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The Cuban University Wakes Up After Decades of Being Gagged – Translating Cuba

Days before the ‘rate increase’, no one could have predicted that the students would
regain their rebellion.

14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana, 18 June 2025 — The Cuban regime is holding its breath. There are only a few days left until the end of the academic year in all the island’s faculties, a period that this year is proving to be an uphill struggle for oficialdom. In the classrooms of higher education, outrage has multiplied over the price increases implemented late last month by the state telecommunications monopoly, Etecsa. After decades of being muzzled, university students seem to have regained their voice.

Protests against the popularly known “tarifazo” have swept across all social strata in Cuba, but students have been the most vocal in their reactions. The need to constantly turn to the internet for bibliography to support their courses, the desire to escape a stifling reality through social media, and the many emigrated relatives and friends they want to stay in touch with, make web browsing as imperative at these ages as food, transportation, and a roof over one’s head.
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Cuban university students showed their discontent in anti-government protests over the price increases by the state telecommunications monopoly Etecsa. This is the most significant protest since July11, 2021. If the regime withdraws the increases, it will prove that the people have the power to confront the regime. Attempts to divide the protesters so far has not work. They can be a generation of change.

 

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After the Island-Wide Protests of 11 June 2021, the Cuban Regime Entered the Stage of Impudence – Translating Cuba

At that moment, decades of pretending to be good-natured towards the international community and denying any repressive act towards citizens were broken.

14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, 11 July 2025 — Like any date that leaves a profound mark, every Cuban knows what they were doing when they learned of the protests of July 11, 2021 (11J). Those who followed the demonstrations on their mobile phones thousands of miles from the island and those who joined the sea of people who filled the streets shouting “Freedom!” There are also those who, in their military units, enlisted to go out and beat and suppress the crowd. Each one has their own story from that day, many of these anecdotes remain silenced out of fear.
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The Castroist communist regime, led by Díaz-Canel, once again threaten to suppress any critical manifestation, on the fourth anniversary of the social uprising of July 11. Of the more than 2,000 Cubans criminally prosecuted for 11J, 421 remain in prison, facing different charges. Díaz-Canel label social discontent as hatred and subversion. The regime response has been to reinforce repression.

 

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The international community has imposed sanctions targeting leaders of the Cuban regime, including Díaz-Canel, for “serious human rights violations.” The regime use the July 11 day to reaffirm its control, attempting to invalidated criticism and deter new demonstrations.