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Trump And Cuba, Or How To Bet On The Wrong Winner
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 13 June 2017 – In less than 72 hours President Donald Trump will declare in Miami the new basis for the United States government’s policies… Continue reading
Police Raid Rafters’ Homes Looking for a Boat Stolen From the Army
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 26 April 2017 — Cuban police are searching for a boat stolen from the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and to find it they are… Continue reading
A Small Cuban Town Lives With The Anguish Of The Disappearance Of 13 Rafters
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 14 April 2017 — Juana Chiroles will never forget December 26, 2015. It was the last day she saw her son and… Continue reading
Cuba Holds World Record For Visa Applications Rejected By The United States
14ymedio, Luz Escobar/Mario Penton, Havana/Miami, 25 March 2017 – Maria, 59, has a daughter in Miami she hasn’t seen for six years. Her visa applications have been denied… Continue reading
Total Uncertainty Among Families Of Cuban ‘Rafters’ Recently Arrived In The United States / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 16 March 2017 — A call from Cuba finally let Yandry Perez relax. His aunt had alerted him through… Continue reading
Cuban families desperately seek information on relatives who arrived on a go-fast boat BY MARIO J. PENTÓN mpenton@elnuevoherald.com
The call from Cuba ended with a sense of dread for Yandry Pérez.
His aunt warned him through the interrupted telephone call… Continue reading
Otto Rivero’s March 2nd / 14ymedio, Zunilda Mata
14ymedio, Zunilda Mata, Havana, 2 March 2017 — Otto Rivero directed the most powerful entity in Cuba at the beginning of this century, the Battle of Ideas, but was ousted by Raúl… Continue reading
The Mummified Corpse Of A Rafter, Witness Of The Migratory Drama / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 19 January 2017 — A picture of the Virgin of Regla, the identity cards of two brothers and a mummified corpse… Continue reading
Wet Foot-Dry Foot Policy for Cubans Eliminated / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 12 January 2017 – [Note: This is an extended version of an article that appeared earlier today.] The Obama administration ended the “wet foot/dry foot”… Continue reading
Obama Eliminates Wet Foot-Dry Foot Policy For Cuban Immigrants / 14ymedio
14ymedio, Miami, 12 January 2017 –The Obama administration today put an end to the “wet foot/dry foot” policy, which allowed Cubans to obtain permanent residence one year after arriving… Continue reading
Obama ends controversial policy that allowed Cubans to enter U.S. without visas BY MIMI WHITEFIELD mwhitefield@miamiherald.com
The Obama administration on Thursday pulled the plug on a controversial policy for Cuban migrants — essentially turning the clock back on decades of… Continue reading
Lighthouse Cuban rafters in legal limbo after six months at Guantánamo Navy base BY MARIO J. PENTÓN mpenton@elnuevoherald.com
They crossed the Florida Straits six months ago and, in a desperate act, sought refuge on the American Shoal Lighthouse off the… Continue reading
The Ancient Dictator Died Long Ago / 14ymedio, Miriam Celaya
14ymedio, Miriam Celaya, Havana, 26 November 2016 — The official media have just announced the last and definitive death of Fidel Castro, and I think I have perceived more relief… Continue reading
The Last Death of Fidel Castro / 14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 26 November 2016 — As expected, the news of the death of Fidel Castro was announced by his brother Raul, in a brief official statement to… Continue reading
The Grandchildren Of The Revolution Aspire To A Normal Life With Neither Utopia Nor Frustration / 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez
14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Guatemala, 12 October 2016 – This will be the story of at least three stages my nation has… Continue reading
Book by Che’s Grandson Dissects Bowels of Cuban Reality / 14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, 9 October 2016 — “The whole country is a broken record” says Canek Sanchez Guevara, grandson of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, on one of the… Continue reading
Cuban Youth From US ‘World Learning’ Course Find Themselves Amid Slogans And Fear / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 1 October 2016 — Their names are barely known, but now they find themselves in the middle of acts… Continue reading
‘Laptops’ Now Have a Place on the ‘Little Regla Ferry’ / 14ymedio
14ymedio, Havana, 14 September 2016 — Residents and visitors of Regla and Casablanca can now travel with their laptops on the maritime vessels that connect the historic center… Continue reading
Fidel Castro’s Battle of Ideas… Political Pantomime / Somos+, Roberto Camba
How much truth can a man take? Friedrich Nietzsche
Somos+, Roberto Camba, 12 September 2016 — They say it began with the fight to return the young rescued rafter… Continue reading
Jose Marti, Tell the Tyrant… / Jeovany Jimenez Vega
Commentary by Carmen Zampallo in the forum of the article “Martí and his Myth,” by José Gabriel Barrenechea, published at 14:30m on the 17 May 2015. Thanks, Carmen, wherever you may… Continue reading
Six Cuban Boat People Still Missing In The Gulf Of Mexico / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 17 August 2016 — Thirteen men were determined to leave the misery, despair and weariness of lives filled with official propaganda.… Continue reading
Two Cubans who had been ordered deported return to the U.S. by sea BY ALFONSO CHARDY achardy@elnuevoherald.com
It is common for immigration agents to encounter undocumented immigrants who have returned to the United States after being previously deported.
What is… Continue reading
Pew Study: Post-Normalization Cuban Migrant Surge Getting More Dramatic By TIM PADGETT • AUG 5, 2016
Since the U.S. and Cuba normalized relations almost two years ago, Cuban migration here has surged. But a new study shows us just how… Continue reading
The Emigrant Must Earn Brownie Points to Enter Cuba / 14ymedio, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Mario J. Penton, Miami, 21 July 2016 — With blood-stained clothes and wounds and bruises on her arms, Ana Margarito Perdigon Brito returned to Miami from… Continue reading
Rafter who climbed lighthouse left Guantánamo Navy base, returned to Cuba
Alexei Leyva Céspedes, one of the 24 Cuban rafters who sought refuge on the American Shoal lighthouse on May 20 and were taken to the U.S. Navy base in… Continue reading
“It’s Very Possible That I Will Try Again,” Says Rafter Repatriated To Cuba / 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez
14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 6 July 2016 — Bearded, hungry and full of frustration, Walter Marrero Velazquez returned to the same island that… Continue reading
Cuba’s Greatest Problem May 30, 2016 Veronica Vega
HAVANA TIMES — A person I hold in high regard recently expressed their opinion which, at the time, I thought was a little bit too radical: “Cuba’s main problem is the Wet… Continue reading
The Persistence of Racism in Cuba May 21, 2016 By Alberto N Jones
HAVANA TIMES — The 1994 rafter crisis, changed the face of the Cuban emigration and the strategy of the United States government to puncture and weaken the… Continue reading
Increasing number of Cuban migrants are trying to reach U.S. by sea
If the Cuban migrant flow by sea continues at the same pace, total interceptions, sightings or arrivals during fiscal year 2015 may be surpassed before the end of… Continue reading
The Ordeal of a Cuban Rafter May 9, 2016 By Ivett de las Mercedes
HAVANA TIMES — On Friday, March 4, a group of twenty-seven young Cubans set out from Bahia Honda, in the province of Artemisa, headed for the… Continue reading
Cuba Will Lose One Million People In Next Decade / 14ymedio, Abel Fernandez, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Abel Fernandez and Mario Penton, Miami, 29 April 2016 — By 2025, the Cuban population will be reduced to 10 million. The dramatic demographic… Continue reading
Cuba’s population expected to drop dramatically over the next decade By 2025, Cuba’s population is projected to drop to 10 million residents — down from 11 million — due to low fertility and birth rates, as well as high levels… Continue reading
Cuban Rafters Dressed In Police Uniforms Reach The Coasts Of Florida / 14ymedio, Mario Penton Posted on April 6, 2016
A video posted Monday on the social network Facebook shows the arrival of 26 Cubans to the Florida Keys, aboard… Continue reading