The day before Jeffrey Epstein flew to Havana on his Lolita Express, 75 dissidents, independent journalists and librarians were rounded up across the island in a series of brutal raids that became known as the Cuban Black Spring.
Amnesty International's Caribbean researcher Louise Tillotson published an article on August 14th titled, "‘We are continuity’: What the president’s hashtag tells us about human rights in Cuba today."
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a staunch activist for artistic freedom in the country, was arrested outside the Museum of Dissidence in Havana on Saturday, August 10 and released two days later.
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 more than a hundred S-Net users gathered outside the Ministry of Communications of what 14ymedio described as "SNet (Street Network), the largest wifi network in Cuba."
Independent journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones faces one year in prison.
The devil is in the details. Stop eating what the chickens are picking at.
The Castro dictatorship's six-decade long propaganda campaign has sought to rewrite Cuban history to present pre-1959 Cuba in the most negative light possible to cover up its own failures.
Twenty five years ago, on August 5, 1994, thousands of Cubans marched thru Havana's streets chanting “Freedom!” and “Down with the Castros” in what became known as the Maleconazo. State Security agents, political police, and paramilitaries shot protesters and/or beat them down with batons.
On July 26th The Washington Post published an editorial that calls for much needed accountability on the harm suffered by American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba.
The mystery surrounding the "Havana syndrome" that has impacted scores of Canadian and U.S. diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba continues. As does the lack of cooperation by Cuban officials, who have written it off as mass hysteria.
July 22, 2019 marked the 7th anniversary of the deaths of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero killed under circumstances actively obscured by the Castro regime. Payá inspired countless freedom activists.
There is a continuing debate over the nature of the injuries suffered by diplomats in Cuba. Dr. Hannah, Professors of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto argues that it is a “disservice” to American and Canadian diplomas to suggest they are suffering from epidemic hysteria when they have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
On Monday, July 15th OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro at the Captive Nations Week Summit observed that "Cuba is a defining example of a captive nation. The communist dictatorship not only enslaves, represses, tortures, assassinates, persecutes, intimidates & forces into exile its people, but also exports these totalitarian practices to the rest of the region."
The founder of the human rights movement in Cuba just passed away in Miami. Ricardo Bofill founded the Cuban Committee for Human Rights in 1976, dedicated his entire life to and suffered years in Cuban prisons for defending human rights. Requiescat in pace.
Representatives from Center for a Free Cuba, the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, and the Committee to Protect Journalists testified before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade which is part of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Human Rights in Cuba: Beyond the Veneer of Reform.” Below is the video along with the testimonies of the three presenters.
Wednesday, July 13, 1994 at three in the morning, three extended Cuban families set out for a better life aboard the "13 de Marzo" tugboat from Havana, Cuba and 37 of them were extrajudicially executed by Cuban government agents.
Many advocates of socialism claim that the Nordic countries are socialist, but this is not true. Finland (1), Norway (4), Sweden (6), and Denmark (12) rank higher on the annual International Property Rights Indexthan the United States (14). Unlike China (52), Vietnam (76), Venezuela (123), and Nicaragua (111) that all fall far behind the United States. Cuba, and North Korea are not even on the list. No doubt due to the lack of reliable data.
On July 4th, while millions of Americans were celebrating the birth of freedom in the United States, the Castro regime has issued a new decree tightening censorship on an already heavily censored people.
In responding to the June 16 Editorial in The Gainesville Sun there was so much to respond to that several facts were left out. One important fact is that OAS General Secretary Luis Almagro, a man of the Left, stated In a December 2018 conference on human rights in Cuba: “It is estimated that there are some 46,000 Cubans in Venezuela, an occupation force that teaches how to torture and repress, that performs intelligence, civil identification, and migration services.”
Given that the Cuba Internet Task Force (CITF) has had almost eighteen months and plenty of resources at its disposal one would have expected a lot more from this report.