Guillermo Fariñas

Democracy, not theocracy

August 15, 2011

Carlos Eire, professor of history and religious studies at Yale University and author of “Waiting for Snow in Havana,” penned an excellent op-ed in today’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Cardinal Ortega is no more fit to lead the Cuban people than any columnist is to suggest what will be best for post-Castro Cuba. In essence, what [...]

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Video of the Day

July 10, 2010
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Hankering for freedom

July 8, 2010

From today’s The Economist: CUBA’S leadership understands only too well how starving to death can help a cause. In 2000 Fidel Castro, who had apparently been moved by the plight of Irish republican hunger-strikers, approved the construction in Havana of a memorial to Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners. Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein’s leader, attended [...]

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End of hunger strike

July 8, 2010

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has ended his hunger strike after the government announced it was freeing 52 political prisoners. [BBC] (Image: Fariñas’s first glass of water. By Yoani Sanchez’s TwitPic stream.)

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Miscellanea

July 7, 2010

An El Salvadoran national detained in Caracas will be extradited “in the coming hours” to Cuba, where he is wanted for a string of terrorist bombings in the late 1990s. [Wall Street Journal] Some changes are in the works for Radio and TV Martí. [Radio World] Spanish FM: Spain hopes Cuba’s agreement with Roman Catholic [...]

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Diplomatic corner

July 2, 2010

The lease to the United States by the Government of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda was signed 107 years ago today. [Avalon Project] Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos will visit Cuba early next week (Mon. through Thurs.) to support dialogue between [...]

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