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Are Cuba’s Rapid Response Brigades Now Out of Date?

The largest anti-government protests since 1959 in Cuba took place on that day we now abbreviate as 11J (July 11, 2021).

It was more than evident the discredit into which the group Buena Fe had fallen, thanks above all to its leader, Israel Rojas.

The citizen mobilization favoring “One-Year Parental Leave” marks a precedent in the fight for childcare & shared parental responsibility.

Political, economic and moral corruption abound in the regime, but neither Ortega or Murillo can stop the “unauthorized corruption.”

Before, the order was clear: “National Directorate, give the order.” Now, the command is “the Compañera (Rosario Murillo) says so.”

It’s so important to make male paternity leave increasingly mandatory, promoting shared parental responsibility, like in Sweden and Iceland.

I was 26 the first time I was forced to flee a dictator. It was in 1975, and I had to escape Nicaragua for resisting the regime of Somoza.

I say this from my own experience. I am part of this diverse, contradictory emigrant community shaped by personal history.

How is it possible that an athlete can’t attend an event, while these people strut across US soil mocking the misery of their fellow citizens?

Things that happened in 1986 set future trends in motion. Sometimes what occurs beneath the surface has long-term effects.