Despite the best efforts of the Castro dictatorship, the state-run media does not have a monopoly on news and information about the reality of Cuba today. Their numbers may be small and the obstacles they face sometimes insurmountable, but Cuba's independent journalists do valiant duty in trying to break the information blockade the dictatorship imposes on the Cuban people.
Joining that effort this week is a new independent news agency, Hablemos Press Information Center (CIHPRESS), headed by journalist and former political prisoner Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez.
Cuba's independent journalists concentrate on telling the too-often untold stories about the poverty and repression that mark Cuban life today. By telling those stories, they play a key a role in the island's human rights and democracy campaigns, taking an active role that might be unseemly for journalists in the United States but is essential in a fight against tyranny.
CIHPRESS, which plans to start a blog to publicize its work, is no different, putting on the top of its agenda a campaign for the release of imprisoned independent journalists and other political prisoners.
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