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Ser Mujer Negra en Cuba 8/27/2010 Negra Cubana
A Trip to Prison With One of the Cuban Five - Visiting Gerardo 8/19/2010 Counterpunch: By DANNY GLOVER and SAUL LANDAU
En la voz de Gloria Rolando 8/19/2010 Trabajadores: "El próximo miércoles 11 de agosto en el cine 23 y 12 será la premier del primero de los tres capítulos de la serie documental de Gloria Rolando sobre el Partido de los Independientes de Color. El día 12 estará en los cines Yara, Acapulco y en las principales salas de provincia
Dice Gloria Rolando que este documental es un material didáctico. 1912: Voces para un silencio se trata de una revisión histórica, una aproximación al Partido de los Independientes de Color que nació, así explica, de su afición por regresar a las raíces, por rescatar un hecho en el que los cubanos fueron víctimas y victimarios."
The U.S. needs to take steps for change alongside Cuba 8/18/2010 Progreso Weekly: by Wayne Smith, former head of the US Interests Section in Havana.
Alerta roja contra la corrupción - Patricia Grogg entrevista al politólogo ESTEBAN MORALES 8/17/2010 IPS: "IPS: Usted es muy conocido por temas sobre Estados Unidos, las relaciones de Cuba con ese país y el racismo. ¿Qué lo llevó a escribir sobre la corrupción, un asunto que, según sectores oficialistas, alimenta "campañas de desprestigio" contra el país si se ventila públicamente?
EM: Escribí esos artículos porque creo que son los peligros de ahora. Y tengo un lema: en medio de la situación que hemos vivido estos años, creo que quien quiera ser revolucionario tiene que tener su propia guerra, librar sus propias batallas y correr los riesgos que sean. En caso contrario, que se quede en su casa, bajo la cama.
Eso de que el enemigo va a aprovechar las cosas tampoco me inmoviliza, porque el enemigo no nos va a resolver el problema, sino al contrario. Soy de los que piensa que a veces es más saludable que seamos nosotros mismos quienes reconozcamos nuestras deficiencias a que sea el enemigo quien nos las lance luego a la cara, o nos las guarde, que es peor."
Danny Glover’s Solidarity Gesture towards Gerardo Hernández 8/17/2010 Lebanese Committee for the Cuban 5: "Cuban antiterrorist fighter Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, unjustly imprisoned in US jails for over a decade, valued the solidarity gesture of the well known US actor Danny Glover, who visited him last Sunday at the federal prison of Victorville, in the state of California."
Documental histórico sobre problema racial en Cuba 8/16/2010 CubaNow: "Una revelación del material, digna de tomar en cuenta, es la referencia a la primera agrupación negra en el siglo XIX, intitulada Directorio central de la raza de color, en la que aparecen, gracias a un valioso testimonio gráfico, personas de piel oscura vestidas a la moda."
Breaking the Silence 8/14/2010 Havana Times: "The premier of the documentary was a complete success and we await the public’s reaction in the cinemas. Surely it will make everyone consider the discrimination that still exists in our country, even though it doesn’t lead to such violence. The remaining chapters of 1912, Breaking the Silence are already eagerly awaited."
More Double Standards on Cuba - Gross Media Negligence 8/6/2010 Counterpunch: "Gross, arrested in Cuba last December, worked for a company paid by AID (part of the State Department), but used a tourist visa for five consecutive visits to disguise his intention: distribute forbidden satellite phones to government opponents. Several Jewish organizations already provide their Cuban brethren with modern communication technology. Most media failed to report that fact, which would have raised another obvious question: why did Gross distribute expensive satellite technology to a well-supplied community?
Jewish leaders in Havana interviewed by non-Cuban Juan Tamayo of the Miami Herald don’t remember meeting Alan Gross. Perhaps only dissident Jews got his goodies, those who don’t associate with the mainstream Jewish community! Ironically, as Hillary defended Gross' technology-sharing mission, U.S. Homeland Security seized computers bound for Cuba from U.S. religious groups also claiming desires to upgrade communication technology for non-Jewish religious groups."
Castro accuses US of torture in 'Cuban Five' case 7/30/2010 AP
The Alan Gross Case 7/30/2010 Counterpunch: "In late February, I asked three people at Havana’s largest synagogue; none knew an American named Gross. Adela Dworin, who speaks for the Jewish community in Havana, told a CBS correspondent she knew Gross. She said recognized international Jewish organizations had some time ago provided them with legal Internet connections.
Alan Gross had previously set up satellite communications systems to circumvent state-controlled channels in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like a bottom fish on the precarious food chain of subverting a foreign government, Gross got caught on a Cuban police hook. Cuba has not yet formally charged him although Cuban officials have said they “suspect him of espionage.”
Race in Cuba: The Eternal 'Black Problem' 7/27/2010 The Roots: "The painful truth is that, in Cuba, the vast majority of the prison population is black or mixed-race. The most physically ruined parts of the cities are those where most black and mixed-raced Cubans, weighed down by spiritual burdens and secular misery, have lived for generations. They are also the ones who, in the economic and social climbing of the last few decades, are least represented ... and let's not mention certain attitudes, repressive attitudes -- in other words, the attitude of the Cuban police, where blacks are mostly concentrated at the bottom of the pyramid -- that treat dark-skinned persons with much greater rigor ... precisely because of the color of their skin.
In its culture and idiosyncrasies, Cuba is a mestizo nation: a mix of spiritual and ethnic elements brought from Europe, Africa, China and neighboring Caribbean isles that contributed at a cellular level and can be seen on the skin, in the values and cultural expressions of Cubans. Cubanness is mestizaje. Nonetheless, the old prejudices live on in the minds of many people, while the social system, with its egalitarian laws, hasn't been able to liberate black people from the poorest margins of society. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, the definitive answer to this problem demands new and more dynamic policies that, unfortunately, mostly depend on an island bereft of economic possibilities for white, mulatto and black Cubans so in need of improvements in their real and everyday life."
De Cabinda a Cunene 7/27/2010 UNEAC: Libro que trata sobre la guerra en Angola. [Descargar el libro entero.]
Race in Cuba: Yes, Virginia, There Is Racism on the Island 7/26/2010 The Roots: "Because Cuba is a top-down society -- especially under Fidel Castro -- the new anti-racism codes rained down without explanation and, more importantly, without process. People understood that racism was no longer tolerated but not how they participated in racist structures, how they were affected by the legacy of racism and, least of all, how light-skinned Cubans -- especially on the island -- benefited from those legacies.
Because racism was banned and did not officially exist, where was the venue, the safe space, in which these things could be aired? If there was no racism by virtue of decree, didn't its mere mention in some way imply a revolutionary failure? Moreover, the lack of process meant that there was virtually no vocabulary -- particularly no revolutionary vocabulary -- with which to talk about racism in Cuba."
Freed Cuban prisoners search for life in Spain 7/25/2010 Sun Sentinel
Cuban capitalists must wait for change as Fidel Castro returns to the fray 7/24/2010 Telegraph, UK
Cuba: Ciencia y Racialidad 50 años después (I) 7/23/2010 Blog de Esteban Morales: "En este trabajo, que consta de varias partes, trataré de caracterizar sintéticamente la producción intelectual cubana sobre el tema racial en los últimos 50 años, refiriéndome específicamente a aquellas producciones científicas, que desde la ciencia, abordan este tema en la Cuba actual, en su connotación relativa a los estereotipos raciales negativos y los prejuicios raciales. Me referiré a obras producidas en Cuba por autores cubanos, aunque mencionaré otras aunque hayan sido producidas fuera de Cuba, ya sea por cubanos o extranjeros."
¿Mudos o protagonistas? 7/22/2010 BBC Mundo: "Sin lugar a dudas Esteban Morales se metió en un terreno en el que cosechará mucho odio en las alturas pero también el respeto de la mayor parte de sus compatriotas de a pie, no porque les haya revelado un secreto sino por el valor de publicarlo.
La escasa reacción entre los intelectuales comunistas a pesar de lo arbitrario de la sanción contra el profesor va a dar nuevos bríos a los "excomulgadores", sobre todo si creen que la medida sirve como acción preventiva para proteger sus intereses personales.
Pero también podría convertirse en un bumerán ya que coloca a los militantes e intelectuales ante la disyuntiva de regresar a la seguridad del silencio o convertirse en protagonistas en la construcción de una sociedad mejor, asumiendo todos los riesgos que eso implica."
Mainstream media omits context and key facts on Cuba 7/21/2010 Progreso: "The editorial also missed the fact that the United States holds more political prisoners in Cuba (Guantanamo Base) than the Cuban government does. Of the 181 remaining Guantanamo detainees, an Obama Task Force recommended 48 should be released since they have been cleared of criminal acts. Most of these people were kidnapped. No warrants were issued for their arrests. (July 9, Financial Times)
The U.S. government justified such “arrests”, post 9/11, because Americans felt under attack from terrorists. We should thus be able to empathize with Cubans who at least issued arrest warrants for people who secretly received money from Cuba's avowed enemy. Declassified CIA documents attest to thousands of CIA-backed terrorist raids against Cuba since the early 1960s. More Cubans died in these attacks than perished in the 9/11 horrors. Cuba also suffered substantial property damage from CIA-backed sabotage of factories and fields."
Response to Washington Post Editorial, “Cuba’s Gesture” 7/19/2010 COHA: "The Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee, Collin C. Peterson (D-MN) commented on the issue in a most intelligent manner when he said: “We have tried to isolate Cuba for more than fifty years, and it has not worked. As it has in other countries, perhaps increasing trade with Cuba will encourage democratic progress.”
Rather than brandishing the rancid thesis of damning every act by the Cuban government with a pinch of pepper moistened by brine, Washington would do well by taking the Cuban authorities at face value and, armed with cautious optimism, accept Cuba’s possibly-earnest gestures and, at least for a while, take them to heart."
Soul Searching: The Catholic Church and Human Rights in Cuba 7/19/2010 COHA
Clinton asks Jewish support to free worker in Cuba 7/13/2010 AP: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Jewish groups to join the campaign to persuade Cuba to release a U.S. government contractor detained on the communist island for seven months without charge.
Clinton told representatives of the American Jewish community that they should add their voices to calls for Cuba to release Alan P. Gross, a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor who was helping members of Cuba's small Jewish community use the Internet to stay in contact with each other and with similar groups abroad."
Cuban communist says Party shouldn't kick him out 7/13/2010 AP
Fidel Reiterates Threat of Nuclear Attacks on Iran and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea 7/13/2010 Periodico 26: "Rather than there is evidence of a sabotage bombing to give the U.S. and its military allies a pretext to attack the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. Fidel supported the arguments of the article "Beijing Suspects False Flag Attack on South Korean Corvette," in which the author, Wayne Madsen stated that "intelligence sources in Asia suspect that it was a false flag attack designed to appear as coming from North Korea," with the purpose of "put pressure on Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to make him change his policy on the withdrawal of the US Marine Corps base from Okinawa."
Cuba frees 7 political prisoners into exile 7/12/2010 AP: "Cuba freed seven political prisoners on Monday and sent them and their families to exile in Spain — the start of a promised mass liberation of dissidents that once seemed unthinkable." [The dissidents were jailed on charges similar to those made against the Russian 'spies' in the US.]
In Havana's Chinatown, rare droplets of freedom 7/12/2010 AP: "After the Soviet economic lifeline died and officials turned to developing tourism, they sought to make Cuba's Chinese culture an attraction. The state began allowing Chinese associations and social clubs to operate freely, and that freedom is felt along Calle Cuchillo — Knife Street — a pedestrian alley in the heart of Chinatown lined with Chinese restaurants."
El misterio de la Santísima Trinidad 7/12/2010 Kaos en la Red: de Esteban Morales - "Pero los verdaderos corruptos no son los que venden leche en polvo, ni siquiera los que venden bienes duraderos a las mismas puertas de los supermercados, sino los que desde sus cargos en el gobierno y en el estado, controlan y abren los almacenes.
Son esos, los que debemos remover de los cargos estatales, pues son los que de verdad manejan los recursos del estado y las posiciones cómodas, que a veces les facilitan a sus amigos. ¿O de donde salen los colchones, televisores, aires acondicionados y otros productos duraderos, que se vocean y venden a las mismas puertas de las “shoppings”?, ¿de donde salen esos productos, duraderos? Se trata del propio funcionario estatal corrompiendo hacia abajo. Porque nadie importa esos productos, ni compra la leche en polvo en el exterior, ni disfruta del poder como ellos, de abrirles los almacenes a los delincuentes."
Both Frail and Feisty, Fidel Castro Goes on TV 7/12/2010 NYT: "In one of his first public appearances since falling ill four years ago, a frail-looking Fidel Castro went on Cuban television on Monday night and warned in a near whisper that the United States was increasing the chances of nuclear war in the Korean Peninsula and Iran."
Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television and radio 7/12/2010 Reuters
Where Corruption Begins 7/10/2010 Havana Times: by Erasmo Calzadilla "However Morales, without perceiving it, wanders past another deeper cause of the corruption when he asserts that corrupt bureaucrats can do more harm, because they are “within the government and the state apparatus, which really manage the domestic resources.”
Didn’t it occur to the professor to wonder what an official is doing —be they honest or corrupt— managing “domestic” resources without being under the direct control of those who produce these resources? Corruption didn’t begin the moment the manager misappropriated wealth, but a little before, when surplus value was expropriated from the workers and a law protected that act."
COHA is formulating a series of analyses of the breaking news from Havana that Cuba is in the process of releasing 52 political prisoners 7/8/2010 COHA
DECLARACIÓN DE LA RED DE MUJERES AFROLATINOAMERICANAS, AFROCARIBEÑA Y DE LA DIÁSPORA 7/8/2010 Negra Cubana
Cuba Communists want member expelled for essay 7/6/2010 AP
Cuba Communists want member expelled for essay 7/6/2010 AP: "Esteban Morales, a historian who has long written on race and relations with the United States, was ordered removed by a party committee in Havana's Playa district, said Pedro Campos, a former Cuban diplomat who once worked as a researcher under Morales at the University of Havana's Center for the Study of the United States. But grass-roots party members in Playa said they considered the committee's action too harsh and rejected it, and Morales said he would appeal the sanctions, according to Campos.
Neither the party nor Morales have commented on the case, and it was unclear if Morales has been formally removed from the party yet."
Militantes comunistas cubanos defienden académico 7/6/2010 El Paso Times: "Morales no hizo comentarios públicos sobre la decisión del Partido y la polémica desatada en torno a él, pero en abril el texto fue retirado de la página un día después de haber sido publicado y el propio experto antes invitado asiduamente como columnista y analista no apareció más en la televisión."
Corrupción en las altas esferas del poder de la isla 7/4/2010 Clarín, Argentina: "Cuba está viviendo una dura lucha interna dentro de los estamentos de poder entre intelectuales que denuncian graves casos de corrupción y funcionarios que intentan mantener a toda costa un sistema del que se están favoreciendo personalmente con enormes cantidades de dólares… El caso Morales ya inunda los blogs en Internet, particularmente los leídos por los funcionarios cubanos y los disidentes “socialistas”. En cambio, tuvo menos repercusión entre los exiliados en Miami."
Contratista de USAID atacado en Afganistán operó en Cuba y Venezuela 7/3/2010 CubaDebate: "Un edificio ocupado por la empresa Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), contratista de la USAID, fue atacado con explosivos en Afganistán, resultando en la muerte de cuatro personas y 20 heridos."
Cuban communist party expels intellectual for exposing corruption 7/2/2010 Guardian, UK: "To publish an attack on high-level corruption on a state-controlled website was fairly amazing," said one European diplomat.
Rumours of a corruption scandal involving Havana airport have been circulating for months. Rogelio Acevedo, the civil aviation minister, and Jorge Luis Sierra Cruz, the transport minister, have been fired. In addition to this, dozens of airport employees have been arrested, amid claims that state aircraft were used for private gain."
Cuba’s Battle of Ideas 7/1/2010 Havana Times: "The statements of Alfredo Guevara, Silvio Rodriguez, Esteban Morales, Pedro Campos and many other intellectuals exhibit a fundamental political and psychological shift: for the first time in a half century, revolutionary Cubans are openly expressing their criticism without feeling that by doing so they are “collaborating with the enemy.”
The debate is coming out of the Revolution’s “own channels” and the disappearance of the sacrosanct unanimity has not caused chaos nor broken the country’s unity. To the contrary, if it continues to widen, it could mark the first steps toward a true “battles of ideas” over the future of the nation."
Esteban Morales supuestamente expulsado del partido comunista 6/29/2010 CubaNet: "Según las fuentes, el Doctor Esteban Morales, fue expulsado de la organización por órdenes del más alto nivel. Los miembros del comité comunista de su centro de investigaciones, que hicieron resistencia al mandato, también fueron sancionados, aunque a penas menores. Morales es un destacado panelista sobre temas norteamericanos en la Mesa Redonda de la televisión cubana."
Esteban Morales Booted from Cuba’s Communist Party 6/28/2010 Havana Times: by Pedro Campos, former Cuban diplomat - "Esteban Morales, PhD., has been “separated from the ranks” of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) for his publication of an article denouncing what he considers the counter-revolutionary corruption and bureaucracy that exists in the country. The Playa Municipal Committee of the PCC communicated its decision to the grassroots level of the Party."
Cuba Needs Dialogue without Sectarianism 6/27/2010 Havana Times: "Recently, after he published an article warning of the danger posed by State corruption to the Revolution, the noted revolutionary communist and intellectual Dr. Esteban Morales —a black man who is perhaps our most accomplished specialist in US affairs— disappeared from the Mesa Redonda [“The Round Table,” a daily evening news commentary program shown on almost all channels in Cuba]. He had traditionally participated on that program when issues related to the US were dealt with. In that same vein, Party activists have also been fired from their jobs or had their e-mail addresses and accounts withdrawn for spreading ideas about participative socialism. Other acts of harassment to which people have been subjected, I prefer not to disclose here, for many reasons."
Cuba: El carnet se fue con los sancionadores, la militancia comunista se quedó con Esteban 6/27/2010 Kaos en la Red: "Si esta sanción burocrática no es prontamente rectificada se estarían mandando mensajes muy confusos a la militancia, al pueblo, a la izquierda internacional."
Antonio Maceo entre nosotros 6/25/2010 Jiribilla
Heinz Dieterich = Fetichismo = Pedro Campos 6/24/2010 Caos en la Red
SOLILOQUIO: Maceo o Martí 6/16/2010 Negra Cubana tenía que ser: "Primero, que si Maceo o Martí, cuál de los dos había aportado más a la independencia de Cuba. Un hombre, que se retiró luego de formar el acabose, dijo que el segundo había sido tan solo un periodista y poeta. El auditorio casi hirvió.
Segundo, que si el panel debió hacer mayor énfasis en el pensamiento antirracista de Antonio, recomendación que celebro, la verdad."
“Raza y Racismo” hace su debate desde la Casa del Caribe 6/15/2010 Casa del Caribe: "El destacado académico cubano de las ciencias sociales, doctor Fernando Martínez Heredia, presentó este viernes en la Casa del Caribe el libro “Raza y Racismo”, una compilación de artículos publicados en un segundo volumen de “Antología de Caminos” en alusión a Revista del Centro Martín Luther King especializada en pensamiento sociológico. El primer volumen recoge los primos cuarenta números de la referida publicación.
El libro consta de cuatro partes o capítulos: Pensamiento y Sociedad, donde aparecen artículos como “La cuestión racial en Cuba”, del propio Martínez Heredia, y “Aportes culturales y desculturación”, de Manuel Moreno Fraginals, así como valiosos trabajos sobre el tema de Fernando Ortiz, Walterio Carbonell, Ana Cairo, Esteban Morales y Yusimí Rodríguez, entre otros."
Moore, certero 6/15/2010 Posracialidad, CIR: por Manuel Cuesta Morúa - "De un hombre así Granma habla mal; pero lo hace mal. ¿Y Por qué lo ataca? Pues porque el compatriota Moore acaba de romper, casi simultáneamente, el monopolio que el gobierno cubano conservaba más o menos intacto, hasta el 1 de diciembre de 2009, sobre aquellos tres pivotes fundamentales en las Américas: los afrobrasileños, los afrocaribeños y los afronorteamericanos. Hasta esa fecha, podría decirse que estos importantes sectores tenían una visión compacta en torno a una imagen tópica: Cuba como cierta Isla de Tule con una obra social inigualable destinada, primorosamente, a los negros, mestizos y pobres en Cuba."
Esteban Morales niega sanciones por su artículo sobre la corrupción 6/8/2010 Diario de Cuba: "Morales, investigador del Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, de la Universidad de La Habana, calificó de "fallidas" las informaciones que circulan en medios académicos y disidentes sobre una supuesta sanción en el seno del Partido Comunista.
Sin embargo, el profesor admitió a DIARIO DE CUBA que, tras publicarse el artículo, hubo varios "análisis y discusiones", que no detalló.
Otras fuentes consultadas por este periódico indicaron que era lógico que Morales negara la existencia de la sanción, "porque eso sólo complicaría su débil situación actual"."
Cuban Five - The Federal Government Paid Journalists to Sabotage Trial 6/4/2010 Counterpunch
The empire and lies by Fidel Castro 6/4/2010 Granma
Cuban court throws out jail sentence for dissident 5/15/2010 Caribbean Net News
USAID invierte más de $2.3 millones en propaganda
contra Cuba por Internet 5/15/2010 Jiribilla
The fight against racism in Cuba goes viral 5/14/2010 The Grio: "Henry Gomez, a White Cuban living in Florida, noticed that some of the most outspoken voices against racism in Cuba are bloggers. So he founded Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty (BUCL).
"We basically organize events, distribute press releases and try to obtain coverage to counter the official propaganda coming from the Cuban Government" states Gomez, a writer for Babalu, a website that he says is the most widely read English language blog about Cuba."
Cuban cultural icons get US visas 5/13/2010 BBC: "It will be the first time in decades that the folk singer Silvio Rodriguez and the prima ballerina Alicia Alonso have been allowed to perform in the US.
Both have been staunch supporters of Cuba's communist system.
President Obama has been encouraging people-to-people contacts with Cuba, while maintaining a decades-long trade embargo."
Interview with Esteban Morales, researcher of the University of Havana - Cuba: Racism, An Unfinished Issue 5/3/2010 Cuba Now
Acuerdos primera asamblea afrodescendientes cubanos 5/1/2010 Desde la Habana: "A pesar de la fuerte represión policial, culminó con éxito la Primera Asamblea en Defensa de los Derechos, de los Afrodescendientes Cubanos la que después de dos días de intenso trabajo, acordó realizar el Primer Congreso Independiente de Afrodescendientes Cubanos por la Integración Racial."
Queloides - Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo 5/1/2010 Universes in Universe: "Después de décadas de silencio oficial, las discusiones sobre "raza" y racismo han tomado un protagonismo en la Cuba contemporánea. Desde los años 1990, numerosos intelectuales - músicos, escritores, artistas plásticos, actores y académicos - han comenzado algo anteriormente impensable: denunciar la persistencia de la discriminación racial en la sociedad socialista cubana."
Cuban air charter case sent to Fla. state court 4/29/2010 AP: "A Miami woman's attempt to force air charter companies to pay a $27 million legal judgment owed to her by the Cuban government has been bounced from federal to state court. U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno agreed Wednesday with Ana Margarita Martinez that the matter should be handled at the state level. The charter companies wanted Moreno to intervene."
CONCIENCIA RACIAL Y LUCHA CONTRA EL RACISMO 4/27/2010 Blog de Esteban Morales
Corruption: The true counter-revolution? 4/21/2010 Progreso: by Esteban Morales - "Without a doubt, it is becoming evident that there are people in positions of government and state who are girding themselves financially for when the Revolution falls, and others may have everything almost ready to transfer state-owned assets to private hands, as happened in the old USSR.
Fidel said that we ourselves could put an end to the Revolution and I tend to think that, among other concerns, the Commander in Chief was referring to the questions relative to corruption. Because this phenomenon, already present, has continued to appear in force. If not, see what has happened with the distribution of lands in usufruct in some municipalities around the country: fraud, illegalities, favoritism, bureaucratic slowness, etc.
In reality, corruption is a lot more dangerous than the so-called domestic dissidence. The latter is still isolated; it lacks an alternative program, has no real leaders, no masses. But corruption turns out to be the true counter-revolution, which can do the most damage because it is within the government and the state apparatus, which really manage the country's resources."
Queloides: la cicatriz renovada del racismo en Cuba 4/16/2010 CubaEncuentro: "El día 16 de abril se inaugura en el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, de la Habana, la exposición Queloides: Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo (www.queloides-exhibit.com). La exposición reúne a doce artistas que, durante años, han proyectado, desde su obra, una preocupación sostenida acerca de la persistencia del racismo en la sociedad cubana y que han intentado discutir públicamente los efectos culturales y sociales de esa llaga, infamante e incómoda, de la cubanidad."
Corrupción: ¿la verdadera contrarrevolución? 4/15/2010 Desde la Habana: de Esteban Morales, specialista en temas sobre política exterior de Estados Unidos y autor de numerosos textos sobre la problemática racial en Cuba. Publicado en el sitio de la UNEAC.
Académico cubano dice que corrupción y no disidencia acabará con revolución 4/15/2010 Norte Castillo: "El artículo, que sorprende por la temática y por aparecer en un medio oficial, añade que hay "otros que pueden tener casi todo preparado para producir el traspaso de los bienes estatales a manos privadas, como tuvo lugar en la antigua URSS"."
Cuba liberalises barber shops and beauty salons 4/13/2010 BBC: "All barbers and hairdressers in shops with three seats or fewer will be allowed to rent the space and pay taxes instead of getting a monthly wage.
The retail sector has long been derided for poor service and rampant theft.
The country's former President, Fidel Castro, nationalised all small businesses in 1968."
Hair Salons and Barber Shops Going Coop 4/13/2010 Ethno Cuba: "According to recent news, selected hair salons and barber shops in Havana are undergoing an experiment in management and administration. Unlike in the 1990s, these are not self-employed professionals who are allowed to run small businesses out of their home. These are tiny state shops (sitting three max) that are being turned to their employees who then run them autonomously. They must pay a rent (in hard currency) to the state as well as taxes, and obtain their supplies on their own, presumably at free market prices. They can then set prices according to supply and demand. Apparently, participation in this pilot program has been voluntary, and workers who did not want to be autonomous have been able to switch jobs with those who did at other salons."
Intransigence Is Not Revolutionary 4/10/2010 Havana Times: "How can you achieve change when there is no real dialogue, not even among revolutionaries themselves; or when they don’t give space in the country’s only press to the opinions of communists and revolutionaries who promote a socialist perspective different from the failed official outlook; or when they reject other writings dealing with those issues? There’s no doubt about the desires of the historic leadership to prevent the reversal of the Revolution. However, their obstinacy in continuing with the failed neo-Stalinist model, their resistance to dialogue and their intolerance, all call into question their willingness to make concrete steps in the direction of the socialization and democratization of economic and political power – the sole real possibility for ensuring the historical continuity of the revolutionary process."
Queloides/Keloids: Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo 4/10/2010 Negra Cubana
Caleb McCarry: usurero de la industria anticubana 4/9/2010 CubaDebate: "Por estos días se ha conocido que el señor McCarry es ahora un importante ejecutivo de una compañía radicada en Washington, nombrada Creative Associates International; algo nada noticioso si no fuera porque McCarry fue a parar a esta sospechosa firma en noviembre de 2008, apenas dos meses después de que Creative recibiera el mayor contrato otorgado por la Administración Bush para la injerencia y los planes subversivos en Cuba, ascendente a unos 6.5 millones de dólares.
Creative Associates se presenta en la web como empresa contratista con experiencias en varios países, entre ellos Irak y Afganistán, donde ha actuado en la ejecución de los planes de subversión y contrainsurgencia de Washington. Sin embargo, de sus operaciones en Cuba la página de la compañía no dice ni pío. Tampoco McCarry ha querido hablar con la prensa sobre el asunto. Sí se conoce que ya Creative se ha apuntado para la próxima repartición de dinero de la USAID para los planes contra Cuba y que ha solicitado 2.5 millones de dólares."
Obama autoriza a agentes encubiertos a distribuir dinero y equipos a “disidentes”, blogueros y tuiteros en Cuba 4/9/2010 CubaDebate
Convoca el Instituto Bush encuentro para coordinar ciberguerra contra Venezuela, Cuba, Irán y Rusia 4/8/2010 CubaDebate: "El Instituto George W. Bush y la organización estadounidense Freedom House han convocado a un encuentro de “activistas por la libertad y los derechos humanos” y “expertos en Internet” para analizar el “movimiento global de ciberdisidentes”.
Al encuentro, que se realizará ese día en Dallas, Texas, asistirán Rodrigo Diamanti de la organización Futuro Presente de Venezuela; Arash Kamangir, de Irán; Oleg Kozlovsky, de Rusia; Ernesto Hernández Busto, de Cuba (vive en Barcelona y es conocido en la red cubana como “Pájaro Tieso”); Isaac Mao, de China; y Ahed Alhendi, de Siria.
También estarán presentes miembros del gobierno estadounidense y otras organizaciones vinculadas con la comunidad de inteligencia de Washington, como Jeffrey Gedmin, presidente de Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, un proyecto de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) creado durante la Guerra Fría para luchar contra el comunismo en Europa; Daniel Baer, Asistente Secretario de Estado para la Democracia, los Derechos Humanos y el Trabajo; Peter Ackerman, fundador del Centro Internacional para el Conflicto Noviolento (ICNC), entidad involucrada en las llamadas “revoluciones de colores” en Europa Oriental; Oscar Morales Guevara, fundador del movimiento “un millón de voces contra las FARC” y promotor de un movimiento contra el Presidente Chávez a través de Facebook; Jennifer Windsor, directora ejecutiva de Freedom House, y otros representantes de Freedom House, el Departamento de Estado y el Instituto George W. Bush."
Lies and Facts in the Media War against Cuba 4/7/2010 Voltaire Net
Mr. Cason calza ahora a Calzón 4/6/2010 CubaDebate: "¿Que quién es el “Presidente-Padrino” de Frank Calzón? Pues nada menos que James Cason, el ex Jefe de la Sección de Intereses de Estados Unidos en Cuba, que dejó la casaca diplomática para calzar ahora a Calzón."
Anthology on Race & Racism 4/3/2010 Havana Times: "...the book was presented for the first time on December 8, 2009 at the headquarters of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), coinciding by sheer chance with the publication in the Miami Herald of news concerning a letter by US Black intellectuals accusing the Cuban government of racism.
I’m not being sarcastic when I use the phrase “by chance.” This anthology is the result of a compilation of texts that appeared in the magazine Caminos, in two complete issues devoted to the issue of race and racism, and in other writings that now appear in book form.
One of the most attractive aspects of this anthology is that the authors of the individual segments are people of diverse generations and fields; and accordingly, they approach the issue from different perspectives."
U.S.: Charter Companies Shouldn't Pay for Cuba Legal Judgment 4/1/2010 AP: "Declaring U.S.-to-Cuba charter flights a vital national interest, the Justice Department is opposing a Cuban-American woman's attempt to make air charter companies pay a $27 million judgment she won against Cuba's communist government."
Los avatares de la literatura oral de origen africano en Cuba 4/1/2010 Temas: "Las manifestaciones de la discriminación racial toman complicados y sutiles caminos en la vida de las sociedades, mucho más intrincados en el mundo contemporáneo. Ese es el caso del tratamiento que presenta la rica e irrepetible literatura oral de origen africano en Cuba. A pesar de los llamados de alerta de los pocos especialistas que han atendido la triste realidad de su estudio, este tipo de literatura es prácticamente ignorado en el panorama de los estudios literarios cubanos. Tal situación, inadmisible para una valoración adecuada de nuestra identidad nacional, ha motivado las ideas que expondremos en el presente ensayo acerca de la importancia y la necesidad de aceptar, como parte de la literatura cubana, las expresiones más autóctonas de la etnoliteratura."
A Dissenting View - Dissidents and Politics in Cuba 3/30/2010 Counterpunch: by Rafael Hernandez, editor of Temas
The Resources of the Cuban Opposition 3/30/2010 Counterpunch
LLEGO A LA HABANA GOLETA EEUU "AMISTAD" 3/25/2010 ANSA: " A bordo del velero oficial del estado de Connecticut (EEUU) viajan 13 tripulantes, todos de Estados excepto uno de Sierra Leona, además de un grupo de estudiantes.
La goleta, que permanecerá en La Habana hasta el 31 de marzo, recorre la antigua ruta del comercio de esclavos en el Atlántico."
Human Rights Rides Again? Taunting Havana 3/25/2010 Counterpunch: "For example, the Interest Section supplies dissidents with a variety of “needs,” such as cell phones and lap tops which, “dissidents” claim, get confiscated by Cuban State Security. “We have photographs of them selling these items,” a Cuban official told me. “When the “dissident” reports the loss, the Interest Section, meaning US taxpayers – although few know it – supply them with new ones.”
Katrina Browne estrenará en Cuba documental sobre trata de esclavos 3/25/2010 Radio Guantanamo: "La periodista, que viaja en la goleta Amistad de visita en Cuba, dijo a la AIN que cuando descubrió que su familia fue una de las que más negros esclavos introdujo en los Estados Unidos, decidió emprender la investigación que la llevó a la costa oeste de Africa y a Cuba."
En la Bahía habanera la goleta “Amistad” 3/25/2010 Tribuna de la Habana: "Esta réplica de la goleta “Amistad” que hoy se puede apreciar desde el balcón de la capital, tiene 140 pies de eslora, en ella viajaron 53 esclavos que protagonizaron un acto de rebeldía, el cual trascendió la historia.
Los actuales tripulantes participarán en una actividad por el Día Internacional de Rememoración de las víctimas de la Esclavitud y la Trata Transatlántica de Esclavos."
CUBA: Replica Slave Ship Drops Anchor amidst Debate on Racism 3/24/2010 IPS: "The issue is gaining visibility, which gives us hope that progress will continue to be made," Norberto Mesa, founder of the Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG), a "brotherhood" or association of black people aimed at raising awareness about the problem, told IPS.
According to CONEG, racial inequality is a growing problem in Cuba, where the latest census, from 2002, indicates that of a total population of 11.18 million, 7.2 million were white, 1.13 million black, and 2.78 mixed-race, based on self-identification. However, scholars estimate that the Cuban population is actually around 60 to 70 percent black or mixed-race.
"We foment debate at the community level because we know that solutions will start to emerge, as a result of citizen participation," Mesa added, after a day of cultural activities organised by the Casa Comunitaria (community centre) in the Havana neighbourhood of La Ceiba.
During the activities that day, the Cofradía awarded its annual prize to Eric Corvalán, a Cuban filmmaker who filmed the first documentary on racial discrimination in this country, "Raza" (Race). The 2008 film helped launch the fledgling debate on racism.
"That was the message, the idea, but I am not satisfied. The debate should be at a national level," Mesa commented.
CONEG wants a Cuban parliament commission to focus on the question of racism. It is also pushing for the issue to be included on the agenda of the next congress of the Young Communist League (UJC).
"What could divide us is precisely the failure to deal with this problem," said Mesa, referring to the socialist government's official stance in the 1960s, when the Cuban revolution considered the issues of racism and discrimination solved, and saw any discussion of the matter as a threat to unity and social cohesion."
Vessel Amistad already in Cuba 3/23/2010 Cuba Headlines: "The impending Amistad visit seems to have been virtually unknown in Cuba before this week's formal announcement to the press.
Still, it has triggered deep curiosity in the country, where many residents feel deep and close personal connections to
ancestors who were enslaved (Cuba did not outlaw slavery until 1883) and where even an explicitly non-political interaction
with a U.S. organization like the non-profit Amistad America provokes questions about the future of Cuba's fraught
relationship with the United States."
CUBA: Goleta Amistad con vientos contra discriminación racial 3/23/2010 IPS: ""El tema va logrando mayor visibilidad, lo cual nos da esperanzas de que se puede seguir avanzando", dijo a IPS el fundador de la Cofradía de la Negritud, Norberto Mesa. Se trata de un proyecto que busca crear conciencia del "creciente proceso de agravamiento" de las desigualdades raciales.
"Promovemos el debate en las comunidades porque sabemos que las soluciones irán saliendo a la luz con la participación ciudadana", añadió Mesa, tras una jornada social y cultural convocada en la Casa Comunitaria del barrio capitalino de La Ceiba.
En esa ocasión, la Cofradía entregó su premio anual a Eric Corvalán, realizador del documental "Raza", que sirvió de soporte para promover la discusión en diferentes espacios. "Ese fue el mensaje, la idea, pero me siento inconforme. El debate debe ser a nivel nacional", comentó.
Su iniciativa, comentó, aspira a que la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (parlamento unicameral) se ocupe del racismo en alguna de sus comisiones y que ese asunto sea también parte de la agenda del próximo congreso de la Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas.
"Lo que nos puede dividir es justamente no tratar estos problemas", consideró, en referencia a las posturas oficiales de los años 60, cuando la triunfante Revolución Cubana consideró resueltos el racismo y la discriminación racial y que hablar de ellos podría resquebrajar la unidad y cohesión social."
Llega a Cuba réplica de goleta negrera española, símbolo contra la esclavitud 3/22/2010 ABC, España: "En Matanzas, uno de los principales centros negreros de Cuba en el siglo XIX, el programa de dos días incluye visitas de la tripulación al Museo de la Ruta del Esclavo y a un ingenio azucarero que en 1843 fue escenario de otra rebelión de esclavos.
Tripulan la "Amistad" una veintena de investigadores y estudiantes que recordarán a los cubanos que los amotinados habían sido capturados en Sierra Leona y vendidos a dos negreros españoles que pretendían hacer negocios con ellos en la isla.
El plan era trasladarlos de La Habana a un puerto del oriente de la isla, pero los esclavos tomaron el control de la goleta y navegaron a la deriva durante varias semanas, hasta ser detenidos cerca de la costa de Long Island, en Estados Unidos.
Su caso fue presentado allí por el entonces ex presidente estadounidense John Quincy Adams ante el Tribunal Supremo, que tras un publicitado juicio les otorgó la libertad en 1841."
EL DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA LUCHA CONTRA EL RACISMO: 21 DE MARZO. 3/20/2010 Afrocubanas: Por: Tomás Fernández Robaina - "Al igual que ya existe el Día Internacional de la Lucha Contra el Racismo, debemos apreciar la conveniencia de que tengamos también El Día Nacional de la Lucha Contra el Racismo en Cuba, que bien podría ser la fecha de la fundación del Partido Independiente de Color, o la de la muerte de Aponte, o la del comienzo de la columna y página Ideales de una raza, desde el Diario de la Marina, como las tres principales, pero no descartando otras posibles."
“Raza y Racismo” hace su debate desde la Casa del Caribe 3/20/2010 Casa del Caribe: "El destacado académico cubano de las ciencias sociales, doctor Fernando Martínez Heredia, presentó este viernes en la Casa del Caribe el libro “Raza y Racismo”, una compilación de artículos publicados en un segundo volumen de “Antología de Caminos” en alusión a Revista del Centro Martín Luther King especializada en pensamiento sociológico. El primer volumen recoge los primos cuarenta números de la referida publicación."
Pablo Milanés, duro contra el trato de Cuba a los disidentes 3/20/2010 Clarin: "El disidente Fariñas había dicho días atrás que temía por la seguridad de Milanés y su familia. El cantautor rechazó esos temores. "Nunca -dijo- he sentido una represalia contra mi persona y mucho menos contra mi familia, por lo que estoy seguro de volver a Cuba teniendo la misma disposición de criticar lo mal hecho y celebrar lo bien hecho". Y agregó : "Realmente se han dado casos en Cuba de que personas anónimas tengan mi actitud y no salgan bien paradas ante las autoridades, medias, intermedias y hasta superiores, quién sabe. Esto lo he denunciado en diversas entrevistas y es una de las razones por las que lucho".
Keith Ellis: “No me imagino un mundo sin Cuba
y sin la Revolución Cubana” 3/20/2010 Jiribilla
Isabel Allende: "Ojalá Cuba comprenda que el mundo condena a los países que no respetan la libertad de opinión" 3/20/2010 LA Tercera
La Mujer Afrolatinoamericana y la Afrocubana 3/19/2010 Afrocubanas: "Entrevista a Inés María Martiatu, ensayista, crítica cultural y narradora. Por: Patricia Grogg."
About Amistad, Academia and U.S. Cuban travel policies 3/19/2010 EthnoCuba
Pablo Milanes: I’ve Never Felt Reprisals 3/19/2010 Havana Times: "Pablo —as he is known in Cuba— told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he was in disagreement with the way the Cuban government handled the case of opposition member Guillermo Fariñas, who is carrying out a hunger strike demanding the release of political prisoners. “Ideas should be discussed and fought, but not imprisoned,” said Milanés."
El exilio cubano celebra la postura de Pablo Milanés sobre la disidencia 3/19/2010 La Voz de Galicia
Cuba-U.S. Rhetoric Timeline: Hope for a Basic Shift in Policy Disintegrates into Continued Polarization 3/17/2010 COHA
The Revolution's Troubadour No Longer Believes 3/16/2010 Huffington Post: by Yoanni Sanchez -- "Emigration has marked too strongly the artistic level on our stages. Not only have my colleagues from the university and my contemporaries from the neighborhood left en masse, but Cuban culture has a percentage of its representatives - some would say a majority - outside our borders. To lose, now, this strong voice would be to admit that those who composed the background music that accompanied the construction of utopia have stopped believing in it. So no website of any official institution is going publish an aggressive and threatening diatribe against the frankness of the interviewee. Nor will they inform the Madrid consulate that he is no longer welcome in his own country, nor accuse him of speaking with the words of an "American lover." None of these stigmatizing strategies will be deployed against Pablo, but in the off-hour ministerial chats and the closed circles of power they will not forgive him for having behaved like a free man."
Push for Student Exchanges With Cuba Hits Obstacles, Both Political and Academic 3/9/2010 Chronicle of Higher Education: "More than a year after he took office promising to put a welcoming new face on U.S. foreign policy, President Obama has left allies in higher education increasingly puzzled over one glaring omission.
Cuba.
Mr. Obama took several steps last year toward improving U.S. relations with Cuba, allowing relatives of Cubans to travel, communicate, and send money back to their home country. But he stopped short of ending a policy imposed by President George W. Bush in 2004 that effectively blocked thousands of American college students from making trips to Cuba."
Pólizas de seguro incluso médicas - Seguro de viaje será obligatorio para entrar a Cuba 3/6/2010 Aporrea: "Cuba exigirá a partir de mayo pólizas de seguro, incluso médicas, a los turistas extranjeros y cubanos residentes en el exterior para ingresar a la isla, según una resolución publicada este sábado en la Gaceta oficial.
La regulación, que entrará en vigor a partir del 1 mayo, demandará "de forma obligatoria" que "todos los viajeros, extranjeros y cubanos residentes en el exterior, para el ingreso al país, cuenten con una póliza de seguro de viaje, con cobertura de gastos médicos, expedida por entidades aseguradoras reconocidas en Cuba", dijo el documento aprobado por el Consejo de Ministros."
Cuba, the corporate media and the suicide of Orlando Zapata Tamayo 3/4/2010 Links, Australia: "Curiously, AI has never mentioned the alleged political activities that landed Zapata in prison. The reason is relatively simple: Zapata never carried out any anti-government activities prior to incarceration. Instead, the organisation recognises that he was convicted in May 2004 and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for "contempt, public disorder and resistance".[4] This sentence is relatively minor compared to the sentences, ranging up to 28 years, that were handed down to the 75 opposition figures convicted in March 2003 of "having received funds or materials from the US government to carry out activities that the authorities consider subversive and damaging to Cuba", as recognised by AI is a serious crime in Cuba and any country in the world. Here AI cannot escape an obvious contradiction: on the one hand these people qualify as "prisoners of conscience" and on the other it admits they committed the serious crime of accepting "money or materials from the US government".
Unlike the 75, the Cuban government has never accused Zapata of accepting funds from a foreign power and has always considered him a common convict. Zapata had a serious criminal record. Since June 1990, he had been arrested and convicted several times for "disturbing the peace, two counts of fraud, public exhibitionism, injury and possession of non-firearm weapons". In 2000, he fractured the skull of Leonardo Simon using a machete. His criminal record does not involve any political actions. It was only after his imprisonment that his mother, Reyna Luisa Tamayo, approached government opposition groups, but she has never been bothered by the authorities.[6] "
Cuban dissident on hunger strike rushed to hospital 3/4/2010 Miami Herald: "Iglesias said he and dozens of other dissidents, as well as the four government doctors who have checked on Fariñas over the past week, also have urged him to abandon the hunger strike."
Cuba says dead hunger striker was common criminal 3/4/2010 Reuters: "Behind bars, he was recruited by dissidents to join their cause and did so in part because of "material advantages" bestowed upon Cuba's political opponents by "foreign embassies," Granma said."
The terrorist attack on the La Coubre: 50 years later, Washington remains silent 3/3/2010 Granma: "This confirms that the country whose propaganda apparatus is constantly generating bursts of slander against Cuba has not handed over, in a half a century, one single document about the tragedy that cost the lives of around 100 human beings, exactly 50 years ago, on March 4."
Cuba TV report denies gov't let hunger striker die 3/2/2010 AP: "On Monday, state-controlled television aired a report that stretched nearly 10 minutes during the half-hour news program, which is broadcast simultaneously on three of Cuba's five national TV channels.
Doctors who treated Zapata Tamayo, a 42-year-old construction worker, said they tried to get him to eat.
"We explained to him the consequences of his decision at every turn and how much he was endangering his life with this. But he kept it up," said Maria Ester Hernandez, identified as a doctor for Interior Ministry officials.
There was also footage of his mother, Reina Luisa Tamayo, thanking "the best doctors for trying to give Orlando life." It seemed to have been shot with a hidden camera as she spoke inside a doctor's office.
The afternoon of her son's death, Tamayo did interviews with radio stations in Florida shouting that Cuba's government had let her son die because he dared oppose the Castro government."
Second Cuban Hunger Striker, Guillermo Farinas, On the Verge of Death 3/2/2010 Huffington Post: "Like many dissidents, 'Coco' Farinas used to believe in Fidel Castro's revolution. He risked his hide fighting in the isolated villages of Angola during the 1980s civil war in that African country. He was a member of Castro's elite troops, but in 1989 when General Arnaldo Ochoa was shot, accused of drug trafficking, Farinas began to have second thoughts and unanswered questions. He has a degree in psychology, and better than anyone else in Cuba, he knows the methods of the political police for breaking those who dissent. Since 1997 this big-eyed mestizo has been one of the heavyweight dissidents on the island. He writes as a freelance journalist, and an independent library is located in his house."
El Actor Willy Toledo criminalizado por hablar claro: "Zapata era un delincuente común, ni siquiera un disidente político" 3/2/2010 Kaos en la Red
Miami manipuló el agradecimiento de la madre de Orlando a los médicos cubanos 3/2/2010 Kaos en la Red: "Paralelamente, en una conversación telefónica entre Yaniset Rivero, miembro de la organización contrarrevolucionaria, con sede en Miami, Directorio Democrático cubano, y el contrarrevolucionario Juan Carlos González, miembro de un grupúsculo en Cuba, se percibe la evidencia de que estaban más preocupados de cómo utilizar a la madre de Orlando en una campaña anticastrista antes de la preocupación de la salud del hijo. En la conversación Juan Carlos explica la dicotomía que le iba a proponer a Reina, “o hacer una conferencia o ir a ver a Orlando”, situando lo político por delante de lo humanitario.
Los contrarrevolucionarios jamás han hecho público, dado que no pueden hacer uso político de ello, las afirmaciones de Reina sobre el excelente cuidado que tuvo su hijo en todo el periodo de huelga de hambre por el personal médico cubano que emitió por teléfono a la misma Yaniset Rivero. Como se puede ver en el video de Cuba TV, la Madre de Tamayo declaró a Yaniset como los médicos cubanos “vinieron a analizar la salud de Zapata y nos explicaron que era muy crítica, crítica, y que están haciendo todo lo posible para salvar a Zapata, que ya tenían preparado un riñón por si acaso le fallaba el suyo, que ellos van a luchar hasta lo último. Y estaban los médicos del CIMEQ, los mejores médicos, tratando de darle la vida a Orlando "."
Orlando Zapata: un delincuente convertido en mártir por los estrategas de la guerra contra Cuba 3/2/2010 Kaos en la Red: "El 23 de febrero fallecía el preso cubano Orlando Zapata tras 88 días en huelga de hambre. Los grandes medios de comunicación internacionales, sirviéndose de su control casi absoluto de la información, han llevado a cabo una gigantesca campaña de culpabilización del gobierno cubano, ocultando elementos informativos muy relevantes.En primer lugar, el motivo de su huelga de hambre: conseguir lo que los medios han calificado como “mejoras carcelarias”, en realidad privilegios sobre el resto de reclusos, como tener televisor, cocina y teléfono en su celda, algo impensable en cualquier centro penitenciario del mundo.En segundo lugar, su perfil personal. Frente al personaje fabricado por los medios -un humilde albañil y pacífico preso de conciencia- Orlando Zapata fue un violento delincuente común procesado, entre 1993 y 2002, por delitos como violación de domicilio, estafa y por las graves lesiones a un ciudadano tras un ataque con machete.En 2003 fue condenado a 3 años de cárcel, pero esta sentencia se amplió a 24 años por diversos cargos de agresión violenta a funcionarios de prisión.Al contrario de lo afirmado por los medios, Zapata no formaba parte del grupo de 75 personas detenidas en La Habana en marzo de 2003 por sus vinculaciones con el gobierno de EEUU. De hecho, este gobierno no incluyó su nombre en la lista de supuestos “prisioneros políticos” presentada a la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU."
Suit by Spy's Ex-Wife Could Stop Flights to Cuba 3/2/2010 Miami Herald: "Martinez's request for the writs alleges she was ``a victim of a terrorist act. A Cuban spy married her and used her as cover for his espionage activities.''
Her court filings say she has collected $194,000 through release of frozen Cuban assets, but ``nothing more is available through this program.'' In 2002, she successfully seized a Cuban crop-duster, valued at about $45,000, flown to Key West by a group of refugees."
For whom is death a useful tool? 3/1/2010 Granma
Does Zapata's Death Mark a Turning Point for Cuba? 3/1/2010 Huffington Post: "The most notorious was the death of the prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, which occurred on the eve of the second anniversary of General Raul Castro's assumption of the presidency. To leave someone to die, to allow them to die, not to do something to prevent the death of a person who is the exclusive responsibility of a penal establishment is, anywhere in the world, a very serious thing. As serious, I would say, as letting patients in a psychiatric hospital die of cold and hunger." [As any doctor with experience treating anorexics will tell you, it can be difficult to keep someone alive with intravenous feeding. If they are determined to die, they will.]
Comprender la problemática racial cubana 3/1/2010 Tercera Informacion: de Estaban Morales - "Los contactos con la economía de mercado, la reemergencia de las desigualdades y todo el deterioro económico y social, consecuencia de la crisis de los años 90, propiciaron su reemergencia. Podemos decir que hasta mediados de los años ochenta se había logrado tener acceso a niveles de igualdad social que enorgullecían a todos los cubanos, pero la crisis económica produjo retrasos y trajo serias consecuencias sociales que todavía no han podido ser resueltas; ello se junto con el débil e inespecífico tratamiento dado a la cuestión racial, diluida dentro de la lucha contra la pobreza, por lo que se presento la situación propicia que la hizo resurgir con la virulencia propia de un problema que dado como resuelto, en realidad no lo estaba."
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