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• Cuban prisoner dies after 38 days on hunger strike

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  Cuban prison inmate Roberto Antonio Rivalta Junco died Saturday after 38 days on hunger strike to protest his innocence and his imprisonment without benefit of a trial, according to the Cuban Democratic Directorate.

  The protest was Rivalta's, but his death -- like that of thousands of Cubans before' [...]

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• Nothing scares the Castro regime like a gathering of peaceful women

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  Pedazos de la Isla has the story:

   

  Laura Pollan Toledo

  Closed streets, diverted traffic, countless police vehicles, agents dressed in civilian clothing, and a wave of arrests.  That was how the operation of the Cuban regime against the Ladies in White looked like this Wednesday, February 13th, when women from throughout all the [...]

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• Demand that Castro release Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Martinez NOW!

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  Five months ago today, while doing his job as an independent journalist, Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias was arrested by Cuban State Security.

  His "crime"?

  Reporting the truth about life in Cuba. First to break the story last summer about an outbreak of cholera, Martinez was arrested Sept. 16 near the Havana [...]

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