Tag: <span>Cuban dissidents</span>
August 1, 2012 > Staff
Cuba Investigates Spaniard In Crash That Killed Dissidents
Top Story — Cuban authorities may charge Spaniard Angel Carromero with vehicular manslaughter because he was driving the car that crashed into a tree and killed dissident leader Oswaldo Payá and fellow […] Read More >
July 26, 2012 > Staff
Cuba: Detentions At Dissident’s Funeral Criticized
Top Story — Amnesty International and the U.S. Government criticized the Cuban government after it briefly detained some 40 people who attended the funeral of dissident Oswaldo Payá on Tuesday. Cuban dissident and hunger-striker […] Read More >
July 23, 2012 > Staff
Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Paya Killed In Car Crash
Top Story — Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, the leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, was killed in a car crash on Sunday in eastern Granma province along with another dissident. The […] Read More >
July 9, 2010 > Staff
Cuban Dissident Guillermo Fariñas Ends Hunger Strike After 130 Days
Today in Latin America Top Story — Cuban doctor and political dissident Guillermo Fariñas ended his hunger strike after refusing food for over 130 days. Fariñas, who began his hunger […] Read More >
March 19, 2010 > Staff
Will the Ladies in White Protests Affect Cuba’s Foreign Relations?
Today in Latin America Top Story — Cuba’s “Ladies in White,” a group of female relatives of dissidents imprisoned in 2003, protested for a fourth day in Havana on […] Read More >
March 9, 2010 > Staff
Cuban Government Calls Dissident Journalist’s Hunger Strike “Blackmail”
Today in Latin America Top Story — The Cuban government Monday lambasted the hunger strike of dissident journalist Guillermo Fariñas as “blackmail” and refused to release 26 political prisoners in […] Read More >
February 25, 2010 > Staff
Cuban Dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s Death Draws Attention To Cuba
Today in Latin America Top Story — The death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo from a hunger strike in protest against prison conditions on Tuesday has catapulted Cuba to […] Read More >