Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

"The first victory we can claim is that our hearts are free of hatred. Hence we say to those who persecute us and who try to dominate us: ‘You are my brother. I do not hate you, but you are not going to dominate me by fear. I do not wish to impose my truth, nor do I wish you to impose yours on me. We are going to seek the truth together’. THIS IS THE LIBERATION WHICH WE ARE PROCLAIMING."
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas (2002)

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Lessons from the Embargo on Apartheid South Africa for Castroite Cuba pt. 1

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"Astonishingly, it is argued that strengthening the economic basis of the white apartheid regime will in fact bring change. This is no...

One in five people on this planet today live under Communist Party rule

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 "Since the end of the Cold War, the Communist Party has managed to hold power in seven countries across three continents.That’s a to...

The Human Rights Foundation Inaugurates The Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

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"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, ga...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Project Varela: Looking back at the nonviolent campaign a decade later

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The nonviolent campaign that shook up the dictatorship in Cuba and changed the Cuban Communist Constitution. Ten years ago today, c...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Never Forget: Cuban human rights defender died on May 8, 2011 from beating received by Castro agents

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Juan Wilfredo Soto García died on May 8, 2011 from a beating he received 3 days earlier by agents of the Castro regime.  Today begins the f...
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