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Cuba’s Racial Reckoning, and What It Means for Biden Recent protests have challenged longstanding taboos, with unpredictable consequences for the regime. Protesters gather at Cuba's culture ministry on Nov. 27YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images At the end of November, a group of approximately 500 Cubans staged a small protest outside the Ministry of Culture. This group, now called the N27, demanded the end to the permanent harassment directed toward a young social movement of mostly Afro-Cuban artists and musicians called the San Isidro Movement. Like the Black Lives Matter movement in the ...

December 14, 2020 In the middle of the night on November 28, 32 Cuban artists emerged from a five-hour meeting with officials of the Ministry of Culture. They had called on the Cuban government to refrain from harassing independent artists, to stop treating dissent as a crime, and to cease its violence against the San Isidro Movement, a group of artists and activists that had staged a hunger strike to protest the arrest and sentencing of a young rapper. The news of the encounter was shared with a crowd of about 300 artists, writers, actors, and filmmakers who had stood outside for more than 1...

Explained: What is the San Isidro Movement, posing a stiff challenge to Cuba’s authoritarian regime? The Movimiento San Isidro started two years ago to protest state censorship of artistic works, and has now become a platform for Cuban dissidents both within and outside the Caribbean nation. Written by Om Marathe , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 2:43:35 pm Supporters of the San Isidro Movement outside the Cuban embassy in Washington DC earlier in December. (Photo: Twitter/@Mov_sanisidro) In Cuba, a c...

By Róger Calero December 21, 2020 In Cuban 1961 literacy campaign 250,000 mostly young people taught workers and peasants to read and write, including in the remotest regions. “Although the aggressiveness of the U.S. began very early ­— through pressure and threats, attacks, bombings, financing armed gangs, and a fierce media campaign ­— the revolutionary government did not neglect to advance Cuban culture,” Abel Prieto, former Minister of Culture, wrote in Granma Dec. 4. U.S. government officials and the...

The San Isidro movement is a small step toward a national conversation.