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.
China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times mocked the allegedly “awkward situation” President Joe Biden will find in this week’s Summit of the Americas on Tuesday, claiming that leftists in Latin America had tanked the event to show “Latin America is not a ‘backyard’ of the U.S.”
Leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Monday morning that he would not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in a rant in which he used various false statements to accuse Cuban-Americans generally of “genocide” and portrayed President Joe Biden as a hostage to Cuban-American voters.
Two senior administration officials told reporters on Wednesday that President Joe Biden was still in “final considerations” for the invite list to next week’s Summit of the Americas – meaning the president had yet to decide who to invite for an event beginning on Monday.
Cuban doctors in exile and human rights organizations revealed this week that socialist Venezuela arrested at least 17 Cuban slave doctors for trying to escape their medical delegation.
The Communist Party of Cuba thanked its counterpart in China on Tuesday for pressuring the administration of President Joe Biden to invite Cuba to next week’s Summit of the Americas, an event technically reserved for democracies.
U.S. State Department official Kevin O’Reilly, coordinator of the Summit of the Americas scheduled to begin on June 6, said on Thursday that a final decision has been made to exclude Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Biden administration is still struggling to decide whether Cuba will be invited.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed Thursday that he would travel to Los Angeles in June for the Summit of the Americas and said he planned to meet American counterpart Joe Biden in person, adding that Biden treated him “as if I didn’t exist” during their last meeting, and blaming the snub on “age.”
A marine vessel carrying 842 Haitian migrants en route to the United States accidentally landed in Villa Clara, Cuba, on Tuesday, baffling locals in a country enduring its own mass exodus, the independent outlet Cubanet reported on Wednesday.
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of the weekend calling up senior officials in Latin America to discuss dictator Xi Jinping’s vague “global security initiative,” the South China Morning Post observed on Sunday, in what appeared to be an effort to bolster Beijing’s profile in the Western Hemisphere.
The Communist Party of Cuba preemptively arrested a human rights activist, Agustín López Canino, to prevent him from attending an event he attempted to organize to celebrate Cuba’s independence day. May 20, 2022, marks 120 years since the authentic Cuban Revolution
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) criticized the Biden administration for lifting some restrictions on Cuba.
President Joe Biden’s border chief has allowed almost 150,000 Cubans to enter the United States, mostly to seek jobs and housing that would otherwise go to poor Americans.
The administration of President Joe Biden, formally and via anonymous reports, announced twin policies to ease the financial misfortunes of the communist government of Cuba and its proxy socialist government in Venezuela, leaving leaders in both communities dismayed and confused.
The news that His Fraudulency Joe Biden will allow people to send money to Cuba essentially means national Democrats have written off Florida as a potential win in the upcoming elections.
The administration of leftist President Joe Biden announced late on Monday that it would undo measures implemented under predecessor Donald Trump to keep American money from enriching Cuba’s communist regime, expanding travel to the country and removing limits of cash flows to the regime in the form of remittances.
A Cuban state-run newspaper recently promoted an article touting the alleged benefits of using human urine as an agricultural fertilizer, the independent website Cubanet reported on Wednesday.
The precarious state in which the Cuban communist regime keeps the nation’s infrastructure continues to claim lives. The death toll of the gas explosion that damaged the infrastructure of the Hotel Saratoga in Havana last week has risen to 45.
The Cuban Communist Party spent much of the weekend attempting to protect its May Day celebrations from the expression of the profane, and increasingly popular, acronym “DPEPDPE,” which dissidents have grown to display on signs and shirts.
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro made a guest appearance at the first communist May Day parade in Cuba since the pandemic, expressing “hope in the management of the Party” as it struggles to contain mounting pro-democracy protests.
