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A Fugitive’s Freedom: Assata Shakur’s Exile in Cuba

Fidel Castro called her a “true political prisoner” who was “a victim of the fierce repression against the Black movement.”

In the long agony after the collapse of the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe, those still in power in Cuba were forced to shed some weight.

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.