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• Cuban activist Raúl Parada Ramírez sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to pay fine

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  Raúl Parada Ramírez

  Cuban activist and independent journalist Raúl Parada Ramírez last month was sentenced to 6 months in jail after he refused to pay a 5,000-peso fine levied after he tried to illegally leave the country.

  The absurdity of his predicament is evident on several levels. For instance, his anti-Castro activism [...]

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• Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet starts new democracy campaign

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  Oscar Biscet and his wife, Elsa Morejon

  Via the Latin American Herald Tribune, EFE reports:

  HAVANA – Cuban opposition figure Oscar Elias Biscet on Wednesday presented a manifesto on which he intends to collect signatures to promote a move toward democracy on the Communist-ruled island.
  
  
  
  Accompanied by about a [...]

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