With bare hands – the legacy of Oswaldo Payá
I’ve often wondered, what does it take for a lone individual to stand up to a totalitarian system, and to risk it all for the right to speak and associate… Read more »
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Payá’s lesson – ‘Cubans have to change Cuba themselves’
Pulitzer Prize winning author David E. Hoffman has written a “riveting” biography of leading dissident Oswaldo Payá – ‘Cuba’s Vaclav Havel’ – whose Varela Project defied Fidel Castro’s Communist regime,… Read more »
Give Me Liberty: Waves of Cubans struggled for democracy
The rollback of democracy is deeply concerning, but the story of Oswaldo Payá is about one man’s effort to cause change in the other direction—to establish rights and democratic governance… Read more »
Six waves of repression suffocate Cuba’s civic space
A year after anti-government protests broke out across Cuba on 11th July 2021, the repercussions of these demonstrations are still being felt. Judicial proceedings against protesters are still ongoing, and… Read more »
‘Outside the Revolution’: Cubans anticipate new revolt a year after historic protests
The Cuban government committed systematic human rights violations in response to massive anti-government protests in July 2021 with the apparent goal of punishing protesters and deterring future demonstrations, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
How to maintain Cuba’s protest momentum
In formulating a response to the recent protests in Cuba, the U.S. administration should listen to activists on the ground, argues Amalia Dache, an Afro-Cuban American associate professor at the… Read more »
Behind the romantic veil that hides Cuba’s ‘Orwellian’ system
Ana Hebra Flaster reviews “The Cubans” by Anthony DePalma https://t.co/MJgD7dxbIf via @WSJ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 23, 2020 The Cuban government imposes draconian rules on doctors deployed in… Read more »
‘No civil society, no democracy’: Cuban activists detained
An award-winning Cuban dissident who was detained this week announced Thursday that he has been released without charge but barred from a planned trip to Europe for a meeting on… Read more »
Exposing the ‘dark reality’ behind Cuba’s medical missions
The U.S. says it is pressuring Cuba to end human rights violations such as harassment of opponents of Cuba’s one party system. It also wants Havana to stop supporting… Read more »
Dramatic Cuban democracy breakthrough?
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has purchased the domain name Democracy.com “so it wouldn’t be used by someone with a political agenda,” he tells Yahoo Finance. Cuban said he acquired the domain… Read more »