Word: cuba
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...entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months, 54 leaders of Payá's dissident groups - the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and the Varela Project - have been convicted of treason...
...damage to the dissidents is enormous. I don't know how they will recover now." AN UNNAMED EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR TO CUBA, on the prison sentences handed out to a slate of anti-Castro dissidents...
Among the photographs that will be featured in Adams House next weekend for Arts First are images by Tamara R. Reichberg ’04. She has become known in the visual arts community for her travel photography, and has captured Venice, Cuba and the Mississippi Delta on film. Most recently, Reichberg’s photography was exhibited in the fall with 27 prints from an independent project in Fiji...
...same time, a bona fide dissident movement has been growing on the island. "These [dissidents] are just employees of Bush's efforts to maintain his criminal economic blockade," says a Cuban official--although their indictments reveal crimes often no more serious than owning a fax machine. Executions in Cuba, while infrequent, aren't unusual for noncapital crimes. Rights advocates are worried that more may be in the offing. --By Tim Padgett
...repudiate all of its international debt. This action would be based on making the case that Saddam government was an odious regime and that the debt it incurred should not encumber the people of Iraq. The legal case for this has its roots in America's repudiation of Cuba's debts after the Spanish American War. After World War I Alexander Sack, a French economist developed the legal theory that loans to despots were personal loans and not sovereign debts. Lenders to Iraq warn that adopting this policy could do irreparable harm to Iraq's ability to borrow...