So many questions…

After the announcement that the political prisoners from the “Group of 75” would be released, many questions remain. Claudia Cadelo has very good ones in a post on her blog :

“It bothers me deeply, horribly, to see the sleight of hand that has been shown to the voices of civil society in pursuit of a policy so opportunistic towards those who live in my country today: the release of the innocents. At what point in history was the dialog between the Church and the Cuban government, and with Moratinos left as mediator? When will the prisoners who want to live in Cuba be released?

Political prisoners still die in Cuba

Orlando Zapata Tamayo / AFP PHOTO / Files / Adalberto ROQUE

Political prisoners still die in Cuba All the analysis about a Cuban regime’s detente are falling down. News from the Caribbean island were not optimistic regarding the human rights. Yesterday a political prisoner died after 85 days on hunger strike. The authorities did not make anything to prevent it. According to his family, it is a kind of murder.

Cuban bloggers threatened again

Reinaldo Escobar / Desdecuba.com

Summary of the previous episode in Havana: Yoani Sanchez, the most known Cuban blogger and one of the most active opponents to Castro’s regime, had been arrested during a few minutes and beaten by State Security agents. This weekend her husband Reinaldo Escobar, who is also a well known blogger, organized an event to protest against this act of violence. He wanted to meet security agents in a “verbal duel” about the incident.

The price of the embargo

One step forward, one step back… The negotiations between the US and Cuba for an opening in some areas have been jumpy since Obama came to power. Because of the inflexibility of Cuban regime and because of internal movements within the US political life.