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While fuel shortages left the Castro dictatorship unable to put on a major May Day propaganda show by busing in thousands of Cubans to forcibly march, it did have enough resources for oppression. In the days leading up to May 1st, the communist regime unleashed a wave of repression on human rights activists and independent

The son of a high-ranking communist party official, Vladimiro Roca could have lived a life of privilege and luxury in Cuba. Instead, he set a powerful moral example by giving it all up for the cause of freedom. Via the Center for a FREE Cuba: Vladimiro Roca's courageous break with the Cuban Dictatorship. A moral

The “free visa” for Cubans has turned Nicaragua into a springboard for the new mass exodus of islanders to the United States

In the editorial offices of Cuba’s only truly national newspaper, Granma, the Cold War is seemingly in the air. Weeks before the start of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Cuban regime was already making clear its support for Moscow with silences and half-truths. And since the beginning of the war, Havana’s propaganda machine has been disseminating fake news or misleading information to support the Kremlin’s version of events.

Visa-free announcement raises expectations, but no direct flights to Managua; no buyers in Oriental market since 2020

Cuban journalist Reynaldo Escobar speaks of the possible reasons behind the Ortega regime’s announcement to exempt Cubans from all visa requirements

Veteran analysts of Cuba see the hallmarks of well-tried strategy by Havana's ruling Communist Party to create an escape valve for growing political pressure on the island after mass protests in July | Univision News Latin America | Univision

Gay man marries transsexual woman in Cuban first A gay dissident and a transsexual woman married on Saturday in what was said to be a first for Cuba, then draped themselves in the rainbow flag of gay pride and rode through the streets of Havana, Reuters reports. In a simple civil ceremony surrounded by much hoopla, Ignacio Estrada, 31, and Wendy Iriepa, 37, signed a marriage certificate, exchanged rings and kissed before a state official, who wished them much happiness. It was not technically a...

No vaccine yet for Cubas political pandemic Alvaro Vargas Llosa © Provided by Washington Examiner There’s nothing like a pandemic to facilitate the work of a totalitarian state. Any form of political persecution can be justified as a necessary measure adopted to preserve the life and health of potential COVID-19 victims — and any form of political dissent can be construed as antisocial conduct threatening to others. Cuba provides a perfect example. The island, nominally go...

15 December 2020, 12:50 UTC Members of the San Isidro Movement – the group of Cuban artists, academics, and other alternative thinkers who garnered global attention by staging a rare protest outside the Ministry of Culture on 27 November – as well as independent journalists covering their story, are under frightening levels of surveillance and face arrest by police and state security officials if they leave their houses, which amounts to house arrest, said Amnesty International today. “T...