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Details: Source/Author: Vicente Morín Aguado; Published: 25 June 2023

Cuban Gov. Shows Political Prisoner Jose D. Ferrer Is Alive after three months of total isolation

HAVANA TIMES – The leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, UNPACU, Jose Daniel Ferrer García, was shown to his relatives this Thursday afternoon, after three months of total solitary confinement in the Mal Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba. A message campaign had begun on social networks and other media, demanding Proof of Life for the emblematic opponent of the Cuban dictatorship.

Luis Enrique Ferrer, brother of the political prisoner recognized by Amnesty International, the European Parliament, the United States, and many other governments and international institutions, is circulating a family message that states:

“They took the family to the corridor that leads to the prepared isolation cell where they have kept Jose Daniel since August 14, 2021, in cruel, inhuman, and degrading conditions, under constant physical and psychological torture. Since March 6th Jose Daniel remains half-naked again, exposed to aggressive and dangerous mosquitoes, ants, and rodents.”

“They saw him in his underwear, with difficulty walking, severe pain in his hands, arms, and legs, extremely thin, with toothaches and a loss of vision. Jose’s body is full of lesions, to such an extent that he preferred not to hug them so as not to infect them with the bacteria that he has been presenting on his skin for months.

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Details: Source/Author: The CubanAmerican Voice; Published: 12 June 2023

Invitation Conference Martí in the Literature

St. Thomas University

Patria de Martí

G.A.L.A. Foundation (GAEA Arte Latino-Americano)

are pleased to invite you to

the bilingual conference

Martí in the Literature

Part of the "Versos Sencillos" art exhibition by Emilio Héctor Rodríguez

A Bilingual Conference About José Martí's Literary Works

Saturday, June 24, 2023, 2:30-5:00 PM

Archbishop John C. Favalora Archive & Museum

St. Thomas University

16401 NW 37th Ave Miami Gardens, FL 33054

Moderator: Isabel M. Medina

Speakers

Eduardo Lolo

José Raúl Vidal Franco

Frank Rodriguez

Emilio Sánchez

Julio M. Shiling

The conference will be broadcast live from Patria de Martí's website https://patriademarti.com, its Facebook page, Twitter, and YouTube on the TV Libertad channel. We hope you can join us!

Technical production: José Tarano Electronics JR Computer Design

The event and parking are free. The public is welcome.

ST Thomas PARKING

Details: Source/Author: Vicente Morín Aguado; Published: 10 June 2023

US Embargo on Cuba vs. Vaccines, Debunking Washington Post
(Original www.havanatimes.org. Slightly modified version for this publication.)

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The Washington Post recently gave us a disturbing recommendation: “Next pandemic, let Cuba vaccinate the world.” Forgiving the exaggerated headline, the lack of information Achal Prabhala and Vitor Ido – the two authors of the article originally published on June 1st -, have about the tragedy of the Cuban people is quite unfortunate.

The commentators say that “The story of how Cuba was systematically blocked in its quest to make its own highly effective vaccines widely available offers crucial lessons.”

Informing yourself before writing is crucial, because the US is the main source of net foreign currency captured by the Cuban State. In early 2020, CNN published the following fragment from a report provided by the Inter-American Dialogue, an institution affiliated with the World Bank.

Last year, Cubans received US $2.055 billion in direct money transfers as remittances:

“1,042,451 out of a total of nearly 4 million households in Cuba received remittances over the period (approximately 26%), an average of 2,210 USD per household. The US is the main source of these remittances, accounting for US $1.721 billion, or 83.72% of the total.”

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Details: Source/Author: Vicente Morín Aguado; Published: 25 May 2023

Interview with David E. Hoffman, Biographer of Oswaldo Paya

HAVANA TIMES – David E. Hoffman is a journalist born in Palo Alto, CA. in 1953. He won three National Journalism Awards during a decade of coverage for The Washington Post at the White House, during the Reagan administrations, and the early days of George Bush Sr. Then he was Post’s chief of the Moscow office of for 6 years.

His fourth book motivates the following interview: Give me Liberty, The true story of Oswaldo Paya and his daring quest for a free Cuba. (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

I met David E. Hoffman at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida, during the presentation of his recent biography on Oswaldo Paya, emblematic Cuban government opponent, Sakharov Prize for Human Rights of the European Parliament, Catholic and promoter of non-violence, who died in the still unclarified circumstances on July 22, 2012, because of a car accident.

Exploring the Nashville environment, as a newly arrived Cuban, I discovered another great bookstore, Barnes & Noble, part of picturesque Hendersonville, and the face of the Cuban martyr reappeared, motivating the following questions that the biographer answered.

Carlos Alberto Montaner, perhaps the most widely read Cuban Journalist in the Spanish language has written: “The acts that a liberal classifies in Russia as political crimes, he ignores when they occur in Cuba.”

Considering that you have written, and with remarkable success, on the Russian-Soviet subject, do you also suffer from this disappointment? Do you have an explanation?

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