... The group documented more than 40 cases under Raul Castro in which Cuba has imprisoned individuals for “dangerousness” ... tourists flooding to Cuba could mean “billions of dollars for the (Castro) regime,” he said. Human Rights Watch urged ... 8220;failed embargo policy” that has won sympathy for the Castro government abroad. But before lifting the embargo the United States ...

... a 2002 Wichita Eagle article saying “I’d like to see Castro’s palace in Havana stacked to the rafters with wheat ... there’s “a lot of evidence to show the Castro regime — which is Fidel and his brother, Raul — ... “Cubans kept saying to us, it’s your blockade that’s keeping Castro in power.” He said U.S. engagement with communist countries ...

Old Havana Yoani Sanchez is waging war against the Castro regime in Cuba. For that she has been harassed and beaten. Her crime: speaking the truth about life under the Castro brothers. Her weapon of choice: her blog. From the Telegraph: Attacking ... greater political freedom and economic growth. Instead, the younger Castro is now at the helm of a country which appears close to bankruptcy, the ...

... Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro’s regime in Cuba as little more than a continuation of his brother’s ` ... ;s government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island’s ... that belie initial hopes Raúl Castro would be different. Read more …. My Comment: Fidel had many of his opponents executed ...

... targets of the Cuban regime for their political views. An excerpt: As the new head of state, Raul Castro inherited ... dared to exercise their fundamental freedoms. Raul Castro's government has relied in particular on a provision of the Cuban ... quot;dangerousness" under Ra??l Castro because they tried to exercise their fundamental rights. We believe there are many more. The "dangerous ...

... -dominated and undemocratic. A report from Human Rights Watch finds repression as bad under President Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel. Nik Steinberg, who wrote the report, says dissidents are being imprisoned under the regime's Orwellian "dangerousness" laws. The group's deputy director for the ...

... manpower is to be spared" in the effort to overthrow the Castro regime. The chief of Mongoose operations, Edward ... turn create the justification for the US to not only retaliate but destroy Castro with speed, force and determination." In March ... threat could not have been a major factor. The plans for forceful regime change were drawn up and implemented before there was any significant Russian ...

... Namely, that the real conflict in Cuba is not between the United States and the Castro regime, but between the regime and the Cuban people. This is made abundantly clear in a searing new ... along fifty years on understandably confounds many. But that is less an argument for relaxing pressure on the regime than it is an argument to persevere in a cause that is just and right. Jorge Rey/Getty Images

... full embargo against the government of Fidel and Raul Castro and warning against lifting or relaxing the sanctions. Regardless, Delahunt ... tool that denies badly needed dollars to the Castro regime. "Sitting on a beach smoking ... "I would say to those who say travel is the silver bullet to change the Castro regime, then why is it that the millions of visitors from all over Europe, Canada, ...

... possibilities in descending order of preference: a decent democratic regime, a continuation of the Trujillo regime or a Castro regime. We ought to aim at the first, but we really can’t renounce the second until ... , points out in his testimony before the same committee. He assures us that “The Peiping regime…represents something less than 3 per cent of the population” (p. 402). ...

... Cubans in Miami, "he wasn't tough enough on the Castro regime..." But there's more. LeMieux is still working ... give his old buddy, Charlie, a leg up. Well, he probably hates Castro, too, but that's not what this is all about. If the Cuban community in Miami told ... LeMieux they would support Charlie if LeMieux kissed Castro's ass, he would do it. It's the usual game ...

... forceful, most effective spokesmen, for human rights, and how that respect from the Castro regime is absent on the island, has been Dr. Darsi Ferrer. Ferrer has exposed how the reality of Cuban health care falls ... and his willingness to act on those ideals, make him very dangerous to the regime. After years of trying less severe methods to silence him, a frustrated dictatorship dropped ...

... movie was made for an audience that knew precisely why the woman was devoted to the regime. She was devoted because the flawed world it created was like her family, too much a part of ... Cubans in Havana at the prospect of life after the Castros. Eager as they may be to see an end to the Castro regime, many also worry about the loss of community and the other cultural shocks that inevitably follow if ...

... .'' She also queried Cuban leader Raúl Castro -- but he hadn't replied as of late Thursday. Obama broke little new ground in his ... of the decades-old travel ban used Sánchez's recent beating, presumably at the hands of Cuban security forces, to criticize the Castro regime and make their case, House Foreign Affairs chairman Howard Berman read an essay Sánchez wrote in support ...

... life Yoani Sanchez, Cuba's most popular blogger, has been beaten up by thugs for the offence of describing life under the Castro regime By Andrew Hamilton in Mexico City Published: 5: ... 100 most influential people in the world. Now, it seems, the island's ruling Castro brothers have decided that enough is enough, and have unleashed their thugs to try to shut Ms Sanchez up ...