Afro-Cuban dissident Cuesta Morua (right) can’t understand why some American progressives who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. or identify with him today can support a regime that would never permit a similar movement, writes The Washington Post’s Harold …
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) invites organizations to submit proposals for projects that promote democracy and human rights in Cuba.
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Venezuela has “reacted with fury” to this week’s talks between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, describing the meeting as a “bomb” and recalling its envoy to its neighbor’s peace process, Reuters reports:
Capriles …
New technologies are allowing Cuba’s independent voices “to narrate and to try to change our reality,” says a leading dissident.
“Here in Stockholm it has felt rather like Cuba, though certainly not because of the weather,” Yoani Sanchez writes from …
Fidel Castro called on the late President Hugo Chávez to stop holding elections, according to a recording of a telephone conversation between a pro-government TV host and a senior Cuban intelligence officer. The TV anchorman agrees with the former …
“A thriving underground social media network is challenging the Communist government’s grip on power and information in Cuba and beginning to bring change, a leading dissident said on Thursday,” Reuters reports:
“There is a network of clandestine information, the …
A network of domestic and exiled Cubans will facilitate the island’s transition to democracy, says a leading dissident.
“The table is set,” he said, for opposition groups to “try to find the cracks in the system” and ease Cuba toward …
“The leader of Cuba’s dissident Ladies in White today called for maintaining the U.S. trade embargo and limiting travel to the island until the Raúl Castro government respects human rights,” The Miami Herald reports:
Berta Soler acknowledged …
Democracy, wrote Donald Kagan in “Pericles of Athens” (1991), is “one of the rarest, most delicate and fragile flowers in the jungle of human experience.”
Democratic governance relies on “free, autonomous and self-reliant” citizens and “extraordinary leadership” to flourish, even …
The global democratic regression has stalled and some of the world’s most authoritarian regions have registered significant gains over the past year, but “the overall pace of democratic change remained stagnant” during 2012, according to a new survey.
The democracy …