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Arch Ritter launches new blog: "The Cuban Economy"
June 27, 2010

Cuba - A Way Forward
May 27, 2010
New York Books

Press conference by Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino (Spanish)
May 20, 2010

Coping With the Next Oil Spill: Why US-Cuba Environmental Cooperation is Critical
May 18, 2010
Brookings Institution

More Faith, Greater Religion Fluidity in Cuba
May 18, 2010
IPS

Sobre la corrupción y otros demonios en la sociedad cubana (Spanish)
May 17, 2010
Cubaencuentro

Closing speech at Cuba’s farmers Congress (Spanish)
May 16, 2010
Delivered by Cuban Vice President and Minister of Economy and Planning

Corrupción al modo cubano (Spanish)
May 16, 2010
El País

Cuba suffers exodus of the best and the brightest
May 9, 2010
The Guardian

The US Needs Helps on Cuba
April 28, 2010
Peter Hakim
Inter-American Dialogue

Isn't Fidel great?
April 22, 2010
Macleans

Nuestra voz es un llamado al diálogo (Spanish)
April 19, 2010
Interview with Havana’s Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega
Palabra Nueva

Human Rights Developments in the Region: Cuba
April 15, 2010
Annual Report 2009: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Aquella ofensiva (tercera parte y final)
April 14, 2010
Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera
Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)

Aquella ofensiva (segunda parte)
April 13, 2010
Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera
Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)

Aquella ofensiva (primera parte)
April 12, 2010
Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera
Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)

Corrupción: ¿La verdadera contrarrevolución? (Spanish)
April 12, 2010
Esteban Morales
This piece, which warns of corruption in high places, was once published in the Cuban Writers and Artists Union website, but has since been withdrawn.

Cuba in the 2010s: Creative reform or geriatric paralysis?
FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas - April 2010
Archibald R. M. Ritter

Closing speech by President Raul Castro at the 9th Congress of the Young Communist League
April 4, 2010

Cuban dissidents on hunger strike (Spanish)
March 30, 2010
Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation

Are Cuba's true martyrs a portent of a new 1989?
March 30, 2010
The Globe and Mail

Cuba: One people (Spanish)
March 25, 2010

IACHR Concerned About Situation of Guillermo Fariñas
March 19, 2010
Organization of American States

Mexico makes a call to the Cuban Government (Spanish)
March 15, 2010
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

National Assembly’s Declaration on the EP Resolution
March 11, 2010

List of Cuban prisoners of conscience with delicate health conditions (Spanish)
March 11, 2010
Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation

European Parliament resolution on prisoners of conscience in Cuba
March 10, 2010

No end to repression
March 8, 2010
The Globe and Mail

Speech by Cuba’s Foreign Minister
March 3, 2010
UN Human Rights Council, Geneva

List of detentions after the death of prisoner of conscience Zapata Tamayo (Spanish)
March 1, 2010
Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation

IACHR Condemns Death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo in Cuba
February 26, 2010
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Canada Mourns Death of Political Prisoner in Cuba
February 25, 2010
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Cuban dissident’s death symptomatic of deep rot in Cuba
February 25, 2010
Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC)

Death of Prisoner of Conscience Must Herald Change
February 24, 2010
Amnesty International

A political prisoner dies in Havana
February 24, 2010
Yoani Sánchez, Generación Y
Orlando Zapata’s mother talks about her son’s death after an 85-days hunger strike.

Un país sin jóvenes está destinado a ser una sombra … (Spanish)
February 20, 2010
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
An interview with Silvio Rodríguez

Declaración del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Spanish)
February 20, 2010
The Cuban Government harshly criticizes conversations between a US official delegation and Cuban dissidents.

Cuba Migration Talks
February 19, 2010
US Department of State.

Declaración del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba (Spanish)
February 19, 2010
Issued after migration talks between the official delegations of the US and Cuba.

Cuba's Deserters
February 18, 2010 (Translated by Havana Times, February 21, 2010)
Blog Cartas desde Cuba, BBC Mundo
Fernando Ravsberg

La cultura incompleta (Spanish)
February 16, 2010
Diario de Cuba
The article extensively quotes Cuban intellectual Reinaldo Gonzalez after receiving a special award bestowed by the Cuban Government at Havana’s Book Fair.

Attacks on the Press 2009: Cuba
February 16, 2010
Committee to Protect Journalists

Para dialogar con los jóvenes (Spanish) February 13, 2010
Juventud Rebelde
Graziella Pogolotti

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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