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• Yoani Sanchez: Finding Cuba outside of Cuba, my nation safeguarded by its exiles

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  By Yoani Sanchez

  I've found a Cuba outside of Cuba, I told a friend a few days ago. He laughed at my play on words, thinking I was trying to create literature. But no. In Brazil, a septuagenarian excitedly gave me a medal of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre.' [...]

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• On Easter Sunday, Castro police detain at least 23 Cuban Ladies In White

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  Cuban Ladies In White march through Havana on Easter Sunday. (Photo via Twitter)

  Ten years after they first took to the streets on behalf of their imprisoned loved ones, the Cuban Damas De Blanco ("Ladies In White"), and the Castro dictatorship's attempts to stifle them, continue to grow.

  On Easter Sunday, [...]

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• Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Martinez ends hunger strike

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  Cuban independent journalist and prisoner of conscience Calixto Martinez on Thursday ended a hunger strike he started to demand his release from jail.

  Martinez, who has been held without trial since Sept. 16, has been told that he will be transferred from the Combinando del Este prison in Havana [...]

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• Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Martinez on hunger strike for 22 days

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  Today, March 28, was the 22nd day of Cuban independent journalist and prisoner of conscience Calixto Ramon Martinez's hunger strike for his freedom, and reports are he is remaining steadfast in his protest.

  Roberto de Jesus Guerra, Martinez's editor at the Hablemos Press news agency, tweeted Thursday that one [...]

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• Guards retaliate against political prisoner Bismark Mustelier by threatening more jail time

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  Bismark Mustelier

  Cuban prison officials have threatened political prisoner Bismark Mustelier with 4 more years in prison if he continues reporting on events taking place inside the Prisión de Confianza de Mar Verde in Santiago de Cuba.

  Mustelier in June 2012 was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of [...]

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• Free Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Martinez NOW!

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  This photo will remain at the top of the page until Cuban independent journalist and prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias is released from jail. Martinez was arrested Sept. 16, 2012, and on March 6 started his second hunger strike since his arrest. He ended his protest on [...]
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• Cuban independent journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra arrested

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  Roberto de Jesus Guerra

  UPDATED, 7:10 p.m. EDT -- Via Twitter, Roberto de Jesus at 6:16 p.m. reported that he had just been released. He said he was arrested at 8:36 a.m.

   

  Roberto de Jesus Guerra, one of the most accomplished independent journalists in Cuba, was arrested Tuesday morning in Havana.

  No [...]

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• As Cuban political prisoner Calixto Martinez continues hunger strike, guards retaliate against other inmates

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  Monday, March 25, was the 19th day of Cuban prisoner of conscience Calixto Ramon Martinez's hunger strike to demand his immediate release.

  What the world knows about his protest and the toll it has taken on his health is thanks to the courage of fellow prisoners at the Combinando' [...]

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• Rosa Paya, Yoani Sanchez show lifting travel ban may have been Castros' biggest mistake

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  Whatever benefit the Castro dictatorship thought it might enjoy when it allowed dissidents like Yoani Sanchez and Rosa Maria Paya to travel overseas remains a mystery -- especially considering the positive response they have received and the yet-to-be tested willingness of the regime to let them back into [...]

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• Wife says ill Cuban political prisoner likely to not get needed care at new prison

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  Pedazos de la Isla has the latest on Cuban political prisoner Ariel Arzuaga Pena:

  Ariel Arzuaga Pena

  Political prisoner Ariel Arzuaga Pena, who is suffering various health ailments, was recently transferred to a penitentiary camp in the municipality of Bayamo, where he will not receive adequate medical attention, according to his wife Jaquelin [...]

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