Story of an "Occupation" / Yaremis Flores
Yaremis Flores. The coordinator of the Cultural Project OMNI Zona Franca, Amaury Pacheco del Monte, is a dreamer. He fantasizes he can offer his family a comfortable life. He’s far from juggling enough...
View ArticleCondemned for Rape Without a DNA Test / Yaremis Flores
Yaremis Flores On the tenth of January 2006, the Provincial Court of Las Tunas condemned Ramos Utra to 20 years in jail for the rape of a six-year old girl. The accused, 46 years old, declared himself...
View ArticleTo be "a tiempo" (on time) and the fulfillment of legal terms / Yaremis Flores
By: Yaremis Flores Mabel, the wife of Raúl Rodríquez Soto, incarcerated at Guanajay Prison, this past October, submitted a petition for parole to the Provincial Court of Artemisa. To date, no response...
View ArticleNo Punishment for Police Brutality Against a Young Holguin Man / Yaremis Flores
By Yaremis Flores The fate of Alberto Lairot Castro changed on August 28, 2007, when he was just 28 years old. Two soldiers, Hector Luis Osorio and Frank Ochoa Pérez Angulo, applied a technique not...
View ArticleRastafarian Community on the Island and the "Celebration" of May Day /...
Yaremis Flores Sandor Perez, A 29-year-old Rastafarian, had no reason to celebrate this May 1st. In February he was dismissed from the Communal Services of Havana East, where he worked as a street...
View ArticleElderly Fired in Matanzas / Yaremis Flores
Yaremis Flores At least 25 retirees were fired by the Chief of the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC), located in the town Merceditas, in Matanzas, 2 weeks ago. “The reason for the dismissals...
View ArticleWithout Justice and Without Rights / Yaremis Flores
The Havana capital will welcome the sessions of the Sixth International Meeting of Justice and Law in the Conventions Palace the next 23rd to25th of May. More than 500 delegates will meet; of those,...
View ArticleThey Steal Cows From a Commander of the Revolution / Yaremis Flores
Yaremis Flores Last Saturday, May 5, in the nighttime hours, at least three cows were taken from a farm belonging to Commander Guillermo Garcia Frias, located southeast of the capital. At dawn the next...
View ArticleOMNI-ZONA FRANCA Back in Cuba After Touring the U.S. / Laritza Diversent
by Yaremis Flores Amaury Pacheco del Monte, coordinator of the cultural project,OMNI-ZONA FRANCA, returned this Wednesday to Havana after an artistic tour that included several cities in the U.S....
View ArticleFirst International Congress for Public Law Firms will be held in Cuba /...
By Yaremis Flores The National Organization of Legal Collectives (ONBC) announced this past Tuesday,June 5th, on the official radio its first international congress: Advocacy 2012. The event will take...
View ArticleIncrease in Penal Cases Filed in Courts of the Capital / Cuban Legal Advisor,...
By Yaremis Flores The increase in police reports and criminal trials held in the capital, were among the topics discussed a few weeks ago in a meeting among presidents of municipal courts in the former...
View ArticleCuba in Elections / Cuban Legal Advisor, Laritza Diversent
By Laritza Diversent This 5th of July, the State Council invited Cubans to participate in the elections of municipal and provincial council members and national MPs. This convocation inaugurates the...
View ArticleAccessing the Internet in Cuban Churches / Cuban Legal Advisor, Yaremis Flores
By Lic. Yarmis Flores Liu, reader of this blog, asked the Office if Cuban churches one can have access to the internet. Since 1996, the Cuban government, has been clear about its policy with respect to...
View ArticleThe Assemblies to Nominate Candidates Begin / Cuban Legal Advisor, Yaremis...
By Yaremis Flores The summons for the citizens to attend the nomination of candidates assemblies are already spreading around the neighborhoods. Some are attending like robots, simply to make an...
View ArticleMilitary Service and Religion in Cuba / Cuban Legal Advisor, Yaremis Flores
If you want to learn how Cuban laws discriminate on religious grounds, read the last post published by Cubalex: Yaremis Flores, Attorney at Law According to Cuban law, religious belief is not a...
View ArticleHablemos Press Correspondent Calixto R. Martnez Will Be Charged for “Contempt...
By Yaremis Flores Independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias continues to be jailed in the Santiago de las Vegas police station, and “will be charged with the crime of aggravated contempt for...
View ArticleNumber 54033 (Part 1) / Cuban Legal Advisor, Yaremis Flores
By Yaremis Flores The afternoon of November 7th I couldn’t imagine that I’d trade my name for a number. I went out at approximately two in the afternoon to take a serving of soup over to my father,...
View ArticleAcademic Exchange on Law and Human Rights in Cuba / Estado de Sats
With the independent Cuban attorneys Yaremis Flores and Laritza Diversent (Cubalex), René Gómez Manzano (Agramontista Current), Antonio G. Rodiles (Mathematical Physicist) and students from the New...
View ArticleWhat Are the Authorities Waiting For? / Laritza Diversent #Cuba
Caridad Reyes Roca and her daughter (Photo by author)Caridad Reyes Roca traded homes with Ofelia de la Cruz de Armas in 2008. Three days later, the neighbor below complained about leaks from the...
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