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Cuban dissident Diosdado González affirmed that he will continue his political activities against the island’s government, after having been released from prison by an agreement between the authorities and the Catholic Church. González refused to leave the Caribbean country to travel to Spain, like the majority of the dissidents released since 2010.

Cuban President Raúl Castro met with Miguel Angel Moratinos, former Spanish foreign minister and deputy of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE). Moratinos and Castro analyzed issues about the international situation, especially the food crisis. The former Spanish foreign minister was one of the principal promoters of the normalization of European Union-Cuban relations.

Around a hundred persons harassed the Ladies in White, a group of wives and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba, after a documentary on the infiltration by state security agents in the ranks of the opposition was broadcast last Saturday on the state-run television.

The Cuban government revealed the identity of two state security agents infiltrated inside dissident groups, to demonstrate the links between the dissidence, the United States and the Cuban exile in the U.S., in a documentary premiered on the island’s state-run television. The Caribbean nation’s authorities refuse to recognize the political opposition, since they consider its members as mercenaries in the pay of Washington.

With four teams qualifying for the post season, Industriales, which lost all six of its games last week, finds itself in fifth place 11.5 games out of first and 5.5 behind Sancti Spiritus.

The Cuban government is against a military humanitarian intervention in Libya “because, instead of resolving the situation, it would further complicate it and could have other serious implications,” affirmed Rodolfo Reyes, the island’s permanent representative to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.