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• Cuba ex-political prisoner Vladimir Alejo ends hunger strike on behalf of Alan Gross

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  Vladimir Alejo Miranda during his hunger strike.

  After 47 days, former political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda has ended a hunger strike he started to demand that the Castro dictatorship release imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross.

  Alejo, who had demonstrated his resolve by sewing his mouth partially [...]

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• Castro goons again target Cuba ex-political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer García

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  Another day in Cuba under the Castros, another day of repression for those Cubans — like former prisoner of conscience José Daniel Ferrer García — who choose to live as free men.

  Via the Hábalo Sin Miedo website, Ferrer reports that Castro police agents and other goons on Wednesday were [...]

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• Marielitos and Marielitas made America a better place

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  Tony Montana was not a Marielito. Yes, in "Scarface," he arrives in Miami during the Mariel boatlift from Cuba, but it is important to remember: "Scarface" was just a movie, meant to entertain, not to educate; and Tony Montana was just a cartoon.

  The real Marielitos and Marielitas are people like [...]

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• The Castros and their kind are talking scared in Cuba

  Cut through the bullshit of the Castro dictatorship's pronouncements that dissidents are trying to foment conflict between Cuba and the United States, and what you hear is fear.

  The fear of a regime that knows in what passes for its heart that its time — like that of its comrades in [...]

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• 2 Cuban dissidents under siege in their own homes

  

  Cuban police on Monday were blocking two prominent dissidents from leaving their homes because, well, that's what communist dictatorships dictated by dictators named Castro do.

  That I consider these two brave men to be my friends, makes it that much more outrageous.

  They are:

  Darsi Ferrer

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• An interview with Cuban blogger Claudia Cadelo

  I just discovered a collection of Cuba-related interviews produced on video by veteran Cuba-watcher Tracey Eaton.

  Here's one with one of my favorite independent bloggers on the island, Claudia Cadelo.

  Claudia Cadelo from Tracey Eaton on Vimeo.

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• Castro goon squad threatens to lynch Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer García

  The Castro dictatorship is scared to death of former prisoner of conscience José Daniel Ferrer García.

  Babalú has the evidence:

  The Castro dictatorship dispatched a violent mob to the home of Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia to attack the former political prisoner and other dissidents at his home. The government [...]

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• Cuba ex-political prisoner: Castros feed on the silence and hypocrisy of the West

  Cuban journalist and former prisoner of conscience Normando Hernandez calls to account those in the West whose silence and hypocrisy on events in Cuba and the Castro dictatorship's repression only strengthen the regime.

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  We Must Shatter the Chains
  
  by Normando Hernandez, ex prisoner of conscience

  Dictatorships [...]

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• Interview with Cuba blogger Laritza Diversent

  One of my favorite Cuba-based independent bloggers is Laritza Diversent.

  This interview shows why:

  Lartiza Diversent from Tracey Eaton on Vimeo.

   

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• Cuba ex-political prisoner Pablo Pacheco: 'The only thing we Cubans need ... is freedom'

  

  Pablo Pacheco

  Cuban journalist and former prisoner of conscience Pablo Pacheco, now in exile in Spain, boils down in a few words what the Cuban people need most: Freedom.

  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  The 6th Communist Party Congress is more of the same, with the additional [...]

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