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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 same-sex marriage, which is prohibited in Cuba, and drew no interference from authorities because I...

No vaccine yet for Cuba's 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 governed by Miguel Diaz-Canel but still firmly controlled by octogenarian Raul Castro, is receiving l...

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. “The disturbing level of restrictions to which activists and independent journalists are now being sub...