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Nov 15, 2021 · Police also arrested protest organizers and surrounded the homes of activists and independent journalists to prevent them from attending. The show of force effectively silenced the event.
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36-year-old singer, died on July 12 during a demonstration in La Güinera, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana. The Cuban Human Rights Observatory, a ...
Mar 17, 2022 · More than 100 people who took part in rare anti-government protests in Cuba in July have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms of between six and 30 years. Out of the 129 defendants, only one was ...
Jul 11, 2022 · Since July 2021, Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 170 people in Cuba to assess what happened to protestors and government critics on July 11, 2021 and since. Interviewees included victims ...
Jul 13, 2021 · Cuba blamed historic protests that took place over the weekend on U.S. "economic asphyxiation" and detained some of the highest profile activists, while the Biden administration said it supported ...
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Jul 11, 2024 · This July 11 marks the third anniversary of the historic protests for freedom in Cuba. In the early summer days of 2021, Cubans took to the streets across the nation, fed up with a life of sacrifice, scarcity, and resistance. From those massive protests against Raúl Castro's Communist Party, 600 demonstrators remain imprisoned out of the 1,500 ...
