CUBAN AMERICANS SECTION - Havana Journal
By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Miami Herald
The U.S. government’s Cuba democracy programs are all but paralyzed, facing political, safety and bureaucratic hurdles that critics and backers agree could end up halting their more aggressive features.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which doles out much of the money, has not requested new funding proposals since March, and groups that run the programs complain they have little money left.
Powerful Democrats in Congress are vowing to block the more ``provocative’‘ programs, and the Obama administration is hinting it may halt a key part of the programs that Cuba brands…
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Vanguard Correspondent Adrian Baschuk travels to the last remaining Communist state in the western hemisphere to see how hard life really is there and investigates whether or not there exists any possibility of regime change.
Jorge Moreno, a Miami resident and third generation Cuban exile, is in front of the camera with the video starting in Little Havana talking about his heritage and planned trip to Cuba. The camera follows him from the Miami airport to the Jose Marti airport in Havana where his journey through daily life in Havana gives the viewer an excellent look into life in Cuba.…
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BY GERARDO REYES | El Nuevo Herald
Fifty-one years after a hijacked airliner plunged into the dark waters of a Cuban bay, killing 14 people onboard, the man who has been portrayed as the lead suspect now living in Miami will not be prosecuted under federal law, unless new evidence emerges.
Citing the passage of time and fading evidence, the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami said Thursday it will not be able to make a case against Edmundo Ponce de León in what was the first international hijacking from the United States.
``The allegations in this matter are more than…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Mr. Claver-Carone of CapitolHillCubans.com posted this article today:
Profit$ in Anti-Sanctions Advocacy?
Are anti-sanctions lobbyists, activists and interest groups profiting from their advocacy?
Last week, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana and U.S. Congressman Howard Berman of California wrote an opinion editorial in the Miami Herald calling for the unconditional lifting of tourism-travel sanctions towards Castro’s Cuba.
On the very same day, the price of the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA) jumped 4%. This fund holds about 100 companies—both foreign and U.S. based—that should benefit economically (in conjunction with the Castro regime) from the lifting…
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(Original title: In tough economic times, public opinion shifts on Cuba embargo)
By David Adams | TampaBay.com
We all know how Cuba excites passions in political debates from Miami to Tampa.
Thursday night, Rep. David Rivera, a Miami Republican, and Naples cattleman John Parke Wright IV locked horns over United States policy toward Cuba in a debate held in the wood-paneled enclave of downtown Tampa’s University Club.
Rivera, a rising Cuban American political star, voiced the unbending attitudes of Miami’s hard-line exile community — no normalization of relations until democratic elections are held and the political prisoners are freed. Wright,…
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By CURT ANDERSON | Associated Press
(original title: Judge: Cuba must pay $27.5M for jailing journalist)
MIAMI — A federal judge ordered the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday to pay $27.5 million in damages to the mother of a journalist jailed since a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
U.S. District Judge Alan S. Gold ruled in the case of Omar Rodriguez Saludes, who is serving a 27-year sentence in Cuban prisons that the judge described as “deplorable and degrading” in his 13-page order.
“During his imprisonment, he has been beaten, starved, given poor food, placed in solitary…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Associated Press
Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida said Friday he will resign from the Senate as soon as a replacement can be appointed, leaving the seat more than a year before his term ends.
Martinez, the only Hispanic Republican in the Senate, revealed his plans in a statement to supporters and was expected to publicly announce the decision Friday afternoon in Florida.
The first-term senator already had announced in December that he would not seek re-election in 2010, but he had fended off rumors that he would give up the seat early.
His decision puts…
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BY JAY WEAVER | Miami Herald
The trademarks for two famous Cuban brands—Havana Club rum and Cohiba cigars—could be sold to the highest bidder if a Miami-Dade family who lost a loved one to Castro’s firing squad prevails in court.
Relatives of the late Bobby Fuller, who won a $100 million wrongful-death judgment against the Cuban government, urged a Miami-Dade circuit judge Tuesday to order the sale of Havana Club, Cohiba and 12 other Cuban trademarks to help satisfy their award.
Their legal move will spark a sure-fire controversy, because litigation over Cuban trademarks…
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By CURT ANDERSON | AP
A Miami judge has awarded more than $1 billion in damages to a Cuban-American who was involved in the 1967 capture and killing of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien said Friday he was sending a signal to the Cuban government. Such a large award may be impossible to collect but attorneys involved in the case insist they’ll try.
The award came in a lawsuit filed by Gustavo Villoldo, who blamed Guevara, Fidel Castro and others for his father’s 1959 suicide in Cuba. The family fled to the U.S.
The 76-year-old Villoldo…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Megan Williams, the Director/Producer of Tell Me Cuba sent me the DVD and asked me to have a look at it. We had a brief phone conversation but we did not talk about politics too much so I wasn’t sure which way the film would lean. Of course I was assuming there would be a “leaning” since the subject matter is Cuba. So, I began to watch the DVD with an open mind looking for the leaning.
The documentary leads off with a brief overview of the history of…
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