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14yMedio 14yMedio 14yMedio	Despiden de la universidad de La Habana a la antropóloga Jenny Pantoja, cercana a Alina Bárbara López Hernández Trabajar en una ‘mipyme’ mientras esperan el ‘parole’, el destino de los recién graduados en Cuba Unos 50 académicos exigen a LASA que condene la represión en Cuba por el caso de Alina Bárbara López La ayuda de Japón a Cuba: material sanitario, guaguas y ahora apoyo a la agricultura En Cuba 95 personas murieron por culpa de las autoridades en los últimos cinco años ‘Cubadebate’ se apunta a la campaña de desinformación sobre las elecciones en Venezuela Con la pérdida del 50% de sus ingresos en divisas, el “sistema cubano” ha colapsado Una mujer muere sepultada por los escombros tras chocar un ómnibus con una vivienda en Santiago de Cuba Muere el artista gráfico Víctor Alfonso Cedeño, creador del personaje animado ‘Yesapín García’ “¡Son unos estafadores!”, increpan los viajeros cubanos a Wingo por exigir visa de visitante a Colombia El ejemplo que María Corina da El limón criollo, otro desaparecido en las mesas cubanas El PCC admite que “falta mucho por hacer en la producción de alimentos” Producción de alimentos y corrupción, los protagonistas del VIII pleno del Partido Comunista de Cuba Convocatoria: Seminario virtual sobre Derechos Humanos en Cuba “¿Te gustaría visitar Cuba con total libertad?” La prensa oficial publica detalles de un robo en un central de Artemisa el año pasado La “mecánica popular” de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez entre los libros cubanos en junio Muere en La Habana el actor Carlos Massola, crítico con el régimen cubano Disminuyen los accidentes de tránsito en Cuba pese al deterioro de las carreteras Cuatro detenidas por estafar casi un millón de pesos en compraventa de divisas en Cuba El legado del poeta cubano Severo Sarduy llega a la Caja de las Letras del Instituto Cervantes de Madrid La escasez de agua saca a los habaneros a las calles, con varias protestas en una semana La carestía de la vida en Cuba y la justicia social En Cienfuegos, un Festival de Música deslucido y un reguetonero que se lleva todo el público Titivillus in culpa est Los paquetes turísticos para viajeros con autismo, un “insulto” para los pacientes cubanos Una flotilla petrolera rumbo a Cuba: diésel italiano, crudo ruso, venezolano y mexicano Se puede perder la ciudadanía cubana por actos contra el régimen, pero no por ser mercenario de Rusia Las remesas aumentaron un 7,7% hacia América Latina y el Caribe, principalmente a migrantes en tránsito El asesinato de una mujer en Holguín es el quinto feminicidio perpetrado en Cuba durante junio Un derrumbe afecta al emblemático Edificio Manzanares de La Habana La rotura de una tubería por un “disparo eléctrico” deja sin agua a gran parte de La Habana Liberadas y sometidas a una revisión médica las dos intelectuales detenidas por la policía política en Matanzas Apenas tres años de prisión a un agente de la policía política por abusar de una niña Confirman dos nuevos feminicidios en Cuba, uno en Pinar del Río y el otro en La Habana Una madre de 34 años es asesinada a puñaladas por su pareja en Bejucal Con casi un 40% de aumento en un año, el transporte encabeza la inflación en Cuba La morriña de los tronados ¡Viva Fielding! Adidas vuelve a vestir al deporte en Cuba, una relación simbólica e histórica El Ministerio de Justicia anula la expulsión del Gran Maestro y reactiva la crisis de la masonería cubana Los poetas oficialistas copan el festival de Matanzas y lo convierten en un acto propalestino Una ex fiscal que consiguió penas de cárcel para manifestantes del 11J pide el ‘parole’ humanitario a EE UU La combatividad de nuestros adolescentes en la Finca de los Monos Más de 70 presos comunes extranjeros en Cuba, en huelga de hambre por los malos tratos	A Group of Cubans Protest in Miami Against a Billboard That Compares Trump to Fidel Castro The Children Are Baptized and One Week Later They Leave, Complains the Catholic Church in Cuba Sancti Spíritus Authorities Ramp Up the Pressure To Fill the Seats for the July 26 Ceremonies The Cuban Church Denounces at Least 50 Robberies in Catholic Temples Since March With a Director Trained in Moscow, the Office of the Historian Has Russians in Its Blood Voting With Your Feet, Emigration as a Gesture of Rejection of the Cuban Model Cuban Writer Says He Now Has a More Poetic View of Life Health and Education Workers Are Among the Lowest Paid in Cuba The Innocence of the Cuban Deputies Cuba Is Experiencing a ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ and Is Approaching ‘Implosion’ According to Demographer Albizu-Campos ‘In Cuba, the Only Ones Left Are Those Without Family, Without Resources and Without Possibilities’ Independent Journalist Carlos Michel Morales Is Sentenced to Eight Months of House Arrest Chinese Rice and Venezuelan Sardines Are in the ‘Gift’ Module To Be Distributed in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, on July 26 Authorities Report Several Breakdowns in the Hydraulic Network, and Havana Has Been Without Water for Weeks Cuba’s General Controller Is Dismissed, and a Hard Hand Is Requested Against ‘The Scoundrels and the Bums’ The Regime Acknowledges That Cuba Has Fewer Than 10 million Inhabitants The Cuban Parliament Approves Migration, Citizenship and Immigration Laws Marrero Blames Private Businesses for the State Deficit and Praises Forced Sales for Violations of Capped Prices ’11J’ Prisoner Carlos Michael Morales Terminates His Hunger Strike After Receiving a Trial Date The Revolt of the Black Beans in Cuba Thirteen Employees Are Prosecuted for Embezzling 21 Million Pesos From Cuba’s Electric Union Company The Cuban Regime, a Colossus with Feet of Clay Cuban Regime Presents the Jet Ski ‘Terrorist’ To Distract Cubans From the Crisis Committed Diplomacy Award for Switzerland’s Ambassador to Cuba on ’11J’ A 60-Year-Old Man Dies in the Collapse of a Building in Guanabacoa, Cuba Cubans Will Have To Wait Until 2025 for the Access to Information Law To Come Into Force ATMs in Cienfuegos “Die” at Any Time of the Day Tin Can Carpets Are Back on the Streets of Havana The Economic Debacle of Cienfuegos, Cuba, Abandoned by International Tourism ‘Some Cars That Are Incompatible With Our Society Are Entering Cuba’ A Cuban Mother Is Murdered by Her Husband of 30 Years One of the Few Hearses Still in Operation in Cuba Crashes Cuban Activist Angélica Garrido Is Released After Serving Three Years in Prison for 11J Protests ‘Castro, Do You Know These Children?’ The Cry of the Relatives of the ‘13 de Marzo’ Tugboat Victims The Day Fidel Castro Admitted the Assault on the Moncada Barracks Was a Flop Mexico Hires Another 2,700 Cuban Doctors, in Addition to the 1,200 Previously Agreed On Food Production in Cuba Is Going Through Its Worst Moments Cuba’s Attorney General Is Congratulated for Compliance With ‘the Policy of Severity’ Cuban Mercenaries Against Ukraine: Why Doesn’t the European Union Act? A Boy Asking for Money at the Entrance to an Ice Cream Parlor Is the New Face of 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
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	¿Cómo proteger los derechos de un familiar en prisión? La muerte de Ernesto Figueredo y la urgente demanda de una investigación exhaustiva  Reglas Mandela y su aplicación en el sistema penitenciario cubano A tres años del 11J más de 600 personas permanecen privadas de libertad por protestar pacíficamente en Cuba Preguntas sobre el Proyecto de Ley de Migración en Cuba	The Prosecution: The Case of Sulmira Martínez Pérez / CUBALEX Human Rights in Crisis and the Closure of Civic Space in Cuba / CUBALEX 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
Luis Felipe Rojas Cruzar las alambradas Crossing the Barbed Wire	Volver al blog Hambrientos y con el culo mojao Hambrientos y con el culo mojao El escritor, en su cubil El escritor, en su cubil	‘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
Jeovany Jimenez Vega Ciudadano Cero Citizen Zero		New Crisis of Castroism: Old Dust, New Mud / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Attack on Bukele, Donald Trump’s Olympic Gaffe / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Is a Fraudulent Change Brewing Up in Cuba? / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Proposal for Introduction of Decree Law 35 / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Economic Disorder, Castroism’s Vocation / Jeovany Jimenez 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
HELP TRANSLATE THE MININT "CYBER" VIDEO		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		Mexicans Flee From the Cuban Abdala Vaccine and Line Up for the Pfizer 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
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