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• Andres Carrion Alvarez's shout at Papal Mass reveals the truth about Cuba

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  Andres Carrion Alvarez was born, raised and disillusioned in communist Cuba.

  And after 40 years  poverty, repression and soulless living -- and supposedly the free education and health care that make Cuba such a wonderful place to live -- Andres Carrion Alvarez had had enough.

  So on Monday, he went to the Papal [...]

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• Crowd at Papal Mass in Havana cries out for 'Libertad' #Cuba #PopeCuba

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  The faithful have the final word.

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• In Cuba, Pope Benedict preaches about freedom, but his actions say something else #BenedictCuba

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  I read a transcript of Pope Benedict XVI's homily in Havana today, hoping to find something to convince me that His Holiness and the church he leads are on the right side of history, and on the right side in the struggle for freedom, in Cuba.

  Unfortunately, there was little [...]

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• @Amnesty International condemns latest round of repression in #Cuba #BenedictCuba

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  Amnesty International sums up how the Castro dictatorship used the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to launch a brutal wave of repression:

  Cuban human rights activists are facing a surge in harassment in a bid to silence them during the Pope's visit, Amnesty International said.
  
   
  
  The clampdown has seen [...]

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• Journalist Yosvani Anzardo among #Cuba activists arrested during papal visit

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  Hundreds of Cuban opposition activists have been arrested in recent days, to conincide with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island.

  Among them is independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hernández.

  A former political prisoner, Anzardo was arrested Sunday morning near the hospital in the town of San German, [...]

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• With act of courage, anonymous Cuban man becomes a symbol of resistance

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  In 1989, a young Chinese man captured the attention of the world when he laid his life on the line and faced off against a row of tanks moving to crush the uprising against communist rule. An act of futility perhaps, but almost 23 years later his act of resistance [...]

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• I stand with fellow Cuban and journalist Luis Felipe Rojas and the Cuban Resistance

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  Luis Felipe Rojas is one of Cuba's most accomplished independent journalists and bloggers on the island. With each post, his blog slices through another strand of the barbed wire that has imprisoned Cuba for more than 53 years.

  Which is why tonight Rojas is in jail, in to [...]

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• Papal visit to Cuba sparks mass arrests of dissidents

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  "You have made a mistake. ... I'm the pope, not a Lady in White."

  For not even a papal visit, the repression in Cuba does not stop.

  In fact, the Castro dictatorship is using Pope Benedict XVI's visit as an opportunity to settle accounts with some of its' [...]

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• I stand with Jose Daniel Ferrer and the Cuban Resistance

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  Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, journalist, human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience, is one of the bravest members of the Cuban Resistance, bravely taking his post on the front lines of the struggle for freedom to inform his fellow Cubans and people everywhere about the repression that is [...]

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• Cuban police round up beggars in advance of Pope Benedict XVI

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  The repression in Cuba in advance of Pope Benedict XVI's visit this week has been extended to include as its victims the most "defenseless and vulnerable" in Cuban society.

  Human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez complained Sunday that police have rounded up and jailed beggars and other street people to keep [...]

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