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Cuba Blog is an outlet for independent Cuban journalists to post their work.   The articles are available in English and/or Spanish and have been sent to us directly by the authors.

/ Lamasiel Gutierrez Romero, Cuban Correspondent in Europe

Biological Warfare

Since the very beginning of the triumph of the Revolution, every time a new epidemic appears, the threat of biological warfare starts looming over Cuba. Countless times already, the Cuban government has accused its U.S. counterpart of encouraging and spreading biological warfare with the aim to subdue the Cuban people by diseases, starvation, death and overall destruction.     For example, ... more

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/ Lamasiel Gutierrez Romero, Cuban Correspondent in Europe

On the UCI, Cyber War, Information Technologies and Optical Fibre Cable

The Cuban University of Computer Sciences (UCI) has become the main weapon of the communist regime in the fight against Cuban dissidents, bloggers and independent journalists.     The ... more

/ Lamasiel Gutierrez

The Collapse of Education in Cuba

The idea of training “fast-track” teachers (“profesores emergentes”) was first conceived by the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1960, emerging from the very cradle of the Revolution. ... more

/ Lamasiel Gutierrez Romero

Cuban Blacks and their Marginalization: Two Sides of Same Coin

It was presumed that with the triumph of the revolution in 1959, racial discrimination would be eradicated as soon as the differences between social classes disappear. Yet, the issue that ... more

/ Lamasiel Gutierrez Romero

Child prostitution in Cuba

The Curita park located in the municipality of Centro Habana is a tolerance zone, where you can daily see, up until late night hours, prostitutes hunting for Cubans or foreign tourists who ... 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

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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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