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Julio Antonio Fernández: «Cuba was never willing to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights»
16-11-2023 | Videos / English
Freedom of expression and censorship in Cuba
30-10-2023 | Events
Oscar Grandío: «It is a farce that in Cuba there is a government accepted by the majority»
29-09-2023 | Videos / English
Giselle Morfi: «The Cuban State has been in charge of erasing the historical memory since 1959»
24-08-2023 | Videos / English
Carolina Barrero: «The EU does not recognize the dimension of the Cuban dictatorship»
02-06-2023 | Videos / English
C. M. Rodríguez Arechavaleta: «The last general, concurrent, presidential election in Cuba was in 1948»
27-04-2023 | Videos / English
José Jasán Nieves: «Reality and humor are combined with creativity, resilience and a hard stomach»
03-03-2023 | Videos / English
Reinaldo Escobar: «The worst thing for me, at this moment, is the lack of people’s rights»
30-12-2022 | Videos / English
Hilda Landrove: «In Cuba, opponents are presented as criminals»
25-11-2022 | Videos / English
Andrea Sambuccetti: «It reflects the desperation that exists at this moment within Cuba»
21-10-2022 | Videos / English
Carlos Liscano: «When I was in Cuba I realized that this was not what I wanted for my country»
23-09-2022 | Videos / English
David Hoffman: «The really unique thing about Oswaldo is that he got 35,000 people to rise up against the dictatorship»
05-08-2022 | Videos / English
One Year after 9/11: Art and Resistance in Cuba
23-06-2022 | Events
Art and resistance in Cuba: the history of a citizen’s uprising
20-06-2022 | Events
Julio Llópiz-Casal: «Cuban power is interested in having a tool to threaten, incriminate and imprison, as is happening right now with Maykel Osorbo and Luis Manuel»
11-06-2022 | Videos / English
Brian Schapira: «When dissident artists, journalists or human rights defenders have visibility, the Cuban regime tells them: jail or exile».
27-05-2022 | Videos / English
Another possible wave of protests keeps the Cuban government awake
Por Carlos Lauría
23-05-2022 | Articles
Cuban independent filmmaker Miguel Coyula participated in BAFICI
02-05-2022 | Statements
Joint statement condemning the charges brought against Maykel “El Osorbo” Castillo Pérez and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
21-04-2022 | Statements
Bastiaan Engelhard: «We have seen a huge setback in the human rights situation»
02-04-2022 | Videos / English
A Dutchman is the winner of the 2019-21 Engaged Diplomacy in Cuba Award
18-03-2022 | Statements
Coalition urges international community to demand end of repression in Cuba
13-03-2022 | Statements
María Matienzo: «From the official discourse, there is a tendency to justify the Russian invasion»
12-03-2022 | Videos / English
Abraham Jiménez Enoa: «The changes in Cuba are going to happen with a Perestroika»
04-02-2022 | Videos / English
United Nations finds that Maykel Osorbo, winner of two Latin Grammy Awards, has been imprisoned solely for his pro-democracy activism and demands his release
02-02-2022 | Statements
The other side of cuban missions abroad
25-01-2022 | Statements
International organisations demand the immediate release of Latin Grammy-winning musician Maykel Osorbo and an immediate halt to the violation of his human rights
03-12-2021 | Statements
Remembering Václav Havel and his solidarity with democracy in Cuba
05-10-2021 | Videos / English
«Arte en resistencia»: digital exhibition by Movimiento San Isidro
03-10-2021 | Statements
Petition to the EU for the full inclusion and participation of the Cuban independent civil society within the framework of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement
14-09-2021 | Statements
Cuba: We Condemn the Detention of Musician and Activist, Maykel Osorbo, and Support an International Investigation
10-08-2021 | Statements
The popular demand for freedom in Cuba
10-08-2021 | Videos / English
Petition in response to the repression of social protest in Cuba
22-07-2021 | Statements
Cuba and Argentina: the experience within feminist activism
28-05-2021 | Events
Experiences and challenges of data gathering in Cuba
13-04-2021 | Events
Claim for the human rights situation in Cuba
08-04-2021 | Statements
Forum: Cuba, a country without freedom of expression
07-04-2021 | Events
The return of politics
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
04-03-2021 | Articles
Until when the criminalization of freedom of association, expression, and assemblage in Cuba?
16-02-2021 | Events
CADAL nominates the Movimiento San Isidro for the Freemuse Award for Freedom of Artistic Expression 2021
19-01-2021 | Statements
Fidel Castro, the last «catholic king»
17-12-2020 | Events
Request on Cuba, to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
09-12-2020 | Statements
Urgent Call to Preserve the Lives of the Strikers Concentrated in Movimiento San Isidro’s Headquarters
26-11-2020 | Statements
Deep Concern From 85 Civil Society Organizations as Cuban Government Is Granted a New Seat on UN Human Rights Council
13-10-2020 | Statements
Cuba. Authorities Must Cease Harassment of UNPACU Activists and Organization’s Leader Jose Daniel Ferrer.
23-09-2020 | Statements
Cuba’s voting pattern during its 12 years at the UN Human Rights Council
Por Brian Schapira y Roxana Perel
02-09-2020 | Research Reports
Organizations denounce Police violence in Cuba to prevent demonstrations
01-07-2020 | Statements
Cuba and the Resolution 60
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
23-06-2020 | Articles
Cuba’s lack of commitment to the international human rights system
Por Roxana Perel y Brian Schapira
17-06-2020 | Articles
Joint Statement from Organizations and the Media International support for the petition to declare Decree-Law 370 unconstitutional in Cuba
14-06-2020 | Statements
BTI and Cuba: the State of democratic denial
Compared with other reports on Cuba, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) has several noticeable advantages. The first is that it is a comprehensive report,embedded in three pillars: economics, politics and governance. The second is that it captures trends, whereas more reports are static. The third is that it considers themes through indicators, which most reports ignore. And as it is issued every two years it makes it possible to know the consistency (or lack, thereof) of the transformation and its rhythm. The following up. Has Cuba been transformed in 14 years (2006-2020)? Reading the report, it can be concluded that it has, whilst a new concept is introduced: that of static transformation –a sample of changes that leave the structures of a society intact–.
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
03-06-2020 | Research Reports
Cuba and its Narcissus State
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
08-05-2020 | Articles
Joint Statement on Cuban Decree Law 370 and Limits on Freedom of Expression
06-05-2020 | Statements
The Executive Director of Cubalex visited Buenos Aires
16-03-2020 | Statements
Cuba: alert from Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arbitrary detention and the increasing attacks against freedom of artistic expression
11-03-2020 | Statements
Music Freedom Day 2020
03-03-2020 | Videos / English
Aimara Peña: «In Cuba there is no established democracy because people do not have the power to choose»
12-02-2020 | Videos / English
Osvaldo Navarro: «If you criticize the Cuban government, you will most likely be a victim of repression»
06-02-2020 | Videos / English
Summary 2019 of the Project dedicated To The Promotion of Political Pluralism in Cuba
03-02-2020 | Videos / English
CADAL awarded in Prague the Prize for Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2016-2018
19-11-2019 | Videos / English
Hildebrando Chaviano: «I had a positive visibility that no opponent had achieved»
05-11-2019 | Videos / English
Camila Acosta: «I didn't feel like I was saying something with a news value»
10-10-2019 | Videos / English
Manuel Cuesta Morúa: «The main Cuban industry is propaganda»
24-09-2019 | Videos / English
Freemuse and CADAL alert for artistic repression in Cuba
20-09-2019 | Statements
Exchange among Cuban artists and artistic residence project
20-07-2019 | Statements
The two diplomacies in Cuba: the complacent and the committed
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
19-07-2019 | Articles
Conference on Cuba in Medellín
27-06-2019 | Events
Manuel Cuesta Morúa: «We are living in a transitional moment in Cuba»
03-06-2019 | Videos / English
The fight for democracy and human rights in Cuba
03-06-2019 | Events
A Czech is the winner of the Award for Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2016-2018
25-05-2019 | Statements
Cuesta Morúa is nominated by CADAL for the Václav Havel Prize
30-04-2019 | Statements
Screening of the documentary NADIE in Buenos Aires
06-03-2019 | Events
A dubious referendum on a (slightly) revised constitution shows growing opposition to the revolution in Cuba
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
27-02-2019 | Articles
Cultural rights and challenges to artistic freedom in Cuba
06-02-2019 | Events
José Daniel Ferrer sends a very strong thanks for sending Václav Havel biography.
18-12-2018 | Videos / English
The Social and Political Struggle in Cuba: Future in the Footsteps of Its Past?
08-10-2018 | Events
The night won’t last forever
11-09-2018 | Events
Cuban artists Vs. Decree No. 349
31-08-2018 | Events
CADAL and Freemuse call for intervention to save free speech and cultural expression in Cuba
06-08-2018 | Statements
This is How You Vote in Cuba
26-06-2018 | Events
Joint petition to the European Union by CADAL and FREEMUSE
04-06-2018 | Statements
Condemnation of the arbitrary arrest of Cuban scientist
28-05-2018 | Statements
This is How You Vote in Cuba
17-05-2018 | Events
Outstanding recomendations from democratic countries during the UPR of Cuba in the UNHRC
16-05-2018 | Videos / English
Human Rights in Cuba
15-05-2018 | Events
LGBTI activist faces harassment upon return to Cuba
23-04-2018 | Statements
The Right to Democracy in Cuba
12-04-2018 | Events
Campaign supporting El Círculo Gallery in Havana March 16, 2018
16-03-2018 | Statements
Agustín López Canino: a new case of arbitrary action in Cuba March 7, 2018
07-03-2018 | Statements
Rosalía Viñas blocked from leaving Cuba
05-03-2018 | Statements
Presentation of La Tribu: Retratos de Cuba
01-03-2018 | Events
Gorki Águila was Detained for 5 Hours on his Return from Buenos Aires
01-03-2018 | Statements
Cuba before its third universal periodic review of human rights
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
18-01-2018 | Documents
Mogherini, the European Union, and Cuba
(The Global Americans) It would be relevant to know the expectations of the High Representative of the European Union in the dialogue on human rights with Cuba.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
09-01-2018 | Articles
CADAL Nominates Cuban Punk Rock Band for the 2018 Freedom of Expression Awards
28-09-2017 | Statements
CADAL Stands in Solidarity with Karina Gálvez and Cuban Colleagues at the Centro de Estudios Convivencia
27-09-2017 | Statements
Cuba’s Political Camps: the Opposition, Reformists, and Continuists
20-09-2017 | Events
CADAL presents Jorge Edwards with the Special Award for Committed Diplomacy in Cuba
23-08-2017 | Statements
Prominent Cuban analyst visited Buenos Aires
05-06-2017 | Statements
Cubans’ motorcycle diary woes
Por Sybil Rhodes
10-04-2017 | Latino-Cuban Dialogue
14th Anniversary of the Cuban Black Spring
21-03-2017 | Events
Opening of Laura Pollán Library
20-03-2017 | Statements
CADAL releases «El Paquetazo»
The Program Puente Democrático at the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) selected ten Human Rights publications on pendrives to hand over to democratic activists and/or to the Cuban population. The idea is that those pendrives are going to be brought to the island to unlock the censorship.
16-02-2017 | Statements
CADAL nominates Laritza Diversent from Cubalex for two international Human Rights awards
03-02-2017 | Statements
Cuba: Political Scenarios and Media Impact
20-12-2016 | Events
The European Union, Cuba and Human Rights
Without a Cuban gesture towards a more open political system, it does not make sense to discuss an agreement since the one party regime of Raúl Castro would not approve any improvement in the area of human rights. Thus, the negotiations between the EU and Cuba started rather poorly if we believe there was ever any genuine interest by the EU in achieving any progress regarding a more open political system in the island.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
14-12-2016 | Articles
Cuesta Morúa distinguished with 2016 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
03-11-2016 | Statements
Swedish ex diplomat receives award in Prague
18-10-2016 | Events
The Cuban military dictatorship is scared of computers, books and T-shirts
20-07-2016 | Statements
Cuban punk rock band visited Buenos Aires
27-06-2016 | Statements
Freedom of Expression and Ideological Diversity in Cuba
21-06-2016 | Events
Building Cuba's Future
10-06-2016 | Events
The more things change in Cuba’s external relations, the more they remain the same in its domestic politics
As Cuba’s foreign relations undergo epoch-making change, and following President Barack Obama’s historic visit to the island in March, Havana circles the wagons of state doubling down on political centralization under Raúl Castro and los históricos.
Por Armando Chaguaceda y Ted A. Henken
09-06-2016 | Documents
Latin American debate on Cuba and the United States at CARI
17-05-2016 | Statements
Cuba should open to its own people
14-04-2016 | Statements
13 years after the Cuban Black Spring
18-03-2016 | Events
Rene Gomez Manzano visited Buenos Aires
21-12-2015 | Statements
CADAL nominated Dagoberto Valdes for the 2015 Homo Homini Award for 2015
01-12-2015 | Statements
Czech diplomat receives award in Prague
14-09-2015 | Statements
A prominent democratic Cuban visited Buenos Aires
25-08-2015 | Statements
Yuniel López, invited by CADAL, visited Buenos Aires
12-08-2015 | Statements
Request to Embassies in Havanna
15-07-2015 | Statements
CADAL nominated Manuel Cuesta Morúa for the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award at the Wilson Center
14-06-2015 | Statements
Waiting for a little gesture from Raul Castro
(El País/Spain) If Raúl Castro truly wants Obama to have a bigger support in Congress to lift the embargo, he has to provide a gesture on his part which could include repealing Law 88. Since this wouldn’t involve the political risk of making a reform which stems from the recognition of the exercise of fundamental rights. If Raúl Castro doesn’t even repeal Law 88, this might be because he feels very confident that the dictatorship he installed with his brother Fidel is entirely safe from international pressure and questionings.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
10-06-2015 | Articles
A Czech wins the Award of Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2013-2014 and the Swedish Embassy in Havana receives a special mention
25-05-2015 | Statements
François Hollande, a man without heart?
When the last Universal Periodic Review of Cuba was held in Geneva, France recommended to the government of Raul Castro to ensure freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and the free activity of human rights defenders, independent journalists and political opponents. Now,what value does this recommendation have when France validates the repression of those rights that is has asked Cuba to guarantee?
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
14-05-2015 | Articles
Cuesta Morua presented his book in Havana
03-05-2015 | Statements
Cuesta Morua presented his book in Santiago de Chile
17-03-2015 | Events
Progressive essays from Cuba
12-03-2015 | Events
Is this the end of the Cuban dictatorship?
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
22-12-2014 | Articles
Paths to a democratic Cuba
04-12-2014 | Statements
CADAL nominated Reinaldo Escobar as Free Speech Hero
24-11-2014 | Statements
CADAL nominated the Cuban activist Manuel Cuesta Morúa for the Homo Homini prize
17-11-2014 | Statements
The constitutional debate from a citizens perspective
The Constitutional Consensus has several important added values. The participating citizens begin to grant meaning to specific and historic information concerning constitutional topics. This has led them to gather ideas, texts and documents relation to the constitutional history of Cuba as well as from other parts of the world.
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
28-10-2014 | Articles
Being a journalist in Cuba: between submission and risk
24-09-2014 | Statements
The initiative Constitutional Consensus in Cuba
28-08-2014 | Events
Testimony on the «II ForoAlternativo» to the CELAC Summit in Havana: a political success
Por Manuel Cuesta Morúa
28-04-2014 | Articles
Repression in Cuba: Indifference is Unacceptable
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
04-02-2014 | Articles
US, rights groups condemn Cuban dissident detentions
Salvia reported by Twitter that Cuban immigration authorities had told him he was «inadmissible» and would deport him on a flight to El Salvador.
Por Miami Herald (Estados Unidos)
28-01-2014 | Press
Solidarity Tourism in Cuba Campaign
15-11-2013 | Videos / English
An American diplomat received the Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2011-2012
18-03-2013 | Statements
CADAL nominated Dagoberto Valdés for the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights 2013
05-03-2013 | Statements
Who killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá?
Por Carl Gershman
27-07-2012 | Articles
Message from Ingemar Cederberg for the Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2009-2010 (read it in Spanish)
31-01-2011 | Statements
Volker Pellet received the plaque of the Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2009-2010 at the office of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin (read it in Spanish)
21-01-2011 | Statements
Message from Caecilia Wijgers when she received in Hague the plaque of the Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba 2009-2010 (read it in Spanish)
20-01-2011 | Statements
A Dutch, a Swedish and a German receive the 2009-2010 Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba
After the end of their mission in Havana, on the International Day of Human Rights, Wijgers, Cederberg and Pellet receive the 2009-2010 Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba. The award had a vast participation of Cuban Democrats, among them «Ladies in White», Oswaldo Payá, Yoani Sánchez, Vladimiro Roca, Elizardo Sánchez, René Gómez Manzano, Guillermo Fariñas, Dagoberto Valdés and Félix Bonne Carcasses. In total, 16 foreign diplomats in Cuba were nominated. They represented the following countries: Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Spain, United States, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Canada.
10-12-2010 | Statements
Fariñas receives the Sajarov Award for Human Rights
The award of the European Parliament honors the memory of Andrei Sajarov, wellknown Soviet nuclear phisicist and afterwards human rights and democracy activist. This award is given since 1998 to people and organizations who had an important role in their struggle in favor of human rights and freedom in the world.
21-10-2010 | Statements
2010 Award to Committed Diplomacy in Cuba (read it in Spanish)
07-10-2010 | Statements
On probation: the release of political prisoners in Cuba
Immediately one can listen to the optimistic readings on political changes in Cuba, as if ignoring the repressive regime's skill to hold in power for more than half a century. However, so long as first generation human rights are considered a crime, nothing will change in that country and those who are being released can be sent back to prison anytime.
Por The Epoch Times (United States)
18-07-2010 | Press
On probation: the release of political prisoners in Cuba
Immediately one can listen to the optimistic readings on political changes in Cuba, as if ignoring the repressive regime's skill to hold in power for more than half a century. However, so long as first generation human rights are considered a crime, nothing will change in that country and those who are being released can be sent back to prison anytime.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
18-07-2010 | Articles
21st Century Slavery
As a sort of contemporary slaves, we, the Cuban people in the middle of the 21st century, do not only depend on government permissions to leave or to return to our country, but we are also constantly confronted with the violation of our right to free movement, as the permissions are granted arbitrarily, they are delayed or refused, causing a deep grief within thousands of innocent families, who, paralyzed by their fear, are unable to claim for the respect of their basic rights.
Por Hilda Molina
14-04-2009 | Documents
Claim to Bachelet to present a book by a Chilean journalist at the 2009 Cuba Book Faire
26-11-2008 | Statements
Alternative futures in Cuba
Political transitions are highly uncertain events. For example, in 1988, the conventional wisdom was that communist rule in Eastern Europe was entrenched and would last into the indefinite future. The right question to ask about Cuba is not what will happen but rather what could happen. The latter question implies more than one possible future scenario. In this article, I construct and discuss alternative futures in Cuba after Fidel Castro passes away. The possibility of a transition to democracy in Cuba depends mainly on three causal factors.
Por Juan J. López
18-09-2007 | Documents
Foreword - Boitel is alive - Testimony on the Current Cuban Political Prison
"Antúnez" and over three hundred political prisoners who are currently serving time in Cuba stand firm in their commendable struggle for freedom in their country, and pay tribute to the memory of Pedro Luis Boitel with their brave example. The democratic Cuba of the future will no doubt remember Boitel as one of its great heroes and Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" will be a testimony of life in the struggle against oppression.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia y Hans Blomeier
05-06-2007 | Articles
The book on ''Las Damas de Blanco'' in Cuba
20-03-2007 | Statements
CADAL's book confiscated during a requisition of the house of a Cuban Lady in White
According to the information given by Abel Escobar Ramírez for Cubanet on October 18, State Security officers from Ciego de Avila (Cuba) organized a requisition on October 16 at the house of Lady in White Yolanda Nerey, wife of the political prisoner Pedro Argüelles Morán.
24-10-2006 | Statements
Foreword to 'Boitel Vive'
Por Gabriel C. Salvia y Hans Blomeier
03-10-2005 | Articles
Cuban Internal Situation and the challenges for democratic international community
07-04-2005 | Events
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