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.
Desperate Cubans and Haitians who try to land on Americas’ beaches will be forced back to another country while officials consider their asylum pleas, homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate hearing on July 27.
Protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand Biden take more action against Cuba’s communist regime.
The U.S. Coast Guard announced the return of 27 Cuban refugees to the communist country on Tuesday, caught attempting to navigate to Florida on two separate vessels.
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.
Singer Camila Cabello has added her voice to those calling out the brutality of Havana’s socialist government, declaring she is Cuban and still has family members on the island.
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.
Student groups are pushing back against the removal of a quote by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from a wall on Penn State’s campus, citing racial “concerns.” According to the students, the decision “reveals the hypocrisy of University administration and lack of support for students of color at Penn State.” The Campaign to remove the quote was organized by a Venezuelan student.
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.
Conservative Spanish People’s Party leader Pablo Casado joined a protest against the Cuban government, stating that the Cuban regime was a “dictatorship”.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the Leaders’ Advisory Team on Cuba sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting a meeting to discuss how they can work together to end the “oppressive regime in Havana and liberate the Cuban people.”
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.
Florida Democrats have struggled to find the right messages for Cubans, now resorting to President Joe Biden’s Cuba stance as Florida Republicans excel by showing the urgency and importance of the protests.
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.
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) slammed the Biden administration’s handling of migrants after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told those considering fleeing Cuba for the United States that they will be denied entry.
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’ “Firing Line,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) said that Cuba’s regime practices “slave labor” and “human trafficking” as policy and that the international community should stop doing business “with the Cuban repression
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’ “Firing Line,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) argued that the recent protests against the Cuban government aren’t about health care or COVID, but are because “the Cuban people want freedom.” Diaz-Balart said
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Cuban regime has not improved its behavior in response to recent U.S. sanctions, and Cuba’s regime “tends to double down in these situations.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) argued the United States should support the people of Cuba in any way possible and “If we have to support them, in any way, bring them
President Joe Biden is still exploring options to restore Internet access to Cuba, the White House claimed on Friday.
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.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration’s sanctions on Cuban officials as “Too weak” and argued that sanctions against Cuba won’t stop the oppression of the Cuban people.
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.
Cuban-born musician Emilio Estefan has released a video for the song “Libertad” in support of protesters on the island who took to the streets last week in their rally for release from Communist tyranny.
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.
