The Castro gang is a secretive bunch, all the better to hide its many crimes. But the information blockade is not absolute, not even in the dictatorship's dungeons, from where prisoners, political and otherwise, are able to report to the......

Five days after his arrest during a nationwide police sweep against Cuban dissidents, human rights activist Leonardo Miguel Bruzón Ávila remains missing, according to the EFE news agency. Bruzón, president of the 24th of February Movement, was arrested Thursday in......

Here is an impassioned plea by a Cuban woman for the world — from Pope Benedict XVI on down to the rest of us — to stand up for her imprisoned husband, the political prisoner Nelson Aguiar Ramírez. (Received via......

I am into my 20th year as a newspaperman, and in that time I have acquired the knowledge and experience that I think makes me uniquely qualified to do my job, at least more than your average tinpot dictator. Still,......

The mayor of Puerto Real, Spain, says Cuba has the most advanced democracy in the world. The reality of life on the island, especially for the political opposition, shows that that opinion isn't worth a bowl of rice and beans.......