The Cuba Free Press Project - El Proyecto Cuba Prensa Libre Desde Dentro de Cuba. When the U.S.S.R. supported the Cuban autocracy and used the island as their strategic base, the leadershio had a better opinion of the Soviet Union. Once that reality changed, the backyard comrades placed that country on Cuba's black list. But since Chamorro came and later Arnoldo Aleman, that country was added to the list. There are other countries on it such as Costa Rica which never stopped denouncing Cuba's human rights violations.
Some countries seem to get on and off the list depending on how the diplomatic scandals go.
Such is the case, for example, with Spain. All of this sibylline behavior is part of a constant maneuver to distract our gaze from the internal crisis this nation labors through. This is the case for the Catholic Church which, like it or not, has always been on the black list. Then Castro's visit to the vatican and, later on, the Holy See's visit of Cuba seemed to restore a sense of normality in the tight Church-State relations. So, it is now Canada's turn.