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Cuba Needs the UN, Not Biden

After the popular uprising that took place last weekend in Cuba, Cubans living abroad turned their eyes to the President of the United States

The right of journalists, both foreign and domestic, to exercise their professional responsibilities is being flagrantly violated in Cuba.

Ortega and Murillo are examples of one-time revolutionaries who hide behind their rhetoric as they abandon service to achieve personal gain.

This fall Nicaraguan autocrat Daniel Ortega will run for his fourth consecutive term alongside his wife, and vice-president, Rosario Murillo.

What took place can hardly be interpreted as an action conceived and led by the opposition, exile groups or the new civic activism.

Haroldo Dilla comments on the nationwide protests that took place in Cuba on July 11, 2021. He also compares with what happened in the 1990s.

The November 7th elections have already been obliterated, due to Ortega’s and Murillo’s fears of submitting to the popular will.

Reynaldo Escobar of 14ymedio daily writes about the severe crisis facing Cubans, and the hurdles to overcome for humanitarian action.

“Combat order?” I imagine all Cuba was as stupefied as I was, when these words emerged from the mouth of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

What’s happening in Cuba is as serious as it is unprecedented. Diaz-Canel sounded the war horn: “the streets belong to the revolutionaries”.