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NEWS Human Rights Foundation to United Nations: Denounce Human Trafficking in Cuba  By Human Rights Foundation  The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and Cuba Archive have submitted an urgent report on the immense scale of human trafficking in Cuba to Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the U.N. special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children...  Read story » Cuba’s Ladies in White Claim Normalization Made Repression Worse  By Karina Martín  According to the organization, the issue has intensified following cooling relations with the United States in December 2014, and President Barack Obama’s approach to opening up the island. “We gave a report (to the Organization of American States) with all the human rights violations that have been committed against us over the past 95 Sundays,” she said, claiming there has been some form of repression every weekend... Read story » Cuba Stops Sending Doctors To Brazil For Fear Of Defections  By Mario Penton  Cuba just suspended the sending of a group of 710 health professionals who would have worked on the “More Doctors” mission in Brazil, our of fear of desertions, according to a report from the Brazilian press informed by that country’s Ministry of Health... Read story » SPOTLIGHT Over 100 People Trapped in Collapsed Building in Havana  By Yosmany Mayeta Labrada  About 120 people were trapped in a Central Havana building after the interior stairs to the apartments collapsed. The property, located on Amistad and San Miguel Streets had been in danger of collapse for years due to lack of maintenance...  Read story » A Look at Cuba's Dwindling Jewish Community  By Jerusalem Post  Jewish-Cuban life before the Revolution was pretty good. Anti-Semitism was mostly non-existent, and the Jewish community could practice their religion, open businesses and live freely.Things changed in 1959 when Fidel Castro led the Communist Revolution and overthrew the government... Read story » Brazilian Justice Calls for Investigating Lula over Cuba Projects  Brazilian prosecutors seek to investigate former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, accused of corruption in connection with the Odebrecht corporation’s construction operations in Cuba, reported the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper quoting secret court documents...

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