The U.S. government spends millions of dollars every year to boost Cuba's beleaguered pro-democracy movement. Is the money having any impact?
Published October 18, 2011
On Oct. 17, Channel 41 in Miami led its 8 p.m. news program with an excerpt of the Laura Pollán interview conducted by Pulitzer Center grantee Tracey Eaton.
Oscar Haza, host of the show A Mano Limpia, said it was the dissident leader's last TV-format interview before her death on Oct. 14. The interview was recorded on July 20, 2011, in Havana.
Recently
Short-term political arrests in Cuba soared to record highs in 2012. Authorities are using "harassment and hit-and-run tactics," as one analyst described it it, to keep dissidents under control.
Questions linger about the death of two prominent Cuban political dissidents in an automobile crash.
Grantee
Tracey Eaton is a freelance writer and photographer based in Florida. He was the Havana bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News from 2000 to early 2005. He is one of only a few Americans...
