Kuba (špa. Cuba), službeno Republika Kuba (špa. República de Cuba) je država i otok, otočje, koja se nalazi okružena Meksičkim zaljevom, Karipskim morem i Atlantskim oceanom. Okružena je sa Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama i Bahamima na sjeveru,
Meksikom na zapadu, Kajmanskim otočjem i Jamajkom na jugu te Haitijem na jugoistoku.

 Povijest

Ropstvo je ukinuto 1886. godine.Mirjana Polić-Bobić - Rađanje hispanskoameričkog svijeta, Naklada LJEVAK d.o.o., Zagreb 2007., str. 79.
Godine 1959. Kuba je postala prva marksistička država u Latinskoj Americi. Svrgavanjem omraženog diktatora Fulgencija Batiste, vođa revolucije Fidel Castro došao je u izravan sukob s vanjskom politikom i interesima Sjedinjenih Država. Ovaj prkosni čin kod mnogih mu je u Srednjoj i Južnoj Americi donio golemu popularnost, jer se učilo da američka politika nije dovoljno osjetljiva prema narodnim nevoljama. Fidel Castro i njegova desna ruka Che Guevara tim su činom pridobili i znatan broj pristaša među buntovnom omladinom u mnogim drugim dijelovima zapadnoga svijeta. Castro je poduzeo sve što je mogao da Kubu spasi od njezine opasne gospodarske ovisnosti o šećeru. To mu, međutim nije uspjelo, pa kada su potkraj osamdesetih na svjetskom tržištu naglo pale cijene šećera, klimavo gospodarstvo zemlje, unatoč obilnoj potpori iz Sovjetskog Saveza, jedva je preživjelo.  Kasnije je Castro postao i prvi sekretar Komunističke partije, kao i vrhovni zapovjednik oružanih snaga. Tako je praktički preuzeo svu izvršnu i zakonodavnu vlast u državi. Prvih mjeseci nove republike SAD se prijateljski pokušao približiti Kubi. No uskoro je izbila na vidjelo kubanska ogorčenost prema Amerikancima, pa su se dvije zemlje postupno udaljile. Castro nije gubio vrijeme da likvidira više od 600 svojih zemljaka koji su bili optuženi za navodne ratne zločine. Podržao je i invazije na Haiti i Dominikansku Republiku. Godine 1960. potpisao je ugovor o pomoći i trgovini sa SSSR-om, a godinu dana kasnije prisvojio američke i britanske naftne kompanije. Konačno, u siječnju 1961., SAD prekidaju diplomatske odnose s Kubom. Iste godine Castrov je položaj označio slom invazije u Zaljevu svinja. Američka je mornarica, naime, tisuću i dvjesto kubanskih izbjeglica iz američkih baza dopremila u kubanske vode da u Zaljevu svinja pokušaju izvesti invaziju na otok. Operacija je trajala tri dana, a završila tako da su gotovo svi pobijeni ili pohvatani.

Godine 1962. kubanska raketna kriza dovela je do američko-sovjetskog sučeljavanja koje je zaprijetilo izbijanjem trećeg svjetskog rata. Sovjetski je Savez na otoku instalirao brojne raketne baze. Sjedinjene su Države reagirale bez oklijevanja uvodeći pomorsku blokadu Kube. Rusi su u zadnjem trenutku odustali od probijanja blokade, da bi na kraju pristali na uklanjane baza. Godine 1989. odnosi sa SAD-om su se nešto popravili pa su Američke tvrtke počele uvelike ulagati u havanske poslove, a tisuće bogatih turista željele su osjetiti ćud kubanske elegancije i dekadencije. Jedna od prvih zamisli Castrova režima bila je radikalno smanjenje pučanstva u gradskim središtima, a osobito u samoj Havani. Ishod je većem dijelu prijestolnice dao ruševan izgled. Privatne su se palače pretvorile u pretrpane stanove, a u prodavaonicama oronulih pročelja moglo se kupiti malo što osim onog najneophodnijeg. Većina roba može se kupovati samo na točkice, a među građanima Havane uobičajio se pozdrav „Jesi li zadnji?“ dok se ogledaju za krajem repa koji se oteže pred svakom prodavaonicom. Strancima kojima je odobren ulazak u zemlju, cenzura i ostala ograničenja otežavaju razumijevanje istinskih radnih uvjeta naroda današnje Kube. Prije revolucije malobrojna je manjina bila vrlo bogata, a ogromna većina opasno siromašna. Danas se čini da je proces ujednačavanja opće siromaštvo proširio na čitavo pučanstvo. Revolucija je tek djelomice uspjela modernizirati državu- šećer je i dalje glavna roba, a ovisi o tekućim inozemnim cijenama. Ponekad se čini da je moderna birokratska elita zamijenila staru španjolsku veleposjedničku aristokraciju. U seoskim područjima život se u osnovi ne mijenja, a seljaštvo i dalje živi od jednostavne hrane, kao što su grah, riža i banane. Pa ipak, veliki obrazovni program vrlo je uspješan, iako krajnji cilj stvaranja „novog čovjeka“ možda i nije postignut.

 Politika

Kuba je socijalistička država. Fidel Castro je bio na vlasti od 1959., prvo kao premijer, a od 1976. kao predsjednik, sve do 24. veljače 2008. kada ga je na mjestu šefa države, šef vlade, tajnika Komunističke partije Kube, te vrhovnog zapovjednika Kubanskih oružanih snaga zamijenio brat Raúl Castro. 19. travnja 2018. Raúla Castra na funkciji predsjednika Kube (predsjednika Državnog vijeća) nasljedio je Miguel Diaz-Canel, njegov dotadašnji potpredsjednik od 2013. Raúl Castro zadržao je funkciju tajnika Komunističke partije Kube.
Kubanska narodna skupština imenovala je u subotu 21. prosinca 2019. Manuela Marrera predsjednikom vlade, prvi put nakon 1976. godine.

Kubanski parlament, Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (Nacionalno okupljanje ljudske moći), ima 609 članova. Oni se biraju na rok od 5 godina. Komunistička partija je jedina politička stranka na Kubi koja je legalna. Ona drži vodeće funkcije u upravi zemlje, uključujući i sudstvo. Ostala politička pitanja uključuju ilegalnu emigraciju kubanaca u SAD, ekonomski embargo koji je SAD nametnuo Kubi i zatvaranje političkih disidenata koji su u opoziciji prema vlasti.

 Pokrajine

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Kuba je podijeljena u 14 pokrajina, 169 općina, i jedna specijalna općina (Isla de la Juventud).

1. Pinar del Rio (pokrajina)
2. Artemisa (pokrajina)
3. La Habana (pokrajina) (prije Ciudad de la Habana (pokrajina))
4. Mayabeque (pokrajina)
5. Matanzas (pokrajina)
6. Cienfuegos (pokrajina)
7. Villa Clara (pokrajina)
8. Sancti Spíritus (pokrajina)
9. Ciego de Ávila (pokrajina)
10. Camagüey (pokrajina)
11. Las Tunas (pokrajina)
12. Granma (pokrajina)
13. Holguín (pokrajina)
14. Santiago de Cuba (pokrajina)
15. Guantánamo (pokrajina)
16. Isla de la Juventud

 Zemljopis

Kuba je otočna država koja ima više od 1500 otoka, a glavni, istoimeni otok u ukupnoj površini sudjeluje s gotovo 95%. Otok Kuba najveći je i najzapadniji otok u Velikim Antilima, nalazi se na ulazu u Meksički zaljev, između poluotoka Floride i Yucatana. Dug je oko 1250 km, a širok 35-190 km. Veći je dio otoka građen od horizontalnih naslaga mezozojskih i tercijarnih vapnenaca, a u reljefu prevladavaju sravnjeni oblici. Zbog tektonskog uzdizanja u kvartaru, u vapnencima su se razvili krški oblici i podzemna hidrografija, a rijeke su u nepropusnim naslagama.

Prostrani, blago valoviti krški ravnjaci na visini od 100 do 200 m nadmorske visine izmjenjuju se s plodnim dolinama. Takva područja zauzimaju oko ¾ površine otoka. Nešto viša područja nalaze se u trima zonama. Na krajnjem zapadu je Cordillera de Guaniguanico, a sastoji se od dvaju nizova. Zapadniji, Sierra de los Organos građen je od vapnenca u kojima su oblikovane slikovite strme, kupaste uzvisine (uglavnom 300-350m). Prema istoku nastavlja se nešto viši (692m) niz Sierra del Rosario, građen od različitih stijena uključujući i kristalinske škriljevce i gnajseve. Drugo područje uzvisina, Sierra de Trinidad, nalazi se u središnjem dijelu zemlje, a doseže visinu od 1156 m (Pico de San Juan). Najviša su područja na krajnjem jugoistoku, gdje se uz južnu obalu strmo uzdiže Sierra Maestra dosižući 1994 m – Pico de Turquino, najviši vrh zemlje. Sjeverno od Sierra Maestre je do 1230 m visoka Sierra de Cristal, a na krajnjem istoku brežuljkasto pošumljeno područje Sagua-Baracoa. Ta su gorja građena od kristalinskih škriljevaca, gnajsa i granita, a tektonskim su pokretima nabrana i snažno razlomljena. Obala je najvećim dijelom niska, ponegdje i močvarna, dobro razvedena s mnogobrojnim zaljevima, pješčanim plažama, koraljnim grebenima, a ponegdje i strmim liticama, posebice na južnoj strani otoka. U poznatom zaljevu Guantanamo na jugoistoku zemlje nalazi se američka vojna baza. Kubi pripadaju mnogobrojni otoci, npr. otočja Sabana i Camaguey uza sjevernu, te Canerreos i Jardines de la Reina uz južnu obalu. Otočja čine mali otoci, ukupno ih je više od 1500, a jedini veći otok je Isla de la Juventud, površine 2201 km² u otočju Canerreos.
 Ekonomija

Ekonomija Kube je pod centralnim nadzorom političke vlasti. U posljednijh nekoliko godina provedene su manje reforme da bi se smanjila nelikvidnost, povećala učinkovitost poduzeća i otklonila stalna nestašica hrane i još nekih osnovnih sredstava.

U razdoblju 1989-1993 BDP je pao za 35%, kao rezultat raspada SSSR-a, najvećeg Kubanskog trgovačkog partnera. Nakon laganog oporavka u sljedećih nekoliko godina, 1999. BDP je povećan 6,3%, kao rezultat velikog uspona turizma.
Ekonomija Kube se naglo razvija zbog turizma koji se svake godine sve više povećava

 Demografija

Kuba je država u kojoj se miješaju gotovo sve rase i u većini su mulati. Porijeklo stanovnika je uglavnom španjolsko ili afričko.Postoji i mala kineska zajednica. Službeno, Kuba je do 1991 bila ateistička država, a država je zaplijenila sve crkvene objekte. U većini je Rimokatolička crkva (85%), a postoje i protestanti i židovi u manjini.

Dobna struktura:
0-14 godina: 21% (muški 1,221,602; žene 1,157,846)
15-64 godina: 69% (muški 3,849,135; žene 3,829,599)
65 godina i više: 10% (muški 503,711; žene 580,104) (2000., procjena)

Prirodni prirast: 0.39% (2000, procjena)
Etničke skupine:51% mulati, 37% bijelci, 11% crnci, 1% kinezi

Popis indijanskih plemena (prema Lehmannu, 1920):

Bani
Baracoa.
Barajagua.
Barbacoa.
Bayamo.
Bayaquitiri.
Boyaca.
Camagüey.
Cayaguayo.
Cubanacan.
Cuciba.
Guaimaro.
Guamahaya.
Guanacahibe.
Guaniguanico.
Havana.
Hanamana.
Iagua.
Macaca.
Macorixe.
Maguano.
Maisi.
Maiyé.
Mancon.
Maniabon.
Marien.
Ornofay.
Sabaneque.
Sagua.

 Jezici
Na kubi su popisana 3 jezika, od kojih je se jedan koristi samo kao drugi jezik (lucumi), broj korisnika nepoznat, jedan je znakovni jezik gluhih, i nacionalni je španjolski 10.000.000 (1995.).

 Kultura

Popis Kubanaca
Glazba na Kubi

 Izvori

 Vanjske poveznice
Cuban Government - službena vladina stranica
Cubaweb  - kubanska uprava
Granma  - novine Kubanske Komunističke Stranke
CUBANET  - novosti od kubanskih independent journalists i disidenata
Cuban Embargo
Putopis iz Kube
Cuba Pictures

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Police
capture home-made vessel and its crew
Police in
Batabanó municipality, south of Havana, captured
a rustic vessel and several of its would-be crewmen
before they could get away from Cuban waters.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló
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CUBA
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Tourists
held up in broad daylight
The tourists,
apparently husband and wife, were trading currency
in a government-operated trading house in central
Havana when two youths jumped them and took the
money.
HAVANA, José
Antonio Fornaris
| The
Miami Herald
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• Radio, TV Martí face a congressional probe
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Tape contradicts Ros-Lehtinen
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Couple strikes plea deal in Castro 'spy' case
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Radio, TV Martí to be aired locally
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Problems dog broadcaster
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Fake money prompts issuance of new bills in Cuba
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TV and Radio Martí face another audit
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Analysis finds bias in TV, Radio Martí programs
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Migrants say Cuba is slow to issue exit visas
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Life as Castro's daughter-in-law
|Yahoo
News
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US lawmakers doubt 'official' story: Castro not
terminally ill
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US Lawmakers Promote Agriculture in Cuba
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Canada to be helpful for Cuba-U.S. relations when
Castro dies: U.S. official
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Alabama Ag Commissioner Cooks in Cuba
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Report: Castro calls provincial leaders
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Cuban group said to include 7 deported
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Stone documentary on Castro triggers payment over
alleged embargo violation
| Flying
to Havana, Cuba gets a bit easier
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Terminal
Four at JFK. It looks like any other day. But if
you look closer, you'll see that the departure screen
reads "Havana." For the first time, direct flights
from New York to Cuba are available.
WABC Eyewitness
News.
| WTC
mission to visit Cuba
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World Trade
Center Palm Beach said it is organizing a humanitarian,
educational and information exchange mission to
Cuba in June. Business interests are present, but
organizers indicated they will remain dormant under
the current Cuban government.
South Florida
Business Journal.
| Dissidents
say it's time to open talks
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Former Cuban
diplomat and economist Oscar Espinosa has fought
a 14-year battle with the Cuban government. He was
only recently released from jail for his dissident
writings.
St. Petersburg
Times.
| Cuban
Rappers Want Their Own Revolution
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In a country
like Cuba, where the state has its hand in just
about everything, it is perhaps not surprising that
there is a governmental body that concerns itself
with rap music.
Hispanic Business.
| Cuba
Pipeline Reaches North
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After three
days jammed together in a 30-foot boat with no food
or water, dodging storms and Coast Guard cutters,
26 Cuban refugees landed off Longboat Key in Monday's
predawn darkness.
The Tampa Tribune
| Fidel's
Final Victory
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The smooth
transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his successors
is exposing the willful ignorance and wishful thinking
of U.S. policy toward Cuba.
Foreign Affairs.
|Living
in Cuba after Castro
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Life after
Castro. What will happen in Cuba? That is the prevalent
question being asked by people in Santiago de Cuba,
in Miami, Fla, in Nassau, Bahamas and in many cities
and countries around the world.
The Nassau Guardian
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AResigned
Cubans expect no changes / Los Angeles Times
Amid
the transition to life without Fidel, there is
frustration but apparently little will to demand
reform.
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December
8
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist confined to house during celebrations
Independent
journalist Ainí Martín Valero of the Agencia Cuba
Verdad says State Security agents told her not
to leave her home on December 2 and 10, days of
national celebration.
HAVANA
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CUBA
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Home
of independent journalist subject of attack
Independent
journalist Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia says his home
in Old Havana was stoned and burning cardboard and
paper tossed on the roof on Wednesday.
HAVANA
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CUBA
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Independent
journalist fired from his job as farm worker
Bernardo Arévalo
Padrón says he was fired from his job in the municipality
of Aguada de Pasajeros in Cienfuegos because he
refused to stop being an independent journalist.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
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Police confiscate farmer's home-built tractor
Authorities
informed Betancourt that the tractor would be confiscated
since he couldn't produce papers to justify his
ownership. Betancourt said he couldn't have had
papers because he had built the tractor out of parts
scavenged primarily from abandoned vehicles.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
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Residents
praise peddlers
Residents
of Ranchuelo praised street peddlers in the municipality
for supplying potatoes to consumers where the official
distribution system fails.
RANCHUELO
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CUBA
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Electric
blackouts on the increase in Havana
Electric blackouts
have become more frequent in Havana during the last
week, according to an official of the Electric Power
company in the city.
HAVANA
| The
Miami Herald
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• Cuba's aging society straining resources
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Cuban dissident's release creates 'false image'
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Moderate exile groups join in urging easing of Cuba
restrictions
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Raúl sits in at big party
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Acts of civil protest on the rise in Cuba, report
says
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Complaint filed against Cuban lobbying group
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Castro's absence spurs little hope among Miami's
exiles
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Freedom Tower tribute shows range of Cuban artist
Carlos Alfonzo
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Cuban dissidents urge real power transfer to Raul
Castro to deal with transition
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Red Cross to seek access to Cuban prisons
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US says no talks with Cuba until regime moves toward
democracy
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Ailing Cuban dissident sees no political link in
his release
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Number of journalists jailed for Internet work on
rise: study
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Fidel Castro congratulates Venezuela's Chavez on
re-election
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Washington should extend olive branch to Cuba: analysts
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Castro has yet to face justice
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It is deeply
wrenching to witness a week of lavish celebrations
honoring Fidel Castro's birth when most likely every
day, somewhere in the world, anguished families
quietly mourn the death of a loved one at the hands
of this heartless, evil man.
Bonnie Anderson,The
Miami Herald.
| A
battle for political prisoners in Cuba
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On Nov. 9,
the Liberation Christian Movement publicly released
a proposed resolution called, ''The Need for the
Government of Cuba To Free Peaceful Political Prisoners,''
which was addressed to the U.N. Council on Human
Rights.
Oswaldo Paya,
The Miami Herald.
| What's
next for Cuba - and Latin America - after Castro?
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While President
Bush is understandably preoccupied with the far-off
Middle East, there is uncertainty, and perhaps mischief
brewing, in America's own backyard.
John Hughes.
The Christian Science Monitor .
| Chávez
win bolsters Cuba succession hopes
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Hugo Chávez's
sweeping victory in the Venezuelan presidential
election this week could help to ensure political
cover and economic support for the emerging leadership
in Cuba as Fidel Castro fights for his life somewhere
in Havana.
Marc Frank,
The Financial Times
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can't make it, but Cuban Jews mark 100 years on
islands
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As the world
focuses its attention on Cuba's ailing President
Fidel Castro - who was too sick to attend his own
80th birthday bash in Havana - Cuba's Jews are enjoying
a rare celebration of their own.
Larry Luxner.
Jewish News Weekly.
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rock climbers irk Castro regime
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Climbers
who have conquered Vinales's jagged peaks and imposing
walls are now bumping up against a more formidable
obstacle: the Communist political system. As Gonzalez
touched earth and removed his hard hat, he cast
a wary eye for park rangers and police.
Naples Daily
News.
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Rare Silence Reverberates in Castro's Long Goodbye
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In
his day, Fidel Castro could not stop talking.
He was Cuba's talk show host as well as its president,
with his frequent long speeches broadcast into
homes on radio and television serving as something
akin to background music in Cubans' lives.
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Hippocrates
Meets Fidel, and Even U.S. Students Enroll / The
New York Times (reg. req'd)
The
Latin American School of Medical Sciences, on
a sprawling former naval base on the outskirts
of this capital, teaches its students medicine
Cuban style. That means poking at cadavers, peering
into aging microscopes and discussing the revolution
that brought Fidel Castro to power 48 years ago.
Cuban-trained doctors must be able not only to
diagnose an ulcer and treat hypertension but also
to expound on the principles put forward by "el
comandante."
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Cuba's
Future Is Already Here / The Washington Post (reg.
req'd)
For
now, though, the Cuban regime has accomplished
something that the Bush administration had pledged
to thwart: an uneventful transition that leaves
the Cuban Communist Party still comfortably in
charge.
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Paving
the Way for Ties With Cuba / The Washington Post
(reg. req'd)
Perhaps
a sign of the imminent post-Castro times, a small
but official congressional delegation will be
taking a quick trip to Cuba next month for a look-see.
Helping to round up some interesting folks for
the lawmakers to talk to is Sarah Stephens, a
policy activist who has been trying for years
to foster dialogue with the United States' communist
neighbor.
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November
29
FROM
CUBA
Independent
news agency inaugurated
Several
independent journalists in Sancti Spíritus province
announced they have organized themselves into
a news agency they call Yayabo Press. The announcement
was made November 17.
SANTA CLARA,
Guillermo Fariñas
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CUBA
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Two
new Cuban films to debut
Two Cuban
films will debut at the upcoming New Latin American
Films Festival in December.
HAVANA, Lucas
Garve
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CUBA
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Patients
protest firing of medical specialist
Patients
in Moa municipality, Holguín province, protested
the Public Health authorities' decision to fire
the only angiography specialist in the local hospital.
HOLGUIN, Jesús
Almaguer Pérez
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CUBA
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Dengue death reported in Eastern Cuba
A 36-year-old
woman in Mayarí died of dengue fever November 12.
News of her death spread fear among the residents.
HOLGUIN, Jesús
Almaguer Pérez
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CUBA
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Electric blackouts on the increase in Havana
Electric
blackouts have become more frequent in Havana during
the last week, according to an official of the Electric
Power company in the city.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares
| The
Miami Herald
|
• Cuban dissidents ask U.S. to lift travel, aid
limits
•
U.S. selects Cuba 'mission manager'
•
Exile seeks return of $1.5M he says was for anti-Castro
plot
•
Castro victims awarded $91M
•
Dual economy could trouble Cuba's future
•
Congressmen want inquiry on U.S. aid to dissidents
•
Foreign banks in Cuba feel heat of U.S. regulations
|Yahoo
News
|
•
Amid uncertainty over Castro Cuba dusts off military
show
•
Venezuela's Chavez: Castro to begin 'second mandate'
in Cuba
•
Report cites flaws in Cuba aid program
•
Cuba won't abandon socialism just yet
•
American government officials say Castro believed
to have terminal cancer
•
Young Cubans yearn for more material comforts, less
propaganda
•
Former Black Panther dies in Cuba at 75
•
'Buena Vista' copyright battle ends with Cuban victory
•
Cuba patents new treatment for cervical cancer
•
Cuban-American takes over Republican Party
| Journalist
González is freed after 16 months in jail
|
The Committee
to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Cuban
journalist Oscar Mario González, who had been jailed
for 16 months without charge.
Committee to
Protect Journalists.
| Cuba-embargo
foes see hope in new Democratic-controlled Congress
|
For the past
three years, Wendy Alonso has felt trapped by strict
U.S. travel restrictions that have kept her from
visiting her father, grandmothers and other relatives
in Cuba.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel.
| Outside
View: Cuba on the eve of change
|
Having spent
two weeks in Havana, I saw for myself what seemed
quite obvious: after Fidel's departure, which is
not far off, Cuba is in for serious change.
Pyotr Romanov,
UPI
|
|
November
10
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist sentenced to two years of house arrest
Independent
journalist Guillermo Espinosa, who had been held
in isolation since his arrest two weeks ago, was
sentenced by a tribunal in Santiago to two years
of house arrest for "social dangerousness."
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, Virgilio Delat
|FROM
CUBA
|
New
CAT scanner out of order "until further notice"
A new Siemens
CAT scanner installed scarcely six months ago in
the Arnaldo Milián Castro provincial hospital here
is out of order "until further notice" according
to Dr. Ismelys Iglesias.
SANTA CLARA,
Guillermo Fariñas
|FROM
CUBA
|
Expanded
broadcasting activities in central Cuba
The Cuban
government has expanded the range of radio and TV
broadcasting activities in central Villa Clara province
by adding two transmitters and 10 correspondents.
SANTA CLARA,
Yoel Espinosa Medrano
|FROM
CUBA
|
Independent
journalist arrested in Santiago
Agents of
the Department of State Security arrested independent
journalist Guillermo Espinosa 12 days ago and have
neither released him or charged him.
HAVANA, Juan
González Febles
|FROM
CUBA
|
Journalist
and two dissidents arrested
Police here
arrested independent journalist Roberto Santana
and civil rights activists Luis Enrique Rodríguez
and Edgard López November 2 after they had visited
the office of the U. S. diplomatic mission in Havana.
HAVANA. Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaseda
|FROM
CUBA
|
Respiratory
distress overwhelming hospital
The Ciego
de Ávila provincial hospital, the Antonio Luaces
Iraola, is overwhelmed by an influx of patients,
mostly children, with respiratory problems, said
sources in the city.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Kallan Poe
| The
Miami Herald
|
• End Cuban embargo, U.N. urges U.S.
•
Foreign banks in Cuba feel heat of U.S. regulations
•
Military leader envisions aiding Cuba in the future
•
Date of Castro's return up in the air
•
A little-known tragedy is revisited
•
Castro video shows illness is serious
•
Cuba by the book: A coffee-table tome raises the
genre to a new level
|Yahoo
News
|
•
Lawsuit claims Cuba forced citizens to work at Curacao
shipyard
•
Not Just Tourists bring more than luggage to Cuba
•
India opposes economic embargo against Cuba
•
Cuba Activist Tries To Rally Support For Prisoner
Release
•
Twelve National Organizations Urge Sen. Baucus and
Rep. Rangel to Open Cuba to Travel and Trade
| A
real slice of Cuba in Tampa?
|
A park in
Ybor City belongs to the island nation, but Tampa
residents manage it.
Alexandra Zayas
, St. Petersburg Times.
| Cuba:
Who's to Blame for Corruption?
|
What if the
corruption problem lies not in the moral failings
of individuals, but in some aspect of the system
itself?
Philip Peters.
Latin Business Chronicle.
| Mayor
says UK can learn from Cuba
|
The UK can
learn from Cuba's Olympic achievements, Mayor of
London Ken Livingstone has said. Mr Livingstone,
who on a tour of a Latin America, said he wanted
to find out how the Caribbean island "engaged their
young people in sport".
BBC, UK.
|
|
November
2
FROM
CUBA
Primary-school-age
children take part in repudiating mob
Students
from the Sierra Maestra primary and the Centro
middle schools participated, along with their
teachers and other school employees, in an "act
of repudiation" directed against two dissidents.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Tania Maceda Guerra
|FROM
CUBA
|
Independent
journalist warned about "counter-revolutionary activities"
Independent
journalist Shelyn Rojas was questioned by state
security agents for an hour last week and told to
stop "counter-revolutionary activities" in her writing
and using "European diplomatic missions" for transmission
of her articles and those of colelagues.
HAVANA, Luis
Cino
|FROM
CUBA
|
Rafters
released after five months awaiting trial
Four men
who were apprehended trying to leave the island
by sea were freed after waiting in prison for a
trial date. The four had been held at the Melena
Dos prison in Havana province.
HAVANA, Amarilis
C. Rey
|FROM
CUBA
|
Opposition
cleric freed after 15 months of prison
The vicar
general of the Roman Catholic Orthodox Byzantine
Church of Cuba, Ricardo Santiago Medina Salabarría,
was freed last week after 15 months in prison and
told to ask the U.S. Interests Section for a visa
to go into exile in the United States.
HAVANA, Shelyn
Rojas
|FROM
CUBA
|
Water
situation critical in Mayarí community
A settlement
in Mayarí municipality that goes by the name of
Guatemala has gone from bad to worse, as far as
its water supply goes.
HOLGUIN, Jesús
Almaguer Pérez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Human
rights activist attacked by mob
A human rights
activist here charged the mob that attacked him
as he left his home October 27 was directed by the
political police.
HAVANA, Juan
Carlos Linares
|FROM
CUBA
|
Prisoners
fumigated while they slept
Sleeping
inmates were sprayed while they slept when the chief
of Internal Order at the El Pitirre prison ordered
spraying against mosquitos to proceed at six in
the morning.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana
|FROM
CUBA
|
Sentencing
set for fishermen
Fifteen fishermen
accused of pilfering government property will be
sentenced by the Havana provincial tribunal on November
7.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló
|FROM
CUBA
|
Necessity
is the great equalizer
Although
imposed equality is the law of the land in Cuba's
Communist society, we all know life is a seesaw;
somedays you are up, somedays you're not.
HAVANA, Marilyn
Díaz Fernández
|FROM
CUBA
|
Government
crackdown against street vendors
Military
units have been raiding homes and searching people
in public in a crackdown on street merchants in
Bolondrón, according to Julio Sierra Silva, representative
of the Alternative Option Independence Movement.
MATANZAS, Oscar
Sánchez Madan
|FROM
CUBA
|
Government
official runs down dissidents with his car
Nelson Suárez,
an official of a government agricultural agency,
ran down three dissidents in his car, according
to Juan Francisco Sigler Amaya, a member of the
Alternative Option Independence Movement.
MATANZAS, Oscar
Sánchez Madan
|FROM
CUBA
|
Anti-Castro
poster put up in pre-university institute
A poster
reading "Down with Fidel" was found on a wall of
the José Carlos Mariátegui Institute, a pre-university
center on the Isle of Youth, according to Gerlys
Pérez la Rosa, a member of the dissident Youth Movement
for Democracy.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana
| The
Miami Herald
|
• Rights group calls Cuba on 75 arrests, 3 deaths
•
OAS agency blasts Cuba for rights violations
•
Sports agent charged with smuggling Cuban ballplayers
•
Raúl Castro takes his own path
•
OAS human rights branch condemns Cub
•
Cuba accused of slavelike labor deal
•
Cuba examining socialism for flaws
•
Radio and TV Martí begin aircraft broadcasts
•
U.N. will slam trade embargo, Cuban predicts
|Yahoo
News
|
•
Cuba's 2006 nickel output may not meet forecast
•
New photos show Castro standing, talking
•
Cuba: Trade Fair 'Proof' Embargo Fails
•
Brother says Fidel Castro doing well
•
Cubans Are Urged to Be More Active
•
Canada hosts Cuban band shut out of U.S.
| Cuba:
We're forced to 'finance' the Internet
|
A government
official in the Cuba's Commission of Electronic
Commerce, on Wednesday assailed the U.S. government's
economic embargo and argued that, as a result, poorer
countries are "financing" the Internet. Fernandez's
only problem was that a longtime Internet engineer
and researcher was present and challenged those
claims.
ZDNet News.
| Pirates
try to sign defector from Cuba
|
The Pirates
are trying to sign a right-handed pitcher who defected
from Cuba along with two other players who recently
signed contracts with major-league teams.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
| Some
won't prod Cuba to change
|
The day ailing
Cuban president-for-life Fidel Castro dies, whenever
that happens, several Latin American countries will
express their deepest condolences, and at the same
time ask for a political opening on the island.
Andres Oppenheimer,
The Miami Herald.
| Prof's
memoir of life in Cuba is city's 'One Book' selection'Waiting
for Snow in Havana' is at libraries
|
This year's
selection for the annual "One Book, One Philadelphia"
program reaches far from the city to a tropical
land with its own link to the struggle for liberty.
Philadelphia
Daily News.
|
|
October
23
CubaNet
founder Rosa Berre passed away October 19
Overcoming
the illness that consumed her, Berre did not quit
her post until the very end. As late as last week,
she was still at her desk, sorting, editing, and
organizing articles and dispatches, despite her
increasing frailty and laborious breathing.
MIAMI
|FROM
CUBA
|
Holguín
pediatric hospital in critical condition
A member of
a women's movement here has drawn attention to what
she called the precarious condition of the Holguín
pediatric hospital.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Luis Esteban Espinosa
|FROM
CUBA
|
Authorities
refuse to issue exit permit for daughter of political
prisoner
Cuban migratory
authorities have refused to issue an exit visa for
a 12-year-old daughter of a political prisoner who
wanted to go live with an aunt in Perú.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Abel
Escobar Ramírez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Authorities
cover up dengue deaths
Municipal
authorities in Mayarí, Holguín province, have covered
up the dengue-caused deaths of a woman and her daughter,
according to medical sources who refused to be identified.
HOLGUIN, Jesús
Almaguer Pérez
|FROM
CUBA
|
State
Security threatens dissident
Dissident
activist Alberto Sigler, 45, said State Security
officer Terencio Camejo visited him at home October
8 and threatened to throw him in prison if he didn't
give up his work on behalf of human rights.
MATANZAS, Oscar
Sánchez Madan
|FROM
CUBA
|
Unemployed
threatened with prison
Cuban dissident
Yuniel Columbié said police have threatened to throw
him in prison for not having a steady job and for
visiting the home of his uncle Julio, a delegate
to the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights.
HAVANA
|FROM
CUBA
|
Police
search home on suspicion of illegal enrichment
Police in
Batabanó searched the home of Héctor Ruiz October
12 for what they said was suspicion of illegal enrichment.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló
|FROM
CUBA
|
Two
in prison complain of medical neglect
Two imprisoned
independent journalists complain prison authorities
have ignored their need for medical attention, putting
their health in danger.
Abel Escobar
and Roberto Santana
|FROM
CUBA
|
Two exceed sentence while awaiting trial
Two men presumably
implicated in acts of vandalism have spent two years
and eight months in jail awaiting trial. In preliminary
documents in the case, the prosecution was asking
the court to impose a two year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA,
Abel Escobar Ramírez
| The
Miami Herald
|
• Cuba's grip on Web is sophisticated
•
Cuban author Amir Valle: I'm not defecting
•
Bebo Valdés' piano power enrapturing
•
Turncoat analyst an effective spy for Cuba, book
says
•
Workers scam cash to cover basic costs
•
Top politicians, exiles plan for life after Fidel
•
Casamayor enjoying new reign as champion
|Yahoo
News
|
•
Cuba Replaces Transportation Minister
•
China, Cuba to launch biotech venture in China
•
US diplomat gives Castro's post-operative Cuba poor
prognosis
| Cuba
quietly waits for change in leadership
|
The communist
island quietly carries on in the wake of a change
in leadership - but its fate is far from clear.
Houston Chronicle.
| Many
hope to strike it rich with Cuba's oil
|
Cuba has
become the latest country drawn into the frenzied
hunt for oil, hoping that a gusher in its Caribbean
fields will ease its energy dependence and revive
its economy.
The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
| Cuba
to go back to standard time
|
three years
of following the summer time schedule to save on
scarce electricity, Cuba's National Electrical Union
has decided to go back to the standard time schedule
from October-end, having ensured the generation
of the energy needed for the country.
New Kerala.
| Independent
Florida candidate for U.S. Senate visits Cuba
|
Independent
candidate Brian Moore traveled to Cuba on Monday
to underscore his opposition to U.S. trade sanctions
against the communist-run island after he was shut
out of a debate between top Democratic and Republican
candidates for one of the two Florida Senate seats.
IHT
|
|
October
13
FROM
CUBA
To
be a street vendor in Cuba
"Agua" is
the cry that warns street vendors that a policeman
or inspector just hove into view. And being nabbed
by one of these usually entails the loss of one's
goods and money, and a fine that can go as high
as 1500 pesos.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana Rodríguez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Free
education; a signal achievement of the Revolution
On September
4, the first day of the school year, a casual observer
could easily tell to what grade the incoming students
were going. Not by their apparent ages, but by the
state of their uniforms. Here's the code.
HOLGUIN, Karell
Infante Mantilla
|FROM
CUBA
|
More
than 30 days without running water
Residents
of the Mantilla neighborhood in Havana have gone
30 days without running water in their homes. Water
authorities blame the breakdown of a motor that
cut down pumping capacity, although they said whoever
was in charge of opening the valves shared the blame.
HAVANA, Amarilis
C. Rey
| The
Miami Herald
|
• Cuban exiles, dissidents sign plan
•
New task force to target Cuba ban offenders
•
Cuba waging war against dengue fever
•
Batista's widow dies at 82, 33 years after her husband
|Yahoo
News
|
•
Cuba's oldest man dies at age 126
•
Biltmore Hosts Gov., Cuban Democracy Summit
•
Biltmore Hosts Gov., Cuban Democracy Summit
•
Japan names ambassadors to Finland, Ethiopia, Hungary,
Cuba
•
China, Cuba to cooperate in meteorology
•
Cuba's Fidel not dying: Raul Castro
| Castro
Reported to Have Cancer
|
U.S. intelligence
reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears
terminal, government officials tell TIME.
TIME.
|
|
October
5
FROM
CUBA
Health
workers threatened if outbreak information leaks
Workers
at the Morón General Hospital in Ciego de Ávila
province say they have been warned that should
any of them leak any information about the current
outbreak of dengue fever they will lose their
jobs without any right to appeal.
MORON, Abel
Escobar
|FROM
CUBA
|
Human
Rights Activist Harassed
Cuban human
rights activist William Cepero spent a night in
jail September 15 after being harassed by agents
of the Department of State Security.
HAVANA, Ahmed
Rodríguez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Headaches
with the start of a school year
For Adela,
a housewife in the Cacocún municipality of Holguín
province, the fact that her two girls started school
has become a headache: her low salary does not stretch
to buy everything they need.
HOLGUIN, Marcelo
Jiménez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Townspeople
irked by housing decision
In spite of
a grass roots campaign by the people of Ranchuelo
to have housing authorities assign a house to a
woman who has a mental disorder, the house was granted
to an entity of the municipal government, irking
the population.
RANCHUELO, Félix
Reyes
|FROM
CUBA
|
Transportation
worsens in Santa Clara
Hundreds of
would-be passengers waiting for the few available
buses and horse-drawn carriages filling in attest
to the worsening crisis in transportation in Santa
Clara.
SANTA CLARA,
Alain Ramón Gómez
|FROM
CUBA
|
Independent
journalist says firing was reprisal
Independent
journalist Julio Aleaga Pesant, who was recently
fired from his job charges the firing was in reprisal
for an article he wrote September 8 denouncing a
near epidemic of dengue fever in Cuba.
HAVANA, Roberto
Santana
|FROM
CUBA
|
Resources
scarce in hospitals
Cuban hospitals
have become decrepit places with leaks and peeling
paint and so few resources that patients take their
own from home. Typically, patients take sheets,
towels, eating utensils and a bucket for water.
CAMAGÜEY, Marilyn
Díaz
|FROM
CUBA
|
Mother
arrested after complaining at pharmacy
María Rosales
was arrested, held for 24 hours, and fined 400 pesos
after protesting at a pharmacy that couldn't supply
the insulin her 6-year-old daughter needs to treat
her diabetes.
MORON, Tico
Morales
|FROM
CUBA
|
Trains
haven't run in a month
The trains
serving the route between Morón and Santa Clara
and points in between have not run since August
after the rains washed away some of the track.
MORON, Tico
Morales
| The
Miami Herald
|
• Minister says Castro will return to power
•
Newsroom philosophies differ
•
Cruz's 'Sisters' gets loving performance
•
Poll shows support for travel restrictions to Cuba
•
Cuban official: Embargo losses are more than $4
billion
•
Miami Cubans: Fidel era over
•
Herald publisher resigns
•
Cuban national's widow is granted U.S. residency
|Yahoo
News
|
•
US opposes release of anti-Castro militant
•
B.C. girl forced to stay in Cuba, mom charged by
police says
•
Namibia: Namibians to Study in Cuba
| Putting
the pinch on tyrants' finances
|
In the U.S.
legal system, compensation for loss of life takes
precedence over property claims. In cases like Mr.
Ray's and Mr. Anderson's, in which tyrants commit
heinous abuses, the higher principle is clear.
The Miami Herald.
| Human
rights still under siege
|
The Cuban
government is nothing if not consistent. Faced once
again with a report in the U.N. Human Rights Council
condemning the way Cuba treats its citizens, the
government responded by denouncing Christine Chanet,
the French lawyer who prepared the report.
The Miami Herald.
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What does it take to prevent the U.S. government from changing a failed foreign policy? In the case of Cuba, just one politically mobilized ethnic lobby.
Way back in 1961, the Kennedy administration imposed an embargo on trade with Cuba in an effort to bring down the new revolutionary government of Fidel Castro. But Castro is still in power and Cuba is isolated only from the U.S.
You'd think a failure like that would convince foreign policy makers to end the embargo. But, alas, the powerful Cuban-American lobby -- dominated by the Cuban-American National Foundation -- remains a serious force in American politics long after the other Cold War-era ethnic lobbies have faded from the scene. It's well funded by the country's most affluent Hispanic minority community, it controls a voting bloc concentrated in two politically important states -- Florida (Miami) and New Jersey (Union City) -- and its leaders have enjoyed privileged access to the highest reaches of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
But after four decades, some of these political assets are wearing thin. Contributions to the CANF's Free Cuba PAC have declined in recent elections. The voting bloc is slowly eroding because younger Cuban Americans, middle class and assimilated, typically care a lot less about Cuba than their parents. Communist Cuba looks less like a national security threat than an anachronism to most Americans. Castro's threadbare revolutionary Cuba even has a retro '60s appeal for jaded travelers. And now that jobs in the intelligence community are safe thanks to the war on terrorism, the threat from Cuba can be retired.
Despite the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the embargo was tightened twice in the '90s. The 1992 Cuban Democracy Act prohibits foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba. The 1996 Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, commonly called the Helms-Burton Act, gives Americans the right to sue international investors in Cuba who made use of U.S.-owned properties expropriated by the Cuban government. Helms-Burton aroused such intense opposition from U.S. allies who trade with Cuba that Congress gave the president a waiver under Title III of the Act to suspend the right to sue. Bill Clinton and now George W. Bush have signed the requisite waivers every time the six-month deadline has rolled around. The latest waiver expires Jan. 31, and Bush can be counted upon to sign a new one.
Then there's the rank hypocrisy of awarding Permanent Normal Trade Relations status to China while continuing the embargo against Cuba when the scale of human rights violations in China dwarf those in Cuba. Castro's government imprisons several hundred political prisoners. China imprisons tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners, dozens of who have died from torture or mistreatment while in custody. China's occupation of Tibet has made Tibetans a minority in their own country. And more than 200 democracy activists are still imprisoned in China for their activities during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Proponents of free trade with China insist that increased interaction with the U.S. will create the conditions needed for democratization. If that works for China, then it ought to work for Cuba as well.
That the U.S. is punishing a small country for the sort of behavior it ignores in a superpower certainly looks like big power bullying to the rest of the planet. In 2001, the U.N. General Assembly voted 167-3 to urge the United States to end the embargo.
Ending the embargo would not solve Cuba's economic problems, but the infusion of technology, capital and goods from the U.S. would help. The inevitable transition from communism to liberalism won't be any easier in Cuba than it was in Eastern Europe. But ending the embargo now would mean a softer landing for many Cubans. And that would facilitate reconciliation with their neighbors to the north.
John Hickman teaches politics at Berry College.
01.30.02