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This page was last updated: Number of bids and bid amounts may be slightly out of date. See each listing for international shipping options and costs. It is true that the government-owned and -operated subway system had ground to a halt. But in some places, like Manhattan, the hardship was less than what one might have expected. I chalked it up to the work of architects, steel fabricators, farmers, tire importers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers and countless others who by way of enlightened self-interest housed, fed, clothed and otherwise provided comfort in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
Walking home I thought of the people of eastern Cuba, who had been hit by Sandy a few days before New Yorkers. I was not pondering the roots of wealth and poverty, per se. Obviously, market economies, with their private-property rights and profit incentives, do an infinitely better job than other economic systems in protecting people from natural disasters. No news flash there. But the reports from Cuba are grim beyond the run-of-the-mill stories of what happens when hurricanes hit shacks. They are stories that illustrate, yet again, the dictatorship's flagrant inhumanity and cruelty toward the Cuban people.
Sandy ravaged the east end of the island. Some people lost everything, which was not much. The international press has widely covered the damage done to Haiti by Sandy but the Telegraph in Britain reported that, according to the Red Cross, Cuba got hit much harder. In Haiti, the newspaper said, "17, people were evacuated and thousands of homes destroyed.
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There were 11 dead. Disease could push the number higher. Almost 54 years after the so-called glorious revolution first triumphed in eastern Cuba, the region is an embarrassment to the regime. The people of "oriente" were promised justice and well-being. Instead they live in poverty and isolation. In recent years Cuba's outlawed independent press has reported outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever in the region, but the dictatorship has seemed more interested in keeping the news under wraps than dealing with the problem.
The regime refused the families' requests for an independent investigation of the crash.
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Independent journalists have been chronicling the Cuban state's failure in the Hurricane Sandy crisis. They have reported that government weather advisories did not warn of the storm's catastrophic nature, and now the reporters are covering the state's bungled handling of the disaster. Food, even bread, is scarce, and displaced residents have nowhere to lay their heads. Many Cubans, despite their own privation, recognize that Sandy has placed an extraordinary burden on the east. The regime doesn't like private efforts of that type.
Some dissidents who tried to organize relief efforts have been arrested, according to independent press reports. Other dissidents have been denied the right to register their homelessness with the state. Advocates for the storm victims have called for the military dictatorship to drop customs duties on food, medicine and construction materials coming from international donors. But easing the import of aid might not be of much help. A member of the Ladies in White, an internationally recognized opposition group, charges that the Cuban state sells donations from abroad—presumably to locals who have access to hard currency—anyway.
Cubans want to help each other. But that implies an attempt to recover civil society, which evolves through grass-roots organization. The dictatorship fears such activity, seeing it as a threat: Better to watch the Cuban people annihilated than risk losing the lock on power.
This, and not the bricks and mortar of the World Financial Center, is what makes the Cuban experience with Sandy so different. Las FAR y el Asbesto: Una teja por familia. People are hungry, freezing, and dying in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but please don't despair, Barack Obama is safe and warm, hanging out in Las Vegas with the Hollywood swells. Obama is a cold, uncaring, despicable human being. He's proven this over and over for the last four years. Sean Hannity and Bill Cunningham discuss this, at length:. Barack Obama enjoys spending time with convicted felon [stabbed a man] Jay-Z.
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Desastres naturales , Estados Unidos , Huracanes. En esta segunda vuelta, el tipo trajo el tranquilizante perfecto e infalible de siempre: La ayuda de ayer la rechazaron porque la propuso Bush, hoy, con el califa y por circunstancias de apoyo re-eleccionario, no lo hubieran hecho, sin embargo porque todo lo que se hace con mala idea no funciona, se jodieron otra vez y en grande, digo, el pueblo, a la mandancia le importa poco si 35, perdieron sus casas en Oriente, a fin de cuentas, esos vientos no baten sus mansiones.
Cuba , Emigracion cubana , Huracanes. Yoani promotora comercial del Neokaxtrizmo. Click para aumentar una nueve fuente de ingresos para el clan biranico propone yoani. Sin embargo, solamente hubo noticias de reuniones en las oficinas de los dirigentes en todas las provincias: El mismo destino que le espera a la dictadura cubana. Para eso, no hace falta nada en especial, sino algo muy sencillo: Caras de pocos amigos reciben a Raul y Machado en Oriente. Huracanes , New York. Cubans clear up battered neighbourhoods - video. Cuba , Desastres naturales , Huracanes. She spoke with Cuba Archive shortly after her release and reported that State Security officials took her to a house in a remote location outside Havana.
After Leannes refused to give up the plan for the exhibit, the hostility and threats increased in intensity. Finally, after an exhausting day during which Leannes stood her ground, they drove her back to Havana. The owners of the locale where the exhibit had been scheduled were pressured threatened by State Security and cancelled.
The organizers are looking for alternative venues and have postponed the opening. As a result, he has been placed in solitary confinement in a punishment cell. Las co-fundadoras de las Damas de Blanco, Berta Soler, desde La Habana, y Yolanda Huerga, representante en los Estados Unidos, nos han relatado los detalles de la repentina enfermedad y muerte de Laura.
En resumen, Laura estaba saludable y activa a pesar de su diabetes. Sin embargo, el dengue no figura en el certificado de muerte, donde como causa aparecen: En menos de hora y media, antes de las 5AM, les entregaron las cenizas. Lo podemos hacer contigo y no pasa nada. Se han reportado otros casos, pero faltan datos para documentarlos adecuadamente. He leaves a wife and two daughters ages 5 and 7. OnNovember 14 th , Villar participated in a public demonstration at his hometown of Contramaestre northeast of Santiago de Cuba , calling for the end to repression against peaceful opponents and the Ladies in White.
Detained, he refused to abandon his dissident activities and was immediately put on trial. Villar was confined in a one-man punishment cell after refusing to wear the uniform for common prisoners. He denounced the falsity of the judicial procedure and on November 24 th declared a hunger strike, halting it briefly on December 25 th when authorities said they would entertain his demand to reconsider his case.
By early January, nothing happening, he resumed the hunger strike demanding his release. Confined without clothes and water provisions, he contracted pneumonia. Yet, he was not given medical care and kept in the severe regime, which worsened his condition. It was only six days ago January 14th ,that he was transferred to the hospital, already in critical state.
She reported that authorities had offered his release if she abandoned the Ladies in White. When she declined, they had threatened to take her daughters. The regime has unleashed massive repression to contain any sign of protest or support for Villar. For days, large forces had surrounded the hospital and State Security agents all over Cuba had been detaining —in some cases violently assaulting- human rights defenders and members of the pro-democracy opposition movement to prevent them from gathering or visiting the hospital.
Many remain blocked from leaving their homes, some of which have been attacked with rocks, feces, and all sorts of objects. Large security operatives were immediately put in place, especially in locations of eastern Cuba, to prevent attendance of the funeral. Dozens have been detained, many receiving beatings.
The town of Contramaestre is said to be under military siege and people have been arrested attempting to enter hotels to send photos and reports by internet. Sadly, there are now The Cuban government released several dozen political prisoners in , but around 60 remain in prison. Hundreds of human rights defenders have been detained the last year. The Red Cross, the U. Summary prepared from international media reports and internet reports of opposition members inside Cuba.
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Sources in Cuba cannot be reached by telephone. Dolia Leal Francisco is one of the founders of the Ladies in White and was one of the most militant, heading the Sunday marches and carrying on active advocacy campaigns with foreign governments journalists, and NGOs. Her then husband Nelson Aguiar was released from prison for health reasons in October at the special request of the Spanish Foreign Minister during a visit to Cuba.