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Cubas Supreme Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence against a Cuban-American who was the last person remaining on death row in the island nation, according to a veteran human rights activist....
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/ap/International/71890Cubas Supreme Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence against a Cuban-American... more
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Victor Noval, aka Victorino Noval Jr., creates the Victorino Noval Foundation in memory of his father’s fight to help reunite Cuban Americans with Cubans. The Foundation’s charter includes funding research and education to improve Cuban-American relations.
Victor Noval announced today the launch of the Victorino Noval Foundation to provide funding for research grants and education aimed at improving Cuban-American relations.
Born and raised in Spain, Victorino Noval Sr. was just barely 18 when the country he loved was ravaged with destruction brought on by the Spanish Civil War. In desperation he fled to Cuba, as did thousands of Spaniards hoping to leave behind the poverty that plagued their homeland, the descendants of whom still call Cuba home.
Victorino Noval Sr. had an uncle already living in Cuba who owned several supermarkets and funeral homes, and he started working with him as soon as he arrived. But with the revolution under way, it was clear that Communism would inevitably take hold. Hoping to save their assets and keep the businesses they had worked so hard to create, the Noval family became strong advocates opposed to Fidel Castro’s Communist regime. Targeted for supporting anti-Castro forces, Victorino Noval Sr. fled Cuba for the US, leaving his wife and kids behind. Only with the help of the CIA was he capable to reunite with his family in 1966.
A natural businessman, Noval then turned his attention to developing real estate, and created dozens of successful projects, including offices, residences, and shopping centers, primarily in California. All the while, he dreamed of a transformed Cuba that would have normal diplomatic relations with the U.S. and that his two adopted homes, the U.S. and Cuba, would reconcile, building trust and mutual respect through confidence building measures and projects.
After he passed away earlier this year, his son Victor created the Victorino Noval Foundation to honor his father’s memory and the goals he set out to accomplish, namely lifting the Cuban embargo and improving relations between the two countries.
“As a first step to developing superior relations between Cuba and America, the foundation has been fighting for the rights of Americans to travel to Cuba, a fundamental right of nationality in this country. Americans can travel to Iran or Sudan, but are prohibited from traveling to Cuba”, stated Victor Noval. “Travel to other countries helps develop superior understandings for each other, reduces social barriers and improves business and environmental relationships.”
He is not alone in his mission. Over 140 organizations, including Human Rights Watch, the US Chamber of Commerce, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the American Farm Bureau Federation, have rallied around HR 4656, a bill that would lift the travel embargo. The US House of Representatives will vote on the bill in the coming months.
Some changes are recently taking place. Under the Obama Administration, travel restrictions are loosening and the amount of cash that can be sent to Cuba from Cuban American citizens is increasing.
The Victorino Noval Foundation was created in memory of Victorino Noval Sr., who was born in Asturias, Spain, and died Los Angeles, California, May 7, 2010. Victor Noval, aka Victorino Noval Jr., runs the foundation in loving memory of his father and to carry on his father’s dreams and legacy to improve Cuban-American relations.
For more information, please visit The Victorino Noval Foundation at www.VictorinoNovalFoundation.com.
“Travel to other countries helps develop superior understandings for each other, reduces social barriers and improves business and environmental relationships.” – Victor Noval
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/10/prweb4656274.htmVictor Noval, aka Victorino Noval Jr., creates the Victorino Noval Foundation in... more
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Santa Clara, 5 of March 2010.
To: Raúl Castro Ruz, Army General and President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.
General, as you must know, as an old soldier, the ties between brothers in arms are relationships that go beyond ideologies and political positions. As should be reflected in the archives of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the undersigned was a combatant in the People's Republic of Angola and had I continued in the military life would now hold the rank of Colonel.
Three colleagues of mine, very close to you, have sent messages alerting me that you gave the necessary orders to let me die, following the international outrage for the murder of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and so the hunger strikes by a group of Cubans, will end.
I want to say that I consider myself a true patriot and I recognize that I was only a mercenary, when I was in the service of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under which I served in Africa. The fact that you believe that my death is necessary for me is an honor, as one verse of our National Anthem states: "to die for the homeland is to live".
Under the present circumstances, in which my country and my brothers of struggle are living, I thank you for allowing me to die before the national and international public opinion, for my pro-democratic ideas and may God be with our land and your with soul.
Bachelor in Psychology
Guillermo Farinas Hernandez
Ex-Political Prisoner three times,
Librarian and Freelance Journalist.
http://sunriseinhavana.blogspot.com/2010/03/farinas-letter-to-raul-castro-ruz.htmlSanta Clara, 5 of March 2010.
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As of this afternoon, seven political prisoners in jails in Piñar del Rio were on hunger strikes, protests they started last week after the death of prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
The protesters are:
Eduardo Díaz
Diosdado González
Nelson Molinet
Fidel Suarez
Orestes Paino
Pavel Hernández
Rafael Suárez
Also,political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Saínz and Pedro Argüelles have completed 48-hour hunger strikes they started as a tribute to Zapata. A third prisoner who had started a similar fast, Antonio Díaz Sánchez, still had not eaten as of Saturday, according to human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez.
Finally, former political prisoner Guillermo Fariñas is suffering from severe joint pain, dehydration and other effects of a hunger strike now in its fifth day. He has vowed to continue his protest until death, unless the Castro dictatorship releases from its jails political prisoners who are seriously ill.
http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2010/02/cuban-hunger-strike-update.htmlAs of this afternoon, seven political prisoners in jails in Piñar del Rio were... more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to pass Cuba a message on the need for democratic reform when he met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, according to a U.S. official.
"When (Obama) learned that Foreign Minister Moratinos was about to go to Havana, he suggested that Moratinos urge the Castro regime to take steps to reform and improve human rights," the U.S. official said on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Excerpt from article Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:59pm EDTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to pass Cuba a message... more
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Panfilo the drunk Afro-Cuban that was caught on tape talking about the lack of food in Cuba, while intoxicated has once again surfaced.
He has been interrogated by the Secret Police several times. He is trying to say that he has no political associations and that he didn't ask for any of this. He became an overnight sensation when he appeared on a video screaming in Cuban slang "Lo que necesitamos es Jama"-What we need is food!
In Cuba you can't even tell the truth while drunk.Panfilo the drunk Afro-Cuban that was caught on tape talking about the lack of food in... more
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Words can't begin to describe it. An Afro-Cuban woman is literally eating off the street. After fifty years in power the communist regime can be summed up with this video.Words can't begin to describe it. An Afro-Cuban woman is literally eating off the... more
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From [url=http://www.penultimosdias.com/2009/03/23/detenidos-ciro-diaz-y-claudio-fuentes/]Penultimos Diaz[/url] there is information that Ciro y Claudio, the guitarist and the photographer, have been set free and are back in Havana! The two were arrested early this week for attempting to visit Antunez, who has been in a hunger strike for the past month in protest for human right abuses by the Cuban communist regime.From... more
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the "International Center of Neurological Restoration (CIREN), an institution sponsored by the Cuban State, which discovered the" Fetal Substance Nigra ", consisting of spinal tissue and neuronal cells of human embryos. This substance, in order to achieve regenerative effects in adult nervous tissue should be transplanted from a living human embryo.
The Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina remaining in Cuba, without the possibility to exit, may have been involved in the worst of crimes, to the most defenseless beings-unborn babies.
The fetuses were to be used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, which did not improve, but continued with their disease and many died. This transplants were never performed on a foreign patient, only Cuban, monkeys, rats and rabbits.the "International Center of Neurological Restoration (CIREN), an institution... more
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The book titled "Boring Home", by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, was not allowed at this years Havana's Book fair.
In a gesture of defiance, it's author and his friends dedicated the book anyway. Yesterday February 16, 2009 in front of "La Cabaña", the site of hundreds of deaths by order of Che Guevara - the man known to freedom loving Cuban as "The Butcher".
The author dedicated the book to his mother who suffered the cruel treatment of Castro's secret police. The book is not yet translated into English, but this is nothing google translator can't fix, if you really want to read it. The book has been published on the internet. To view "Boring Home", click here:The book titled "Boring Home", by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, was not allowed... more
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Five decades after the rise to power of the Castro brothers, Cuban crumbles, while the world keeps looking at the Castros as if only they were citizens of Cuba. The people must be heard!Five decades after the rise to power of the Castro brothers, Cuban crumbles, while the... more
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Cuban Independent Photojournalist Luis Alberto Pacheco Mendoza, took these four disturbing photos, in a Cuban Hospital, giving us a glimpse into the state of Cuba's health care system. This is what Michael Moore didn't show you.Cuban Independent Photojournalist Luis Alberto Pacheco Mendoza, took these four... more
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CIEGO DE ÁVILA, Cuba, December 23 (Tico Morales, APLA / www.cubanet.org) - Madrigal, a man with mental problems and well known in the community, took his clothes off during one of his usual crisises and walked around town in his birthday suit, without no one, not even the popular social workers coming to his aid.
Madrigal was beaten with baton by several policemen, and while they were handcuffing him, the most famous insane person in town was strangled by these men in uniform.
People were so infuriated with the police, that the Secretary of the Communist Party, from Ciego de Ávila, “compañero Tapia”, traveled to the area to calm things and ordered that the Florencia Chief of Police be demoted.
During the victims funeral, new fights broke out when family members began attacking the police in attendance at the holy ground, throuing anything they could get their hands on at them.CIEGO DE ÁVILA, Cuba, December 23 (Tico Morales, APLA / www.cubanet.org) -... more
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This is how the Castro Regime, treats Afro-Cubans
HABANA, Cuba, Diciembre 19 (Iván Sañudo, Agencia Libre Asociada / www.cubanet.org) –
Afro-Cuban young man Alexis Manuel García, beaten last December 17th on the corner of Marti and Agramonte, in Regla, Havana, while he talked to individuals dedicated to the selling and buying of convertible money.
Patrolmen who arrived at the scene, according to eye witnesses, asked for their identification cards of all that were present. García, very upset, made reference to the Cubans lack of freedom.
Without an explanation one of the cops, pulled out his baton, and beat García until he fell to the floor, at which time, he began to kick him. Passers by began to yell at the policeman: Abusive, assassin, savage!, until the beating stopped.
Alexis Manuel, was taken to police station No.13, and his status is unknown-according to his mother, he was in isolation.This is how the Castro Regime, treats Afro-Cubans
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