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FOCAL's Chronicle on Cuba - December 2009 (Spanish and English)
A monthly summary of top news items and related web links on Cuba.
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Interviews

Cuba-Canada Relations (video)
Arch Ritter
July 17, 2009
Business News Network, Headline


Articles

Cuba’s Bloggers: Is Cuba Relaxing Restrictions on Freedom of Expression?
Archibald R.M. Ritter
FOCALPoint, September 2009, Volume 8, Number 6

Is Cuban impasse inevitable? (PDF)
Archibald R.M. Ritter
March 12, 2009
Globe & Mail

Obama, Cuba, and Latin America: Renewal and Reconciliation?
Archibald R.M. Ritter
FOCALPoint, November 2008, Volumen 7, Number 8

2008: Supply Shock in the Cuban Economy
Pavel Vidal Alejandro
FOCALPoint, November 2008, Volume 7, Number 8

The Role of Micro-Loans in the Cuban Economy, Today and in the Future
Karina Gálvez
FOCALPoint, September 2008, Volume 7, Issue 7, p. 9

Retooling Canada's Cuba policy for the post-Castro era
Cristina Warren
Vanguard, Canada's Defence and Security Magazine, Department of National Defense


News Briefs

Renewed Diplomatic Exchange Between the EU and Cuba
FOCALPoint, November 2008, Volume 7, Number 8

Cuban Communists call for participatory, democratic socialism
FOCALPoint, September 2008, Volume 7, Issue 7



FOCAL's Spotlight on Cuba
Planning for the Post Castro Era
A chronology, list of publications and statements from key actors related to this decisive topic.

Crackdown on dissidents
A chronology, documents, and actions and statements by the Cuban Government, Cuban dissidents and the international community related to Cuban political prisoners and repression against the dissident movement, since the major crackdown in March 2003.

 

New on the Web

The (Non) Right of Cubans to Travel
February 1, 2010
Havana Times
Haroldo Dilla

Where is the Cuban ship going? A look at the economic environment (Spanish)
January 2010
Palabra Nueva
P. Boris Moreno

Cuba at the beginning of 2010
Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN)
January 19, 2010

Cuban Intellectuals Against Impediments and Prohibitions to Social Initiatives (Spanish)
December 18, 2009

Castro's Favourite Capitalist
December 2009
The Walrus
Interview with Sherritt International CEO Ian Delaney.

The Pope's address to the new Cuban Ambassador to the Vatican (Spanish)
December 10, 2009

Savaging of Yoani Sánchez
December 8, 2009
Ted Henken, El Yuma
Blogger Ted Henken analyses the Cuban media's concerted attack on Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez.

Message from Cuba to African-American Artists and Intellectuals
December 2, 2009
Union of Cuban Writers and Artists

African-American Support for the Civil Rights Struggle in Cuba
November 29, 2009
Miami Herald

Cuba: Afro-Cuban Demographics Briefing Sheet
November 28, 2009
Miami Herald

Editorial: Unreformed Tyranny
November 23, 2009
Globe and Mail

Survey of Cuban Public Opinion taken between July 4-August 7, 2009
International Republican Institute

Editorial Board Says Don't go to Cuba
November 20, 2009
National Post

Cuba and the U.S.: Resistant to Sticks and Carrots
November 19, 2009
The Economist

La falta de divisas asfixia a los cubanos (Spanish)
November 19, 2009
El País

President Obama’s Responses to Yoani Sánchez’s Questions
November 19, 2009

New Castro, Same Cuba
November 18, 2009
Human Rights Watch report.

Canadian Minister of State for the Americas Peter Kent visited Cuba
Media Release
November 17, 2009

Canadian Secretary of State Peter Kent Visits Cuba (Spanish)
November 12, 2009
Cubaminrex

Sobre nuestros espacios de participación público (Spanish)
November 2009
Espacio Laical

Reassessing Canada's Relationship with Cuba in an Era of Change
October 2009
Lana Wylie, Canadian International Council

Violation of the right of free movement for all Cubans (video)
November 6, 2009
137th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Yoani Sanchez is detained by State Security agents
November 6, 2009

Closed Doors
October 30, 2009
Yoani Sanchez in Generation Y blog

UN votes against the US embargo on Cuba
October 28, 2009
Granma

Speech by the Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on the embargo
October 28, 2009
Granma

US Ambassador Susan Rice’s Remarks on UN Resolution on the embargo
October 28, 2009

To the limit and without credibility (Spanish)
October 27, 2009
Oscar Espinosa Chepe
Cubaencuentro

Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba
October 13, 2009
Amnesty International

Lo que funciona
Orlando Márquez
October 2009
Palabra Nueva
This opinion article on the Cuban government’s decision to close secondary schools in the countryside was published in the newsletter of the Archdiocese of La Habana.

Editorial: Hora de definiciones (Spanish)
October 2009
Espacio Laical, Archdiocese of Havana

Cuba Outlook: Raúl and Beyond
Peter DeShazo
September 18, 2009
Report of the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, based in Washington, D.C.

Dia de la Caridad del Cobre
September 8, 2009
Juan Carlos Hernández Hernández
Agencia de Prensa Libre Oriental

Cuba’s GDP in 2009 and the Global Crisis
September 2009
Pavel Vidal
Espacio Laical

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