Senate candidate Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) opened a recent virtual town hall with Cuban-Americans praising “the great” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) and quoting him to “set the theme” for the event, an unfortunate choice given Clyburn’s advocacy for the Cuban Communist Party and praise for Fidel Castro, in particular.
The Center for a Free Cuba published a letter signed by more than 600 human rights activists, diplomats, and public figures this week calling for the United Nations to remove the communist regime of Cuba from the Human Rights Council for its decades-long record of atrocities against its people.
The foreign minister of Cuba railed against the United States for its “racist” policies and its alleged lack of respect for human rights in a meandering press conference on Monday – the first major declaration from the Castro regime after President Joe Biden offered friendly talks to the Communist Party last week.
The Reuters news agency reported on Monday that the administration of President Joe Biden has scheduled a meeting with representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba to discuss “migration concerns” – namely, to convince the regime to take back members of an ethnic group that, in America, disproportionately votes Republican.
Easter Sunday will mark the 61st anniversary of the Cuban and American fighters of Brigade 2506 landing at Bay of Pigs, a fitting day for an organization that emphasizes its Christian core values and bears a cross on its logo.
Lis Cuesta, the wife of Castro regime figurehead Miguel Díaz-Canel, outraged and disgusted Cubans this week with a bizarre post celebrating her husband as the “dictator of [her] heart.”
The White House announced this week that it had appointed former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) as official advisers for the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia’s membership on Thursday in light of their abysmal human rights records – in China’s case, including genocide.
President Joe Biden’s Cuban-born border chief Alejandro Mayorkas is welcoming a massive Cuban migration into the United States, just as Cuba’s communist government is letting pro-democracy protestors leave the island prison.
Protesters convened 232 assemblies against the Communist Party in Cuba throughout March, over half of them specifically demanding an end to the repression of civil and political rights, the Cuban Observatory of Conflict (OCC) revealed in a report on Monday.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned during a Congressional hearing on Thursday that China is moving to capitalize on a severe “economic downturn” in Latin America partially fueled by Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to expand its influence there.
A local Communist Party-controlled radio station in Cuba published an article on Monday promoting the consumption of “cockroach milk,” a substance it admitted had a “rancid taste” but could become the new “superfood.”
Jamaica indicated on Wednesday that they intend to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic.
Cuba’s top court sentenced two 16-year-olds to a decade in prison and a 17-year-old to nearly twice that this week, accusing them of “grave disturbances and acts of vandalism” at the peaceful, nationwide anticommunist protests on July 11, 2021.
The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, an organization comprised of multiple anti-communist groups on the island and in the diaspora, organized an event on Sunday in support of Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia.
Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published an article on Thursday praising Fidel Castro for allegedly spearheading an effort to help the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster as evidence of its goodwill towards Ukraine – despite the Castro regime’s staunch support of Russia in the current war.
Cuban state security arrested self-proclaimed Christian activist Pablo Enrique Delgado Hernández this weekend for attempting to lay a bouquet of flowers at the Ukrainian Embassy in Havana, the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio revealed.
The Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua, and socialist Venezuela have expressed effusive support for Russia and its “legitimate security” interests in the past week in response to Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin a full military assault on Ukraine.
Actress Bella Thorne slammed Cuba’s “heartless move” to tax food sales and called on President Joe Biden to end “brutal suffering” in the communist country, where food sales are taxed at 10 percent. Earlier this month, Cuba announced a new 10
Cameras captured the moment Cuban state security forces violently arrested Berta Soler, the head of the Ladies in White anti-communist organization, on Sunday as she attempted a lone protest armed with only a gladiola.
Multiple human rights organizations expanded existing complaints at the International Criminal Court and United Nations against Cuba this week with over 1,000 testimonies from individuals formerly enslaved by the regime in fields as diverse as medicine and seafaring.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin spent much of this month calling the leaders of allied communist nations in Latin America to discuss “boosting strategic cooperation in all fields,” giving Moscow enhanced leverage in the Western Hemisphere as tensions with Washington mount.
The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Wednesday for 39 people reported missing presumed lost off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling venture” gone wrong.
Christian persecution in Cuba, a nation that was overwhelmingly Catholic before communism befell its population, has increased significantly in the past year due to the rising presence of Christian voices in the pro-democracy movement there, the Christian aid organization Open Doors found.
Cuba began a new round of mass trials against accused participants in the July 11 national protests on Monday after concluding a trial of 21 people, including four children, last week.
Cuban communist authorities held a trial culminating on Friday for 21 protesters who took the streets on July 11 against communism, prosecuting children and an adult with mental health issues along with healthy adults in one mass process.
Two illegal aliens and a legal immigrant from Cuba have been accused of operating a “massive Amazon theft ring” in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, police charge.
El Salvador allowed two Cuban reporters to enter the Central American country on Wednesday after the men said they learned they would be denied entry to Nicaragua, their intended destination, while on a layover at an airport outside San Salvador on Tuesday, El Salvador’s General Directorate of Migration confirmed.
The U.S. Coast Guard has returned 1,019 Cuban refugees caught at sea to the communist country in 2021, agents of the Cuban regime said this week – up from just 49 in fiscal year 2020.
Christians in Cuba are facing extreme repression and even more severe human rights violations than usual this year as the regime condemns those accused of marching in the July 11 protests to outrageous prison sentences and Christians become an increasingly visible part of the anti-communist movement.
Cuban political prisoners Arianna López Roque and Mitzael Díaz Paseiro issued letters from prison this week urging citizens to rise up against the communist regime and participate in a national strike – a continuation of the massive anti-communist protests of July 11.
The human rights group Cuban Prisoners Defenders revealed this week that it had confirmed the existence of 805 political prisoners in Cuba, a 500-percent increase from December 2020 and about 130 more than in November.
A senior National Security Council official told NBC News on Tuesday that nationwide protests attracting an estimated 187,000 people in Cuba on July 11 prompted President Joe Biden to reconsider campaign promises to restore predecessor Barack Obama’s pro-regime concessions policy.
The Communist Party organized multiple mass assemblies, including one apparently mimicking the practices of anti-regime protesters, throughout this week to honor the memory of dictator Fidel Castro on the five-year anniversary of his much-anticipated death.
The commitment of dozens of key activists, citizens, and artists to continue the struggle for freedom in Cuba on November 15 – after some of the largest days of anti-government protest in Cuban history in July – has forced ambivalent sectors of the international community to finally, after 4 months, show solidarity with Cubans and denounce abuses.
Cuba’s communist regime said Monday it will resume plans to build a vaccine manufacturing plant in Zimbabwe halted by the coronavirus pandemic, adding it is “possible” the plant may produce a coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by Cuba, the Herald, a Zimbabwean state-owned newspaper, reported.
The Australian network SBS found a Cuban refugee among the throngs of thousands of migrants on the border between Belarus and Poland. In an interview published on Monday, Juan Carlos told SBS he was one of seven Cubans attempting to escape communism into Europe after making it to Europe’s last dictatorship.
The Cuban Conference of the Clergy (CONCUR) condemned on Tuesday the use of a “civilian” communist mob to attempt to trap the superior of the Catholic religious order the Daughters of Charity in Cuba in her home during Monday’s national protests against the regime.
An attempted communist “act of repudiation” failed in Cuba on Monday at the home of the family of political prisoner Andy García Lorenzo, his family took the opportunity to sing protest songs and chant in the faces of its would-be repressors.
Catholic priests and nuns were among the most visible members of society participating in protests against the communist regime of Cuba on Monday, the largest single day of pro-freedom protests since July.
