Spotlight on Cuba: Crackdown on Dissidents

Prominent individuals:

Letter by several intellectuals: Detengamos una nueva maniobra contra Cuba, March 14, 2005

Letter by several intellectuals: Argentine intellectuals ask that dissidents are recognized, January 23, 2004

Statement: Declaration of Grenada: Spanish writers, professors, artists and journalists ask for the release of Raúl Rivero and other dissidents jailed in Cuba, May 2004

Letter condemning repression in Cuba signed by over 150 intellectuals of the democratic left, December 4, 2003

Commentary by Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa and Arpad Göncz: Time for Action, September 18, 2003

Open letter by over 100 intellectuals, including Günter Grass, Mario Vargas Llosa, Enrique Krauze, Carlos Monsiváis, March 2003

Commentary by various authors, including Noam Chomsky: For democracy, against war, April 30, 2003 (Spanish)

Commentary by Pablo González Casanova: With Saramago, up to here, with Cuba always, April 26, 2003 (Spanish)

Commentary by José Saramago: Up to here I have arrived , April 25, 2003 (Spanish)

Commentary by Eduardo Galeano: Cuba hurts , April 25, 2003 (Spanish)

Commentary by Carlos Fuentes: Infidelities , April 16, 2003

Commentary by a group of intellectuals, including Gabriel García Márquez: To the conscience of the world