November 18 marked three years since the members of the dissident artist movement San Isidro began their hunger strike in Havana and were quashed by the Castro dictatorship. The San Isidro Movement sparked the song "Patria y Vida," which led to mass protests across the island on July 11, 2021 and the subsequent brutal crackdown
Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera is leaving her home country, having agreed to do so if the government released a group of prisoners, Hyperallergic reports. In an interview with…
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
In a new report on the second anniversary, PEN International, PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) and Cubalex, profile 17 exiled cultural professionals - demonstrating their resilience - while documenting the repressive and sometimes violent tactics by the Cuban state that forced them to flee.