For six decades Castro regime agents have plotted and facilitated terrorist attacks, attacked and bitten protesters , and participated in the cover up of extrajudicial killings.
The Castro regime is cracking down in Cuba on independent elements of civil society. Some of them, such as SNET, the largest private network in the country, were not political but have been taken over by the dictatorship.
Amnesty International on August 26, 2019 identified five new prisoners of conscience in Cuba, and states that they likely represent “a tiny fraction of those behind bars for peacefully expressing their views.”
CARACAS (Reuters) - In December 2007, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez suffered his first defeat at the polls Although still wildly popular among the working class that had propelled him to power nearly a decade earlier, voters rejected a referendum that would have enabled him to run for re-election repeatedly.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Milan Kundera
Mexican historian Enrique Krauze highlights some of the crimes of Castroism and its negative roles in supporting guerrillas in Latin America, and organizing repression in Venezuela in his August 21st OpEd in The New York Times: "My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro.”
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.