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In Cuba, Growing Numbers Of Bloggers Manage To Operate In A Vulnerable Gray Area

Published July 2, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

In Cuba, Growing Numbers Of Bloggers Manage To Operate In A Vulnerable Gray Area July 2, 20178:26 AM ET CARRIE KAHN In recent years, a growing number of news and political websites have popped up in Cuba. Some are taking advantage of what they say has been a small but vibrant opening afforded them since […] Continue reading →

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Cuba and the United States Return to the Trenches

Published June 25, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Cuba and the United States Return to the Trenches / Iván García Iván García, 19 June 2017 — For both countries it amounts to a remake of the Cold War, this time in version 2.0. It will take time to determine the scope of the contest or if the new diplomatic battle will involve only […] Continue reading →

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Jesus Hernandez-Guero Or The Art Of Provoking

Published June 2, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Jesus Hernandez-Guero Or The Art Of Provoking 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 30 May 2017 — If something is clear in the work of Jesus Hernández- Güero is that he is not a complacent artist. His transgressive look is insolent and unrelated to any political militancy, religious creed or commercial convenience. The artist raises sparks everywhere: […] Continue reading →

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“We Are Not Leaving Cuba”, Say Members Of The Center For Coexistence Studies

Published May 21, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

“We Are Not Leaving Cuba”, Say Members Of The Center For Coexistence Studies

14ymedio, Havana, 16 May 2017 — In the midst of a wave of pressure from the authorities, members of the Center for Coexistence Studies (CEC) have issued… Continue reading →

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Democracy in Cuba is smuggled on thumb drives, spreads on street networks

Published May 20, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Democracy in Cuba is smuggled on thumb drives, spreads on street networks Revolution in the time of the internet by Brian Crecente@crecenteb May 19, 2017, 4:30pm EDT Cuba is like the memory of somewhere you’ve never been. It’s the bilinearity of capitalism and commercialism, rum and coke, offline and on, that takes two opposing ideas […] Continue reading →

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Cuban Government Extends Censorship To The Digital Site Somos+

Published May 18, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Cuban Government Extends Censorship To The Digital Site Somos+ 14ymedio, Havana, 16 May 2017 — The digital site of the Somos+ (We Are More) Movement has now joined the list of pages censored on the servers of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) which supply public WiFi. The leader of the organization, Eliecer Avila, links this […] Continue reading →

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Independent Journalism Seeks to Revive Press Freedom

Published May 16, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Independent Journalism Seeks to Revive Press Freedom / Iván García Iván García, 3 May 2017 — Let’s step back in time. One morning in 1985, Yndamiro Restano Díaz, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with Radio Rebelde, took out an old Underwood and wrote a clandestine broadsheet entitled “Nueva Cuba.” After distributing the single-page, handmade newspaper up and […] Continue reading →

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Cuba: Where underground arcades, secret networks and piracy are a way of life

Published May 15, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Cuba: Where underground arcades, secret networks and piracy are a way of life A look at how Cubans play, make, critique and find video games by Brian Crecente@crecenteb May 15, 2017, 9:00am EDT Like its music, like its art, Cuba is a complex, colorful mash-up of dichotomous ideas, cultures and emotions. Nothing better describes the […] Continue reading →

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Karla Pérez Arrives In Costa Rica To Continue Her Studies In Journalism

Published May 12, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Karla Pérez Arrives In Costa Rica To Continue Her Studies In Journalism

14ymedio, Havana, 11 May 2017 — Karla Pérez González, the student expelled from the University of Las Villas for her membership in the dissident organization Somos+, arrived in… Continue reading →

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The Government Unleashed a Crackdown on Journalists After Hurricane Matthew

Published May 11, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

The Government Unleashed a Crackdown on Journalists After Hurricane Matthew

14ymedio, Havana, 10 May 2017 –The independent Cuban press has been especially harassed after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the eastern part of the country. Several reporters were arrested… Continue reading →

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Manipulation And Silence, Cuba’s Information Policy On Venezuela

Published May 10, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Manipulation And Silence, Cuba’s Information Policy On Venezuela

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 9 May 2017 — Cubans have not seen the images of that lady who, armed only with her determination, stopped an armored police tank in the streets of… Continue reading →

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The Cuban Regime is an Enemy to the Freedom of Expression

Published May 10, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

The Cuban Regime is an Enemy to theFreedom of Expression / Iván García Ivan Garcia, 10 May 2017 — When he is particularly bored, after flicking through the eight channels that there are on the island, 56 year old civil engineer Josuan watches the national news some nights with a smirk only to later write […] Continue reading →

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Cuban town hooked on pirate social network

Published May 9, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Cuban town hooked on pirate social network Alexandre GROSBOIS AFP May 9, 2017

Gaspar (Cuba) (AFP) – On a traffic island in a country town, young Cubans are doing what most of their compatriots cannot: surfing an online social network.… Continue reading →

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A double standard

Published May 8, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

A double standard ARMANDO CHAGUACEDA | Ciudad de México | 8 de Mayo de 2017 – 14:18 CEST. Within the framework of the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), a group of Cuban academics and former officials recently circulated a document protesting the LASA’S position regarding the wave of repression and political crisis […] Continue reading →

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