While the massive protests that spread all across Cuba on July 11, 2021 had never been seen before, the violent and brutal response by the Castro dictatorship has been seen many times before. Via the Center for a FREE Cuba: Looking back two years later at Cuba's nationwide nonviolent protests, and the Cuban government's violent
After the July 11, 2021 protests in Cuba, the Castro dictatorship arrested dozens of independent artists. Some were thrown into communist gulags, while others were forced into exile. Along with harassment, threats, imprisonment, and executions, forced exile is one of the methods used by the Castro dictatorship to rid itself of what it calls counterrevolutionaries.