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San Juan Declaration from the First Cuban National Encounter

Below is the full, translated statement released after the first Cuban National Encounter in San Juan, Puerto Rico on August 15, 2015 (translated by FHRC):”Between August 13 and 15, 2015, the first Cuban National Encounter was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 23...

A Sunday with The Ladies in White: Demanding Human Rights in Cuba

As published in Diario de Cuba, “The seventeenth Sunday of repression against the Ladies in White will be remembered perhaps by the imminent opening of the US embassy in Havana and a performance proposed by the Forum for Rights and Freedoms.””The...

“MARCH MADNESS” IN HAVANA: ONGOING REPRESSION MET WITH INCREASED SOLIDARITY BY CUBA’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Miami, FL – For the sixteenth consecutive Sunday, the Ladies in White movement reported excessive repression and politically motivated arrests as a response to their weekly, nonviolent marches in Havana.According to Ladies in White Leader, Berta Soler, “after the...

No More “Droplets of Internet” for the Cuban People: Let’s Tear Down the Cyber Wall

An article on June 30th from El Nuevo Herald as well as the follow-up in Newsweek on July 13th highlights recent Cuban government meetings with several Google executives on the possibilities of bringing massive Internet to Cuba. Brett Pelmutter, a top Google Ideas...

Twenty One Years Later, Horrors of Cuban Tugboat Massacre Loom over Cuban Government

Miami, FL – The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) and the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC), would like to remember and highlight victims of the “Cuban Tugboat Massacre,” an event that took place 21 years ago this Monday July 13th, 2014.The incident...