Several readers have asked me for more information about the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba. So I dug around and am passing along some background on the FHRC and one of its critics, the Directorio Democratico Cubano. The FHRC is a non-profit group that is tied to the Cuban American National Foundation, or CANF. [...]
Exiles: Politics sway Cuba contracts
Several Miami exiles suggested, delicately, that domestic politics may have influenced who received the latest round of contracts for democracy programs in Cuba, author and blogger Emilio Ichikawa wrote on Wednesday. Ichikawa said Orlando Gutierrez, president of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, discussed the Cuba democracy funds on the radio show “Ninoska in Mambi,” which airs [...]