The Last Communist City, A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see
Demystifying las UMAP – The Politics of Sugar, Gender, and Religion in 1960s Cuba
The USCCB, Cuba and the Chong Chon Gang
Independent Journalists Live on the Razor’s Edge in Cuba
The Cuban League Against AIDS Report of Human Rights Violations to the LGBT Community in Cuba / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
Havana Cuba 16 February 2012. Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS about Human Rights Violations in Cuba Against the LGBT Community / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
For an American, Havana is filled with contradictions
From a Cuban Tenement to an Italian Brothel: The High Price of Escape
Black economist says Cuba needs affirmative action
The Liberation of Women: Another Failed Dream of Cuba’s Revolution
The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba?
Potboilers and the party line
Little Havana Looks to Life After Castro
Congress reconsiders ban on Cuba travel
Congress reconsiders ban on Cuba travel
Ed Perkins On Travel
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Cuba — long off-limits to ordinary U.S. tourists — may once again
become an enticing vacation option. Last month, Reps. Charles Rangel,
D-N.Y., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., submitted a bill that would require the
administration to allow U.S. citizens to visit Cuba and allow U.S.
travel… Continue reading
New Squeeze on Family Remittances
CUBA-US:
New Squeeze on Family Remittances
Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Jun 9 (IPS) – An increased tax on remittances sent to Cuba in
dollars will bolster the flow of foreign exchange into state coffers,
but will create further difficulties for the hundreds of thousands of
families who are divided between Cuba and the United States.
“Supposedly, the increase is for the… Continue reading
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2005
Cuba
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – 2005
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 8, 2006
Cuba, with a population of 11 million, is a totalitarian state led by a
president, Fidel Castro, whose regime controls all aspects of life
through the Communist Party (CP) and its affiliated mass organizations,
the government bureaucracy, and… Continue reading
An Eye-Opening Cuban Vacation
An Eye-Opening Cuban Vacation
by Humberto Fontova
Posted Feb 03, 2006
Please keep this in mind, friends: the following was not written by a
“Cuban exile, Republican hard-liner, crackpot” (like me). What the
Cuban-exile crackpot presents here is a very crude translation of an
article printed in Oct. 25 in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo by a
backpacking tourist from… Continue reading
Cuba, suspended in time
JOURNEY TO HAVANA AND BEYOND
Cuba, suspended in time
Stricter U.S. rules have made it harder to visit this country of old-world mystique and real-world problems.
By Rosemary McClure
Times Staff Writer
January 15, 2006
FATHER John Bakas walked the crowded cobblestone streets of Old Havana, dined on spicy red beans and rice at an outdoor cafe and led vesper… Continue reading