José Revilla-Albo, the proprietor of Miami’s Café Papillon, told the Spanish news network América Teve on Wednesday that he would not back down after the building hosting his restaurant had requested he take down an anti-communist poster featuring profanity.
Miriela Cruz, a Cuban woman arrested on July 11 for wearing a shirt reading “down with the dictatorship,” described being brutalized and tortured in putrid jail cells in an interview shortly after her release, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.
The Ministry of Interior Commerce in Cuba announced Wednesday that it would increase rice rations by an extra three pounds per person per month, an attempt to quell the eruption of anti-communist unrest that has persisted since July 11.
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) told Breitbart News in an interview Wednesday that she believes protests beginning on July 11 in Cuba are “the beginning of the end” for communism there.
Today is Peru’s independence day, ordinarily an occasion for great celebrations in one of Latin America’s most important nations.
Protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand Biden take more action against Cuba’s communist regime.
The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH), a Spain-based advocacy group, accused the Communist Party on the island on Tuesday of engaging in “massive occultation of information” regarding the escalating coronavirus pandemic.
A 17-year-old girl sentenced to eight months of house arrest for having witnessed protests in Cuba on July 11 told the independent outlet Cubanet in an interview this week that police forced her to strip naked and threatened to subject her to rape by two large men.
The Chinese government relocated 1.65 million people from areas at high risk of floods in eastern China’s Zhejiang province as of Sunday night, China’s state-run Global Times reported Monday.
A report who filmed a stabbing murder-suicide involving Hong Kong police officers cannot leave the city and is now part of a “national security law investigation,” the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Tuesday, increasing fears of a full crackdown on journalism in the city.
Cuban Brigade General Armando Choy Rodríguez died on Monday night, the fifth general on the island to do so since ongoing protests began against the communist regime nationwide on July 11. He was the second Cuban general declared dead on Monday.
The prime minister of the East Turkestan government in exile, Salih Hudayar, told Breitbart News on Monday that the Uyghur people and other Muslim groups in the region support the Cuban people’s fight for freedom and the U.S. should act to protect both from the “existential threat” of communism.
An activist joining thousands at a protest in Washington, DC, on Monday told Breitbart News that the Cuban-American community is dismayed with President Joe Biden “not stepping up” in defense of human rights on the island.
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald expressed her “solidarity” with the communist regime in Cuba, hailing the “just cause” of communism.
A group of students from Argentina’s National University of Rosario launched a petition, Cuba’s independent 14 y Medio reported on Sunday, urging the city of Rosario to revoke the title of “Illustrious Citizen” awarded in 2003 to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, a communist mass murderer who played a key role in the Cuban Revolution.
Tensions rose in front of the White House Sunday as two separate groups of protesters gathered to protest in support of the Cuban people. One group, which included many self-proclaimed socialists, called for ending the embargo while a group of Cuban Americans called for freedom from communism.
The family of 17-year-old Gabriela Zequeira Hernández confirmed this weekend that the Communist Party of Cuba had sentenced her to eight months in prison for “public disorder” despite her insistence that she was not an active participant in the July 11 protests.
Reserve Division General Rubén Martínez Puente on Sunday became the third Cuban general on the island to die since the July 11 protests. Like his predecessors, the communist regime did not specify a cause of death.
“Radicals are seizing power and destroying everything we hold dear as Americans, and it’s happening,” former President Donald Trump said.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced sanctions against Cuban security minister Gen. Alvaro Lopez Miera and a security unit of the Cuban Interior Ministry for their role in cracking down on protesters. The sanctions were denounced as “unfounded and slanderous” by the Cuban regime, and as “symbolic but meaningless” by critics such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who noted Miera is already under sanctions.
The parents of a 16-year-old currently recovering from a gunshot wound incurred in a police interaction during the July 11 protests in Cuba said on Thursday that state security agents had visited the boy without parental consent in his hospital room to threaten him with prison time.
Cuban human rights activists Andres Portillo and Denis Molina, creators of the Palsaco.com website for reporting oppressive actions by the Cuban government, on Thursday debuted a new Droid smartphone app called Estoypuesto (“I’m on!”) to help organize protests against the dictatorship.
A flotilla organized by Cuban-Americans will depart Florida on Friday to international waters as close to Cuba as possible in a show of solidarity and support for anti-communist protesters on the island.
An attempt to hold nationwide marches Wednesday to demand the Cuban Communist Party reveal the whereabouts and health status of hundreds, if not thousands, of people arrested and disappeared on July 11 prompted heavy police presence and “preemptive” arrests of people suspected to be attending.
The request comes a week after Cuba’s largest anti-government protests in decades broke out in more than 40 municipalities on the island.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he and former President Donald Trump would have been much more forceful and aggressive with the Communist regime in Cuba in response to protests there, as people rise up against the oppressive government, pushing for more freedom.
Scott slammed Biden for his lackluster response to human rights abuses in Cuba following week-long anti-government protests on the island.
Students at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas organized a protest this week, and blocked a major road in the capital, in solidarity with anti-communist protesters in Cuba.
Penn State has promised to take down a quote by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from a wall on campus, following a student-led campaign to have it removed.
Former President Donald Trump told Telemundo in an interview Wednesday he believes President Joe Biden does not “understand the plight of the Cuban people” and that his policy of “total appeasement” would help the Castro regime remain in power.
Rapper Snoop Dogg’s “viva Cuba libre” call has gone viral amid anti-communist protests. In a video post in October 2020, the multi-platinum rapper can be heard saying a common phrase that translates to “long live free Cuba” alongside Cuban rapper Ovi.
Lithuania will not be “intimidated” by China on its decision to open a de facto Taiwanese embassy, a leading MP has told Breitbart News.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on Monday that the Biden administration has “literally done nothing” to pressure China, adding that the Wuhan lab is “still open.”
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on Monday that young Americans should read more of the Bible, not the 1619 Project.
Arián González Pérez, a grandmaster ranked by the International Chess Federation, has been on a hunger strike for three days as of Wednesday following his imprisonment for participating in peaceful protests in Cuba on July 11.
While some leftists in the United States have slammed the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba following country-wide anti-government protests on the island, most Americans think communism is to blame for the Cuba’s problems, according to a Rasmussen poll released Wednesday.
Cuban dissident leader and human rights activist Rosa Maria Paya Acevedo told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that the free world should treat Cuban Communism as an unacceptable moral horror, the same way South African apartheid was defeated with intense international pressure in the 1980s.
The human rights advocacy group Cuban Prisoners Defenders revealed Wednesday that it had received evidence the Castro regime is putting protesters on trial in groups as large as 30 people at once without allowing them access to a lawyer or proper legal safeguards.
A Cuban general and former bodyguard to Fidel Castro died Tuesday, Communist Party media revealed — the second general to die since anti-communist protests began nationwide on July 11.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is dominating global headlines on Wednesday for spending ten minutes in space. While previously vocally proud of his Cuban heritage, he has found no time in his publicity campaign this week to support anti-communist protesters in his father’s home country.
