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• Photos from Cuba after Hurricane Sandy

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• Cuban political prisoner José Ramón Falcón Gómez released after 18 years in Castro gulag

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  Via Twitter, Cuban independent journalist Felix Reyes reports that Cuban political prisoner José Ramón Falcón Gómez has been released after spending 18 years and 12 days in various Cuban prisons.

  Falcón and six other 

  were captured shortly after they on Oct. 15, 1994, landed on Santa Maria Key in Villa Clara [...]

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• Former Cuban prisoner of conscience Regis Iglesias: 'Truth and love will reign in our beloved island'

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  Statement by Regis Iglesias, Christian Liberation Movement spokesman upon receiving on behalf of the Cuban opposition movement the Democracy Courage Tribute from the World Movement for Democracy(WMD) (Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter.)

  Cubans have lived under dictatorships or totalitarian regimes for over half a century.
  
  
  
  Our situation is dramatic. 50 years without freedom of expression, freedom of association, without economic [...]

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• Cuban prisoner of conscience Antonio Michel Lima Cruz released from jail

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  Marcos Maikel Lima Cruz, left, and Antonio Michel Lima Cruz

  Cuban prisoner of conscience Antonio Michel Lima Cruz was released from jail this week, but his fellow prisoner of conscience, his brother Marcos Maikel, remains unjustly imprisoned.

  The brothers, who had been imprisoned in a work camp near [...]

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• Despite the rumors, Fidel Castro already dead

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  As we wait for Fidel Castro to either die or make a miraculous recovery or whatever, Cubans in exile prepare to celebrate and to remember. More than five years ago, when again rumors were that he was near death, I wrote the following about what his death and [...]

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• Anti-Castro activist sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison as 'pre-criminal social danger'

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  This post will remain at the top of the page through Friday, events allowing. For newer posts scroll down. And for more Cuba-related news and information, follow Uncommon Sense on Twitter @marcmasferrer.

  A version of this post appeared earlier.

  Rafael Matos Montes de Oca

  After an 85-minute trial closed to the [...]

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• Human Rights Foundation remembers Laura Pollan and the Cuban Ladies In White

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  Sunday is the one-year anniversary of the death of Laura Pollan, leader of the Cuban Ladies In White. Few Cubans in the past 53 years have displayed the courage Pollan did in standing up to the Castro regime and leading others to do the same. (For details on events in [...]

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• Reinaldo Castillo Martínez and Emilio Plana Robert, Cuban Political Prisoners of the Week, 10/14/12

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  George Orwell predicted the Castro regime.

  Like all dictatorships, the thugs in Havana use language as a weapon of repression, twisting words and their meanings to cover-up their true intent and to keep their boots on the necks of the people.

  Cuban opposition activists Reinaldo Castillo Martinez and Emilio Plana Robert are [...]

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• This weekend, please remember Cuba's Ladies In White

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  Laura Pollan
  
  
  
  

  Sunday, Oct. 14, is one-year anniversary of the mysterious death of Laura Pollan, leader of the Damas De Blanco, or "Ladies In White," the most effective opposition group in Cuba.

  Members of the group -- the wives, mothers and other family members of Cuban political prisoners -- [...]

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• 2 imprisoned Cuban journalists on hunger strike

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  Two imprisoned Cuban journalists, Lázaro Pie Pérez and Jorge Alberto Liriano Linares, remain held in isolation as punishment for their reporting on conditions in the Castro gulag.

  Pie Pérez has been in a punishment cell at the Quivicán since Sept. 24, after officials warned him to quit reporting on corruption in the prison. He [...]

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