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Reclamada por Mallorca, la silla de Antonio Maceo es la estrella de una exposición en Cuba

Una cubana embarazada y otros 11 balseros son puestos bajo custodia en Gran Caimán

Por cada kilo de café exportado habrá un kilo para los cubanos, promete un italiano

Santa Claus comparte las calles cubanas con montañas de basura

Casi siempre villanos help!

Tres nuevos asesinatos trascienden en Cuba gracias a las redes sociales

“El derecho al disenso es coartado y criminalizado”, dice Ernesto Daranas en el Festival de Cine de La Habana

La Fiscalía pide hasta 30 años de cárcel para tres cubanos por lanzar cócteles molotov

El Día de los Derechos Humanos se salda con represión en Cuba y protestas en el exilio

Las “pruebas” del régimen cubano contra los “terroristas” de Miami: una moto acuática y tres pistolas

Un ajedrecista cubano impone récord nacional al jugar 32 partidas simultáneas cronometradas

Espías a la orden

Las habaneras nacieron a mediados del siglo XIX, mucho antes de la “pérdida” de Cuba por España

La autora del polémico ‘Cuban Privilege’ recibe una acogida entusiasta en La Habana

En Cienfuegos, las ‘mipymes’ acuerdan “precios menores” para unos productos este fin de año

La disputa por el Esequibo, una maniobra de Maduro y La Habana para posponer las elecciones

María Elvira Salazar devolverá 750 dólares que donó a su candidatura el diplomático que espió para Cuba

Muere en Nueva York el escritor Edmundo Desnoes, explorador de las ‘memorias’ de Cuba

Cuba recibe a 17 balseros devueltos por EE UU y suman 5.161 desde varios países

Apagarán la Guiteras unos días por mantenimiento para que aguante hasta una reparación mayor en 2024

“Cuando estaba en la cima me lo daban todo. ¿Ahora qué?”, reclama un ex boxeador cubano

El hotel Meliá de Trinidad se llevó el 60% de los gastos de construcción destinados a Sancti Spíritus

Pese a la disminución de viajeros, la aerolínea Southwest inaugura nuevas rutas a Cuba

Díaz-Canel visita en Catar “la joya de la corona” de las misiones médicas internacionales cubanas

El FBI detiene por espionaje a un ex diplomático de EE UU en Cuba

Cuba e Irán acuerdan una estrategia de “resistencia” contra las sanciones y el imperialismo de EE UU

Un campeón cubano ofrece una medalla olímpica en 5.000 dólares para una casa a su madre

Extienden a un año la validez de la Certificación de Antecedentes Penales en Cuba

Cuba, la prisión más fértil y añosa del continente

Muere Daniel Diez, el documentalista de la miseria en las montañas del oriente cubano

En noviembre, 15.764 cubanos solicitaron asilo en México

El Gobierno cubano califica de “arbitraria” su permanencia en la lista de países terroristas

El azúcar cubano: sin remedio

Los cineastas independientes cubanos denuncian la censura de sus filmes en el Festival de La Habana

Los pacientes cubanos de VIH también emigran a EE UU para poder tratarse

Un cubano podría pasar hasta 60 años de cárcel por el feminicidio de su ex pareja en México

Libros de noviembre: Arenas contra los “piratas”, Carpentier teatral y un herbario poético

El Gobierno de México halla a más de 14 migrantes cubanos en el remolque de un camión en Chiapas

Un cubano con I-220B es deportado y deja en EE UU a su esposa y una bebé de tres meses

Por evasión fiscal un tribunal cubano condena a prisión a dos residentes de Santa Clara

Los fabricantes cubanos de ron temen que la escasez de azúcar afecte su negocio

Los campesinos se quejan de la inacción de las autoridades cubanas frente al robo de ganado

Un alto cargo de EE UU denuncia las “horribles condiciones” de las cárceles cubanas

Hallan fósiles de invertebrados marinos del período Cretácico en Cuba

El Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana contará con una selección de 199 filmes

Más de 5.100 migrantes fueron devueltos a Cuba este año desde varios países

France Arrests Two People for the Murder of Cuban Choral Director Reynier Silegas Ramirez

Books Arrive at Cuban Schools in the Middle of the Semester

Almost 500,000 Migrants Have Crossed the Darien Jungle So Far This Year, Twice As Many as in All of 2022

Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Cuba Pays Three Times More for a Ton of Grain

An Advisor to the Large Spanish Hotels Asks Cuba To ‘Be More Open’ to Privatization

Humanitarian Parole Is an Escape Route to the U.S. for ‘Sleeper’ Cuban Communist Party Members

The Colleagues of the Pediatrician Murdered in Artemisa Lament the Silence of the Cuban Authorities

World’s Largest Tour Operator Will Not Fly to Cuba as of 2024

‘Patria y Vida’ — Homeland and Life — Will Be the Motto of the Cuban Team That Will Be Formed by Exiled Baseball Players

Cuban Regime Publishes its List of ‘Terrorists’ with Activists and Exile Organizations

A Poster from Cuba’s Jewish Community for the Hostages in Gaza Demands ‘Free Them’

The Refinery and Police Fines, the Main Sources of Income in Cienfuegos, Cuba

Russian Mir Cards Give an ‘Error’ Message at the Store Where the Central Bank of Cuba Did the Tests

Cuban Agents Threaten To Take Diasniurka Salcedo’s Five Children To Silence Her

Cubans Who Leave the Country for More Than Two Months Will Lose Their Ration Book

More Cubans Stay in Nicaragua: ‘It is a Dictatorship, But it Offers Opportunities’

Public Indifference

The Debut of a Woman Baseball Player on a Cuban Men’s Team Stirs Controversy Among Fans

‘It Was a Suicide’ Say the Neighbors of a Woman Who Died in a Fire in Central Havana

The Drastic Reduction in US Chicken Imports Aggravates the Food Crisis in Cuba

Juanita Castro Ruz, Exiled Sister of Fidel and Raul Who Refused to Be Buried in Cuba, Dies

The Central Bank of Cuba Takes Another Step with Russian Mir Bank Cards

Spy Detained by the FBI Was in Cuba When the Brothers to the Rescue Planes Were Shot Down

Luxury Cigars for the World’s Princes, ‘Peso’ Tobacco for Cuban Beggars

A Cruise Ship and a Chinese Hotel in Cuba, Prime Minister Marrero Promises Beijing to Attract Tourists

Mother of ‘The Boy With the Placard’ is Given Guarantees from Cuban Prisons Director and Suspends Her Hunger Strike

Cuban President Diaz-Canel Looks Happy Meeting with the Misogynistic and Homophobic Ayatollahs

Marine Saurian Skeleton Between 130 and 145 Million Years Old Discovered in Cuba

Seven Cuban Rafters and a Dog Are Rescued Off the Coast of Mexico

The Havana Corner Shop ‘Lavin Mattresses’ Shows Its Endless Rubbish

La Fortuna, an Empty Bodega That Had Its Glory Days, Like So Many Others in Cuba

US Keeps Cuba on the List of Sponsors of Terrorism for Another Year

San Lazaro, the Havana Street Where Residents Live in Permanent Fear of a Collapse

Cuban ’11J’ Prisoner With German Citizenship Is Beaten in Prison

Cuba’s Military Appropriated Almost 70 Billion Dollars From Cuba’s Healthcare System

Given the Debacle of National Production, Cuba Will Import Eggs from Colombia

The Cuban Army Exhibits its Underground Arsenal and its ‘Katiushas’ on Russian Television

Shock in a Santiago de Cuba Town Over Murder of a 15-Year-Old Girl

A Young Woman of 20 Murdered by Her Partner in Bayamo, the 77th Femicide in Cuba This Year

Cuban Police Arrest the Alleged Murderer of a French Tourist in Havana

Dimas Castellano

El Blog de Dimas
Dimas's Blog

LIBERTAD NUEVA VERSIÓN

Dual Currencies: Before 1959 and Today / Dimas Castellano

Three Points to Solve the Embargo / Dimas Castellano

Cyclones, Housing and Revolution / Dimas Castellano

Last Episode of This Cuban Electoral System / Dimas Castellano

Cuba, Elections and Electoral Reform / Dimas Castellano

Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Ciudadano Cero
Citizen Zero

¿Se gesta un cambio fraude en Cuba?

Proposal for Introduction of Decree Law 35 / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Economic Disorder, Castroism’s Vocation / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Cuba: You Must Be Having a Laugh Diaz-Canel... / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Abstention, a Fearsome Weapon Against Castroism / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Fidel Castro: Bury the Myth With the Ashes / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Somos+

Somos+
Somos+ English

Somos+ Cuba convoca elecciones a su coordinación.

Ex presos políticos Plantados están en España para presentar el filme, encuentro con sus protagonistas.

Club Somos+ España convoca elecciones a su coordinación

Comunicado final Comisión Electoral

Eddy Rodríguez, candidato a la presidencia de Somos+

Political Police Attack Activists in Cuba, Including Active Members of #Somos+ / Somos+

Somos+ Calls a Protest Against the Complicity of #PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) with the Havana Regime / Somos+

Cuban Politics During the Last Six Decades / Somos+, Hector Fernandez

A Prime Minister with Doubtful Results as a Minister / Somos+

Arbitrary Detention in Cuba of Somos+ Coordinator for Uruguay, Lidier Hernadez Sotolongo / Somos+



Cubalex
Cubalex English

La defensa de derechos humanos en Cuba sigue bajo asedio

Cubalex: 13 años en defensa de los derechos humanos en Cuba

Cuba bajo la lupa: Tendencias represivas y crisis de 2022-2023. Parte (II)

Cuba bajo la lupa: Tendencias represivas y crisis de 2022-2023. Parte (I)

Resolución 19/2023 del Ministerio del Interior: Terrorismo vs protección del orden constitucional en Cuba 

Monthly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba (July 2023) / Cubalex

Solitary Confinement: More Cruel and Inhuman Treatment of Detained Persons by the Cuban State / Cubalex

Monthly Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Cuba (February 2023) / Cubalex

Monthly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba: January 2023 / Cubalex

Statement of Human Rights Organizations on the Situation of Cuban Political Prisoners / Cubalex

Luis Felipe Rojas

Cruzar las alambradas
Crossing the Barbed Wire

Volver al blog

Hambrientos y con el culo mojao

El escritor, en su cubil

Cheo, ‘El matador’

Adiós a Carlos Alberto Montaner

‘Empress’ Sissi Goes to Prison in Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas

Retaliation Against Prisoner Who Reported Terrible Conditions of Forced Labor / Luis Felipe Rojas

Prisoners or Paramilitaries? Testimonies From Cuban Prisons / Luis Felipe Rojas

Report: Prostitution a la Carte in Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas

"Fatal attraction" Magali Alabau’s Riddles / Luis Felipe Rojas

Cuban Law Association

Asociación Jurídica Cubana
Cuban Law Association

We are moving / Cuban Law Association

School Violence and Social and Legal Indiscipline in Cuba / Dayanara Vega, Cuban Law Association

At Any Price / Wilfredo Vallin Almeida, Cuban Law Association

Travel Insurance is not a Trustworthy Contract / Edilio Hernandez Herrera, Cuban Law Association

Another Unfulfilled Promise / Cuban Law Association, Dayanara Vega

Rafael León Rodríguez

El candil de Rafa
Rafa's Lamp

Panama Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

February Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

Resolution 4 on Human Rights / Rafael León Rodríguez

Cuban Authorities Block Seven Activists From Traveling to Mexico for Democracy Action Meeting

End of Year Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

Voices Behind the Bars

Voces Tras Las Rejas
Voices Behind The Bars
El Guarijo Azul

Retazos
Retazos / Fragments

Sunday Anguish

Sunday Anguish

Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine

Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine

Life of Sisyphus – Part Eight

Yamil Dominguez

Injusticia notoria
Notorious Injustice

Justice for Rolando

Justice for Rolando

My New Beginning

My New Beginning

Total Injustice

Jorge Luis García Pérez Antunez

Ni me callo, ni me voy
I Won't Shut Up, I'm Not Leaving

Gorki Águila: “The Castro Regime Wants To Mutate Into A Perfect Tyranny” / EFE – 14ymedio

Orlando Zapata Tamayo Civic Resistance Front Holds Congress in Havana / Cubanet, Arturo Rojas Rodriguez

Antonio Rodiles Arrives in Miami After Being Unable to Leave Cuba for 8 Months / 14ymedio

About 70 Ladies in White and Activists Arrested Sunday / 14ymedio

Estado de Sats… for our Spanish-speaking viewers

Katia Sonia

Kubasepia
KubaSepia (English)

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons/ Katia Sonia

Response to a Manipulation / Katia Sonia

Response to a Manipulation / Katia Sonia Martin

Jose Antonio Garcia

Indocubanos
IndoCubans

Henry Constantin

Reportes de viajes
Travel Reports

Pedro Luis

Fotos desde Cuba
Photos From Cuba

Cuban Activists Discuss the Diplomatic Normalization with the United States / 14ymedio

Photo of Cuban Cardinal: Jamie Ortega

Photo of Cuban Cardinal: Jamie Ortega

Castro to be Special Guest Today on Cuban TV

Fidel Appears on Cuban TV: PHOTOS

Ricardo Medina

Ombudsman Cuba
Ombudsman Cuba / English

2nd of November-Day of the Dead / Ricardo Medina

Our Lady of Mercy / Ricardo Medina

A Young Man’s Life Endangered Because of the Holidays

CUBA, Talitá’ cum – I speak to you / Ricardo Medina

CUBA, Talit’ cum – I speak to you / Ricardo Medina



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Cuba and the Enslaving System of Two Currencies / Yusnaby Perez

Internet for the Cuban Opposition is Possible / Yusnaby Perez

The Embargo / Yusnaby Perez

Cubans are Prohibited from Boarding Tourist Boats / Yusnaby Perez

Counterrevolutionary / Yusnaby Perez

Dora Leonor Mesa

Plapliplo lecciones
Plaplipol English

Two Cuban Activists Prohibited from Traveling to OAS Human Rights Meeting

Prague Happily Infects its Visitors / Dora Leonor Mesa

Missing People / Dora Leonor Mesa

Cuban Toy Thieves Knockout Three Kings Day / Dora Leonor Mesa

Cuban Toy Thieves Knockout Three Kings Day / Dora Leonor Mesa

Lilianne Ruíz

El Blog de Jeronimo
Lilianne's Blog Posts

Speaking of Human Rights Talks Between the US and Cuban Governments… / Lilianne Ruíz

The Virgin According to the Popes / Lilianne Ruíz

Coco Farinas Lost Consciousness Again / Lilianne Ruíz

Guillermo "Coco" Farinas; Hunger and Thirst Strike Continues / Lilianne Ruíz

“The opposition has not matured,” Laments Martha Beatriz Roque / 14ymedio, Lilianne Ruiz

HemosOido

Other Texts to Translate
Translating Cuba

Díaz-Canel: Killer of Illusions / Cubanet, Luis Cino Alvarez

Barbara’s Helplessness / Odalina Guerrero Lara, Cuban Law Association

The Day Cuba Changed #RosaMariaPaya #OswaldoPaya #AngelCarromero #AronModig / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

The Thankless Task of a Dauphin / Yoani Sanchez

Today, February 13, is Laura Pollan’s 64th Birthday / Mario Barroso

Guillermo Fariñas

Huelga de hambre
Hunger Strike

Guillermo Farinas Released But Will Not be Allowed to Leave Santa Clara in the Coming Days

The Controversy Over The Identity Of The Clandestinos Is Growing

Opposition Alliance Calls To Open An Inclusive National Dialog / 14ymedio

European Parliament’s “Fariñas Amendment” Never Existed / 14ymedio

Guillermo Fariñas Abandons His Hunger Strike / 14ymedio

IntraMuros

IntraMuros
IntraMuros (English)

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Poland’s Solidarity With Cuban Civil Society / Intramuros, Dagoberto Valdes

Poland’s Solidarity With Cuban Civil Society / Intramuros, Dagoberto Valdes

Eugenio Leal

Veritas
Veritas (English)

Claudia Cadelo

Octavo Cerco
Octavo Cerco English

My Videos of Wendy and Ignacio’s Wedding

Long Vacations and My First Story

Gimme Light

What More Could One Ask For?

Habits

Regina Coyula

Mala letra
Bad Handwriting

The Reclusive Poet / Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Regina Coyula

Cuba: Anatomy of Fear / Regina Coyula

Among the Lines / Regina Coyula

The Usefulness of the Tongue / Regina Coyula

Imperialism or Twitter Trolls: Who’s to Blame? / Regina Coyula

Laritza Diversent

Jurisconsulto de Cuba
Laritza's Laws

Stricter Rules For The Advancement And Protection Of Human Rights / Laritza Diversent

Laritza Diversent and Cubalex Begin Their Life In Exile

Broken Dreams / Cubalex

‘El Sexto’ Moved to a Criminal Prosecution Center / 14ymedio

Amnesty International Calls For “Urgent Action” to Support Cubalex /14ymedio, Miami

Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

La rosa descalza
Barefoot Rosa

Commemoration or Celebration? / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

Obama’s Visit / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

Same Hatred, Different Collar / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

Dreaming in Color / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

To Die of Hunger / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

Fernando Dámaso

Mermelada
Mermelada / Marmalade

Plowing the Sea? / Fernando Damaso

Customer Care / Fernando Damaso

Tales Along the Way / Fernando Damaso

Something to Think About / Fernando Damaso

Jose Marti, from Apostle to ‘Pret-A-Porter’ / Fernando Damaso

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Lunes de Post Revolution
Post Revolution Mondays

I Love You Not Despite But Precisely Because of the Tyranny / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Islands / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Being Saint Louis / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

A Conversation with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo / Regina Anavy

Ángel Santiesteban

Los Hijos Que Nadie Quiso
The Children Nobody Wanted

Angel Santiesteban’s Personal War

Cuban Writer Angel Santiesteban Receives the Vaclav Havel Award for Creative Dissent

When The Intellectuals Supported “The Terror Of Castrismo.” Seventeen Years After The “Message From Havana.”

The Book Fair: A Communist Vanity Project / Angel Santiesteban

The Rigor of Hell: Prisoners in Cuba / Ángel Santiesteban

Silvio Benítez Márquez

Desde la punta brava
From La Punta Brava

Silvio Benitez and the Dissidence

Permission is Granted to Add a Discussion in the Neighborhoods About the Petition to Modify the Actual Elections System

Permission is Granted to Add a Discussion in the Neighborhoods About the Petition to Modify the Actual Elections System / Silvio Benítez Márquez

Meeting to Spread the Initiative

Neighborhood Spokespeople Receive Answers to Citizen Demands

Ernesto Morales Licea

El pequeño hermano
The Little Brother

The (Naked) King of Little Havana / Ernesto Morales

The End

On the Steps of Nila: Bayley, Cortes and Mega TV

Man Convicted in Bayamao Child Prostitution Ring is on Hunger Strike

Cubans and the Lessons from Myanmar

Rebeca Monzo

Por el ojo de la aguja
Through the Eye of the Needle

The Bureaucracy Hinders the National Production of Masks

A Lost Gastronomic Legacy / Rebeca Monzo

100% Habanera

500th Anniversary of the City of Havana

500th Anniversary of the City "Nightmare" / Rebeca Monzo

Miguel Iturría Savón

Ancla Insular
Island Anchor

Francis Sánchez

Hombre en las nubes
Man in the Clouds

"Resisting For the Sake of Resisting Makes No Sense"

A Candle Lit by Assef and His Poetry / Francis Sanchez

All the Good Decimistas Write… Poetry? / Francis Sanchez

Depressed But Happy? / Francis Sanchez

Why Am I (Again) “in the clouds”? / Francis Sanchez

Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

Puertas Abiertas en Cuba
Open Doors in Cuba

Enrique Colina: Utopian Obstinacy Turns Dreams into a Nightmare / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

A Heartfelt Loss / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

USA Commemorates the Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

All Rights for All Families / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

South Africa Reports Alarming Increase in HIV among Adolescents / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

Iván García

La Carpeta de Iván
Iván's File Cabinet

Cooking Gas Is Also Lacking In Cuba

Crony Capitalism in Cuba

Testimony of Lazaro Yuri Valle Roca Currently Being Held at Combinado del Este Prison / Ivan Garcia

The Ordeal of Cuban Dissidents / Ivan Garcia

Shipments to Cuba to be Paid for in Miami

Miriam Celaya

Sin Evasion
Without Evasion

Latin America: Peace in the Abstract

Transition, Cuban Style / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya

Millionaire Guerrillas and Angelic Drug Traffickers / Miriam Celaya

Preliminary Weighing of an Announced Succession / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya

Corruption, the End of Impunity and the Latin American Political Street Gangs

Juan Juan Almeida

La voz del Morro
The Voice of El Morro

Secret Video Shows the Deterioration of Castro Enclave ‘Punto Cero’* / Juan Juan Almeida

Details of ‘Operation Hatuey,’ a Plan by Castro’s High Ranking Officials, Are Revealed / Juan Juan Almeida

Cuban Regime Expropriates My Sister’s House, But Celebrates My Father’s Birthday / Juan Juan Almeida

Bringing Fidel Castro Back From the Dead in Havana / Juan Juan Almeida

Raul Castro Reappears after Reports of Illness Are Leaked / Juan Juan Almeida