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The Insidious Use of Migration against Cuban Citizens

In Cuba we have suffered for decades an ideological apartheid that segregates citizens into two camps: “revolutionaries” and “worms.”

This had been on the table for a while because it was the current resident at the White House, Joe Biden’s campaign promise.

Cuba policy measures announced by the Biden Administration lack creativity (as expected) & have come at the wrong time, politically-speaking.

The new Penal Code punishes with up to 10 years the citizen “who arbitrarily exercises any right or freedom recognized in the Constitution.”

The laws are to protect you. This week we have drawn on the New Penal Code recently approved by the National Assembly.

The country where Alejandro Mena has his roots is not the place to harvest personal or professional fruits, much less civic ones.

The problem lies in that nothing good ever comes from this delimitation that begins in discourse & ends up segregating part of the population

About 1.9 million migrants are currently in our country, most of whom come from Venezuela, Peru, Haiti and Colombia.

It will soon be clear that diplomatic normalization has little to do with the defense of democracy and respect for human rights.

The new recently Cuban Penal Code is a detailed compendium of the main fears of the ruling Communist Party.