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Rob Sequin |  Havana Journal

Innospec Inc, a Delaware corporation, has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle allegations of violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations.

OFAC’s settlement of the apparent violations is part of a $40.2 million comprehensive criminal and civil settlement between Innospec and OFAC, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office.

OFAC alleged that, after Innospec’s acquisition of a foreign corporation that maintained a local sales office in Cuba, Innospec conducted business in Cuba through its acquired subsidiary, including conducting transactions in which the…
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Schooner Amistad will dock in Havana Cuba

Posted March 18, 2010 by Publisher

By JIM KUHNHENN | Associated Press

Days from now, a stately black schooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana’s protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights — the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby.

The ship is the Amistad, a U.S.-flagged vessel headed for largely forbidden Cuban waters as a symbol of both a dark 19th century past and modern public diplomacy.
The Amistad is the 10-year-old official tall ship of the state of Connecticut and a replica of the Cuban coastal trader that sailed from Havana in 1839 with…
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Oswaldo Paya nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Posted March 18, 2010 by Publisher

March 18 marks the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Black Spring where 75 Cuban dissidents were arrested for their struggle for human rights.

Dagrun Eriksen, deputy leader of the Norwegian Christian Democrats (KrF), has nominated Oswaldo Payá, the most prominent leader of this struggle, for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

“The Nobel Prize to Payá would be a significant contribution to a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba”, says deputy leader of KrF Dagrun Eriksen.

Cuba has a long history of violent regime changes. Today’s regime is getting more and more unpopular,…
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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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Cuban government supporters harass rights marchers

Posted March 16, 2010 by Publisher

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.

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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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OFAC releases four Cuba Embargo actions in two days

Posted March 09, 2010 by Publisher

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.

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