Stories about Cuba from May, 2011
Cuba: More on Soto's Death
Cuban bloggers continue to follow developments surrounding the death of Wilfredo Soto Juan Garcia, here, here and here.
Cuba: The Beauty of Flamenco
Havana Times interviews Flamenco dancer Ana Rosa Meneses.
Cuba: The Healer
“In Cuba there are several amazing healers”: Iván's File Cabinet blogs about “the best and most famous” of them all.
Cuba: “Police Brutality” or “Natural Causes” in Dissident's Death?”
Cuban bloggers continue their outcry over the death of dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto, especially in light of an official statement which suggests that Soto, popularly known by his nickname “The Student”, died “of natural causes”.
Cuba: Bloggers, Period
Elaine Díaz reflects on how Cuban bloggers have been artificially divided [es] into two bands: the “pro-government” and the “mercenaries,” erasing the plurality of this small, yet vibrant, blogosphere.
Cuba: Activities Against Homophobia
Blogger and journalist Francisco Rodríguez Cruz discusses [es] the history of, and his participation in, the Cuban Symposium against Homophobia [es], which celebrates it fourth edition this May with events all over the island.
Cuba: Role of Police in Dissident's Death
Generation Y says of the death of dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto: “I don’t know how the authorities of my country are going to explain it, but I doubt, this time, they will manage to persuade us it wasn’t the fault of the police”; Along the Malecon adds a few more...
Cuba: Low Birth Rates
“What is the problem of low birth rates? That soon there will be very few working age people to maintain many old people. Well, let's try and solve this,” says Rogelio Díaz Moreno in Bubusopía [es] regarding the decrease in birth rates in Cuba.
Cuba: Osama Bin Laden's Death
Journalist and blogger Vladia Rubio comments on United States politics [es] and the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Cuba: Remembering Martí
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo reflects [es] on the figure of José Martí, considered the founder of the Cuban Republic.
Cuba: A Controversial Encounter
The bloggers from the collective student blog from Matanzas La Joven Cuba reflect [es] on their meeting with the US professor Ted Henken, who was informed by Cuban authorities that he could not return to the Island after conducting research on the Cuban blogosphere.
Cuba: Torture Tactic
Uncommon Sense blogs about how the authorities “have responded to Andy Frometa Cuenca, a political prisoner on hunger strike since April 16 to demand his release and that of all political prisoners in Cuba.”
Cuba: Proper Care for HIV+ Mother
Pedazos de La Isla reports that the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Resistance Front has publicly requested – and since received – proper medical service and housing conditions for an HIV-positive mother and her young child.
Cuba: Return Prohibited for U.S. Professor and Blogger
Ted Henken, professor at Baruch College at the City University of New York, a well-versed blogger in the Cuban blogosphere, has been informed by authorities from the Department of Security of the State of Cuba that he will not be returning to the island. Over the course of his 12 day stay, Henken interviewed over 40 bloggers for an investigation about blogs and the Internet in Cuba.
Cuba: About Those “Reasons”
“Taking another look at ‘The Reasons of Cuba’, I reach the conclusion that Raul Castro is making way for the inevitable- the transition”: Cuban Voices from Exile explains.
Cuba: Information & the Internet
Uncommon Sense says that the Cuban authorities continue to try to contain free expression, “extend[ing] its blockade on information…by limiting access to the Internet.”
Caribbean: Reactions to News of Bin Laden's Death
Diaspora bloggers comment on the news of Osama Bin Laden's death.
Cuba: Indoctrination of Children
Without Evasion says that by teaching ideological doctrine to children, “we thus prolong…the saga of slavery of thought, of pretense, and of corruption of spirit of which we were victims, and which we so condemn.”
Cuba: Governmental Decentralization
Blogger Luis Alejandro Yero comments [es] on one of the most important issues discussed at the VI Congress of the Communist Party: the decentralization of the government.
