La Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional informó que las detenciones en la Isla aumentaron considerablemente en los últimos 10 meses. La información de la organización señala que el número de presos políticos creció de 45 hace unos 10 meses a 90 este mes. El gobierno de Cuba [...]

By Mauricio Claver-Carone in The Hill: Why Obama’s ‘extended hand’ is counter-productive In the 19th century, U.S. abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison astutely observed, “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly [...]

The number of prisoners held on political charges in Cuba doubled to 90 in the past 10 months despite the government’s preference for short-term detentions to control dissent, a Havana human rights group reported Tuesday. About 30 of the new prisoners are leaders and members of the Cuban Patriotic Union [...]

(Reuters) – An undersea fiber-optic cable that promises to bring Cuban Internet and phone communications into the 21st Century stirred to life this week, two years after it was laid betweenVenezuela and the Caribbean island. Financed by the Venezuelan government, the ALBA-1 cable under the Caribbean was laid with much fanfare [...]

In 2011, the Castro regime banished most of the 75 political prisoners it had arrested during the “Black Spring” crackdown of 2003. Apologists of the Cuban dictatorship are still heralding this banishment, which in itself was a violation of international law. Today, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights has released a list [...]

As Cubans embraced their first week as potential global travelers, the rest of the world pondered Cuba’s motivation in enacting one of its most sweeping reforms to date and how it might affect travel throughout the region. And one ally responded swiftly to the prospect of an increase in Cuban [...]

Fifty-one new cholera cases reported in Cuba’s capital are drawing an increasing concern about the spread of the illness throughout the country. Cuba’s Public Health Ministry acknowledged the situation in Havana on Tuesday as disappointment rises in the diplomatic community over the government’s lack of transparency. While the outbreak, which [...]

There were long lines at Cuban passport agencies as citizens lined up to test the state’s new loosened laws, which — it is hoped — will make it easier for Cubans to obtain passports to travel abroad, and allow some Cubans who have left the country to return. One big [...]

As Venezuelans anxiously awaited news from ailing President Hugo Chávez and his ministers in Cuba in recent days, I received a tweet that stated, “This is the first case in history where a country subsidizes another, and is dominated by the latter.” Indeed, historians in the future will be scratching [...]

Hugo Chávez and the Castro brothers knew in the summer of 2011 that the Venezuelan’s chances of survival were almost nil and began to prepare for a post-Chávez era. They would try to cure the loquatious lieutenant colonel, of course, but ever since the doctors realized the type of cancer [...]