June 23, 2015 Washington — I WAS born in Havana in November 1953, about six years before Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba. In July 1960, my family fled to the […]
NYT Sunday Editorial: “Lift the Cuba Travel Ban” claims 45 Sponsors of 100 Senators, 6 in GOP but not yet Ron Johnson
Contact Sen. Ron Johnson: Phone: (202) 224-5323 Email Senator Johnson Tweet to @SenRonJohnson June 20, 2015 Granted, Khartoum, Tehran, Damascus and Pyongyang are not terribly popular tourist destinations. But they are places Americans […]
Statement from MU Director Terminated for Allowing Black Student Artistic Expression on Campus re Assata Shakur Who Received Asylum in Cuba Over 35 Years Ago
Click here for Dr. Bartlow’s website & the original post, including her ongoing updates regarding MU faculty & national support, and her 3 part essay on the mural controversy & the significance of […]
US Government Ordered to Prepare Guantánamo Force-Feeding Videos for release
Friday, May 29, 2015 – 3:45pm WASHINGTON – An appeals court has today ordered the Obama Administration to redact 12 hours of secret Guantánamo force-feeding footage in preparation for its public release, […]
Cuba Removed From US Terror List
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 29, 2015, 2:34 P.M. E.D.T. HAVANA — The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist, a decision hailed in Cuba as the […]
Seven key points in U.S.-Cuban Relations
Although talks between the U.S. and Cuba are in themselves a milestone for two countries which have lacked formal ties for more than 50 years, they only mark the beginning of a […]
NYT: American Released by Cuba Plays Role as U.S. Relations With Havana Thaw
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD | MAY 2, 2015 MEXICO CITY — For five years, Alan P. Gross, an American aid worker, sat in a Cuba prison growing so despondent that he openly considered suicide. […]
*UPDATED* IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba in Milwaukee! June 27th, 2015
Flyer -Spanish | Flyer – English Saturday, June 27, 2015 6pm Potluck Dinner (bring a dish or $ donation), 7pm Program Central United Methodist Church, 25th & Wisc. Ave. Join us Sat., June 27 […]
Passport to Cuba, in poetry & music from Orion Magazine
INTRODUCTION by RAFAEL HERNÁNDEZ Cuba is a small country, yet it is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea. In square miles, including the many keys and islets that dot its coastline, […]
Whither Cuba?
The US strategy for undoing the Cuban Revolution was laid down in the Eisenhower years in this April 1960 State Department guideline: “[E]very possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the […]
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