All Smiles with others during CELAC.......meanwhile the Cuban people are being rounded up and threatened

                       

 

 

 

 

 

                       

 

Cumbre de la Celac y secuestro de opositores

Wave of political repression in Cuba several days before the CELAC Summit

Wave of political repression in Cuba several days before the CELAC Summit
CUBAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

Link to press release in HTML: http://www.unpacu.org/wave-of-political-repression-in-cuba-several-days-before-the-celac-summit/

For further information, please contact (LANGUAJE speaking):

Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco, Founder and Spokesperson of CCDHRN. Telephones: (+53) 52 45 8060 / (+53) 7 203 8584

Best regards,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

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Estimados Sres,

Adjunto les remitimos nota de prensa:

Oleada de represión política en Cuba a varios días de la cumbre de CELAC
COMISION CUBANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y RECONCILIACION NACIONAL

Enlace a Nota de Prensa en HTML: http://www.unpacu.org/oleada-de-represion-politica-en-cuba-a-varios-dias-de-la-cumbre-de-celac/

Si desea mayor información puede ponerse en contacto con:
Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco, Fundador y Portavoz de la CCDHRN. Teléfonos: (+53) 52 45 8060 / (+53) 7 203 8584

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Para mayor información sobre la UNPACU (Unión Patriótica de Cuba) y sus actividades,

Dentro de Cuba:

Jose Daniel Ferrer, Secretario Ejecutivo. Teléfono: (+53) 53 74 0544;
Felix Navarro, Coordinador General. Teléfono: (+53) 53 68 87 45;
Guillermo Fariñas, Portavoz. Teléfono: (+53) 52 41 57 09;

En el exterior:

Luis Enrique Ferrer, Rep. Internacional, +(1) 786 553 16 66 (USA) / luisenriqueferrer@gmail.com - Spanish native/English speaking
Javier Larrondo, Rep. en la Unión Europea (España/Spain/EU), + (34) 647 56 47 41 / info@unpacu.org - Native English / Native Spanish speaking

Reciban un cordial saludo,
Unión Patriótica de Cubawww.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

Testimonio de Jose Daniel Ferrer al ser liberado

Protesta Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia Holguin

PRESS RELEASE / NOTA DE PRENSA - Wall Stree Journal and Heritage Foundation: Cuba

 

Cuba is the least economic free country of America and second to last in the World, after North Korea
Corruption, taxes, regulatory inefficiency, inequality between citizens and aliens...
The Report by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation puts Cuba in the back of the pack of the whole world

Original report in PDF in English: http://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2014/countries/cuba.pdf
Press Release by UNPACU in Spanish: http://www.unpacu.org/cuba-es-el-pais-latinoamericano-con-menor-libertad-economica-de-america-y-segundo-tras-corea-del-norte/

For further information, please contact:

José Daniel Ferrer, Executive Secretary of UNPACU. Telephones: (+53) 53 74 0544 / (+53) 58 32 3612 / (+53) 53 14 6740 / (+53) 58 02 3389

Best regards,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

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Cuba es el país latinoamericano con menor libertad económica de América y el segundo del mundo, tras Corea del Norte
Corrupción, impuestos, ineficiencia regulatoria, desigualdades entre nacionales y extranjeros...
El Informe realizado por The Wall Street Journal y The Heritage Foundation pone a Cuba en la cola del pelotón del mundo entero

Nota de Prensa de UNPACU y enlace al informe orginal: http://www.unpacu.org/cuba-es-el-pais-latinoamericano-con-menor-libertad-economica-de-america-y-segundo-tras-corea-del-norte/

Si desea mayor información puede ponerse en contacto con:
José Daniel Ferrer, Secretario Ejecutivo de la UNPACU. Teléfonos (+53) 53 74 0544 / (+53) 58 32 3612 / (+53) 53 14 6740 / (+53) 58 02 3389

Saludos cordiales,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

Nota: si Ud. considera que esta nota de prensa le ha llegado por error, por favor notifíquenoslo en el email info@unpacu.org

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Para mayor información sobre la Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU) y sus actividades,

La Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU) es una organización disidente de la isla de Cuba. Fue creada el 24 de agosto de 2011 por José Daniel Ferrer García. Se ha definido a sí misma como una organización civil que aboga por la lucha pacífica pero firme en contra de cualquier represión de las libertades civiles en la isla de Cuba² .

Es considerada como la mayor y más activa organización disidente en Cuba. ^{3 4 5 6 7} Según declaraciones en rueda de prensa de Guillermo Fariñas en Madrid y la Agencia Cubanacan Press, el 12 de Mayo de 2013 estaban censados 5.073 miembros activistas en Cuba adscritos a la organización. ^8 9 En julio de 2013 superó la cifra de 6.000 activistas. ¹⁰ En diciembre de 2013, la organización alcanzó la cifra de 8.000 activistas afiliados. ¹¹

Dentro de Cuba:

  Jose Daniel Ferrer, Secretario Ejecutivo. Teléfono: (+53) 53 14 67 40 / (+53) 58 32 3612;
  Felix Navarro, Coordinador General. Teléfono: (+53) 53 68 87 45;
  Guillermo Fariñas, Portavoz. Teléfono: (+53) 52 41 57 09;

En el exterior:

  Luis Enrique Ferrer, Rep. Internacional, (+1) 786 553 16 66 (USA) / luisenriqueferrer@gmail.com - Spanish native/English speaking
  Javier Larrondo, Rep. en la Unión Europea (España/Spain/EU), (+34) 647 56 47 41 / info@unpacu.org - Native English / Native Spanish speaking

Reciban un cordial saludo,
Unión Patriótica de Cubawww.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

MIAMI: INVITACIÓN Inauguración del Monumento Memorial Cubano

 

 

 

INVITACIÓN

Separe en su calendario la fecha de la Inauguración

del Monumento Memorial Cubano

sabado 22 de febrero de 2014 a las 6:00 PM

Telephone 786-853-2411

E-Mail irmagd1@yahoo.com

                                                               Enviado por:

Jesús Angulo

Periodista y fotografo voluntario

del Monumento Memorial Cubano

e-mail jangulo22@aol.com

Que no quede un cubano que ese día

no honre a los mártires y victimas con su presenciaTamiami Park, 112 avenida del SW y Coral Way, en el terreno que está entre FIU y el Youth Fair

 

 

Without Cuba's OK, 15 to study at Miami Dade College

Without Cuba’s OK, 15 to study at MDC

› A U.S. government grant is helping to pay the tuition and expenses of students who arrived without the Cuban government’s approval.

BY JUAN O. TAMAYO JTAMAYO@ELNUEVOHERALD.COM

PEDRO PORTAL/EL NUEVO HERALD

WELCOMING: Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padron, right, arrives at a news conference with students who traveled from Cuba to study at MDC.

PEDRO PORTAL/EL NUEVO HERALD

A NEW WORLD: Cuban students walk onto the streets of Miami after a press conference Monday at MDC. The students are in the United States to study without the Cuban government’s specific approval.

Fifteen young Cubans, from rappers to dissidents, will begin classes Tuesday at Miami Dade College in an unprecedented scholarship program for students from a country were universities regularly expel opposition activists.

With some of the students already wearing sky-blue MDC hoodies, the 15 were introduced at a ceremony Monday to the professors who will see them through a six-month program of English, computer, business and social studies.

The students did not answer questions from the news media, and a person involved in the program said they were very nervous, especially the younger ones and those who had never been out of their country before.

A Miami nonprofit group, the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, will pay the estimated $12,000 to $15,000 cost of transportation, housing and food for each of the students. The foundation received a $3.4 million, three-year grant from the U.S. government in 2011 to help civil society groups in Cuba, and gets more than $600,000 from private donors each year.

Cuban universities, all controlled by the communist government and operating under the slogan "the university is for revolutionaries," regularly expel or deny entry to pro-democracy activists and sometimes even their children.

Last month, Miguel Molina reported he was expelled from his second year of medical studies in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba because of his activism in the dissident Cuban Patriotic Union.

MDC Provost Rolando Montoya touted the “We Are One People” scholarships as the first of their kind since 1959. Other Cubans have studied at U.S. universities, but as individuals, and usually with direct or indirect Cuban government approval.

The 15 students are expected to return to their country after the program and teach what they learned in Miami to “others who don’t have the same opportunities,” said Juan Antonio Blanco, head of MDC’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Initiatives.

CRITICS INCLUDED

The Cubans, who arrived over the weekend, range in age from 18 to 37, are racially diverse, and more than half are women, MDC officials said. They did not have the full list of their names, but some were known.

Among them are three well-known government critics: Raudel Collazo of the rap group Escuadrón Patriota (Patriot Squadron); graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto; and blogger Henry Constantin, who was expelled from the University of Oriente in 2006 and the Marta Abreu University in Villa Clara in 2008.

Four are children of dissidents, including Lienys Moya Soler, daughter of Ladies in White leader Berta Soler and former political prisoner Angel Moya; and Saylí Navarro, active in the Ladies in White and daughter of former political prisoner Felix Navarro. She was expelled from the law school in Matanzas in 2010.

Also in the group are independent lawyers Lartiza Diversent, who explains to defendants their rights although she cannot practice in court because she is not a member of a government-approved lawyer’s office, and Yaremis Florez.

The Cubans will study English as a second language until March and then move on to the other classes — courses regularly offered by MDC but redesigned to meet their specific requirements.

MDC, the nation’s largest college with 175,000 students at eight campuses, said it welcomed the Cubans “as it does with hundreds of students it receives each year from across the globe, especially from the Caribbean and Latin America.”

Blanco, a former senior analyst for the Communist Party of Cuba, said the college had been quietly working on the “dream” for months.

Half a dozen relatives of Cuban rulers Raúl and Fidel Castro have studied abroad, many of them in Spain and with Spanish government scholarships, according to the blog Cuba al Descubierto (Cuba Uncovered).

It is unlikely that the Cuban government approves of the Miami scholarship program.

‘ SUBVERSIVE’

“The message sent is tempting and highly subversive: Not only those who belong to official institution can leave to study abroad. And return,” Miami blogger Emilio Ichikawa wrote over the weekend.

The Obama administration offered scholarships to Cuban students who wanted to enroll in U.S. universities in 2008. About 750 applied at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, which selected 30, Miami geographer Eudel Cepero said. But the Cuban government denied them permission to travel abroad, and the program foundered.

Cepero noted that thousands of U.S. university students have traveled to Cuba to enroll in courses there, in some cases guided by Cuban government sympathizers.

More than 500,000 students from about 200 countries enroll each year in U.S. colleges and universities. Almost 60 percent of them come from Asia, 14 percent from Europe and 10 percent from Latin America, Cepero wrote in an online column.

Read more here: http://tablet.olivesoftware.com/Olive/Tablet/MiamiHerald/#storylink=cpy

Cuba: Rumor Friday.....Dennis Rodman edition

-Rumor has it that Dennis Rodman was such a hit in North Korea, that he has been requested to sing at Fidel and Raul Castro's Birthday.....


- Rumor has it that Maduro of Venezuela also wants Rodman to sing at hs birthday celebration along with the Chavez birdie!!!


-Castro Dictator Car Company has the latest deals on cars:

   2013 Peugeot sedan  $250,000

   2010 Volkswagen Passat offered at $70,000

   2009 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV $90,000.


El Cafe Cubano has just learned that ALL Cuban exiles are responsible for ALL the problems that exist in humanity today.

A pesar del robo, los juguetes llegaron a manos de los niños

Press Release from UNPACU:

Dear Sirs and Madams,

Please take account on this new Press Release from UNPACU:

1,123 ILLEGAL POLITICAL DETAINEES IN DECEMBER, ANNUAL RECORD IN CUBA
Release of the report from CCDHRN, only Cuban member of the FIDH
December, 1,123 cases, makes a 2013 record and second larger in last decade. Last quarter, a monthly average of 931 detentions and goverment repression acts took place, a récord unseen before
Dissidents sign a respectful OPEN LETTER TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

Press release and official charts in HTML: http://www.unpacu.org/1123-illegal-political-detainees-in-december-annual-record-in-cuba/

For further information, please contact:

Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco, President of the CCDHRN. Office telephone in Havana: (+53) 72 03 8584 / (+1) 305 300 8352 (in the US until mid January)
José Daniel Ferrer, Executive Secretary of UNPACU. Telephones: (+53) 58 32 3612 / (+53) 53 14 6740

Best regards,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

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Estimados Sres,

Adjunto les remitimos nota de prensa:

1.123 DETENCIONES POLÍTICAS EN DICIEMBRE, RÉCORD DEL AÑO EN CUBA
Datos del informe del CCDHRN, la única organización cubana miembro de la FIDH
Diciembre alcanza los 1,123 casos, récord de 2013. La media del último trimestre, 931 detenciones mensuales, récord de décadas
Disidentes emiten una respetuosa CARTA ABIERTA A LA UNIÓN EUROPEA

Nota de Prensa y tablas de datos oficiales en HTML: http://www.unpacu.org/1-123-detenciones-politicas-en-diciembre-record-del-ano-en-cuba/
Si desea mayor información puede ponerse en contacto con:

Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco, Presidente de CCDHRN. Oficina en La Habana: (+53) 72 03 8584 / (+1) 305 300 8352 (en EEUU hasta mediados de Enero)
José Daniel Ferrer, Secretario Ejecutivo de la UNPACU. Teléfonos (+53) 58 32 3612 / (+53) 53 14 6740

Saludos cordiales,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org

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WTF.....Dennis Rodman Sings Happy Birthday To BFF Kim Jong-Un

"Pope welcomes Cuba\'s news ambassador to the Holy See"

Pope meets and greets the dictatorship of Cuba's ambassador....Check out the CHEAP Nativity scene that the ambassador gives the Pope. A nativity scene? The same regime WHO has for decades persecuted those of faith and doesn't Cuba has one of the highest abortion rates in the world????

"Cuban police seize toys that dissidents planned to donate to children"

Click here to read the article.

By Juan O. Tamayo

jtamayo@elNuevoHerald.com

Cuban police seized hundreds of toys from dissidents in a string of raids early Friday described by a pro-government blogger as a crackdown on a planned “provocation” — giving the toys, paid for by Miami exiles, to children.
Among the homes raided were those of José Daniel Ferrer, a former political prisoner and founder of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), and the headquarters of the dissidents Ladies in White in Havana.
UNPACU members said State Security agents and police raided Ferrer’s home in the eastern town of Palmarito de Cauto at 5 a.m. Friday as well as the homes of two other group members in the nearby cities of Santiago de Cuba and Holguín.
Police search warrants specifically mentioned “toys, money and other goods of illegal origin,” said UNPACU member Yusmila Ferrera. Dissidents planned to distribute 700 toys throughout the island to mark Three Kings Day, Cuba’s traditional gift-giving day.
The raiders of Ferrer’s home seized all the stockpiled toys plus five computers, several cellphones and about $600 in cash, Ferrera said. More toys, other computers, phones and $180 in cash were seized in the two other raids.
Belkis Cantillo, head of the Ladies in White in eastern Cuba, told El Nuevo Herald that she and 11 group members were staging a sit-in Friday in a house in Palmarito “to demand the return of what they [police] stole from us today.”
Ferrer and nine other UNPACU members were hauled away by police during the raids. All except Ferrer were released one hour later, and there was no word on his whereabouts as of Friday evening, said UNPACU member Andris Verdecia.
Ladies in White leader Berta Soler said police also raided her group’s headquarters in Havana at 5 a.m. and seized the toys, food, 70 chairs, a laptop and three printers, toilet paper and 100 towels and bed sheets that were to be donated to the children’s parents.
“This has been a plunder,” Soler told El Nuevo Herald from the headquarters, the home of the group’s late founder, Laura Pollán.
Soler said she and her husband Angel Moya, who like Ferrer was jailed from 2003 to 2011, were detained by police Friday morning as they left their home in the eastern Havana suburb of Alamar but were released after the raid was completed.
The Havana Ladies in White will continue, she said, with their plans to hand out toys to 150 to 200 children on Saturday in their annual gift drive, started in 2004 to mark the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, when the three kings delivered gifts to the baby Jesus.
Police also have warned several Ladies in White members Friday to stay away from the event Saturday or face arrest, independent journalist Roberto J. Guerra reported.
UNPACU spokesman Guillermo Fariñas said the money to buy the toys in Cuban stores was donated by Cuban business people in South Florida “from their personal pockets” in an effort coordinated by the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF).
“There is no shame in saying that Cuban exiles are capable of sending us money to donate toys to children,” he said from his home in Santa Clara, in central Cuba. The toys he plans to distribute are in several different houses and had not been seized.
With the island facing an economic crisis, Fariñas added, the government decided, “in its inability to give toys to poor children, to seize our toys.”
Dissidents who have been allowed to travel abroad for the first time in decades this year have been picking up cash and other forms of support as they make public appearances in their travels.
The planned gift-giving gatherings were not going to include any mention of politics, only chats on religion and God, Fariñas said.
Cuban officials made no mention of the raids, but a pro-government Twitter account that uses the name of Yohandry Fontana painted the toys as part of a campaign to subvert the communist government by the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“They no longer respect even children. They were attempting a media show and provocation. Everything dismantled!” said one tweet from Fontana, believed to be a pseudonym used by one or more State Security agents.
Another Fontana tweet said police had seized “money and means from mercenaries,” and still another alleged, “USAID and CANF are linked.” Fontana also described UNPACU as “an arm of the CIA,” and CANF as “a terrorist organization.”
The crackdown came two days after Cuban ruler Raúl Castro, in a speech marking the 55th anniversary of the victory of the country’s revolution, warned against a campaign by “powerful forces” to undermine the communist system, especially the youth.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Miami Republican, said Friday’s arrests showed that “55 year later, this brutal dictatorship remains committed to maintaining a bloody grip over the island, denying human rights and democratic freedoms to 11 million Cubans.”
“The campaign that the tyrant is afraid of is the one waged by opposition leaders that is based on respect for human rights, multi-party elections and freedom of expression,” she declared in a statement.
The Miami-based Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba issued a statement Friday urging international human rights organizations to demand an immediate end to the arrests of dissidents and other forms of repression.
 

 

Latest from Cuba...

UNPACU LEADER'S HOUSES ASSAULTED

Dear Sirs and Madams,

 

Please take account on this new Press Release from UNPACU:

UNPACU LEADER'S HOUSES ASSAULTED
José Daniel Ferrer and Ovidio Martín Castellanos, detained and being held in unknown whereabouts

Link to press release in HTML: http://www.unpacu.org/unpacu-leaders-houses-assaulted-leaders-detained/

For further information in-site, please contact (SPANISH speaking):

Andris Verdecia Osorio, witness activist. Telephone: (+53) 53 84 2929

UNPACU's contacts at the bottom of this email.

Best regards,
Unión Patriótica de Cuba
www.unpacu.org
email: info@unpacu.org