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4 Aug 2021 Communist state security forces in Cuba have not ceased raiding the homes of and arresting individuals believed to have participated in the July 11 nationwide protests, most recently disappearing dissident Sadiel González from his home on Monday night. González’s family told the independent Cuban outlet 14 y Medio that González remains missing as of Tuesday following police entering his Havana home on Monday night and requesting an “interview” at the police station. Gonzá...

28 Jul 2021 Protesters gathering in support of human rights in Cuba in Washington, DC, lamented that President Joe Biden has taken little to no action after thousands-strong protests rocked the communist nation on July 11. Cuban-Americans, joined by human rights activists and members of Congress, gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday and called on the Biden Administration to act in the face of brutal communist repression following the July 11 protests. Activists and Republican lawmakers spoke...

YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images 20 Jul 2021 The mothers of protesters missing since anti-communist marches erupted nationwide in Cuba on July 11 are planning to take the streets of the island on Wednesday demanding to know what the regime did to their children. The protest is expected to be the largest national anti-communist event within Cuba since the July 11 protests. International news outlets have struggled to document the ongoing protests since July 11 as the Castro regime shut down inter...

20 Jul 2021 Aleida Guevara March, daughter of communist mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara, has urged the Cuban Communist Party to enact more violent repressive measures against the thousands of “low-class people” protesting on the island, AmericaTeVe reported on Tuesday. Guevara, an Argentine-Irish communist who joined Fidel Castro’s small group of violent Marxists in the takeover of the country in 1959, served as economics minister in the early days of the Cuban Revolution. He spea...

Blaming US for protests, Cuba official says actions could trigger exodus from the island Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald © YAMIL LAGE/AFP/AFP/TNS Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks during a press conference to denounce the intensification of the United States blockade despite the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Havana, on October 22, 2020. Accusing the U.S. of masterminding and financing the massive protests in Cuba this week, the island’s foreign minis...

6 Apr 2021 The Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) of Cuba confirmed Monday that it had summoned the top American diplomat in the country, Embassy Chargé d’Affairs Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, to protest “flagrant and systematic violations of human rights in the United States.” The accusation followed the publication of the U.S. State Department’s 2020 report on international human rights, which detailed the situation in every country on earth. Cuba’s profile in the 2020 report was typ...

30 Cubans began hunger strike on March 20 to protest human rights violations, activists say Updated:  Tags:  MIAMI – In a pre-recorded message from Cuba, José Daniel Ferrer said he and others decided to start a hunger strike on March 20 to protest human rights violations. The prominent Cuban opposition leader said about 30 people are involved in the protest. That was down from 47 on Thursday. Most of them are on the eastern side of the island. Ferrer, the leader of the Patriotic Union of...

Dissident leader Ferrer released by Cuba: supporter

The human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer says recent protests have left the regime on the back foot.

Sen. Menendez asks for ‘tangible results’ in possible negotiations with Cuba under Biden Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald © Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/TNS Bob Menendez, D- N.J., speaks at the Capital Health Medical Center in Pennington, New Jersey, on Aug. 6, 2018. MIAMI — A group of senators, Cuban-American politicians, exile organizations, and members of the island’s opposition asked President Joe Biden Wednesday to condition any eventual negotiation with Cuba on im...