After historic protests, defiant Cubans face mass trials AP Ismael Francisco/AP By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Following the most widespread protests since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, Cubans are now bracing themselves for a new aftershock poised to shake the communist-run island: Mass trials of those who dared to take to the streets calling for change. Fewer than three weeks since the beginning of the unprecedented anti-government demonstrations, the trials are already underway. Not surprisingly, those proceedings are leading to swift convictions. Photographer Anyelo Troya said he was running ...