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Cuban authorities arrest pregnant dissident
By: CNA, March 26, 2009
The president of the Central Opposition Coalition in Cuba, Idania Yanes Contreras, was detained last weekend by Cuban agents despite the fact that she is seven months pregnant. At the time of her arrest she was attempting to learn the whereabouts of her husband, Alcides Rivera Rodriguez, who was arrested as he left his home to meet with dissidents in the town of Placetas.
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Cuban's hunger strike a desperate bid for justice, attention
By: Frances Robles, Miami Herald, March 26, 2009
Jorge Luis García's home in the Central Cuban town of Placetas is easy to spot: It's the one with the big Cuban flag draped over the front gate -- on the block surrounded by security agents and cops. It's also the one that visitors can't reach because the Cuban National Police won't allow it.
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List of 'Worst Dictators' omits Fidel and Raul Castro
By: Glen Garvin, Miami Herald, March 25, 2009
If I were making a list of the world's greatest experts on lists, David Wallechinsky would be right at the top. He's been compiling quirky collections of names and facts for more than three decades now, in books like The People's Almanac and The Book Of Lists, and he's the master of the form. So it's with some trepidation that I dispute the absence of our local boys, Fidel and Raul Castro, from Wallechinsky's list of The World's 10 Worst Dictators, in the issue of Parade magazine bundled inside today's Miami Herald.
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Venezuelan candidate accuses Hugo Chávez of ballot chicanery
By: Lesley Clark, Miami Herald, March 25, 2009
Leopoldo López, a popular politician barred by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from running for office, told an international rights panel Tuesday that his case has repercussions for the future of democracy in the Americas.
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Venezuela: Journalists' association reports violation of freedom of expression at OAS court
By: El Universal, March 25, 2009
William Echeverría, the President of the Venezuelan Journalist's Association (CNP), reported in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous judicial institution of the Organization of American States, 31 cases of violations of freedom of expression carried out between October and December 2008, according to a paper from the National Commission of Journalists (Conapro).
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U.S. immigrant detentions violate human rights
By: Deborah Charles, Reuters, March 25, 2009
The detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year in the United States represents a violation of human rights, Amnesty International USA said in a report on Wednesday. On an average day, the rights group said, more than 30,000 immigrants are in detention facilities. That's triple the number that were in custody a decade ago, according to Amnesty's report "Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA."
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Cuba: Dissidents ask to be imprisoned in show of solidarity
By: Miami Herald, March 25, 2009
More than 30 dissidents went to five police stations in the capital on the anniversary of the arrest of the Group of 75 and asked that they be imprisoned themselves in an act of solidarity. One of them, Dr. Darsi Ferrer, said the police at the Aguilera station knew beforehand of their planned activity March 18. "But they didn't try to stop us," he said. "On the contrary, they tried to avoid a scandal."
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Cuban punk rocker, photographer arrested for showing support for hunger striker
By: Uncommon Sense blog, March 23, 2009
The Cuban revolution against the Castro tyranny is being fought on several fronts. Among the many categories of combatants: Political prisoners, and those formerly imprisoned in the gulag. Independent journalists. Punk rockers. Members of these three groups converged in the town of Placetas this week, and fearful of strength in numbers, the dictatorship struck back against an amazing demonstration of solidarity with one of the giants of the Cuban opposition.
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Cuba: Interview with blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
By: Claudia Cadelo, Global Voices, March 23, 2009
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo has been blogging since 2008. He was born in Havana, Cuba on December 10, 1971. With a degree in biochemistry obtained in 1994 from the Department of Biology from the City of Havana, he left the sciences for literature. In this field, he received many prizes from official publications such as the Short Story Prize from the magazines La Gaceta 2005 and Cauce 2007 and many other awards. His unofficial publications can be seen as the editor of the e-zine the Revolution Evening Post.
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El Salvador: "We have signed a new accord on peace and reconciliation"
By: Upsdie Down World, March 16, 2009
The president-elect of El Salvador Mauricio Funes, together with his supporters, celebrated the victory in the elections held this Sunday in this Central American country, giving a speech in which he said that with their vote the people had signed "a new accord on peace and reconciliation."
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Decolonization's rocky road: Corruption, expropriation and justice in Bolivia
By: Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World, March 14, 2009
Over 3,000 Bolivian and Peruvian indigenous activists recently marched in El Alto in commemoration of the March 13th, 1781 siege of La Paz, Bolivia launched from El Alto by indigenous rebels Tupac Katari and Bartolina Sisa. The siege was against Spanish rule and for indigenous liberation in the Andes. At a gathering the night before the recent anniversary mobilization, Eugene Rojas, the mayor of Achacachi, said, "We, the indigenous, organized a siege of La Paz in the past, and we will do it again if we need to." Rojas alluded to the long-postponed decolonization that Katari and Sisa dreamed of over two centuries ago. Today, those dreams of liberation are at once alive and in jeopardy.
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