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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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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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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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The ‘Little Packet’, A Clandestine Rival For The ‘Weekly Packet’

Published May 7, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

The ‘Little Packet’, A Clandestine Rival For The ‘Weekly Packet’ 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 5 May 2017 — Uncensored, fun and with many varied themes — this defines the producers of the paketito (little packet), a new compendium of audiovisual material that aims to fill the gaps left by the popular weekly packet. Unlike its […] Continue reading →

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Cuban state news agency restarts operations in Washington

Published April 30, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Cuban state news agency restarts operations in Washington AFP April 28, 2017

Washington (AFP) – Cuba’s state news agency Prensa Latina officially restarted journalism operations in the US capital of Washington on Friday, unfreezing 50 years of inactivity and marking… Continue reading →

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When Your Ally’s Beards are on Fire

Published April 19, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

When Your Ally’s Beards are on Fire*… / Miriam Celaya Cubanet, Miriam Celaya, Havana, 18 April 2017 — According to an old adage, when you see you neighbor’s beard on fire, go soak your own*. The maxim should be applied to the elderly Cuban dictator, especially if we take into account that the erratic performance […] Continue reading →

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Exercising Independent Journalism In Cuba Is A State Crime

Published April 6, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Exercising Independent Journalism In Cuba Is A State Crime / Iván García

Iván García, 30 March 2017 — Fear has the habit of first knocking on your door. On any night, in a work center or a house, an official… Continue reading →

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Carta de artistas e intelectuales cubanos denunciando la censura al cineasta Carlos Lechuga

Published March 25, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Carta de artistas e intelectuales cubanos denunciando la censura al cineasta Carlos Lechuga rkoltun@elnuevoherald.com Especial/el Nuevo Herald Carta suministrada a la redacción de el Nuevo Herald. La semana pasada el cineasta cubano Carlos Lechuga anunció que su película “Santa y Andrés” había sido excluida de la competencia del 18vo Havana Film Festival de Nueva York […] Continue reading →

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Legal Process Opens Against ‘14ymedio’ Reporter in Camagüey

Published March 24, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Legal Process Opens Against ‘14ymedio’ Reporter in Camagüey 14ymedio, Havana, 23 March 2017 – This Wednesday the gates have begun to close around independent journalist Sol Garcia Basulto, who has been charged with the crime of “usurpation of legal capacity.” (In other words, “practicing journalism without a license.”) The correspondent for this newspaper in Camaguey […] Continue reading →

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'When I'm 64': Beatlemania blooms belatedly in Cuba

Published March 22, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

‘When I’m 64’: Beatlemania blooms belatedly in Cuba Carlos BATISTA AFP March 22, 2017

More Havana (AFP) – While their American and European peers twisted and shouted to The Beatles in the 1960s, in Cuba childhood sweethearts Gisela and Hector… Continue reading →

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‘When I’m 64’: Beatlemania blooms belatedly in Cuba

Published March 22, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

‘When I’m 64’: Beatlemania blooms belatedly in Cuba Carlos BATISTA AFP March 22, 2017 More Havana (AFP) – While their American and European peers twisted and shouted to The Beatles in the 1960s, in Cuba childhood sweethearts Gisela and Hector kept their Beatlemania a naughty secret. Now, still Beatles-crazy after all these years, but with […] Continue reading →

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Police Accuse Journalist Henry Constantin Of “Usurpation Of Legal Capacity”

Published March 18, 2017 | By Censura Cubana

Police Accuse Journalist Henry Constantin Of “Usurpation Of Legal Capacity” / 14ymedio 14ymedio, Havana, 17 March 2017 – Journalist Henry Constantin, director of La Hora de Cuba (Cuba Hour) magazine and regional vice president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), was formally charged Friday with the crime of “usurpation of legal capacity,” he told […] Continue reading →

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