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Marc R. Masferrer
I'm a career newspaper journalist. I also blog.
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April 19, 2017: A bloody day as Venezuelans demand end of dictatorship
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Posted Apr 19, 2017 at Uncommon Sense
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3 Cuban siblings in jail for opposing Castro. Amnesty International says they may be near death.
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Fidel Batista Leyva y Anairis y Adairis Miranda Leyva Amnesty International last week called for "urgent action" on behalf of three imprisoned siblings, who their mother says are in poor health after starting hunger strikes on March 7 to demand... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2017 at Uncommon Sense
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Report: Cuba dictatorship makes almost 10,000 political arrests in 2016
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Members of the Cuban Damas de Blanco were arrested during a demonstration in March. (AP photo) In the post-fact world we live in, you can interpret numbers anyway you want, even when they reflect the absolute tyranny of the Castro... Continue reading
Posted Jan 7, 2017 at Uncommon Sense
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Fidel or no Fidel, repression in Cuba continues at torrid pace
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Members of the Ladies in White Human Rights organization are arrested by Cuban police on December 10, 2015 in Havana. (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) Fidel Castro's death alone, as welcome as it was, will not free Cuba from political repression. If... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Fidel Castro was 'one of the world’s worst press freedom predators'
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Fidel Castro could always count on sympathetic, if not outright fawning coverage in the international media. It's too much to say the media created Castro, but in his more than 60 years in the public spotlight many in the media,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Rosa Maria Paya to present information about Cuban arrests to UN
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Eduardo Cardet, left, and Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado Cuban democracy activist Rosa Maria Paya says she will present to United Nations human rights officials information about the arrests of activists Danilo Maldonado and Eduardo Cardet in the days after the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Amnesty International declares jailed Cuban artist El Sexto as a prisoner of conscience
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El Sexto Amnesty International has declared Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado -- better known as El Sexto -- a prisoner of conscience after he was arrested not long after he posted on Facebook a video in which he mocked the death... Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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After Castro's death, Cubans in Miami and elsewhere celebrate freedom
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Cubans in Miami celebrate after the death of Fidel Castro, Nov. 26, 2016. (Photo: Marc R. Masferrer) The death of Fidel Castro, as significant as it was, does not change a thing in Cuba. Cuba and Cubans remain enslaved by... Continue reading
Posted Nov 27, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Fidel Castro loses, we win
The bastard is dead. The death of Fidel Castro is the best news ever for Cuba and Cubans, whether they are on the island or in exile. Maybe, finally, real change -- that is, freedom -- will come to Cuba.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Amnesty International pleads for support for Cuban human rights lawyers
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Amnesty International is sounding the alarm on behalf of Cubalex, a Cuba-based group of human rights lawyers that AI says has been subjected in recent months to increased harassment and intimidation by the Castro dictatorship: Progressively since September, Cuban authorities... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Farinas: Stop U.S.-Cuba business deals until repression ends
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President Barack Obama and Guillermo Farinas, in Miami in 2013. (Photo: Martinoticias.com) Cuban human rights activist Guillermo Farinas is urging President-elect Donald Trump to halt or suspend trade and investment deals between the United States and Cuba until the Castro... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Alberto Liriano Linares dies
Former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Alberto Liriano Linares, who spent several years in the Castro gulag, has died, according to journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez, who reported the news on Facebook. As I noted in a 2008 profile of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuba among 'most repressive' places for internet freedom
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Cubans use a Wi-Fi hot spot. (EFE photo via Martinoticias.com) Internet freedom remains almost nonexistent in Cuba, despite "modest steps" to increase the public's access, according to a new Freedom House report on internet freedom around the world. Out of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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At Pope Francis' behest, Cuba pardons 787 prisoners -- but no political prisoners
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Pope Francis and Raul Castro, during the pope's visit to Cuba in March. (Getty Images) In response to Pope Francis' call for a show of mercy, the Castro dictatorship this week pardoned 787 "common prisoners." But human rights activists said... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Castro dictatorship Cuban threatens independent journalist Sol Garcia Basulto
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Sol Garcia Basulto (photo via Facebook) Cuban independent journalist Sol García Basulto is pleading with the world to take up her cause, after the Castro secret police threatened to imprison her and punish her family because of her work. Garcia,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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With 2 months to go, 2016 already a low mark for human rights in Cuba
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Photo via Martinoticias. Fourteen months or so after the United States reopened its embassy in Havana, political repression in Cuba is as awful as ever. In fact, by one count, 2016, with two months still to go, is the worst... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban activist released under Obama-Castro deal is back in jail after overseas trip
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Rolando Reyes Rabanal Cuban human rights activist Rolando Reyes Rabanal, who was one of 53 political prisoners released after the U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations in December 2014, was arrested Saturday after returning from a visit to Colombia. Reyes... Continue reading
Posted Jun 19, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 6/19/15: Santiago Cisneros Castellanos
This post will remain at the top of the page through June 25. During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was... Continue reading
Posted Jun 19, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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As of May 31, more than 6,000 political arrests this year in Cuba
The Cuban secret police made at least 724 politically motivated arrests in May, according to the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and Reconciliation. It was the lowest monthly count since last July, when there were 674, but at best it... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 6/5/16: Wenceslao Chirino Perez
During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was a list of names. Only the biggest fool would believe him, but several... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 5/29/16: Joel Bencomo Rodriguez
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During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was a list of names. Only the biggest fool would believe him, but several... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Former Cuban political prisoners' visits to U.S. something to celebrate
Four of the most powerful voices in the Cuban opposition -- the former "black spring" prisoners of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, Ivan Hernandez and Felix Navarro -- traveled to the United States last week to... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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4 women activists in Cuban prisons should be declared prisoners of conscience
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Yunet Cairo Reigad and Yaquelin Heredia Morales As part of its overall repressive nature, the Castro dictatorship carries on a vicious war on women, especially those who dare to challenge its rule. Just asked the Damas De Blanco, or "Ladies... Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 5/22/16: Maria del Carmen Cala Aguilera
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During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was a list of names. Only the biggest fool would believe him, but several... Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 5/15/16: Osvaldo Arcis Hernandez
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During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was a list of names. Only the biggest fool would believe him, but several... Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2016 at Uncommon Sense
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