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It’s Not About Other People’s Rights

Cubans live their day-to-day lives swayed by authoritarian rhetoric: they seek it out and find it in Kendall, Lavapies or Calimete.

The plan involved concentrating power by seizing control of all government institutions and shutting the door on dissent & public oversight.

This is a business where, at the cost of the lives and suffering of others, they make a profit and keep the regime in power.

The result of the collective oversight is not statistically binding, but it can function as a kind of “exit poll” that reflects trends…

On September 15, 1959, from a cave in Pinar del Rio, Fernando Pruna Bertot took on the war name Colonel Ponce, at just 23 years old.

Such accusations trivialize the concept of antisemitism and empty it of contents. They also seem to me to be highly slanderous…

The Act has been called progressive but it comes at a time when the last thing most Cubans care about is the content of its articles.

It doesn’t propose programs of change, but rather goes to the root of the key problems that led to the mass protests…

Many dissatisfied Cubans, even those who agree with most of the articles of the Code, won’t want to concede to the regime.

The works become in themselves a denunciation against censorship and against the totalitarian power of the Cuban State.