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Carlos Lima Beltran writes from Havana via Diario de Cuba: Culture, controlled by the regime and increasingly inaccessible for Cubans By persecuting dissident artists and intellectuals, and prohibiting the free circulation of their work and thought, the regime is also violating Cubans' right to freely access culture. One of the "achievements of the Cuban Revolution"
By persecuting dissident artists and intellectuals, and prohibiting the free circulation of their work and thought, the regime is also violating Cubans' right to freely access culture.