The communist Castro regime of Cuba is fiercely punishing political prisoners arrested during the nationwide July 11, 2021, protests for their unwillingness to comply with the regime’s “ideological rehabilitation,” meant to make them loyal to communism, family members of the detainees told Radio Televisión Martí on Monday.
The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a watchdog group specializing in abuses on the island, revealed on Monday that dissident Daniel Joel Cárdenas Díaz will appeal his 15-year sentence for allegedly participating in the nationwide peaceful protests on July 11, 2021.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Breitbart News this week following a call for the U.S. to ban Latin American dictators from entering that county that the only “reasonable justification” for letting them in would be their arrest.
Communist Party authorities in Cuba arrested the mothers of two 11-year-old girls beaten by police last week while trying to defend the father of one of them from a violent assault by police during a protest, human rights activists confirmed on Wednesday.
Cuban police forces assaulted three girls, believed to be between 11 and 12 years old, on Friday during the second consecutive day of intense protests in Nuevitas, Camagüey, in the nation’s east.
A group of former Cuban military officials who defected from the communist regime called on active servicemen and other agents of the state to refuse to follow orders to repress their countrymen, the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday following violent attacks on unarmed civilians this weekend in Camagüey.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is ready to provide the “most advanced types of weapons” to its allied nations, including the socialist regimes in Latin America, in a move to expand Russia’s arms trade with its allies.
A store in Mayabeque, Cuba, boasted of rewarding first responders for helping extinguish the largest fire in the history of the nation with a meager supply of chicken, deodorant, soda, and cooking oil this week – basic goods that have for decades been considered luxuries for many suffering under communism.
Several prominent American leftist celebrities in academia and music signed a letter published by the Cuban External Relations Ministry on Wednesday demanding an end to American sanctions on the island’s communist regime, falsely claiming that the sanctions block Washington from helping put out the largest fire in the nation’s history.
China’s Communist Party newspaper the Global Times praised leftist American musician Beyoncé on Tuesday for featuring an outfit designed by a regime-approved Chinese designer and appropriating elements of the Yi ethnic minority’s culture.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping contacted his communist counterpart, figurehead Cuban “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel, on Monday to lend support in the face of a massive oil tank fire at a facility in northern Matanzas that has been raging since Friday.
Cuban authorities evacuated more than 4,000 residents over the weekend after a lightning strike allegedly sparked a fire at Cuba’s largest state oil depot in Matanzas city on Friday night, causing three oil tankers to burn and collapse as of Monday, the news website Cubanet reported.
Actor James Franco will star as communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in a film about the life of his political dissident daughter eponymously titled Alina de Cuba, the entertainment magazine Deadline reported on Thursday.
The Mexican newspaper El Financiero claimed on Wednesday to be privy to leaked documents showing leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreeing to pay communist Cuba more than $1 million a month for medical slave labor.
A parade of impoverished, repressive socialist regimes lined up on Wednesday and Thursday to condemn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for visiting Taiwan — an attempt to court Chinese investment and political support as their economies sink and popular discontent reaches a fever pitch.
A large group of mainly women and children formed a human chain to block a major highway outside of Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday to protest the island’s poor living conditions, including worsening power outages, caused by the corruption and mismanagement of the country’s communist regime, the news website Cubanet reported on Tuesday.
Cuban citizens took to the streets nationwide on Monday to protest the communist Castro regime, specifically objecting to the nation’s collapsing power grid, which necessitates scheduled rolling blackouts.
A Carnival Cruise passenger recently witnessed the rescue of migrants stranded on the water as the ship returned to Port Miami in Florida.
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, unceremoniously removed from the Boston Celtics roster after publicly condemning the Chinese Communist Party, spent much of this week in Florida meeting with members of the Cuban exile community and lending messages of hope and solidarity against communism.
Hundreds of pro-democracy Cubans, including current and former political prisoners, signed a letter published on Monday announcing a national strike in which participants will do as little as possible to allow the Castro regime to continue to operate in an attempt to finally end the communist system after 63 years.
The family of Alejandro Tamayo Chacón managed to record the 23-year-old’s violent arrest by Cuban repressive forces, Miami’s Telemundo 51 reported Sunday, shortly after the administration of leftist President Joe Biden deported him and two associates photographed attempting to reach America on a water bike.
A Liberia-flagged tanker carrying about 700,000 barrels of Russian fuel oil arrived in Cuba last week, the Latin American news website Infobae reported on Sunday, noting that the shipment demonstrated that Moscow was not only supporting Cuba’s communist regime but also finding outlets for oil stock shunned by the West in response to Russia’s latest war with Ukraine.
A chaotic brawl on a ration line to buy chicken on Saturday resulted in Cuban state security officials brutalizing civilians and left a pregnant woman, who reportedly fainted on the scene, hospitalized.
“Halloween” franchise star Jamie Lee Curtis, a gun control pusher, who backed Joe Biden in 2020, is facing backlash on social media after saying that she assumed actress Ana de Armas — who hails from Cuba — was “an inexperienced, unsophisticated young woman” who had “just arrived” in the United States when they first met on set in 2019.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of western Pinar del Río, Cuba, on Thursday night to protest routine blackouts that have made life impossible for much of the island – the same night a separate crowd formed in Havana after a homeless woman and her daughters reportedly blocked traffic to protest their eviction.
President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay announced on Wednesday that his country would negotiate a free trade agreement with communist China despite the provisions of the country’s membership in the regional Mercosur trade bloc, which prevent any one country from doing so with non-member states.
Pope Francis told Univisión journalists in an exclusive interview aired on Monday that he had “a human relationship” with brutal dictator Raúl Castro and was pleased with Obama-era concessions to the communists–concessions that resulted in increased repression on the island.
Michael Lima Cuadra, the director of a pro-democracy organization called Democratic Spaces, posted a video to his Twitter account Saturday in which he and former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom honored the first anniversary of anti-Communist protests that swept across Cuba on July 11, 2021.
Cubans on and off the island marked the anniversary on Monday of nationwide anti-communist protests on July 11 with renewed calls for the fall of the regime and freedom for the political prisoners, many of them children, still behind bars since that day.
The Communist Party of Cuba announced that Col. Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera would take over the military’s lucrative tourism corporation, independent outlet Cubanet reported on Monday, after the death of Raúl Castro’s former son-in-law Gen. Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja.
Leftist commentator Danny Haiphong, who contributes to Chinese state media outlets, touted on Sunday the easy availability of abortions in China and other authoritarian nations, including the psychotic dictatorship of North Korea, as evidence of their superiority over the United States.
Latin America’s leftist dictatorships enthusiastically embraced election results out of Colombia Sunday night giving the win to Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist organization and hardcore leftist who has claimed that sugar is “more dangerous” than cocaine.
The communist government of Cuba hijacked this week’s ongoing U.N. Human Rights Council session to deliver a statement, signed by 69 countries, in support of China’s genocide of Uyghur and other non-Han ethnic groups in occupied East Turkistan.
The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, a coalition of pro-democracy Cuban groups on and off the island, sent a letter on Tuesday to the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging it to engage in a “diligent review,” including revealing all financiers, of the proposed sale of historic Spanish radio stations to a leftist network.
The newly formed Dissident Project seeks to connect those who have fled socialism with America’s young people in order to learn about the “evils of socialism.”
A group of protesters descended on Univisión’s offices in the Doral area of greater Miami on Wednesday to protest the announced sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations, including the iconic anti-communist station Radio Mambí, to a leftist media group bankrolled by a fund tied to George Soros.
A poll published on Tuesday by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights found that 60 percent of those who described themselves of adhering to a religion on the island considered discussing it in any way a “risk” due to Communist Party repression of faith.
Leaders of the Cuban-American community in Miami held a press conference on Wednesday to protest the proposed sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations, including iconic anti-communist station Radio Mambí, to a left-wing media network funded in part by an investment fund with ties to George Soros.
Cuban state media recently announced the debut of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate developed jointly with China’s government, the independent Cuban news site 14 y Medio reported over the weekend.
A feared mass leftist boycott of the Summit of the Americas, which began on Monday in Los Angeles, never materialized as the socialist leaders of Argentina, Chile, and Peru all left Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador alone to protest boycott in defense of the region’s dictatorships.
