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Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved

Posted on 18/11/2009

The US government must redouble efforts to resolve the future of detainees still held at the military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International said after President Barack Obama acknowledged his administration would not meet his deadline for its closure. "Over recent mo ...

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Cuba: Courting Change

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 18/11/2009

“There are a good number of ministers still under sixty, but the largest share of power is concentrated in the hands of septuagenarians and octogenarians”: Cuba's Generation Y suggests these veterans are unable “to hear the new generation knocking at the door, coming like a whi ...

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Statement to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of The United States House of Representatives

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 18/11/2009

Washington, DC Chairman Howard L. Berman U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs 2170 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman, read more

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Cuba: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 18/11/2009

(Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released today . read more ...

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Bahamas, Cuba: Fair Trade?

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 11/11/2009

Rick Lowe issues a few words of warning to the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce when it comes to doing business with Cuba: “The Chamber stands for ethics in business and I believe they are on shaky ground recommending we do business with a regime in Cuba that apparently does not honour basic human ...

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