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Cuban women’s group empowering people through “internet without internet” campaign

The Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR) believes that “access to information of the Cuban people is vital to their empowerment and freedom.” To achieve this goal FLAMUR has launched an “internet without internet” campaign, in...

Berta Soler strengthens leadership with Ladies in White

According to Diario de Cuba, “The Ladies in White closed the vote for the recall on Wednesday called by Berta Soler to decide her continuation as national representative of the organization.” In the Havana capital, “79 women voted for Soler and 6...

A.I. releases annual Cuba report: The repression continues

Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights organization, has just released its 2014 annual report on Cuba.Following is an excerpt regarding “freedom of expression, association, assembly and movement:”Criticism of the government...

UNPACU lanches a campaign to recruit “massive” number of activists in Cuba

The Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) has issued the following press release:*****************************February 16, 2015The Patriotic Union of Cuba, UNPACU, has as a main objective to recruit, capacitate, train and lead in a nonviolent struggle the largest possible...

Dagoberto Valdés: “Sowing seeds of democracy in Cuba”

In a special report for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish language daily describes human rights activist and Catholic intellectual Dagoberto Valdés, as a man on a mission who, around the fertile sugar and tobacco fields of Guanajay, Cuba is “sowing seeds of democracy...