World Press Archive

2009-04-30 / Will Weissert - AP (Boston Globe)

US should do more to woo Cuba, Castro says

HAVANA - President Raul Castro yesterday dismissed US President Obama's policy changes toward Cuba as "achieving only the minimum," and said that it is up to the United States - not his country - to do more to improve relations.

The State Department shot back that the onus is on Cuba to show that it is serious about meaningful negotiations.

Castro took a hard line on making even tiny political reforms to appease Washington, telling an international gathering of government ministers, "it is not Cuba who has to make gestures."

The Obama administration has allowed unlimited travel and money transfers for Americans with family in Cuba and has eased restrictions on telecommunications between the two countries. But top US officials have also insisted they would like to see some Cuban reforms before truly exploring normalizing diplomatic relations, which Washington broke off in 1961. ...more

2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy

2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more

2013-04-16 / The Washington Post

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more

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