Viewing from April 2013
U.S. Bars Raúl Castro’s Daughter From a Forum
News from Cuba | Friday, 26 April 2013
The State Department denied the daughter of President Raúl Castro of Cuba permission to attend a gay rights conference in Philadelphia, where she was to receive an award next week.The president’s daughter, Mariela Castro, director of Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, is currently attending United Nations meetings in New ... read more
Cuban official says parliament to return to historic Capitol building after 5 decades
News from Cuba | Friday, 26 April 2013
Original story from Associated PressHavana’s Capitol building will play host to Cuba’s parliament for the first time since 1959, when it came to be seen as a symbol of the old regime thrown out of power that year by Fidel Castro’s revolution.City Historian Eusebio Leal, whose office has been overseeing ... read more
Cuba Policy: Fruitless, Mean and Cruel
Campaign News | Friday, 26 April 2013
In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials have compiled a spectacular record of failure, overshadowed only by the determination to persist in their pursuit of wrongheaded polices, further damaging U.S. interests.In the 1990s, Washington began to define terrorism ... read more
Cuba languishes on terror list for no good reason
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 17 April 2013
from The Chronicle HeraldIn some ways, the U.S.-Cuba relationship, even under the presidency of Barack Obama, is still locked in a Cold War time-warp.For a host of illogical reasons, including Havana’s 2009 imprisonment of Alan Gross, a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development who acted illegally in the ... read more
Beyonce and Jay-Z getting unfair rap
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 16 April 2013
By DeWayne Wickham for USA TodayHere’s the ugly truth about the flap over the recent trip to Cuba by Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The whining of three Cuban-American lawmakers has little to do with keeping American dollars out of the coffers of Cuba’s communist government and a lot to do with ... read more
René González allowed to return home for his father's funeral
News from Cuba | Saturday, 13 April 2013
Rene Gonzalez has been granted permission to visit Cuba to attend his father's memorial service.Judge Joan Lenard approved the request on 12 April, but has imposed several requirements on Rene Gonzalez, who finished his US prison sentence in October 2011 but remains on probation. Gonzalez's 82-year-old father Candido, died 1 ... read more
British parliamentarians call on John Kerry to grant visitation rights to wives of Miami Five
Campaign News | Thursday, 11 April 2013
Seventy-one British parliamentarians have written to US Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to grant visas to allow two Cuban women, Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, to visit their husbands in the United States.Gerardo Hernandez, imprisoned in U.S.P. Victorville, and Rene Gonzalez, on supervised release in Florida, are two ... read more
Trademark theft is part of blockade policy
News from Cuba | Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Cuban Mission at the the United Nations has issued a press release condemning the decision of a US court to award the prestigious "Cohiba" cigar trademark to a US company.The release reads:TRADEMARKS THEFT AS PART OF THE BLOCKADE POLICY IMPOSED ON CUBAThe economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed on ... read more
Hard times behind fall in heart disease and diabetes in 90s Cuba, says study
Campaign News | Tuesday, 9 April 2013
By Sarah Boseley, Guardian health editorThe hard times experienced by the people of Cuba in the early 1990s - when food was short and petrol almost unobtainable owing to the tightening of the US embargo and loss of Russian support - led to falling rates of heart disease and diabetes, ... read more
Hard times behind fall in heart disease and diabetes in 90s Cuba, says study
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 9 April 2013
By Sarah Boseley, Guardian health editorThe hard times experienced by the people of Cuba in the early 1990s - when food was short and petrol almost unobtainable owing to the tightening of the US embargo and loss of Russian support - led to falling rates of heart disease and diabetes, ... read more
NUT welcome Cuban teacher to annual conference
Campaign News | Sunday, 7 April 2013
Over eighty delegates attended the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign fringe meeting, chaired by NUT International Officer Dave Harvey, at the 2015 National Union of Teachers (NUT) Conference in Harrogate.Gertrudis Simon Pineda, from the SNTECD (National Union of Education, Science and Sport workers in Cuba), spoke of the ... read more
