The official communist Cuban delegation arrived in Lima, Peru, this week for this year’s Summit of the Americas, chanting pro-Castro slogans and defacing art calling for a free society on the island.
Cuban pro-democracy activist Guillermo Fariñas announced via Twitter on Wednesday that communist authorities told a fellow dissident that no individual known to oppose the Castro regime will be allowed to engage in “visa procedures” until the Summit of the Americas ends next month.
Fidel Castro, the dictator who used firing squads, labor camps, beatings, torture, and hunger to oppress his people for more than half a century, died Friday night at the age of 90. His demise – though his brother, Raúl, remains in power – has led many to ask what the future holds for Cuba’s anti-communist dissident community.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has ended his 23rd hunger strike after 54 days, calling it a “victory” after reports circulated that the European Union is considering making any economic deals with Cuba contingent on the communist government respecting human rights.
“My father has been on hunger strike for 49 days. At this point, any hospital would taken him in urgently, but not in Cuba,” wrote the daughter of Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas on Wednesday, who has continued to refused to eat unless the communist dictatorship agrees to stop using violence against dissenters.
World-renowned Cuban dissident activist Guillermo Fariñas began his 46th day on his 24th hunger strike Monday, a strike he has said he will end only when dictator Raúl Castro agrees to an end to the use of state violence against political dissidents.
Cuban dissident activist Guillermo Fariñas has rejected a plea from the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy in Havana to cease his now 40-day-old hunger strike, asserting that the communist Castro government has clearly decided to no longer intervene and to allow him to die.
A Cuban dissident organization has sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to intervene to save the life of Guillermo Fariñas, whose hunger strike turned one month old on Saturday.
World-renowned anti-communist Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas collapsed in his home Thursday on the 29th day of his 24th hunger strike and is now hospitalized and in critical condition, his mother has told international media.
In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie announces: We Love You Guillermo Fariñas, shining a light on the heroic Cuban dissident who is in “critical” condition because of his hunger strike for Cuban freedom.
World-renowned human rights activist Guillermo Fariñas is in “critical” condition on the 25th day of his 24th hunger strike, which he began after being beaten and tortured by Raúl Castro’s political police.
At least 22 Cuban human rights advocates are currently undergoing hunger strikes nationwide, while the most prominent among them, EU Sakharov Prize winner Guillermo Fariñas, refuses hospitalization on day 17 of his 24th such hunger strike.
Cuban dissident leader Guillermo Fariñas, a recipient of the European Parliament’s Andrei Sakharov Prize, was hospitalized Thursday on the eighth day of his 24th hunger strike. Fariñas was taken to the hospital unconscious and refused treatment upon waking up. He continues to refuse to eat or drink water.
Guillermo Fariñas, a Cuban human rights activist who has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s concessions to dictator Raúl Castro, has declared himself on a hunger strike following a severe beating in which communist agents tortured him for hours for daring to inquire about the status of another dissident in custody.
The White House has released a list of Cuban political dissidents attending a closed meeting with President Barack Obama Tuesday morning, many who have been arrested multiple times shortly before and during the Obamas’ visit, and many who have had harsh words for his “normalization” plan for Cuba.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas told Spanish newspaper ABC he will find himself forced to undergo a 25th hunger strike against the communist Castro regime unless the current increase in abusive incidents and oppression ceases.
In a weekend during which House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared from Havana that Congressional Democrats had a “great enthusiasm” for lifting what is left of the American embargo in Cuba, the Cuban government reportedly arrested more than 200 dissidents across the island for attempting to attend Catholic mass.
