The United States on Thursday condemned the “politically motivated trials” of more than 90 Cubans who were involved in unprecedented anti-government protests in July. “Since Dec 13, the Cuban regime tried 90+ #11J protestors across Cuba,” Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols said in a tweet using a hashtag that refers to street …
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Leading Cuban protest leader Yunior Garcia acknowledged Thursday that his flight to Spain following pressure from the authorities on the island was a “painful blow” to the opposition movement. Garcia, who arrived unexpectedly in Madrid on Wednesday with his activist wife on a tourist visa, added the has no intention to seek asylum in Spain, …
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Cuban opposition group Archipelago on Tuesday hit out at the government’s “repression” of a planned protest and called on its supporters to keep demonstrating for another 10 days. A planned protest on Monday was thwarted as opposition leaders were detained and security forces flooded the streets to prevent people from gathering. Archipelago blasted “the extreme …
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Cuban security forces foiled a planned mass protest on Monday, with police flooding Havana’s streets and prominent dissidents arrested or confined to their homes to prevent them from staging the banned rights gathering. Friends and family members said those detained included opposition figure Manuel Cuesta Morua, 58, the leader of the Ladies in White rights …
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Cuban dissident, journalist and human rights campaigner Guillermo Farinas was arrested Friday, his mother told AFP, three days before opposition figures plan to hold a protest that has been banned by the government. “They arrested him today. They took him around 2:10 pm,” Farina’s mother Alicia Hernandez said. She said her son is on antibiotics …
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FILE PHOTO: A bicycle taxi passes by a parked vintage American car in Havana, Cuba January 18, 2016. Like many of its Caribbean neighbors, communist-governed Cuba imports more than two-thirds of its food, despite having rich farmland and hundreds of urban farms sprouting up in old parking lots, rooftops, or other small plots of unused …
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, December 2, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo January 15, 2021 By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States slapped sanctions on Cuba’s interior ministry on Friday, accusing it of serious human rights abuses as Washington kept …
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, left, stand guard on the U.S. side of the Paso del Norte border bridge, as migrants, mainly from Cuba, occupy the Mexican side of the bridge, protesting to be allowed into the U.S. to apply for asylum, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just after midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. …
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