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EE UU deporta a una cubana que llevaba cinco años en el país Nace ‘Bookish and Co.’, una revista literaria cubana con vocación universal México propone emplear a migrantes, entre ellos cubanos, en obras como la del Tren Maya Cada semana muere un cubano en su lugar de trabajo, además de haber 18 lesionados Encarcelada hace más de dos años y juzgada hace cinco meses, no le ha llegado aún la sentencia En los pésames del régimen cubano por la muerte del papa Francisco solo faltó el de Raúl Castro “El último clavo en el ataúd” del privilegio cubano, según la Junta Editorial del ‘Miami Herald’ El incendio en Pinar del Río suma siete focos y 460 hectáreas de bosque destruidas Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, las inversiones estatales en energía superan a las del turismo Un tribunal de EE UU condena a Expedia a pagar 29,8 millones en aplicación de la Helms-Burton Derroche de luz en Casalinda, la nueva tienda en dólares de La Habana, donde estuvo el Ten Cents El asesino de Yunisleidy López intentó ocultar su feminicidio denunciando su desaparición Las piscinas Baraguá, una “instalación de primer nivel mundial” cuyo techo se cae a pedazos La hija de González Urrutia exige fe de vida de su esposo 90 días después de su detención La luz de Shakespeare brilla en un teatro habanero, en medio de los apagones Llega a España el goleador cubano de futsal Maykol Girón El filme español ‘Mariposas negras’ abre en Cuba el festival de cine Isla Verde Vuelve el grupo de Telegram a la gasolinera Tángana después de las denuncias de corrupción ‘Hacer país’, la exposición que revive la memoria del fundador vasco de Havana Club Con la tarjeta Clásica de Gaesa se podrá comprar autos y otras importaciones en dólares EE UU deniega el permiso de viaje a Cuba a una banda estudiantil de jazz La Policía confisca los alimentos que la Unpacu entrega a las familias vulnerables en Santiago de Cuba La madre de Damir vuelve a acusar a la Salud cubana de darle un “falso diagnóstico” De 24 a 120 pesos por dólar, la nueva tasa de cambio autorizada para los salarios en Mariel Libros de marzo: psicoterapia a la cubana y un barrio español en la corte de Fidel Castro El canciller cubano da lecciones a Estados Unidos sobre el trato a migrantes En Cuba, los delfines ya no dan espectáculos Los comercios privados cierran en el barrio habanero de Luyanó por temor a los inspectores El sistema de Salud cubano se atribuye el mérito de la mejora de Damir en Miami A Colombia le interesa “abrirse” al programa alfabetizador de Fidel Castro Hasta 15 años de cárcel por traficar droga dentro de una prisión de Cienfuegos Un ‘hackeo’ en Uruguay expone miles de datos de solicitantes de visa, la mayoría de cubanos Promesas utópicas y ayuda internacional para el plan del Gobierno cubano contra el cambio climático Con el carné del Partido Comunista de Cuba y en busca del pasaporte estadounidense ‘Visitas’ de Inmigración a negocios latinos en EEUU espanta a trabajadores y compradores Después de diez años, vuelve a Madrid Néstor Díaz de Villegas con sus ‘Poemas inmorales’ El ron, el humo y el dragón Hasta 10 años de cárcel en un juicio ejemplarizante en Sancti Spíritus por traficar ‘químico’ Los datos oficiales del turismo en Cuba confirman la huida de canadienses y rusos Calculadora en mano, los clientes comparan los precios entre tiendas estatales en dólares y pymes en pesos Pinar del Río pierde 300 hectáreas de bosque en dos días por un incendio Después de la cura de caballo que apagó la voz de Radio Martí La Policía libera a Leonardo Romero Negrín, con una “mano destrozada” por una golpiza China defiende las misiones médicas cubanas y critica a EE UU por tildarlas de “trabajos forzosos” Cuba y México discrepan sobre la presencia de un buque de la Armada de EE UU	With So Much Trash To Collect in Havana, No Street Sweeper Can Handle It ‘El Químico’ Is No Longer Just for Poor People in Cuba Prisoners Defenders Records 1,152 Political Prisoners in Cuban Jails in March The Intangible Damages of Castroism Berta Soler and Ángel Moya Denounce the Access of State Security to Their Mobile Phones The Sun of Austerlitz Businessman Mike Fernández Questions the Silence of Cuban-American Leaders About Trump’s Immigration Policy Mario Vargas Llosa, an Essential and Vital Writer Another Day With Long Blackouts in Cuba: “It Was the Lord’s Turn To Rise From the Darkness” The Conspirators The first 100 days of Maduro’s Controversial Third Term, in Eight Points New Revelations About Cuban Interference in Venezuela Official Data on the Average Cuban Salary Hide a Huge Decline in Purchasing Power The Long-Awaited Official Record of Gender-Based Violence in Cuba Will Not Be Made Public ‘Che’ Guevara Was Not at the Bay of Pigs and Nor Was Kennedy Mexican Immigration Rescues Nine Cuban Women Who Were Working as Prostitutes in a Bar Cuban Child Damir Ortiz Dies After Several Weeks of Treatment in Miami A Cuban Boy, Damir Ortiz Ramírez, Is Air-Lifted to U.S. for Medical Treatment Cuban Repressor Arrested in Miami for Attacking Protesters on 11 July 2021 Las Tunas Teacher is Murdered by Her Partner in the Street French President Macron on Varga Llosa: ‘His Work Stood for Freedom Over Fanatacism’ A Free Hand for Repression in Cuba Cuban Authorities Heed Social Media and Fire a Battering Employee “In Cuban Hospitals, if You Don’t Donate Blood They Won’t Operate on You” ‘We Will Continue To Deport,’ Trump’s Spokeswoman Replies Baseball in Our Country, a Symbol of Cuba’s National Identity Despite the Court Decision in Favor of the ‘Parole’ Beneficiaries the Offensive To Deport Them Continues A Judge Suspends Deportation of Thousands of Cubans and Other ‘Parole’ Beneficiaries To Rob Warehouses Criminals in Cuba Take Advantage of the Indolence of the Guards Mario Vargas Llosa and Cuba US Embassy Chief in Havana Escorts Ladies in White to Attend Mass The Judge Judged Chile Votes To Grant Citizenship to Blind Cuban Swimmer Yunerki Ortega ‘Crónicas del absurdo’ by Cuban Filmmaker Miguel Coyula Wins Another Award in Argentina Add Some Sauce, but Without Lime, It’s Very Expensive The US Deports to Cuba the Former Judge Detained in Miami for Lying About Her Affiliation With the Communist Party of Cuba Vietnam Donates 10,000 Tons of Rice to Cuba Cuban Singer ‘Ovi’ is Willing to Pay $5 Million for Residency in the US “Although No One Wants to Say It Out Loud, Child Labor Exists in Las Tunas” Former Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado Affirms that Radio Martí is Still ‘Indispensable to the Cuban People’
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	Cuba: observatorios y organizaciones independientes comparten preocupación por el agravamiento de la crisis humanitaria tras el colapso energético  Leticia Cué Nápoles, ex presa política, detenida arbitrariamente por la Seguridad del Estado en Camagüey   Preso político Jaime Firdó Rodríguez, castigado por exigir atención médica Tribunal impone nuevas restricciones al preso político Félix Navarro Rodríguez ¿Por qué una opinión experta puede marcar la diferencia en tu solicitud de asilo?	Cuba: Inmate Dies in Melena Del Sur Prison Due to Lack of Medical Care / Cubalex Concern Over Possible Suspension of Release Process for Political Prisoners in Cuba / Cubalex Yunaikis de la Caridad Linares, 11J Prisoner, Faces Isolation and Threats in Havana Prison Cuban Political Prisoner Pedro Albert Sánchez on Hunger Strike in Havana / Cubalex We Denounce the Increasing Repression of Independent Journalists in Cuba / 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
Iván García La Carpeta de Iván Iván's File Cabinet	Cuba, menos maestros y más adoctrinamiento en las escuelas Cuba: corrupción, violencia y cacería de brujas Cuando ser homosexual era un delito en Cuba París 2024, el peor desempeño del deporte cubano Cruzada contra los negocios privados privados en Cuba	Public Health Collapses in Cuba / Iván García How Do the Cubans Live Who Don’t Receive Any Dollars? / Iván García The Private Sector in Cuba Up Against the Wall / Iván García Cuba, Fewer Teachers and More Indoctrination in Schools / Iván García Cooking Gas Is Also Lacking In Cuba
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
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		The Expulsion of Writer Ángel Santiesteban Opens a New Crisis in Cuban Masonry 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.”
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
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