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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Maybe it is premature to declare the end of a US policy that is almost fifty years old but the Havana Journal is closely watching developments that appear to lay a path towards lifting the travel and/or trade Embargo against Cuba. We are listing events, although may not appear to be immediately related to changes in US Cuba policy, we think collectively the events below are related to the big picture of changing US Cuba policy.
We will update this article as events develop.
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(Editing by Jeff Franks and Alan Elsner) | Reuters
Cuban police grabbed members of the opposition group “Ladies in White” by their hair, dragged them into a bus and drove them away to break up a protest march on Wednesday.
The white clothes the women traditionally wear were smeared with mud as they resisted policewomen forcing them into a bus. Government protesters shouted insults at them for the second day in a row.
The march was the third this week by the Ladies in White who are protesting the 2003 imprisonment of their husbands and sons, most of whom are…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar has signed a petition calling for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Cuba.
Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the publisher of the Havana Journal and more than 12000 people have signed the Freedom of Cuban Political Prisoners petition.
From Babalu Blog
For the Freedom of Cuban Political Prisoners
For the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Cuban jails; for respect for the exercise, promotion and defense of human rights anywhere in the world; for the honor…
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By Nelson Acosta and Jeff Franks | Reuters
Cuban government supporters harassed and shouted at members of the opposition group “Ladies in White” on Tuesday in Havana as the women marched in protest against the 2003 imprisonment of 75 dissidents.
The women, numbering about two dozen and dressed in white, had to be protected by state security agents after they stopped and yelled “Freedom, Freedom!” in front of the headquarters of the Cuban state journalists union.
The dissidents were marching for the second day in a protest to commemorate the 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown by the government against opponents.
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By Jeff Franks | Reuters
Cuba’s dissident “Ladies in White” staged a small, mostly silent march through Havana on Monday to begin a week of protest to mark the anniversary of the “Black Spring” crackdown of 2003 when the government imprisoned 75 opponents.
The anniversary on Thursday comes at a delicate time for Cuba’s communist government, whose human rights record is already under fire for the Feb. 23 death of dissident hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo and for its handling of another opposition hunger striker who has vowed to die for his cause.
About three dozen women, dressed in the…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The European Union voted today to condemn Cuba for the “avoidable and cruel” death of dissident hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
The European assembly called on Cuba to immediately release all political prisoners and urged the EU foreign affairs liaison Catherine Ashton, to push the Castro regime toward a peaceful transition towards a multiparty democracy.
The vote of 509-30 with 14 abstentions in favor comes as another Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas is seriously ill from his own hunger strike that he is using as a demand to get Cuban political prisoners freed. The assembly…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
OFAC has been busy lately. In two days OFAC has released four actions related to Cuba.
In order of release:
1. Updated list of authorized providers of air, travel, and remittance forwarding services to Cuba.
We have posted all of the licensed Cuba Service Providers.
2. Personal Communication Services General License
We posted an article about this relaxation of the US trade Embargo that allows US based communications companies to export their products into Cuba.
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
A new ruling from OFAC regarding Cuban Assets Control Regulations, effective immediately, states that US companies can export certain services “incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet”.
This new action will allow Cuban citizens to access various instant messaging, blogging and social networking services based in the US. Cubans theoretically will have access to popular social networking services like Google’s Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Hotmail and other personal communication services as long as the Cuban government allows their use.
On April…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
This is the current list (updated March 8, 2010) of Cuba Service Providers as provided by the Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control featuring authorized providers of carrier, travel and remittance forwarding services to Cuba.
Legend
CSP: Carrier Service Provider
TSP: Travel Service Provider
RF: Remittance Forwarder
Format
Company Name
(Service Provider Code) Category Phone Number
Contact
Address
Cuba Service Providers
A Better Choice Travel
(002) CSP, TSP (305) 263-6555
Incorporated as ABC Charters, Inc.
Ms.…
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Press Release
A new book, “From Cubana to Santrina throws fresh light on the terrorist activities of Cuban dissident, Luis Posada Carilles, whose impending trial coming May 20 in El Paso Texas federal court is again attracting international media attention.
Written by New York based Guyanese Journalist Dhanraj Bhagwandin, the book highlights the trail of Bambi (one of Posada’s aliases) from Cuba to Venezuela and then to El Salvador where he was involved in drugs, prostitution and a death squad.
Posada coordinated numerous plots to kill Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro and also helped the Contras in Nicaragua.
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