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Protest marchers beaten, detained

The Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) are a group in Cuba of the wives and other relatives of jailed dissidents. They have been protesting the imprisonments of their husbands by going to Mass each Sunday dressed in white and silently walking through the streets. The white color of the dresses is used as a symbol of peace. In 2005 they were awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Good for them. They are similar to the “Mothers (and grandmothers) of the disappeared” in Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere in Latin America who wore white kerchiefs, victims of right wing abuse, much as these Damas De Blanco have suffered under the left-wing govt in Cuba. I imagine those different groups would understand one another more than ideological defenders or attackers of those governments.
 
People born in a cage think flying is an illness.
You have perfectly described the American society!

"drinking age 21" - not only is this age stupidly high, but treating children/teenagers and even adults as "criminals" for trying to buy alcohol "underage" is an absurd abuse! in most countries, at very most the seller can be find! never the buyer is not treated as "criminal" issue! stupid conservatism must have something to do with it.

"age of consent for sex 16-18" - conservative stupidity and abuse, African level civilization... in normal countries this age is about 13-15... screwing up people's lives because some retarded savages think it's "immoral" what others consensually do

"open container" - again, conservative stupidity and flawed logic, pure victimless "crime"

"stalking" - normal behavior, like romantic insistence, turned absurdly and abusively into a "crime" by american extremist feminists and other terribly stupid creatures, using the same flawed logic that is often using when inventing crimes

"sexting" - ex-fookin-cuse-me?

"bullying" - one of those deliberately ambiguous "crimes" so that huge abuses can be committed

kids playing in the street(unsupervised) - stupid, victimless "crime" born out of paranoia and excessive desire for "perfect safety" for children - but it just defies common sense and lands parent in huge trouble for something that's perfectly normal in most other countries

"loitering" - WTF? that's the reaction of people in most non-common-law jurisdictions when they hear about this "crime"

"trespassing" - when economic agents(shops, restaurants) can tell you "don't come here any longer"- not obeying their request is absurdly a "crime" - you won't see this absurdity in many other countries, it's actually illegal in other jurisdictions to even ask customers such a thing(even if they caused some sort of "trouble")

eating in certain places where it's forbidden - at the very most people can get fined in most places on this planet, not ARRESTED, as it happens in some places(typically public transportation related stuff) in the US

wearing a thong on the beach - stupid conservative pseudo-"criminal" garbage

"skipping school" - how the f. is this a criminal issue?

not obeying the orders of a cop(other than stopping a car), "resisting arrest" - pure totalitarian garbage

etc. etc. etc.

barely scratching the surface of the tip of the iceberg!

In most countries the penal codes have about 400 articles, which include other things besides enumerating the crimes! in the US, solely the part I(which lists the federal crimes) of the federal penal code, has >2700 articles. Then you have the state penal codes. Then you have municipality-level criminal legislation - something that doesn't exist in most other countries. Then you have all kinds of agencies which can also enact criminal laws. Then you have a super-large body of civil laws that can often be prosecuted criminally! Some estimate the number of criminal laws in the US between 25.000 and 300.000, depending on what you count.

Western totalitarian morons put an excessive emphasis on a few political liberties, ignoring all the other ones - which are actually far more important, affecting your everyday life! And no, you can't stop this totalitarian drivel(also known as overcriminalization) through voting! It hasn't happened anywhere on the planet! And there are many other serious issue, like absolute immunity for prosecutor, judges that commit abuses, and many, many other bad things!
 
You have perfectly described the American society!

"drinking age 21" - not only is this age stupidly high, but treating children/teenagers and even adults as "criminals" for trying to buy alcohol "underage" is an absurd abuse! in most countries, at very most the seller can be find! never the buyer is not treated as "criminal" issue! stupid conservatism must have something to do with it.

"age of consent for sex 16-18" - conservative stupidity and abuse, African level civilization... in normal countries this age is about 13-15... screwing up people's lives because some retarded savages think it's "immoral" what others consensually do

"open container" - again, conservative stupidity and flawed logic, pure victimless "crime"

"stalking" - normal behavior, like romantic insistence, turned absurdly and abusively into a "crime" by american extremist feminists and other terribly stupid creatures, using the same flawed logic that is often using when inventing crimes

"sexting" - ex-fookin-cuse-me?

"bullying" - one of those deliberately ambiguous "crimes" so that huge abuses can be committed

kids playing in the street(unsupervised) - stupid, victimless "crime" born out of paranoia and excessive desire for "perfect safety" for children - but it just defies common sense and lands parent in huge trouble for something that's perfectly normal in most other countries

"loitering" - WTF? that's the reaction of people in most non-common-law jurisdictions when they hear about this "crime"

"trespassing" - when economic agents(shops, restaurants) can tell you "don't come here any longer"- not obeying their request is absurdly a "crime" - you won't see this absurdity in many other countries, it's actually illegal in other jurisdictions to even ask customers such a thing(even if they caused some sort of "trouble")

eating in certain places where it's forbidden - at the very most people can get fined in most places on this planet, not ARRESTED, as it happens in some places(typically public transportation related stuff) in the US

wearing a thong on the beach - stupid conservative pseudo-"criminal" garbage

"skipping school" - how the f. is this a criminal issue?

not obeying the orders of a cop(other than stopping a car), "resisting arrest" - pure totalitarian garbage

etc. etc. etc.

barely scratching the surface of the tip of the iceberg!

In most countries the penal codes have about 400 articles, which include other things besides enumerating the crimes! in the US, solely the part I(which lists the federal crimes) of the federal penal code, has >2700 articles. Then you have the state penal codes. Then you have municipality-level criminal legislation - something that doesn't exist in most other countries. Then you have all kinds of agencies which can also enact criminal laws. Then you have a super-large body of civil laws that can often be prosecuted criminally! Some estimate the number of criminal laws in the US between 25.000 and 300.000, depending on what you count.

Western totalitarian morons put an excessive emphasis on a few political liberties, ignoring all the other ones - which are actually far more important, affecting your everyday life! And no, you can't stop this totalitarian drivel(also known as overcriminalization) through voting! It hasn't happened anywhere on the planet! And there are many other serious issue, like absolute immunity for prosecutor, judges that commit abuses, and many, many other bad things!

Uh....what?

No, stalking is definitely not “normal” and certainly not “romantic”. It’s creepy and dangerous.

The rest of your little rant is equally absurd, but that one stood out.
 
No, stalking is definitely not “normal” and certainly not “romantic”. It’s creepy and dangerous.
You have been indoctrinated to believe this absurdity.

Proof that it's normal is the fact that it hasn't been a crime until the 70s when american feminists invented it. Some European countries imported this stupid insanity after 2000s. In lots of countries is still not a crime.

On the contrary, it's a horrific abuse to imprison someone who already suffers a lot when they're in love and got dumped/rejected. It's neither creepy nor dangerous, it's what people have been doing normally for thousands of years - and it's still pretty normal in many other countries. The dangers are totally unrelated to what you call "stalking"(no one kills you because they're insisting/following you - this is stupid lack of logic) but dangers can develop precisely because of escalation, like involving the police, when things should always be treated calmly, civilized, with a lot of tact. Unfortunately those who hold beliefs like yours have never experienced love for real, so you can't possibly know what you're talking about.

Not only should this feminist garbage "crime" be decriminalized, but mere suggestions that it should be a crime, should be a crime in itself!

Actually, I'd go a step further: when it comes to "crimes" between individuals, you should be able to prove:
- physical harm through medical documents
- financial/material losses through some valid financial/accounting documents
- if you claim to have been deprived of liberty - to declare the period of your deprivation(if it is ever provable that you were actually free, you are guilty)
If you can't prove any of the above you should be thrown in prison for a very long time for "false victimization"
 
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You have been indoctrinated to believe this absurdity.

Proof that it's normal is the fact that it hasn't been a crime until the 70s when american feminists invented it. Some European countries imported this stupid insanity after 2000s. In lots of countries is still not a crime.

On the contrary, it's a horrific abuse to imprison someone who already suffers a lot when they're in love and got dumped/rejected. It's neither creepy nor dangerous, it's what people have been doing normally for thousands of years - and it's still pretty normal in many other countries. The dangers are totally unrelated to what you call "stalking"(no one kills you because they're insisting/following you - this is stupid lack of logic) but dangers can develop precisely because of escalation, like involving the police, when things should always be treated calmly, civilized, with a lot of tact. Unfortunately those who hold beliefs like yours have never experienced love for real, so you can't possibly know what you're talking about.

Not only should this feminist garbage "crime" be decriminalized, but mere suggestions that it should be a crime, should be a crime in itself!

Actually, I'd go a step further: when it comes to "crimes" between individuals, you should be able to prove:
- physical harm through medical documents
- financial/material losses through some valid financial/accounting documents
- if you claim to have been deprived of liberty - to declare the period of your deprivation(if it is ever provable that you were actually free, you are guilty)
If you can't prove any of the above you should be thrown in prison for a very long time for "false victimization"

It wasn’t a crime previously because previously women could be abused with impunity. Once that ended, so did the protection for psychotic thugs like stalkers.

In a lot of countries rapists still get away with it too. That’s not an argument that stalking’s somehow “okay”.

There are vast numbers of cases of women being abused or outright murdered by their stalkers, so yes, it absolutely is dangerous, and it’s incredibly pathetic watching you sob about people being “punished” for unnerving, terrifying, and abusing others.

It’s not “love” and pretending it is is pretty ****ing creepy bud.
 
It wasn’t a crime previously because previously women could be abused with impunity.
Blatant lies, real crimes like murders and beatings and rape have always been crimes! But you are using the propaganda term "abused" - which is deliberately ambiguous, so that you can include any crap you want(any crap feminists dictate) ;)
There are vast numbers of cases of women being abused or outright murdered by their stalkers, so yes, it absolutely is dangerous, and it’s incredibly pathetic watching you sob about people being “punished” for unnerving, terrifying, and abusing others.
It’s not “love” and pretending it is is pretty ****ing creepy bud.
You're reciting 100% feminist propaganda of the worst possible kind!
There's no such thing as "stalkers" or "stalking" - this is an umbrella term that's been hijacked by stupid feminists. with the intent to induce fear with regards to a certain category of men that they not like - those who insist in either getting a partner back or in pursuit of a relationship! Someone who insists with regards to a romantic relationship is certainly NOT dangerous, this is a criminally stupid and wrong idea induced by feminists! Generalizing a tiny number of cases where things got out of hand is terribly both stupid and misleading - no one kills you because they "insist" and you "reject" them. they kill you because you likely did something stupid like calling the cops, putting other people to beat them, sand so on. If someone has made their mind up to kill you, they can and will do it without doing what dumbasses call "stalking" - actually it's easier. And it happens!
The ambiguous term "abuse" is again all over the place in your post as you can't carry a proper conversation with precise, objective terms.
Of course it is love when someone insists in a romantic relationship/pursuit, but it's something that people who have never experienced the sentiment, can't possibly know!
 
Blatant lies, real crimes like murders and beatings and rape have always been crimes! But you are using the propaganda term "abused" - which is deliberately ambiguous, so that you can include any crap you want(any crap feminists dictate) ;)

You're reciting 100% feminist propaganda of the worst possible kind!
There's no such thing as "stalkers" or "stalking" - this is an umbrella term that's been hijacked by stupid feminists. with the intent to induce fear with regards to a certain category of men that they not like - those who insist in either getting a partner back or in pursuit of a relationship! Someone who insists with regards to a romantic relationship is certainly NOT dangerous, this is a criminally stupid and wrong idea induced by feminists! Generalizing a tiny number of cases where things got out of hand is terribly both stupid and misleading - no one kills you because they "insist" and you "reject" them. they kill you because you likely did something stupid like calling the cops, putting other people to beat them, sand so on. If someone has made their mind up to kill you, they can and will do it without doing what dumbasses call "stalking" - actually it's easier. And it happens!
The ambiguous term "abuse" is again all over the place in your post as you can't carry a proper conversation with precise, objective terms.
Of course it is love when someone insists in a romantic relationship/pursuit, but it's something that people who have never experienced the sentiment, can't possibly know!
And stalkers routinely wind up committing most, of not all, of those, which is a large part of why stalking is so incredibly creepy and dangerous.

Lol yes, they absolutely are stalkers. I get that to people like you the idea of a woman not wanting to be followed, obsessed over, and, you know, stalked is bizarre, but try thinking about someone other than yourself for a change.

Oh, so now you are defending literal murder because women are terrified enough by being stalked to seek protection. Congrats on somehow sinking even lower bud. And no, “other murders happen too!” is not an excuse.

No, one sided obsession isn’t “love”— it’s creepy and dangerous.

Period.
 
And stalkers routinely wind up committing most, of not all, of those, which is a large part of why stalking is so incredibly creepy and dangerous.

Lol yes, they absolutely are stalkers. I get that to people like you the idea of a woman not wanting to be followed, obsessed over, and, you know, stalked is bizarre, but try thinking about someone other than yourself for a change.

Oh, so now you are defending literal murder because women are terrified enough by being stalked to seek protection.
As I you told you, there's not such thing as "stalkers", just a stupid label that's terribly misused(in several very different circumstances - with the clear intention to manipulate, instill unjustified fears in ordinary people). There's absolutely nothing "dangerous" in being perseverant in a romantic pursuit - most people do this at some point.

All these stupidly dumb words like "terrifying" , "creepy" are 100% the result of FEMINIST INDOCTRINATION! People didn't behave like this in the past, and still do not behave like this in certain countries where this feminist criminal idiocy hasn't been yet popularized by Hollywood(that's where it comes from)

I'm not defending murder, I just explained how things work when you abuse some terribly stupid and abusive laws! It's the reality whether you like it or not! "wind up committing most, of not all, of those" ... what? Your logic is pretty much backwards and you love false victimization, as all feminists do!

It's pretty clear that you fully subscribe to ugliest abusive garbage invented by feminists against men!
 
The regime apologists blame the attacks on the supporters of the Ladies in White, not in the violence of the goons and thugs prompted by Raúl Castro speech at the sixth communist party congress saying that “it is necessary to make clear that we will never deny the peoples’ right to defend the revolution.

But these filthy commies will always deny the people's right to self-defense.
 
As I you told you, there's not such thing as "stalkers", just a stupid label that's terribly misused(in several very different circumstances - with the clear intention to manipulate, instill unjustified fears in ordinary people). There's absolutely nothing "dangerous" in being perseverant in a romantic pursuit - most people do this at some point.

All these stupidly dumb words like "terrifying" , "creepy" are 100% the result of FEMINIST INDOCTRINATION! People didn't behave like this in the past, and still do not behave like this in certain countries where this feminist criminal idiocy hasn't been yet popularized by Hollywood(that's where it comes from)

I'm not defending murder, I just explained how things work when you abuse some terribly stupid and abusive laws! It's the reality whether you like it or not! "wind up committing most, of not all, of those" ... what? Your logic is pretty much backwards and you love false victimization, as all feminists do!

It's pretty clear that you fully subscribe to ugliest abusive garbage invented by feminists against men!

You being totally okay with stalking doesn’t mean it “doesn’t exist”, no matter what your incel buddies fantasize.

A “romantic pursuit” of someone with absolutely no interest in you, violating their comfort and personal safety, isn’t “romantic” in the slightest.

Just because disgusting and abusive behavior was “okay” in the past....that doesn’t make it okay now. And no, the fact that certain backwards shitholes still tolerate it is not an excuse either.

You absolutely are, you squealed about the victim of stalking “bringing their murder upon them” by going to the cops.

Calling stalkers and incels “men” is a massive insult to men.
 
OAS Almagro backs Cuban activists on hunger strike
OAS Almagro backs Cuban activists on hunger strike — MercoPress

Saturday, March 27th 2021

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“It is time for democracy to return to Cuba,” said the Uruguayan Almagro

Organization of American States Secretary-General of Luis Almagro Friday accused Cuba's government of applying “state terrorism to those who think differently” and held the current authorities of the Caribbean island accountable “for the health and well-being” of the 55 Cuban human rights activists on hunger strike.

“It is time for democracy to return to Cuba,” said Almagro, who stressed that there are already “several generations of Cubans” who have no rights or freedoms due to an “authoritarian” regime.

The head of the OAS took part in a virtual press conference held by the Cuba Decide organization, together with José Daniel Ferrer, head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), who has been on a hunger strike for seven days.

The protest, to which 55 people have joined in Cuba and eight abroad, is due to the police siege that the headquarters of that organization in Altamira, in Santiago, has suffered for 12 days.
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OAS Secretary-General of Luis Almagro does not mince words. He went for the jugular, accusing the Castroit regime of “applying state terrorism to those who think differently.”

Rosa María Payá knows very well by her own experience, how important is not to negotiate with the Castroit tyrannical regime, and instead put pressure on it by carrying out sanctions from democratic governments. Stay determined and do not stop until you reach your goal. As the Cuban human rights activists say, “Homeland and Life”. They will overcome.
 
Opinion: A hunger strike in Cuba reveals a deepening crisis
Opinion | A hunger strike in Cuba reveals a deepening crisis - The Washington Post

Opinion by the Editorial Board of The Washington Post

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THE PANDEMIC year has been especially hard for Cuba. The import-dependent island was already hit by Trump administration sanctions and a loss of Venezuela’s oil when the coronavirus decimated tourism. The economy plunged 11 percent last year, and hardship and shortages are leading many Cubans to recall the “special period” of extreme deprivation after Soviet subsidies disappeared in the 1990s. Back then, Cubans learned to improvise with less — making a “steak” out of fried grapefruit rind, for example.

Now, the renewed economic vise is one factor generating a stream of protests against the government. José Daniel Ferrer, the most prominent opposition leader on the island, and head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, known as UNPACU, had been attempting to distribute food and medicine to the needy out of his group’s headquarters and his home in Santiago de Cuba. Mr. Ferrer, who suffered through an arduous spell in Cuba’s prisons in 2019, was also among those jailed for dissent in the 2003 “Black Spring” arrests of the followers of Oswaldo Payá, champion of the Varela Project, a citizen initiative calling for a referendum on democracy in Cuba. Mr. Payá was killed in a suspicious car wreck in 2012, and Mr. Ferrer has joined with Mr. Payá’s daughter, Rosa María Payá, in the Cuba Decide movement seeking democratic change.
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One of the few non-violent ways used to attract attention to the Castroit 61 years dictatorship 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.
 
The words of Fidel Castro return like a boomerang to haunt his tyrannical regime.

On September 15, 1981, Fidel Castro gave the opening speech at the 63rd conference of the Interparliamentary Union, which was held in Havana. These are Castro's remarks on the Irish Republican Army who died during the hunger strike. Here it is from the “horse” mouth:

“In my opinion, Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history. They have earned the respect and admiration of the world, and likewise they deserve its support. Ten of them have already died in the most moving gesture of sacrifice, selflessness and courage one could ever imagine.

Humanity should feel ashamed that this terrible crime is committed before its very eyes. These young fighters do not ask for independence nor make impossible demands to put an end to their strike; they ask only for something as simple as the recognition of what they actually are: political prisoners.”

 
The Macabre Performance of Cuban State Security
The Macabre Performance of Cuban State Security – Translating Cuba

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His captors say that he is in good health but they do not yet explain why they have him hospitalized. (Facebook / Otero Alcántara)

14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 22 May 2021 — Since Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara fell into the hands of State Security 20 days ago, the narrative of every second of his existence has been under the power of the Government. Luisma, as his friends call him, likes to turn on his cell phone and go live every time he wants to tell something, he does it without first writing the words that he is going to say, without measuring his gestures, full of life.

Luisma’s gestures are great, when he speaks, when he raises an arm, when he laughs, when he dances or kisses, when he hugs his friends. He is spontaneous, his eyes have body, his gaze is intense.

Since he was forcibly removed from his house on May 2nd, we have not seen that spontaneity again. The only thing that the powers-that-be that have him kidnapped at Calixto García Hospital has done is to show it through edited images, first on national television, then on Facebook pages that are instruments of State Security.
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Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a leading figure of the San Isidro movement, was detained again on Sunday, July 11 while on his way to join the protests at Havana’s Malecón boardwalk. He faces charges of contempt, resistance, and assault, typical false accusations against Alcántara and other advocates for artistic liberties in Cuba, used by the Castroit regime.
 
Cuba Frees Otero Alcántara
Cuba Frees Otero Alcántara - WSJ

A founder of an artists’ movement is released thanks to unprecedented international and local pressure.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady
May 31, 2021

It is still not known if Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was subjected to psychiatric torture by the Cuban military dictatorship. The 33-year-old artist was held incommunicado at Havana’s Calixto Garcia Hospital from May 2 until Monday afternoon when he was finally released.

A short, edited video of Mr. Otero Alcántara, posted by regime surrogates via social media on May 20, alarmed friends, supporters and the human-rights community. Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience. On Wednesday the New York Review of Books ran an open letter from more than 30 artists and writers across the globe demanding his release.

The struggle is far from over. This poor Afro-Cuban, armed only with his courage, intellect and creativity, is an existential threat to Cuba’s ruling elite.

Mr. Otero Alcántara is a founder of the San Isidro Movement, a collection of Cuban artists, writers, musicians, students and researchers formed in 2018 to oppose regime censorship. He was on a hunger strike to protest state confiscation of his artwork when police carted him off. They wanted to put an end to the public spectacle of his deteriorating physical condition.
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is a founder of the San Isidro Movement, a group of writers, artists and intellectuals who are openly challenging the state’s claims that the Castro-led revolution eliminated racism and that Cuba’s particular brand of socialism has served the poor more than the state. Like others before him. He has paid dearly for his activism, being arrested dozen of times since 2017.

Otero Alcántara on May 2 was kippned by the State Security and locked up in a hospital room. The relevance of the Otero Alcántara case can be appreciated by the regime’s exclusion of its usual spokesmen, and the case being placed in the hands of State Security. It is not known what kind of treatmen he is receiving at the Calixto García Hospital. The eregime has a history of using psychiatric tools like drugs and electroshoc against dissidents like him.
 
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You have been indoctrinated to believe this absurdity.

Proof that it's normal is the fact that it hasn't been a crime until the 70s when american feminists invented it. Some European countries imported this stupid insanity after 2000s. In lots of countries is still not a crime.

On the contrary, it's a horrific abuse to imprison someone who already suffers a lot when they're in love and got dumped/rejected. It's neither creepy nor dangerous, it's what people have been doing normally for thousands of years - and it's still pretty normal in many other countries. The dangers are totally unrelated to what you call "stalking"(no one kills you because they're insisting/following you - this is stupid lack of logic) but dangers can develop precisely because of escalation, like involving the police, when things should always be treated calmly, civilized, with a lot of tact. Unfortunately those who hold beliefs like yours have never experienced love for real, so you can't possibly know what you're talking about.

Not only should this feminist garbage "crime" be decriminalized, but mere suggestions that it should be a crime, should be a crime in itself!

Actually, I'd go a step further: when it comes to "crimes" between individuals, you should be able to prove:
- physical harm through medical documents
- financial/material losses through some valid financial/accounting documents
- if you claim to have been deprived of liberty - to declare the period of your deprivation(if it is ever provable that you were actually free, you are guilty)
If you can't prove any of the above you should be thrown in prison for a very long time for "false victimization"
The incel vibes in this one
 
Human Rights Group: Cuba Has Made 30,000 Political Arrests in 5 Years
Human Rights Group: Cuba Has Made 30,000 Political Arrests in 5 Years (breitbart.com)

By NCES MARTEL | 2 Jul 2021

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The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a non-governmental organization, testified before the United Nations on Thursday that the island’s communist regime had executed over 30,000 arbitrary arrests in the past five years.

Most of the arrests targeted political dissidents, journalists, and others who had openly opposed the Castro regime. Police never charged a vast majority of them, resulting in their repeated arrests, and observers have classified many of these incidents and violent in nature or, more specifically, instances of police brutality. This practice of arbitrary arrest, no accusations of criminal behavior, and release allows the Castro regime to keep its official tally of political prisoners low while restraining the freedom of some of its most prominent dissidents. Some members of the Ladies in White dissident group, for example — including leader Berta Soler — have been arrested on a weekly basis for months, but never charged with a crime.

The OCDH presented its documented evidence of politically motivated arrests before the U.N. Human Rights Council this week. Cuba is a member of the Human Rights Council and will keep its seat through at least 2023, despite the Human Rights Council itself confirming widespread, systematic human rights abuses on the part of the Castro regime.

According to the NGO, between January 2015 and June 2021, the Cuban Communist Party made 30,786 arbitrary arrests. A plurality — 16,764 to 14,022 arrests — were conducted against women, likely a reflection of the frequency with which the Cuban state uses police brutality against the Ladies in White. The group consists of the wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters of political prisoners, and its only act of protest is to attend Catholic Mass on Sundays dressed in white and carrying the images of their imprisoned loved ones.
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The Castroit regime has made 30,000 arbitrary arrests in 5 years most of them political dissidents, many of them women, mulatos and blacks. Equivalent to 6,000 arrests per year. The STASI and KGB should be proud of the regime great accomplishment. Progressive/Regressives complain constantly about U.S. sanctions against the Castroit tyrannical regime, but with regard to the thousands of political arrests that take place in Cuba every year, their silence is deafening. But their bad faith certainly speak loudly enough.
 
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People shout slogans against the government during a protest against and in support of the government in Havana, Cuba, July 11, 2021. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

The young who feel they have the most to lose by remaining silent have taken to the streets as no one has dared to do up until now on such a scale.

Something truly wondrous has just happened in Cuba. For the very first time in the 62 years since the Castro dynasty turned the island into a totalitarian dystopia, Cubans have taken to the streets from one end of the island to the other, denouncing their repressive government and calling for freedom. The protesters can be viewed on You Tube and social media, chanting “liberty,” “down with the dictatorship,” and “down with communism” rhythmically, much like prayers from resolute pilgrims. And they can also be heard shouting a challenge to their rulers: “We are not afraid.” That chant does not resemble a prayer at all. It’s a taunt, a war cry, a rebel yell. And it is coming mostly from young Cubans, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the so-called Revolution.
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Carlos Eire article is a very powerful statement of the reasons why the young Cubans are taking to the streets, due to the fact that the life condition like shelter, food, clothing, safety, access to water, have become so bad that they have nothing to lose but their chains. The spontaneous mass protests that started on July 11 all over Cuba is a clear sign that the Cuban people want the Castroit tyrannical regime out of power.
 
The New Ministry of Truth is Lanched in Cuba, it is Called the Institute of Information and Social Communication – Translating Cuba

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Official reporters lamented that on July 11 “the Cuban press did not cover what happened on the street.” (Capture)

14ymedio, Havana, 24 August 2021 — The Cuban government knows that communication is the priority. After the popular protests of July, the regime has moved at full speed to pass decrees to control publications on the internet and is now trying to shake up the stagnant Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) which, as of Tuesday, has ceased to exist and has been replaced by the Institute of Information and Social Communication (IICS).

The all-powerful institution, which until yesterday regulated who could appear before a camera that broadcast with national scope, and determined how to count on a few minutes in a cultural program, or whether to show a recent creative project on the set of a news program, has just disappeared. It is not a small thing, it is a huge system anchored to the institutional orthodoxy of propaganda.

The news of the disappearance of the ICRT, just became known Tuesday, from Decree Law 41 published in the Official Gazette. The Decree establishes the creation of the IICS. Shortly after, the broadcast on the Roundtable television program of a large part of a meeting of the governor Miguel Díaz-Canel with journalists, on August 19, has been broadcast to complete the scenario that gave way to the birth of the institution.
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Orwell 1984 revisited. The new Minister of Truth, the Institute of Information and Social Communication, is launched in Cuba, where newspapers, periodicals, books, the arts, TV programs, movies and Internet access are continuously monitored and changed according to the Castroit regime wishes.
 
Opinion | Cuba’s peaceful opposition mounts a comeback - The Washington Post

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Yunior Garcia, a member of a Cuban opposition group, in Havana on Oct. 12. (Yander Zamora/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Opinion by the Editorial Board
October 15, 2021

It has been three months since thousands of Cubans spontaneously surged into the streets to protest the lack of freedom and opportunity in their country, an unprecedented popular eruption that the 62-year-old Communist regime met with ferocious and, at the time, effective repression. Cuba and its nonviolent struggle for democracy have faded from the headlines since that day, July 11.

The government suffocated dissent; it did not solve the profound political or economic ills that cause it. To the contrary: Cuba’s jails still house more than 500 people arrested for taking part in the July 11 protests. The political prisoners include a man threatened with up to 12 years behind bars for helping a crowd tear up a portrait of the late dictator Fidel Castro, and another facing eight years for making and sharing a video of the demonstrations that inspired others to join in. Thousands of desperate Cubans are fleeing the island, often via the perilous route that leads through the Darien Gap jungle of Panama to the U.S.-Mexico border. Just the other day, 12 members of Cuba’s national under-23 baseball team defected from a tournament in Mexico.

While these Cubans, understandably, seek freedom abroad, many, many others have chosen to stay home and fight for it. Tensions are mounting on the island over the authorities’ efforts to thwart the democracy movement’s pursuit of yet another day of nationwide demonstrations — planned this time. The opposition group Archipelago,
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At least one MSM like the Washington Post, acknowledged the Castroit efforts to thwart the taking place in all the island of Cuba and support the movement human rights. It is about time for the international community to support the ply of the great majority of Cubans for freedom.

Cubans want freedom, and to use their constitutional civil rights to go to the streets and peacefully demonstrate, protesting for the lack of freedom and opportunity that the 6 decades years old Castroit communist dictatorship regime has negated to them.
 
“The Cuban regime is the Berlin wall of our hemisphere” (in-24.com)

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The activist Rosa Maria Payá assured before European Parliament that “the Cuban regime is the muro de Berlin of our hemisphere ”.

“The Cuban regime it is the Berlin wall of our hemisphere and at this time we have the opportunity to push, to tear down that wall and move towards democracy ”, declared this Tuesday the president of Cuba Decide at a press conference from the European Parliament.

Payá in his speech, after having approved a Joint Declaration on Freedom and Democracy in Cuba with representatives of the majority of the European Parliament, assured that “the protests in my country have continued since they began before this year began.”

“In August there were more protests than in July and in September more than in August. Massive protests are announced for November and the response has been more violence and more militarization by the regime, ”She also stated.

She also pointed out that “to defend the Cuban people, who are assuming the greatest possible risk, the only thing that remains for us is the action of the international community, that is why we are so grateful for this joint statement, this resolution achieved that gives a clear mandate to the Union. European and that it is very important to remind the high representative, Mr. Borell, that it is time to reach out to the Cuban people with actions ”.
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"Cuba for Latin Americans means what the Berlin Wall was for Europe. Cuba is our Berlin wall”. Great line by Rosa Maria Payá and delivered at the right place, the European Parliament.
 
November 22, 2021 by Alberto de la Cruz

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After so many decades of the Cuban people’s struggle to be free of communist tyranny being ignored, for a few brief moments at the Latin Grammys last week, the idea of a free Cuba was recognized.

The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal:

‘Cuba Libre’ at the Latin Grammys
The patriotic protest anthem ‘Patria y Vida’ wins song of the year.


The Latin Grammy award for song of the year last week went to “Patria y Vida”—Homeland and Life—and Hollywood may be having a case of the vapors. But the music industry’s sudden solidarity with repressed Cuban artists is progress.

The title of “Patria y Vida” is a rejection of the Cuban revolutionary slogan “Homeland or Death.” Written and recorded by musicians on the island and in the U.S., the song rebukes an illegitimate dictatorship that has lasted for 62 years. “Who told you that Cuba is yours,” the song dares to ask. “If my Cuba belongs to all my people your time is up, the silence is broken.”

Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel immediately branded the song unpatriotic when it was released in February. That worked for Fidel Castro but not anymore. It went viral. On July 11 when thousands of Cubans across the island took to the streets to denounce the regime, they adopted it as their anthem.
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The emblematic song of the protests, "Patria y Vida," by Yotuel, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, El Funky and Maykel Castillo 'El Osorbo' has won the award for the 'Best Urban Song.' The anthem has also gained recognition from its composers, Yadam González and the Spanish Beatriz Luengo.
 
The interpretation of the song on stage, which El Funky wanted to dedicate "to all the political prisoners of Cuba" also captured the spotlight. Gloria Estefan, perhaps the most famous Cuban artist in exile, was introduced by talking about how she has demonstrated the "power of music to mobilize, inspire and unite us under the promise of a better day."
 
Of the more than 1,303 Cubans arrested after the historic protests, at least 700 are still being held.
DDC Madrid 13 Dic 2021

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The island, turned into a prison. DIARIO DE CUBA

On the day the world commemorates UN General Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Cuba more than 700 people remain imprisoned for exercising fundamental human rights enshrined in said document after last July hundreds of citizens in more than 50 cities and towns across the island took to the streets to express their discontent with the government and to demand "freedom."

Thanks to the work of human rights organizations, such as the Cubalex Legal Information Center, and groups that emerged after the historic protests, such as Justicia 11J, the regime's repression has been thoroughly exposed and documented.

DIARIO DE CUBA has compiled the main numbers related to Miguel Díaz-Canel's repressive response to Cubans' desire for change.

A total of 1,303 people on the island were arrested in the wake of the 11-J protests. By province, those with the highest numbers of arrests were Havana, with 439, of which only 14urred in La Güinera, Arroyo Naranjo municipality; Santiago de Cuba, with 189; Mayabeque, with 100 documented, of them only 22 in Surgidero de Batabanó, and Artemisa, and Holguín, with 96 arrests each.
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On International Human Rights Day the peaceful protesters arrested during the July 11 by the Castroit regime, at least 700 are still in prison. Of those 14 minors remained in prison. Prosecutors are asking for sentences from one to 30 years in prison for the protestors for the crime of disturbing the peace and have also been accused of everything in the books.
 
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