You seem to have a thing about bashing Cubs, which certainly deserves bashing. But when women in Argentina dressed in white scarfs for their disappeared children, were you beating the drum for them?
Why don't you beat the drum for them?
Otero Alcántara is a 33 years old Cuban artist and dissident, known for his public performances that openly criticize the Castroist regime and its policies. He has been arrested dozens of times for his performances in violation of Decree 349, a regime law requiring artists to obtain advance permission for public and private exhibitions and performances. He has paid dearly for his activism. On April 23, 2021, he was detained and on the 24 he began a hunger straight. On May 31, 2021, after a month of detention on the Calixto Garcia Hospital, he was released. On July 11, when the Cuban people went to the streets to pacifically protest the lack of freedom and opportunity in their country, Alcántara was arrested again, “accused of public disorder, incitement to commit a crime, and contempt”, and has remain in prison since then.
14ymedio, Havana, 19 January 2022 — Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has rejected the rights he has as a prisoner because he considers that he should not be one, according to art curator Claudia Genlui, who was able to speak with him in what he says was “his last call.”
“He called to communicate, briefly but firmly, that he is at the limit,” the activist wrote on her Facebook profile.
Genlui affirms that the artist and member of the San Isidro Movement, who has been in the Guanajay prison, Artemisa, for more than half a year, had hopes that the precautionary measure of provisional freedom that he requested last December would be accepted, but it was denied by the Prosecutor’s Office, which considers him to be a “social danger.”
“With the denial of this request, the regime demonstrates once again that its only intention is to humiliate him, to treat him like a criminal when he is not,” says Genlui, who warns that there will be no more opportunities to save the artist, who is at the limit. “He himself has said BASTA (sic. – ‘enough’),” she adds.
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There is no way the Castroist communist regime, a member of the UN Human Rights Council, the fox guarding the henhouse, will comply with the UN request to provide “the number of persons whose alleged disappearance occurred in the context of the demonstrations of July 11, 2021.” There is no chance the UN will received any information related to the disappearing of the protestors and the UN will not take any action.
The Castroist communist regime’s prosecutors are asking for 8 years of prison for minor Jonathan Torres in custody for having participated in the July 11 peacefully protest against the regime. The regime has detained at least 45 minors between the ages of 14 and 17 for their participation in the protest. Of those, 30 were released from prison and 15 remain in the regime’s dungeons, facing long sentences.
The Garrido sisters have been sentenced by the Castroist communist regime for peacefully protesting on July 11, 2021. They are the latest victims of the regime crackdown of the peacefully demonstration that took place around the island, protesting for the lack of freedom and opportunity that for 6 decades the Castroist communist dictatorship regime has negated to them.
Luis Robles, the “Young Man with the Sign”, a peaceful protester, get 5 years in prison. He represents everything the Castroist communist regime in Cuba fears. They fear the power of an individual to inspire others to stand up for their rights.April 2, 2022
Robles was arrested on December 4, 2020, for protesting in Havana. (Capture)
The court said he had “a marked interest to create an environment to destabilize the social system”.
By 14ymedio
HAVANA TIMES – Activist Luis Robles, the “Young Man with the Sign”, was sentenced to five years in jail for peacefully protesting in the centrally-located San Rafael Street pedestrian zone in Havana holding a sign demanding an end to the repression and freedom for Cuban rapper Denis Solís.
According to the sentencing document, accessed by 14ymedio, during the trial it was “proven” that Robles “responded to a call” by Cuban influencer “Alexander Otaola for people to pronounce themselves” against Solís’s detention, and to “perform any act aimed at destabilizing the internal order, publicly protesting in the street against the Cuban economic and social system.”
The phrases “Freedom. No more repression. #free-Denis [Solís]”, visible on the sign Robles was carrying, showed he “opposed the decisions of the authorities” who determined Solís’s arrest, argued the Provincial Tribunal in Havana.
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Sissi Abascal, a member of the Damas de Blanco (White Lades), has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for painting “Patria y Vida” (Homeland and Life) on a white sheet. She was accused of alleged crimes of disrespect, contempt and public disorders. Sissi participated in July 11, 2021, peaceful protest. Peaceful protest is not a crime, it is a right in a democracy, a manifestation of the right to freedom of assembly.
Otero Alcántara is accused of placing the Cuban flag over his body for several days, which anger the Castroist regime. Osorbo is accused of insulting the ruler Dias Canel and pointing the finger to the Prime Minister for the lack of supplies in hospitals. The prosecutor is asking for 7 years prison sentence for Otero and 10 for Osorbo. This is mind-blowing, this is not a crime under the rule of law. Only under the Castroist tyrannical regime this travesty of justice is possible.
Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo in Havana, when they were still free. (Anamely Ramos)
14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, 31 May 2022 — The last Monday of May dawned cloudy and humid in Havana. However, it was not the possibility of a shower or the difficulties of getting around in a city paralyzed by the fuel crisis that were the main features of the day. In the Court of Marianao, a neighborhood in the western part of the Cuban capital, a trial is taking place that thousands of eyes are watching. The artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and the rapper Maykel Castillo Osorbo are the accused.
Although in recent months oral hearings against those who participated in the popular demonstrations of last July, or to sentence citizens who show their disagreement on social networks have become common, this week’s process marks a climax of repression in the country. Otero Alcántara is being tried, among other crimes, for placing the Cuban flag on his body for days, in an artistic action that has annoyed a ruling party that hijacked the national emblems for its particular ideological and partisan crusade.
For his part, Osorbo is blamed for having insulted the figure of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel and for holding Prime Minister Manuel Marrero responsible for the lack of supplies in hospitals. Both accusations, with a prosecutor’s request for seven and ten years respectively, would hardly carry a small fine in democratic nations or, simply, would not constitute a crime under a rule of law. But the two artists have been in jail for long months and are only now being brought before a court, whose ruling is governed more by the whims of a group in power than by the rigors of justice.
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Cuba, under the control of the Castroist communist regime, has become the first terrorist territory of America. In what country of the world can be seen that its constitution says that its social system cannot be changed for life? Only in the hellhole that is the Castroist totalitarian Socialist State, the Oceania of the Caribbean.
Pacifically face the most bloody and malefic dictatorship in America, is a gigantic merit and a courage out of any doubt. But of course, they are paying the consequences of doing so. They were condemned since they were detained. Justice is impart by the Castroit communist regime, the judges are simple puppets of the regime. The real motive of their sentence is the son Patria y Vida (Homeland and Life). A defiance to the regime Patria o Muerte (Homeland or Death).Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo ‘Osorbo’ Sentenced to Five and Nine Years in Prison – Translating Cuba
Otero Alcántara (back) and Maykel Castillo (front) in Havana, when they were still free. (Anamely Ramos
14ymedio, Havana, 24 June 2022 — There is now a sentence in the trial against the artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo Osorbo, held on May 30 and 31 in Havana. In a statement made public this Friday by the Attorney General’s Office, the People’s Municipal Court of Central Havana reported that the sentence for Alcántara is five years in prison for the crimes of outrage against the symbols of the country, contempt and public disorder, and for Osorbo, nine years for contempt, attack, public disorder and defamation of institutions and organizations, heroes and martyrs.
From these, time they have already spent in prison, 11 months in the case of Alcántara and 13 in the case of Osorbo, is discounted.
Although the judges lowered the requests of the Prosecutor’s Office – which was seven years for Alcántara and ten for Osorbo – they reached the “conviction about the facts proven in the oral hearing and their social harmfulness,” says the text, “determined the responsibility of those prosecuted, as well as the position assumed and the acts carried out by each one.”
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The Castroist communist regime has proposed several times to Alcántara and Castillo to leave the country instead of staying in prison, but they have refused. They are known and admired on the island and abroad too. By not wanting to leave the country, this forces the regime to take drastic measures. Their lives are in jeopardy, since the regime can offer the inmate a reduction of his sentenced if Alcántara is killed during a prison fight.Cuban State Security Used a Common Prisoner to Harass Otero Alcantara in Prison – Translating Cuba
Manuel Luis Otero Alcántara in front of the Havana Capitol during a day of protests. (Facebook)
14ymedio, Havana, 22 July 2022 — The Cuban opposition figure and artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara informed his family on Wednesday that he is suffering “harassment” by a prisoner in the Guanajay maximum security prison. According to the curator Claudia Genlui, the inmate has a 51-year sentence and State Security has instructed him “to attack Luis Manuel.”
Until now, Genlui said, Alcántara was isolated and “without even being able to access sunlight.” Also, as he is “grounded” due to the hunger and thirst strike he had started, he was prohibited from making phone calls. However, he was recently transferred to a shared cell and “the provocations have been increasing.”
The leader of the San Isidro Movement had already deposed the hunger strike that began on July 4 to demand his release, due to his delicate state of health. “It is evident how State Security tries to provoke a conflict in which Luis Manuel is affected,” Genlui said in his statement.
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The Castroist communist regimen doesn’t care about the prisoners’ rights. Cuba, under the control of the regime, is the first terrorist territory in America.
“The young man with the placard” remains incarcerated in the prison of the Combinado del Este. (Collage
14ymedio, Havana, 11 August 2022 — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a resolution in which it considers the situation of Cuban opponent Luis Robles as “at serious risk.” Robles, known as “the young man with the placard,” was arrested in December 2020 for demanding the release of musician Denis Solís, on San Rafael Boulevard in Havana.
In the document, the IACHR, an organization belonging to the Organization of American States, describes several precautionary measures that are necessary to protect the rights and integrity of the imprisoned.
“He continues to be deprived of liberty in the circumstances described and may be further denied his rights,” adds the Commission, which proposes that the 29-year-old inmate get access to adequate medical care and receive medicines for his chronic gastritis. In addition, his relatives and lawyers must be allowed to visit him in prison.
The Commission asks that some “alternative to the deprivation of his liberty” be evaluated and that action be taken against the threats and harassment suffered by Robles in the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana, where he is serving a five-year sentence for the crimes of enemy propaganda and disobedience.
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Nuevitas has become thanks to the courage of its residents, the example to fallow. If the residents of other cities in Cuba would follow their example of taking to the streets to demand democratic change in Cuba, the Castroist tyrannical regime will collapse. There is strength in numbers.
Cuban have been living under the Castroist communist system for 63 years, and they cannot take it anymore. They keep carrying out protest again the Castroit regime no matter what. They get beaten, arrested, jailed without due process, tortured, and in some cases killed. The brutality and abuse have reached such a level, that many don't care and take to the streets anyway knowing the risks they face.
CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO | 3 Sep 2022
Cubans carried out 361 protests against the communist Castro regime and its puppet-president Miguel Díaz-Canel in August, according to statistical information published by the Cuban Observatory of Conflict on Thursday.
With an average 11 protests per day, August 2022 had the most registered protests in Cuba since the July 2021 protests.
The Observatory, a civil society organization, documented 2,074 protests against the communist regime during the first eight months of 2022. The Observatory’s data also show that Cubans’ protests consistently grew in size and number between January and June 2020, which exponentially exploded into the historical nationwide wave of protests of July 2021, when over 187,000 Cubans participated in at least 584 protests nationwide.
While historically significant, the July 2021 protests were not the first major event against the Castro regime. Cuban dissidents have protested in large numbers against the Castro regime – which was installed in the 1959 coup and never received an electoral mandate – for decades. In 1994, for example, a protest now known as the Maleconazo attracted thousands of unarmed Cubans demanding freedom and protesting against communist dictator Fidel Castro. The island nation’s communist regime retaliated by arresting, beating, and shooting protesters.
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The Garrido sisters, sentenced by the Castroist communist regime for peacefully protesting on July 11, 2021, are in a hunger strike in prison along with 8 more political prisoners. One of the few non-violent ways used to attract attention to the Castroist tyrannical regime, is engaging in a hunger strike as an act of political protest. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime and force change.September 22, 2022 by Carlos Eire
Three of the ten prisoners on hunger strike
From our Bureau of Socialist Compassion and Tolerance with some assistance from our Bureau of Things That Socialists Everywhere Love To Do
People of good conscience around the world were horrified when Castro, Inc. imposed insanely long prison sentences on July 11 protesters. Unfortunately, those mock trials and long sentences were just the first step in a much more horrifying story.
July 11 prisoners of conscience are being targeted for extra abuse in Castro, Inc.’s prisons, and the results of such abuse are beginning to be exposed.
In addition to ten such prisoners who have gone on hunger strike to protest their inhumane treatment, there are at least fifteen others with serious health problems that have worsened as a result of their mistreatment and are being denied proper medical care.
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One of the peaceful protests tock place in the municipality of Playa where the upscale district of Miramar is located and the wealthy Cubans used to live and now is where the New Class live. People were demonstrating in the streets and demanding water, electricity and shouting freedom, freedom. These are the larger widespread popular protests since the ones on July 11, 2021.Protests Are Spreading in Cuba, with Barricades in the Streets of Havana and Other Cities – Translating Cuba
Hundreds of people participated this Friday in several spontaneous protests in different neighborhoods of Havana. (Capture)
14ymedio, Havana, 1 October 2022 — After several days without electricity, Cubans took to the streets again on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday in Havana, where the protests have reached a massive level. Demonstrations have been documented in the municipalities of Playa, Arroyo Naranjo, Guanabacoa, Cerro, Marianao, Boyeros and Cojímar, and in the neighborhoods of Puentes Grandes, La Palma and Mantilla.
In the case of Cerro, the protest lasted until Saturday morning. Several neighbors have built barricades with garbage containers and are protesting without masks. A sign has been painted on the street: “Five days without light.”
The protest also continues in Guanabacoa, where residents have blocked 20th and Máximo Gómez streets, according to a source for 14ymedio.
“The police are supporting them, not assaulting them,” he says. “They blocked the four corners because they’ve been without electricity for four days, and all the food is spoiled.”
“Everyone is amazed,” says this newspaper’s contact, “because none of the agents has been aggressive. The police let them protest, waiting for them to get power.” Avoiding the confrontation seems to have been one of the constants of uniformed personnel during this Friday’s protests, which suggests that it’s a government direction — unlike what happened on July 11, 2021 — although several witnesses point to the presence in some places of government groups armed with sticks.
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This year, up to October, 589 public protests have taken place through the island. Many of them banging on pots and pans, installing barricades in the streets and shouting “freedom, freedom.” Many of the protesters are demanding political change. Many protesters have been arrested and a number of them will be sentenced to prison. Nevertheless, the protests and protesters have been increasing in numbers since July 14. The regime is confronting a serious problem with the people.
This year, up to October, 589 public protests have taken place through the island. Many of them banging on pots and pans, installing barricades in the streets and shouting “freedom, freedom.” Many of the protesters are demanding political change. Many protesters have been arrested and a number of them will be sentenced to prison. Nevertheless, the protests and protesters have been increasing in numbers since July 14. The regime is confronting a serious problem with the people.
