Today was a busy day in Washington when it comes to Cuba, with the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing testimony on whether the United States should lift limits on Americans' ability to travel to the island, including for tourism. Nothing... | Continue »

Hector Maseda Being a free man in Cuba isn't easy, but some of the freest men in Cuba are those who are in prison because they know they are free men. They know their rights, and no bearded dictator or... | Continue »

"Raúl Castro’s government has imprisoned scores of political prisoners using laws criminalizing dissent. In particular, Cuba has relied on a 'dangerousness' provision that allows authorities to imprison individuals for exercising their fundamental freedoms, on the grounds that their activities contradict... | Continue »

Today was All Saints Day in the Catholic Church, when we remember those whose godliness decades and centuries after they have passed, continue to inspire us, and remind us of the type of people we all can be. The priest... | Continue »

Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera Cuban human rights activist Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera on Thursday started a hunger strike to show her solidarity with her brother, the political prisoner Mario Alberto Pérez Aguilera, according to a report today from independent journalist... | Continue »

Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez Imprisoned Cuban journalist Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez last month won a small victory in his continuing struggle with his captors to preserve his human rights, and proved again he is a hero. Maseda, who suffers from high blood... | Continue »

Iván Hernández Carrillo Cuban political Iván Hernández Carrillo on Monday, Oct. 26, started a hunger strike after guards at the Guamajal prison confiscated a copy of a book written by a fellow political prisoner, Antonio Ramón Díaz Sánchez, according to... | Continue »

Vladimir Alejo Miranda (Miscelaneas de Cuba photo) Vladimir Alejo Miranda, a human rights activist and independent librarian, was released from prison Oct. 23, about 2 months shy of completing a two-year sentence handed down after he was arrested for carrying... | Continue »

Normando Hernández González UPDATED, July 14, 2010 — Normando Hernández was released from prison in July 2010, under a deal between Spain, the Catholic Church and the Castro dictatorship. |———| Last week, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in a cell somewhere... | Continue »

For the 18th year in a row, an almost-unanimous United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday condemned the so-called "embargo" against Cuba by the island nation's fifth biggest trading partner, the United States. And for about the 50th year in a... | Continue »