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Amnesty International names Otero Alcantara a prisoner of conscience. Amnesty International on Friday named artist and leader of the San Isidro Movement, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a prisoner of conscience.

"Luis Manuel should not spend one more day in state custody. He has been deprived of his freedom solely for expressing himself peacefully and must be released immediately and unconditionally. It is time for the Cuban authorities to recognize that they cannot silence all independent voices in the country. Luis Manuel is not alone: many in the international community support his work as a human rights defender and as an artist fighting for freedom of expression," said Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International's Americas Director. 

 

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JOSÉ MARTÍ, THE NEED TO SHOW IT IN ITS REAL DIMENSION.

His passage to universality is determined by the conjunction of all the profiles of the also considered Master and Apostle; although it is his total dedication to the independence struggle at the end of the 19th century that confers him that distinctive seal of transcendence beyond the temporal borders of his nationality and his time. José Martí remains the most universal, transcendental and symbolic figure of the Cuban nation. 

Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Spain - His premature death, at only forty-two years of age, in addition to his total dedication to the emancipation struggle of 1895, were the two elements that determined that many of the projects of the colossal man from Dos Ríos remained unrealized or unfinished. Hence, paradoxically, the most representative figure of the history, politics and literature of Cuba, does not necessarily have an extensive work, at least if we exclude from his vast volumes his great collection of letters and his innumerable notes. His long-awaited textbook on the History of Philosophy, his biographies of great sculptors and philosophers: "I have to write four books: Raphael, Michelangelo, Voltaire, Rousseau", other translations, as well as his system of Philosophy of Relations remained only as archetypal ideas in the blessed mind of the enlightened being, whose death on the battlefield we remember this May 19.

 

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U.S. Congress approves resolution in favor of "Damas de Blanco".

Bipartisan resolution in favor of the "Damas de Blanco" is approved. ("Damas de Blanco", a strong opposition movement in Cuba (Photo: Berta Soler - Facebook))

Republican Senator Rick Scott celebrated today that the U.S. Senate approved the bipartisan resolution in favor of the "Damas de Blanco" that was presented by several officials on March 4.

Scott, who served as governor of the state of Florida, assured that he will always support organizations and groups that seek to fight for the human rights and freedoms of the citizens of Cuba, who are subjected to strong repression by the Castro government.

The U.S. official made his statement through his official Twitter account and added a message written by Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio after the approval of the resolution was made known. 

 

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Oppositionist Jacqueline Borrego dies due to Castro's negligence.

HAVANA, Cuba. - "If they had given her the corresponding medical attention she would not have died", denounces the ex-husband of Jacqueline Borrego Cuesta, the Cuban activist and member of the Movement of Opponents for a New Republic (MONR) who died this Monday "as a result of advanced malnutrition".

Luis Jesús Gutiérrez Campo, who was in charge of the activist's care during her period of prostration, explained to CubaNet that Borrego Cuesta, 48, died in her own home, in the municipality of Marianao.

"She passed away at home around 11:30 in the morning after being from April 14 to 27 in the Military Hospital. Her entire digestive system was badly affected and she was already having difficulties in feeding herself," Gutiérrez Campo explained.

The interviewee also detailed that in the last weeks it was almost impossible to give him water and food, which further aggravated his state of malnutrition. "It was very difficult to give him a cc (cubic centimeter) of water or juice, as well as mashed food," he said. 

 

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