Category: Cuba

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 5: Crazy American Indian; Drug Trafficking; The Diary; The Chess Game; The First Murder and Prison Violence

Crazy American Indian One day a new inmate arrived, an American Indian. He was a monster, huge, much taller than me, weighed almost five hundred pounds, strong and very corpulent. He entered the cell at almost twelve o'clock at night and the guard said to me: Medina, whether you want him to sleep with you … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 5: Crazy American Indian; Drug Trafficking; The Diary; The Chess Game; The First Murder and Prison Violence

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 4: Prisons; Living with Prisoners; Yoga Classes

PRISONS I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew (10, 34) Bloody Ground, Beaumont, Texas The penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, was called Bloody Land by Americans because of the high percentage of murders and violent acts that occurred there. It was very complex. While still in prison in Miami, in order to … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 4: Prisons; Living with Prisoners; Yoga Classes

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 3: Family and Prison; Family Visits; Visits of the Cuban Interests Section

Family and prison There is no end to the things of the heart. Li Tai Po Undoubtedly the mainstay of one's life in prison is the family, it is the most direct support. Family was everything for me, the very essence. I even reflected with my wife and daughters, and I told them, I survive … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 3: Family and Prison; Family Visits; Visits of the Cuban Interests Section

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 2: What did we do to get out of the hole; The Sentences

What did we do to get out of the hole? We were in the hole because they wanted us to be there, it was a way of punishing us, but we began to make demands through internal prison forms. Inside the hole one can ask for better conditions, and for this purpose they use some … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 2: What did we do to get out of the hole; The Sentences

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 1

TO BE A MAN OF FIDEL Elier Ramirez Cañedo In spite of all the arguments expressed during years of intense struggle for the release of the Five, for truth and justice, I believe that an initial explanation is necessary, especially considering that there may still be some foreign readers who are victims of media manipulation … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 1

Cuba and Nicaragua: Two Sister Revolutions

Eduardo Martínez Borbonet, former Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Dos revoluciones hermanas radiolaprimerisima.comLa Habana. Por Eduardo Martínez Borbonet, Consejo de Comunicación y Ciudadanía There are no identical political processes, much less Revolutions, which are conditioned by history and the context in which they develop. However, in Our America there are no two processes with as many … Continue reading Cuba and Nicaragua: Two Sister Revolutions

Granma: What is the story behind the operators of El Toque? As they did with Dolar Today in Venezuela, the US Government ‘secretly” finances El Toque

https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2024-05-09/la-historia-no-contada-detras-de-los-operadores-del-toque-09-05-2024-12-05-24 See also: Granma: About the financial war that is being waged against us The manipulation of the monetary scale to influence price increases carried out by the El Toque platform, using its daily exchange pesos to dollar rate, negatively influences Cuba's GDP, Razones de Cuba, specialized in unmasking the attacks against Cuba, denounced this … Continue reading Granma: What is the story behind the operators of El Toque? As they did with Dolar Today in Venezuela, the US Government ‘secretly” finances El Toque

$6,000 Matching Fund to fulfill Code Pink project to raise $55,000 to send Milk for Cuba’s Children

Dear friends of Cuba, Code Pink and Carlos Lazo, founder of Puentes de Amor, are raising $55,000 to send milk to Cuba for hospitalized children. They are close to fulfilling their goal, now at $41,000. We are having a $6,000 matching find to help raise the rest so the milk can be sent. Let’s Send Milk to the Children of … Continue reading $6,000 Matching Fund to fulfill Code Pink project to raise $55,000 to send Milk for Cuba’s Children

Cuban President receives PSUV leader Diosdado Cabello; Communist Party of Cuba and PSUV Sign Cooperation Agreement

Cuban President received Diosdado Cabello Presidente cubano recibió a Diosdado Cabello Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, held a meeting today with Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), who is visiting to Cuba … Continue reading Cuban President receives PSUV leader Diosdado Cabello; Communist Party of Cuba and PSUV Sign Cooperation Agreement