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Cuba Cracks Down on Dissidents on Human Rights Day 13 Dec 2012 | 02:11 am

MIAMI – Cuban police detained more than 100 dissidents and put another 100 to 150 under house arrest in an island-wide crackdown to block any gatherings on December 10, International Human Rights Day,...

Cuba Shortchanges Its People By ‘Exporting’ Health Professionals 13 Dec 2012 | 02:10 am

Haiti’s President Michel Martelly recently visited Cuba to sign cooperation agreements including one to help his country deliver healthcare to its people. No doubt Haiti needs help to deliver needed h...

ITUC Postpones Admitting Cuban Independent Unions, Ratifies Policy of ‘Engagement’ with Regime Unions 30 Nov 2012 | 06:57 pm

In a double blow to the hopes and aspirations of the independent unions of Cuba, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Council earlier this month postponed consideration of their ...

Undercover Film from Al Jazeera Shows Cuban Government Harassing Dissenters 30 Nov 2012 | 06:40 pm

Two leading Cuban dissidents have been threatened and attacked, “by people they took to be intelligence agents in separate incidents on the same day,” the AP reports. Elizardo Sanchez said two plaincl...

‘Express’ Detentions in Cuba New Way to Repress Dissenters 30 Nov 2012 | 06:37 pm

In the last couple of years, “express detentions,” rather than long jail terms, have become the way the Cuban government “represses” dissenters. These detentions can last from a few hours up to a week...

Mursi Moves to Take Over Egypt’s Unions 30 Nov 2012 | 06:35 pm

CAIRO – Days after Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi granted himself absolute powers, he brought in his first law allowing the government to appoint loyalists to the country’s sole trade union federat...

Easing of Restraints in Cuba Renews Debate on U.S. Embargo 30 Nov 2012 | 06:32 pm

HAVANA — “If I could just get a lift,” said Francisco López, imagining the addition of a hydraulic elevator as he stood by a rusted Russian sedan in his mechanic’s workshop here. All he needed was an ...

Cuba Claims U.S. Helps Dissidents Access Internet 9 Nov 2012 | 05:53 pm

Cuba says the United States helps dissidents in Cuba access the internet as part of a campaign to undermine its communist government. Cuba’s foreign ministry claims the United States was “promoting… f...

Cuba’s Search for Offshore Oil Produces Empty Holes 9 Nov 2012 | 05:51 pm

HAVANA — Cuba’s long, costly quest for socialism-with-oil appears to be ending in little more than a string of empty holes across the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The latest attempt to strike crude i...