“The situation in Cuba,” writes Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, “is identical to that of apartheid South Africa.” In his column, the Cuban writer looks at Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Fidel Castro in spite of the Cuba’s human rights violations and undemocratic political system.
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“The situation in Cuba,” writes Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, “is identical to that of apartheid South Africa.” In his column, the Cuban writer looks at Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Fidel Castro in spite of the Cuba’s human rights violations and undemocratic political system.
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Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, declared last month that, on the island, there would never be elections involving parties other than the Cuban Communist Party. If the legal route to a multiparty system is closed, what should Castro’s opponents do now?
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El ministro de Comercio Exterior e Inversión Extranjera, Rodrigo Malmierca declaró en noviembre que en la Isla nunca habrá elecciones con otro partido que no sea el comunista. Si la vía legal está cerrada para implementar el pluripartidismo, ¿qué deben hacer entonces los opositores a Castro?
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In this video, the Cuban activist Yoani Sánchez delivers an exciting talk at Stanford University highlighting the significance technology and social media have in empowering the Cuban citizenry. The was event hosted by the Program on Liberation Technology at CDDRL.
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Having spent eight months traveling in the US, I’m starting to make Cuban State Security nervous, just as I’m making the island’s dissidents nervous, since the two entities are sometimes so similar that you can barely tell them apart.
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Al sumar 8 meses de visita en USA, la Seguridad del Estado cubana comienza a ponerse nerviosa conmigo, lo mismo que la disidencia insular, tan coincidentes ambas que a veces resultan indistinguibles.
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