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“N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” reported the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner about his suffering. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!” laughed my torturers. For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell. That’s four feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.
I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, the prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Peñalver, whose incarceration and torture at the hands of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s Stalinist regime stretched to 29 years, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.
http://bigjournalism.com/hfontova/2010/02/10/viva-la-causa-msm-dupes-celebrate-the-racist-roots-of-the-castroche-revolution/“N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” reported the... more
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“N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” reported the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner about his suffering. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!” laughed my torturers. For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell. That’s four feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.
I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, the prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Peñalver, whose incarceration and torture at the hands of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s Stalinist regime stretched to 29 years, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.
http://bigjournalism.com/hfontova/2010/02/10/viva-la-causa-msm-dupes-celebrate-the-racist-roots-of-the-castroche-revolution/“N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” reported the... more
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February is black history month and so I will dedicate this piece to the longest serving black political prisoner in the world and to the many others who are prisoners in Cuba's jails....
Institutionalized racism was abolished in Cuba thirty years before Rosa Parks was thrown off that Montgomery bus. The government Castro helped overthrow had included blacks as president of the Senate, minister of agriculture, chief of the army, and Head of state, Fulgencio Batista.
Batista grabbed power in a (bloodless) coup in 1952, but in 1940 he had been elected president in elections considered scrupulously honest by US observers. So whatever racial barriers existed in Cuba at the time did not prevent a country that was 71 percent white from voting in a black president (Batista was mulatto, just like Barack Obama) - and electing him almost twenty years before Eisenhower sent federal troops into Little Rock to enforce legislation and 68 years before the first black man was elected president in the United States.
Today, Cuba's jail population is 85 percent black. The regime Castro founded holds the distinction of having incarcerated the longest serving black political prisoner of the twentieth century, Eusebio Peñalver, who was holed up and tortured in Castro's jails longer than Nelson Mandela languished in South Africa's.
Peñalver was bloodied in his fight with communism but unbowed for thirty years in its dungeons. "Nigger!" taunted his jailers. "Monkey! We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!" snickered Castro's goons as they threw him in solitary confinement.
His communist jailers were always asking Eusebio Peñalver for a "confession," for a signature on some document admitting his "ideological transgressions." This would greatly alleviate his confinement and suffering, they assured him.
They got their answer as swiftly and as clearly from Peñalver as the German commander who surrounded Bastogne got from the 101st Airborne. Eusebio scorned any "re-education" by his Castroite jailers. He knew that it was they who desperately needed it. He refused to wear the uniform of a common criminal. he knew that it was they who should don it. Through thirty years of hell in Castro's dungeons, Eusebio Peñalver stood tall, proud, and defiant.
Ever hear of him? He lived in Miami (died in 2006). Ever see a CNN interview with him? Ever see him on 60 Minutes? Ever read about him in the New York Times? The Boston Globe? Ever hear about him on NPR, or during Black History Month? Ever hear the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus mention him?
He was a Cuban political prisoner. And as we all know, with the mainstream media and academia, that form of opposition doesn't count. Today. Castro's police bar black Cubans from tourist areas. Cuba's prominent political prisoner, Elias Biscet, is black (I won't bother asking if you've heard of him either). And exactly, 0.8 percent of Cuba's communist rulers are black. In other places they called this "apartheid."February is black history month and so I will dedicate this piece to the longest... more
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Robert Greenwald interviews Oliver Stone on the new Wall Street, Stone's new 10 hour HBO series, W, Nixon, his Vietnam experience, his interview and doc on Castro, on Chavez, the economy, and Stone's prediction of the end of America, '....a disaster will happen [to America].' He compares the economic collapse of September 2008 to a heart attack and that the patient went back to eating butter. He says we will never end Afghanistan until the U.S. government economically collapses permanently, which he believes will happen when another currency, like the Yen perhaps, will take over the dollar.
At one point Stone admits he "was all fucked up" after he returned from Vietnam and felt so aggressive from that experience of seeing his comrades die in vain that he wanted to use guns and violence against the American government, as did many 60s radicals. He now feels we will need a similar breakdown in our society to change this corrupt American government which he sees as hopeless, but yet predicts a collapse of the economy like what almost happened in September 2008, will indeed bring down this country. I have to agree whole heatedly. I love this guy.Robert Greenwald interviews Oliver Stone on the new Wall Street, Stone's new 10... more
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The political "re-education" officer at the Vallegrande prison recently delivered a beating to Cuban political prisoner Dr. Darsi Ferrer. Such an assault is never warranted, but to make it worse, Ferrer was handcuffed and unable to defend himself when he was assaulted.
Ferrer, a physician and independent journalist, has been in jail since last July. No formal charges have been filed, but he reportedly has been accused of buying some construction materials on the black market in order to make repairs to his residence after it was damaged during a police raid.
No one believes that. What is more likely is that the dictatorship finally decided to clamp down hard on one of its most persistent and effective critics.
The fact that there is a "re-education" officer on Ferrer's case, is further proof that this is a political, not criminal, prosecution.
http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2010/01/reeducation-officer-beats-cuba-political-prisoner-darsiferrer.htmlThe political "re-education" officer at the Vallegrande prison recently... more
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The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
As he promised earlier on his blog, Reinaldo Escobar went to the intersection of Havana's 23rd and G avenues for the proposed discussion. On Thursday, Escobar's wife posted President Barack Obama's responses to her written questions on Cuba-U.S. relations on her "Generacion Y" blog.
Escobar was waiting with at least two companions when he got into an argument with another man. What appeared to a prearranged group of government supporters then moved in, screaming obscenities. They hit him and slapped him in the head and pulled his hair and shirt, but never knocked him down.
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Reinaldo Escobar, the husband of dissident Cuban blogger Yoanis Sanchez, center, is taking away by unidentified men in Havana, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Escobar was punched, slapped and shouted down by government supporters in downtown Havana.
The husband of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, Reinaldo Escobar, third from left, and three of his companions, walk surrounded by government supporters in Havana, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Escobar was punched, slapped and shouted down by government supporters in downtown Havana.
Government supporters surround Reinaldo Escobar, background, the husband of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, in Havana, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Escobar was punched, slapped and shouted down by a pro-government mob in downtown Havana.
Soon, Escobar and the others were surrounded by men thought to be state security agents who protected them as they walked about two blocks. All around, Cubans pushed and screamed "Fidel! Fidel! Fidel!" and "Get out worm!" slang for Cuban-American exiles.
At one point, a band organized as part of a nearby street festival joined the mob, marching through flower beds on the median of a boulevard. The music added an odd soundtrack to a tense situation.
After about 10 minutes, Escobar and the others were placed in unmarked cars and driven away.
Ahead of Escobar's arrival Friday, Cuba's Young Communists Union organized a street book fair on the same corner, blocking off traffic.
It was unclear if the security agents who came Friday where the same ones who presumably assaulted his wife, Yoani Sanchez, two weeks earlier. After the incident, Escobar challenged the alleged assailants to a verbal duel.
Sanchez answered the phone at the couple's apartment moments after Friday's bedlam, but hung up without confirming where her husband was taken. Pro-government "acts of repudiation" against dissidents happen a few times a year. Usually, state security gives opposition activists a ride home after a few minutes to keep things from getting too violent.
"This street is Fidel's!" the mob shouted. They eventually chanted the name of the current president, Raul Castro, who replaced Fidel in February of 2008.
A government press agent came to the aid of an Associated Press Television cameraman after a member of the mob shoved him from behind and grabbed his camera. The culprit later apologized, then was led away by another group of men.
For about 10 minutes after Escobar was gone, the crowd continued to chant "Fidel! Fidel!" for international news cameras. Then it dispersed quietly.
On Nov. 6, Sanchez was walking to a nonviolence march when two men in plainclothes forced her into an unmarked sedan, pulled her hair and kicked her. The incident occurred at the same street corner where Escobar was hit and slapped Friday, and Sanchez says state security agents were involved.
The confrontation was so violent, Sanchez said she thought the men might kill her, but instead they dropped her off near her apartment.
She vowed on her blog to keep writing caustic, often witty criticism of the struggles of daily life on an island where there is no freedom of speech or assembly - and people endure shortages of even basic food.
On Thursday, she posted the U.S. president's answers to her written questions but, like nearly all sites critical of the Cuban government, access is blocked on the island.
In the posted responses, Obama said he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicated he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.
Escobar has his own blog, which is also blocked on the island.
Cuba tolerates no official opposition to its single-party communist system and dismisses nearly everyone who criticizes its government publicly as paid mercenaries of Washington.
Earlier this year, Time magazine named Sanchez - whose blog gets about 1 million hits a month - one of the world's 100 most influential people. Twice this year, she has been denied permission to leave Cuba to collect international journalism prizes.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/world/story/929064.htmlThe husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a... more
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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has developed quite a following in the US for her blog Generacion Y. Apparently now she can count President Obama among her fans. Sanchez managed to submit seven question to the President, which he answered this week and she posted on her blog. Obama congratulated her on her work:
"Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely, and I applaud your collective efforts to empower fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology. The government and people of the United States join all of you in looking forward to the day all Cubans can freely express themselves in public without fear and without reprisals."
The questions focused on US-Cuba relations and the possibility of future dialogue. Obama kept the door open to dialogue with Cuba's government but said it would have to come with the chance to "create opportunities to advance the interests of the United States and the cause of freedom for the Cuban people." Sanchez also asked him specifically about the role of the internet in Cuban lives.
"QUESTION 6: YOU STRONGLY SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. BUT, CUBANS CONTINUE TO HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. HOW MUCH OF THIS IS DUE TO THE U.S. EMBARGO AND HOW MUCH OF IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT?
My administration has taken important steps to promote the free flow of information to and from the Cuban people particularly through new technologies. We have made possible greater telecommunications links to advance interaction between Cuban citizens and the outside world. This will increase the means through which Cubans on the island can communicate with each other and with persons outside of Cuba, for example, by expanding opportunities for fiber optic and satellite transmissions to and from Cuba. This will not happen overnight. Nor will it have its full effect without positive actions by the Cuban government. I understand the Cuban government has announced a plan to provide Cubans greater access to the Internet at post offices. I am following this development with interest and urge the government to allow its people to enjoy unrestricted access to the internet and to information. In addition, we welcome suggestions regarding areas in which we can further support the free flow of information within, from, and to Cuba."
FROM THE BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/20/obamas-dialogue-with-a-cuban-blogger/
Vanguard's Adrian Baschuk was in Cuba earlier this year and though he was unable to meet with Yoani Sanchez, found that internet access for her, possibly Cuba's best-known blogger, was achieved by sneaking into hotels and uploading her posts.
http://current.com/groups/vanguard-cuba-revolution/
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http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=1179
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/19/obama_replies_to_cuban_bloggerCuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has developed quite a following in the US for her blog... more
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The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the biggest scoop of his career as a part-time journalist: an interview with Fidel Castro.
The Oscar winner, who last year bagged interviews with Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez, is reportedly on assignment for Vanity Fair in his quest to meet Cuba's former president.
In a sign of Havana's approval the communist party newspaper Granma covered Penn's visit yesterday to the Island of Youth, where he visited a gallery and met artists.
According to the online magazine tmz.com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba's evolving relationship with the Obama administration.The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the biggest scoop of his... more
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To the CIA she was Donna: a Cuban spy who hid documents inside cans of food and sent secret messages via a clandestine radio and two tunes – a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly.
Today, Donna was revealed to the rest of the world as Juanita Castro – the sister of Fidel and Raúl, rulers of Cuba and legendary conquerors of US espionage efforts – when she blew the whistle on her career as a CIA agent.
The rogue sibling revealed extraordinary details of her hidden identity in a memoir, Fidel and Raúl, My Brothers: The Secret History, which could force a partial revision of the CIA's role in Cuba. For half a century its efforts against Fidel were considered fiascos, prompting recrimination and ridicule. It tried and failed to kill him, tried and failed to invade Cuba, and tried and failed to foment revolt.To the CIA she was Donna: a Cuban spy who hid documents inside cans of food and sent... more
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A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, has admitted spying for the CIA in the 1960s.A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, has admitted spying for... more
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Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro, cooperated with the CIA in the 1960s — a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution &mdash according to an exclusive Univision-Noticias 23 report on her newly published book.
The report also revealed that Juanita, who broke with her brothers' revolution in 1964, hid government opponents in her home; that Fidel refused to visit her because the house was "surrounded by worms;" and that their mother often intervened with Raul to help Castro critics, jailed or fugitive.
Described as the Castro family's best-kept secret in the weeks that preceded the release of her book Monday, Juanita's revelation of her link with the CIA came as a short teaser at the end of a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on the book broadcast at 11 p.m. Sunday.
Juanita told the program that a person close to her and Fidel told her that "The CIA wanted to talk with me . . . because they had interesting things to tell me and interesting things to ask of me. . . . I was left half-shocked, but in any case I told them yes."
Maria Antonieta Collins, who co-authored the book and reported the television story, then added: "Tomorrow: For the first time, a CIA agent who became the lifetime protector of a collaborator . . . and who dared propose to the sister of Fidel that she cooperate with the CIA, archenemy of the Castro brothers?"Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro, cooperated with the CIA... more
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That's the question Adrian Baschuk of the Vanguard team went down to Havana to find the answer to. And that's the subject of next week's episode.
Cuba was under the rule of Fidel Castro for pretty much all of the last 50 years, but now with Fidel's brother Raul in charge and a new American President talking reconciliation, a lot of Cuba-watchers are wondering if big change is in the works. There are plenty of little changes happening that give cause to their interest. For example, The Economist reported this week on a small change in the country's lunch policy.
"THIS month staff at four government ministries in Havana had to make new arrangements for lunch. The ministries’ free canteens were shut down and workers given a wage increase of 15 pesos ($0.60) a day in compensation. Since that raises their salaries by more than half in return for losing an often poor-quality lunch, on this occasion Granma, the daily newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, may have got it right when it headlined the news, “Giving, more than taking away”.
And today the Miami Herald reports that Cuba has just given the US access to meet with jailed dual-citizens. This in addition to the recent relaxing of travel restrictions for American citizens of Cuban descent.
Possibly significant changes - but do they herald a coming revolution in Cuba? Is Communism on the island approaching its end? Tune in next week to Vanguard and find out what Adrian learned.
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Thousands gathered in the Cuban capital on Sunday to pay their respects to one of Cuba's few remaining original revolutionaries, Juan Almeida, who according to state media died of a heart attack Friday evening.
Almeida, 82, fought alongside Fidel Castro and was among only a handful of surviving Cuban leaders who still bore the title "Commander of the Revolution."
President Raul Castro and other top government officials were reportedly on hand, though elder brother and former Communist leader Fidel Castro -- not seen in public since abdominal surgery in 2006 -- did not make an appearance.
Almeida's death underscores the mortality of an aging cast of Cuba's revolutionary leaders.Thousands gathered in the Cuban capital on Sunday to pay their respects to one of... more
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A public servant who was sworn in with the promise to uphold the constitution of the United States of America is applauded for praising dictator Fidel Castro, his assassin Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Communism. I wonder if she would have the guts to say that in front of Cuban exiles?
I wonder if democrats realize that their party is being taking over by communists, disguised as liberal democrats!
This is what she said..........
[[[[[It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”
And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]
And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…]]]]]A public servant who was sworn in with the promise to uphold the constitution of the... more
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A is for Argentina
He invaded Cuba and was executed in Bolivia, yet Che was actually born in Argentina as the eldest of five children in a family of Spanish and Irish descent. On June 14, 2008 - 80 years after his birth - a three-tonne, four-metre tall bronze statue of 'Che' was unveiled in his home town of Rosario, made from 75,000 pieces of old candlesticks, padlocks and keys sent from all over the world.
B is for Bolivia
In 1967 Guevara set up a secret military training camp in remote Ñancahuazú region of the Bolivian jungle. It was a total disaster: his 50-man guerrilla army ran out of food, water, shoes and blankets. At the same time they contracted a weird jungle illness that made their hands and feet swell to the point that you couldn't make out their fingers or toes. By the time they were captured, Guevara and his bandits were raiding local towns purely to steal medicine.
C is for Castro
Guevara met Fidel Castro for the first time in June 1955 and immediately joined Castro's 26th of July Movement as a medic. Yet he excelled at military training, was rapidly promoted to Comandante and played a pivotal role in the Cuban revolution, where Castro's guerrilla army overthrew the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.
D is for Diary
In 1951, Guevara took a year off his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires to roar around South America on an old motorbike. The 8,000 mile journey put him face-to-face with the poverty, hunger and corruption that scars the region and Guevara later used his notes from the journey to write the best-selling book The Motorcycle Diaries. In 2004 the story was made into an award-winning film.
E is for Ernesto
This is the Guevara's real first name. He was given the nickname 'Che' in Guatemala. It means "pal".
F is for Formaldehyde
Shortly after his execution Guevara's hands were amputated, encased in formaldehyde and sent to Buenos Aires for fingerprint identification. It was only in 1997, when author Jon Lee Anderson discovered his handless body beneath an air strip near Vallegrande, Bolivia, that Guevara's body parts were reunited. On October 17, 1997, a 'complete Che' was laid to rest with military honours in the Cuban city of Santa Clara.
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[From Generacion Y, a blog by Yoani Sanchez, blogger in Cuba] Translated from Spanish.
I got a reddened bite on my leg and yesterday I woke up with my body aching all over. The first thing I thought was that I’d become infected with dengue fever, which has reappeared—as it does every summer—in the neighborhoods of my city. Fortunately I didn’t have a fever, so by mid-morning I ruled out that I was sick with this virus, also known as “break-bone fever.” In any case I can’t be sure that I won’t catch it, since very close to my house there are several cases and in these rainy days the number of mosquitoes increases.
The most striking aspect of the presence of this disease among us is the official failure to report the number of infected or to mention the word “dengue” in the new media. If you go to the hospital with all the symptoms, you receive a treatment in which the six letters that spell the wretched word are never spoken. On television they broadcast ads about how to counteract the Aedes aegypti mosquito, but no one ever mentions that this is due to the existence of dengue among us. Without statistics or data, we citizens are reconstructing the number of infected based on rumors that come to us from friends and acquaintances. The alarm grows, because we always suspect there’s a higher incidence than that which reaches our ears.
The silence around dengue corresponds to the permanent intention to not confess anything that damages the image of the country. To say that in our tropical “paradise” the disease has become endemic and common and that tourists should be warned of its outbreaks, exceeds the bounds of honesty permitted by our authorities. However it does not acknowledge it, nor reduce the fever, nor calm the worries of the sick and their families. On the contrary. They can put the name as dengue, or hide it in gibberish like, “fever, joint pains and rash,” but this doesn’t frighten away the risk; it does not help us to forget that come July and August it is an inseparable presence in our lives.
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As many things in Cuba, the truth is hidden under a mantle of doublespeak. Where deadly dengue fever becomes "fever, joint pains, and rash" and where saying that you are hungry is considered "slander against the Revolution", Cuba has become a place taken right out of George Orwell's "Animal Farm." If you think it can't happen, it already happened in Cuba...[From Generacion Y, a blog by Yoani Sanchez, blogger in Cuba] Translated from Spanish.... more
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In a new documentary on the Cuban exile experience, a poet weighs how her life and identity were shaped by the hand of a single man.
Amid her ruminations, she considers the what-if absence of Fidel Castro's rise to power 50 years ago.
''The revolution changed my life,'' Sandra Castillo says. ``Had there been no Fidel, would there be a me, the me that I am?''
Castillo's question is one of many in My Suitcase Full of Hope: The Story of the Cuban Freedom Flights that aims to illuminate the heartache and loss among exiles -- the Castro-christened ''anti-revolutionaries'' -- who fled the island to Miami between 1965 and 1973 aboard what came to be known as ``the Freedom Flights,''
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Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of... more
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Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island.
Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation last week that the U.S. and Cuba could be headed toward a thaw after nearly a half-century of chilly relations. The speculation began when the Cuban president said leaders would be willing to sit down with their U.S. counterparts and discuss "everything, everything, everything," including human rights, freedom of the press and expression, and political prisoners.Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother... more
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Cuban President Raul Castro has said he is willing to talk to Washington about everything, including human rights, political prisoners and press freedom.
His comments came hours after US President Barack Obama said Cuba needed to make the next move if there was to be further improvement in relations.
Mr Castro was speaking in Venezuela ahead of a Summit of the Americas.Cuban President Raul Castro has said he is willing to talk to Washington about... more
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