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A Dictator Is a Dictator Is a Dictator

Let’s hope prior to any debate, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans & Salvadorans can agree that we’re all suffering under dictatorships.

Melody arrived in Cuba on September 25, on the ninth deportation flight that US immigration authorities have sent to the island this year.

On September 24, 2025, Dr. Nestor Manuel Perez Lache, 85-year-old Cuban doctor took his own life by jumping off an elevated Havana bridge.

“I know the world is facing enormous pain right now, but we must not let the Nicaraguan prisoners be buried in silence.”

Every day, the narrative disseminated by the powers that be in Cuba, as in many other countries, clashes with the nation’s highest ideals.

Cellphone theft is ever more common in today’s Cuba and contributes to the normalization of other crimes.

Not all is lost: at least we have the comfort that, when the lights finally go out, no one will see our desperate faces.

Although the Constitution recognizes the right to assembly and demonstration, to this day no regulation exists to guarantee its exercise.

It’s clear that the Union Electrica state power co. is looking more like a team of firefighters trying to put out blazes with water pistols.

The machinery of power, if not dismantled, will continue reproducing its authoritarian dynamics.