MiamiHerald.com: Cuba Dissidents

Cuban ex-CIA agent Posada returns to Miami

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:07 EDT

After being acquitted in a trial for perjury in federal court in El Paso, former CIA-agent Luis Posada Carriles plans to make his first public appearance in Miami on Wednesday during a press conference and then he will dinner at the Big Club Five of Miami.

TWO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ARRESTED COVERING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:30 EDT

Two independent are being held by police following their arrest while covering an anti-government demonstration.

4-year sentence for living in Havana without permission

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:50 EDT

Dissident Duartes Miguel Lara Rodríguez has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of being a “danger” to society because he was living illegally in Havana.

Man arrested for stealing his own pressure cooker

Thu, 06 May 2010 16:23 EDT

Leonardo Díaz says he taken to the police station in handcuffs on Tuesday because he didn't have proof of purchase of a pressure cooker he was taking to a repair shop.

Police captain under investigation for abuse of power

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:13 EDT

A captain in the National Revolutionary Police force has been accused of selling pedicabs he confiscated from unlicensed owners.

Whereabouts of detained independent journalist unknown

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:15 EDT

Independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hernández was arrested over the weekend by two State Security agents and his whereabouts are unknown, according to his wife.

Anti-government slogans appear in Havana

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:52 EDT

Anti-government slogans were written on Tuesday on the walls next to Havana's Mariano theater and near a police station, according to witnesses who said they saw the writing before police painted it over.

Dissident's daughter jailed on charge of prostitution

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:48 EDT

Dissident Carmen Bermúdez Arrieta says her 25-year-old daughter has been sentenced to two years in an internment camp on a trumped up charge of prostitution.

Independent librarian fired from government job

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:20 EDT

José Ignacio Oropesa Almora says he was fired from his job as a truck driver for the state oil company because he’s an independent librarian

Protesters force police to return sack of rice

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:32 EST

More than 60 passengers on a bus protested the seizure of a 20-pound sack of rice and forced the police to return it to the owner.