A group of mothers come together to protest for their sick children, in addition to alleging that they do not have medical care on the island despite being a medical power, and because of that that they were arrested by the police regime. This time the Castro’s communist regime have gone too far. By hook or by crook they will be paying for it.
During the year 2023, over 100 Cuban athletes of many sports have left Cuba. The hemorrhage of Cuban athletes escaping from Castro’s paradise keeps unabated. The regime calls them deserters, as if they were soldiers leaving the battlefield.The Desertion of Cuban Athletes Continues, Now a Pentathlete and Three Rowers Escape – Translating Cuba
The three Cuban rowers are hoping to cross the US border. (Jit)
14ymedio, Havana, 17 November 2022 — The escape of athletes continues to fracture Cuban sports. This Thursday, the abandonment of the pentathlete Melissa Garlobo in Brazil, joined the Wednesday escape of rowers Ernier Tamayo, Alexei Carballosa and Nayala Torres in Mexico. According to journalist Francys Romero, the latter are close to “crossing Mexico’s border with the United States.”
So far this year “there are already 53 athletes of different specialties,” who take advantage of their stays abroad to end their sports relationship with the Island, the reporter said on his social networks.
Garlobo’s desertion occurred on October 28, just after finishing in 33rd place in the specialty tournament that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In this contest Cuba won six places for the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023. The decision of the granmense was signaled as “a serious indiscipline,” said the official media Jit.
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Artist Aniette González that took pictures wearing the Cuban flag, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment for the alleged crime of “disrespect for national symbols.” There are numerous photos of members of the Castro’s communist regime using the Cuban flag. Who told the member of the regime that the flag belongs to them? the Flag belongs to everyone. They are the ones that has disrespected the national symbols.February 3, 2024 by Alberto de la Cruz
There are plenty of images of Cuban Communist Party leaders wearing the Cuban flag. But if you’re a dissident artist and do the same, you go to the gulag. Artist Aniette González took pictures wearing only the Cuban flag a year ago and has been sitting in a prison cell since March of last year for doing that. Now she’s going to spend three more years in prison for expressing her art. In communist Cuba, the flag belongs to the State and no one else. This is socialism in action.
Via CubaNet (my translation):
Regime sentences Aniette Gonzalez, ‘the flag woman,’ to three years in prison
The Municipal Court of Camagüey sentenced activist Aniette González to three years of imprisonment for the alleged crime of “disrespect for national symbols,” as reported on Facebook by journalist José Luis Tan Estrada, who had access to the verdict.
González García has been detained since March 23 for taking photos wrapped in the Cuban flag and sharing them on social media as part of the performance “La bandera es de todos” (The flag belongs to everyone).
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Deterioration of living conditions in Cuba is worse than the “Special Period “ of the 1990 decade. Due to blackouts, food shortages, rise in prices and repression of those that openly express their discontent in demonstrations, Cubans are living the country in unprecedented numbers.
The total number of dissidents behind bars keeps climbing. The living conditions in the island are so bad that the people are going to riot on the streets and call for a general strike.Prisoners Defenders Places Cuban Political Prisoners at 1,066 in January – Translating Cuba
Images of the repression unleashed in Havana on July 11, 2021. (14ymedio/Capture)
EFE (via 14ymedio), Madrid, 14 February 2024 — The NGO Prisoners Defenders (PD) raised its count of the number of political prisoners in Cuba to 1,066 on Wednesday, after including three new inmates on its list in January. The organization, based in Madrid, indicated in its monthly report that, in January, ten political prisoners were released and removed from the list.
The document published on the NGO’s website said that there are 33 prisoners who are minors, of which 29 are serving sentences and four are being criminally prosecuted. The minimum criminal age in Cuba is 16 years old.
According to PD, “17 of the minors have already been convicted of sedition” with sentences of five years in prison. “Currently, most are under house arrest or doing forced labor without internment.”
Last month, three new inmates were added to the list and ten were removed
The statement added that 225 demonstrators have been accused of sedition, and at least 213 have already been sentenced to an average of ten years of deprivation of liberty each.
PD also said that there are 114 prisoners (including several transgender) who “still have criminal and political penalties.”
“All trans women in prison for political reasons are imprisoned among men, which also happens with common trans prisoners, suffering situations indescribable for their sexual condition,” the organization denounced.
Translated by Regina Anavy
Beginning on Sunday, March 17, 2024, hundreds of thousands of Cubans in more than 10 cities and towns across the country have peacefully taken to the streets demanding freedom and a change of system. The situation is critical, lack of food, water, electricity, and failures in public services from health to transportation have created a humanitarian crisis. Rosa Maria Payá in her press conference said that “The only way out of the crisis is to get rid of the dictatorship.”
Castro’s regime has brought the people to the point that will make what the song “Homeland and Life” says materialize, and when this happens, it will be the end of the regime. People on the streets shout “Down with communism, Down with Díaz-Canel.” Residents say that “There’s not even enough electricity to chill some water or preserve the little food you do get,”
