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[josefina Vento @josefinaVento]

Cubadecide 2024

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Do not fail the Cuban people by buying into the regime’s propaganda.

Thank you, @USAmbUN.

We Cubans know that the only way to overcome this crisis is to end the dictatorship.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Raul Castro had four men killed over open water. Today Florida charged him with murder. Thirty years is too long to wait for justice. It is never too late to deliver it. Thank you @AGJamesUthmeier and @GovRonDeSantis. The dictatorship must end.

[Michael Lima Cuadra @ngotranslations]

#Cuba Why has Cuba’s dictatorship denied the existence of political prisoners for nearly seven decades? Because acknowledging them would expose the true nature of a regime that imprisons people for exercising fundamental freedoms, contradicting the humanitarian image it has carefully cultivated internationally.

As Václav Havel explained in The Power of the Powerless, authoritarian systems construct a world of appearances in which lies become official truths and repression is disguised as legality.

Cuba’s denial serves four fundamental purposes: to preserve the regime’s legitimacy, conceal the courage and resistance of its citizens, evade international accountability, and whitewash political repression.

Every political prisoner exposes two truths the dictatorship seeks to hide: its willingness to repress and the determination of ordinary Cubans to resist.

By portraying prisoners of conscience as criminals, the regime seeks to erase not only their suffering, but also their ideals, their resistance, and the political persecution that led to their imprisonment.

Denying political prisoners is not merely denying repression. It is an attempt to erase the very existence of resistance to dictatorship.

My latest op-ed in Diario Las Américas: “Why Cuba Denies the Existence of Its Political Prisoners.”

¿Por qué la dictadura cubana lleva casi siete décadas negando la existencia de presos políticos?

Porque reconocerlos significaría revelar la verdadera naturaleza de un régimen que encarcela a quienes ejercen sus libertades fundamentales, contradiciendo la imagen humanitaria que ha cultivado cuidadosamente ante el mundo.

Como explicó Václav Havel en El poder de los sin poder, los sistemas autoritarios construyen un mundo de apariencias donde la mentira se convierte en verdad oficial y la represión se disfraza de legalidad.

La negación del régimen cubano persigue cuatro objetivos fundamentales: proteger su legitimidad, ocultar el valor y la resistencia de sus ciudadanos, evadir los costos de la condena internacional y blanquear la represión política.

Cada preso político revela dos verdades que la dictadura pretende ocultar: su disposición a reprimir y la determinación de los cubanos a resistir.

Al presentar a los presos de conciencia como delincuentes comunes, el régimen busca invisibilizar no solo su sufrimiento, sino también sus ideales, su resistencia y la persecución política que los llevó a prisión.

Negar la existencia de presos políticos no es solamente negar la represión. Es intentar borrar la existencia misma de la resistencia frente a la dictadura.

Mi nuevo artículo de opinión en Diario Las Américas: «Por qué Cuba niega la existencia de sus presos políticos».

✍️https://t.co/r8pMvfJMqX

#Canada #HumanRights #presosPoliticos

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Gracias @USAmbUN por tu solidaridad.

La dictadura es responsable de la catástrofe humanitaria que atraviesa nuestro pueblo y ya no les da la propaganda para seguirlo escondiendo.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

En Cuba, el 94% vive en pobreza extrema. Aun así, los cubanos siguen arriesgándolo todo por la libertad.
Agradecida con @USinHolySee y @SecRubio por acompañar a nuestro pueblo y apoyar la ayuda humanitaria a través de @CatholicRelief y Caritas Cuba.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The dictatorship of Russia killed my husband, Cuba's killed Rosa María's father, and Iran's regime tried many times to kill Masih.

This is what Yulia Navalnaya said, and she is right. The dictators of Russia, Cuba, and the Islamic Republic of Iran have one playbook: murdering freedom fighters.

Rosa María said Cuba is closer to freedom than many imagine, and that the best way to honor those who gave their lives for freedom is not only to remember their sacrifice, but to finish the task they began.

We stood together in Madrid to receive the FAES Freedom Prize. But the real prize belongs to those who are no longer with us. To the blinded women who lost their eyes to regime bullets and were even denied visas by Europe to stand with us. To every prisoner behind bars tonight for demanding freedom.

Our dictatorships are united. They share weapons, they share money, they share torture. Now democracies must be just as united to help the freedom fighters to end dictatorship.

We will finish the task they began. Freedom will win.
Together we are stronger.

@yulia_navalnaya
@RosaMariaPaya

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

A convicted former operative of the Cuban version of the KGB is running a state agency coordinating directly with DSA-linked American political organizations. Yeah, nothing to see here, right?

The DSA is a member of the National Network on Cuba. Every year, that group works hand-in-hand with a Cuban state entity called ICAP (the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples), which is sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.

The president of ICAP is a convicted member of Cuba’s Wasp Network, identified in U.S. court records as operatives of the Directorate of Intelligence of Cuba, their main foreign intelligence service (basically, the Cuban KGB).

This is the global communist network the DSA is connected to.

[Michael Lima Cuadra @ngotranslations]

#Cuba Democratic Spaces mourns Cuban poet and pro-democracy activist Leo Fernández Cruz, 45, who died in a traffic accident after denouncing prison abuses. Months earlier, dissident Diosbel Véliz Marín was fatally stabbed.

These deaths raise serious concerns in the context of nearly seven decades of political repression in Cuba. As in Russia and other authoritarian states, allegations of suspicious deaths of opposition figures demand independent scrutiny, particularly where authorities have been accused of concealing politically motivated killings as accidents.

The Cuban regime has pursued a systematic policy aimed at annihilating peaceful political opposition through thousands of repressive incidents annually. Over the decades, hundreds of thousands of Cubans are estimated to have experienced political imprisonment.

Democratic Spaces calls for independent investigations into these deaths, an end to political repression, and the immediate and unconditional release of all Cuban political prisoners.
https://t.co/OYBkUTZ6jR

#Canada #HumanRights

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

¿Cómo se reconstruye una Cuba rota? @alexotaola

No con la ayuda de los que están en el poder. Con un plan real para el día después.

Conoce nuestras propuestas en nuestro canal de YouTube🇨🇺

[Michael Lima Cuadra @ngotranslations]

#Cuba Jimmy Johnson Agosto is a Cuban political prisoner. His “crime”? Exercising his fundamental right to freedom of expression by participating in the peaceful protests in Nuevitas, Camagüey, on August 18–19, 2022.

He was arrested on September 6, 2022, while returning from an electroencephalogram. According to Justicia 11J, he was subsequently coerced into a Soviet-style televised “forced self-incrimination,” broadcast by Cuban state television on October 7, 2022.

In March 2026, reports indicated that imprisonment and psychological abuse had taken a devastating toll: Jimmy was suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, and other psychiatric problems while reportedly being denied adequate medical care.

13 years for protesting. 13 years for demanding change.
We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Jimmy Johnson Agosto and all Cuban political prisoners.

#Canada #PresosPoliticos #HumanRights

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

This is the moment to act.

🔴 Discover our plan.

Watch the full video on YouTube: 🔗 Colapso Social en Cuba: propuestas para responder a la emergencia humanitaria en transición | Social Collapse in Cuba: Proposals to Address the Humanitarian Emergency in Transition.

[CUBA DECIDE @CUBADECIDE]

13 de julio de 1994.
68 personas intentaban huir de Cuba en el remolcador "13 de Marzo".
La dictadura cubana lo hundió.
Murieron 37 personas, 10 de ellos eran menores de edad.
Una era una niña de apenas 6 meses.
Más de 30 años después, este crimen de Estado sigue impune.
Por eso este sábado develaremos un banco en memoria de las víctimas de este atentado y en la de todos los cubanos que han muerto en el Estrecho de la Florida buscando libertad. Un lugar para recordarlos y acompañar a sus familias.
Ninguna tragedia causada por la represión puede quedar en el olvido.
📅 Sábado 10 de octubre
⏰ 4:30 p.m. Develación del banco
⏰ 6:00 p.m. Misa por el eterno descanso de las víctimas
📍 Ermita de la Caridad, 3609 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33133
Organiza Fundación Democracia Panamericana y @CUBADECIDE

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Hace casi 6MESES el régimen le niega a Saylí Navarro el derecho de ver a su padre.

Separar a una hija de su padre no es política: es Terrorismo de Estado.

Ella lleva 4años y medio presa por defender a los desaparecidos del #11J. Félix Navarro, líder opositor, suma más de 5años de cárcel por lo mismo.

[Michael Lima Cuadra @ngotranslations]

#Cuba Democratic Spaces condemns the 8 and 9 year prison sentences recently sought by Holguín prosecutors against young Cuban audiovisual creators Ernesto Ricardo Medina and Kamil Zayas Pérez. Their weapon was not violence. It was words and ideas.

When peaceful expression can lead to years in prison, terms such as “one-party democracy” or “different democracy” become complicit language that sugarcoats oppression.

A dictatorship is a dictatorship.

We call for the immediate release of Ernesto and Kamil, the release of all Cuban political prisoners, and an end to the criminalization of peaceful dissent.

Read our article: “El4tico: The Young Cuban Dissidents Facing Prison for Challenging the Regime”

https://t.co/IhKQxikXLy

#Canada #HumanRights

[josefina Vento @josefinaVento]

RT @ngotranslations: #Cuba: Political prisoner Sayli Navarro urgently needs specialized medical care. She suffers from stomach problems and…

[Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos @observacuba]

🔴 ALERTA OCDH | Férreo control policial en las inmediaciones del Tribunal Municipal Popular de La Habana del Este, donde está previsto este jueves el juicio contra Anna Sofía Benítez y su madre, Caridad Silvente.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Hoy estamos aquí para contarle al mundo que no vamos a parar. Para decirle a la administración que ha hecho más por el cambio de Cuba de lo que he visto en toda mi vida.

Estamos convencidos de que esa es la manera de superar la catástrofe: este es el momento de empujar.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Mientras hablamos, continúan reprimiendo. Continúan acusando.
Necesitamos que eso cambie y queremos que cambie ya.

El pueblo cubano quiere libertad. Por eso le decimos a toda la comunidad internacional: este es el momento de unirse al pueblo cubano a favor del cambio de sistema.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

La propuesta para el cambio existe, pero necesitamos el apoyo de nuestro aliado. Necesitamos el apoyo del gobierno de los Estados Unidos.
Es ahora, y hoy estamos aquí para decirles: GRACIAS, continúen. Este es el momento, Cuba los necesita.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Libertad, porque eso es lo que estamos defendiendo hoy aquí. La libertad de todos los cubanos.

Los cubanos salen a diferentes partes de nuestro país a buscar libertad, exigir el cambio.
Si esto empezó en el verano del 2021, nos toca a nosotros. Si lo están haciendo dentro, nosotros también lo tenemos que hacer afuera.