Shalom Cuba Issue 11

Issue 11 | July, 2017

A publication of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)

NEWS Cuban Regime Arrested over 50 Ladies in White Activists, Kept Them Incommunicado  By Elena Toledo  This weekend marked the 106th wave of violent suppression of the Ladies in White, a Cuban opposition group known for protesting the island’s dictatorship with a march every Sunday. More than 50 women were detained in order to prevent a march that had been growing in popularity with the help of the hashtag #TodosMarchamos...  Read story » ADL Offers Congress Recommendations to Limit Hezbollah Capabilities  By Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) offered on June 8th a series of recommendations designed to limit the influence, capability, and reach of Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based terrorist organization that is responsible for the murder of many Americans and Jews worldwide.... Read story » How Dissidents Are Responding to Trump’s Change in Cuba Policy  By Mike Gonzalez  The letter sent by Cuba’s main dissident group to President Donald Trump thanking him for his decision to prohibit U.S. trade with the military, security and intelligence services on the island—their tormentors—serves as a timely rebuke of President Barack Obama’s warm embrace of the Castro regime and those still defending it... Read story » SPOTLIGHT Kingpins and Corruption: Targeting Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas  By Roger F. Noriega and Kirsten D. Madison  Transnational organized crime resides at the heart of nearly every major threat confronting the Americas today, whether it is the deadly opioid crisis hurting US communities, the catastrophic collapse of oil-rich Venezuela, or debilitating gang violence throughout Central America, which spills over into the streets of American cities...  Read story » Cubans Need a Truth Commission  By Mary Anastasia O’Grady  President Trump opened another chapter in U.S.-Cuba relations on Friday when he announced a rollback of portions of the detente policy with Havana introduced by President Obama in December 2014. Human-rights groups cheered... Read story » Trump Decides to Keep Cuba on “Watch List” for Human Trafficking  By Karina Martin  On Tuesday, June 27, the US Department of State published its annual report on human trafficking, in which it kept Cuba on the “special observation” list... Read story »

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