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SEP (US) demands the release of Frank García Hernández from house arrest by the Cuban government
The Socialist Equality Party (US) demands the immediate release of Frank García Hernández from house arrest by the Cuban government. García Hernández, a self-avowed Marxist associated with the Comunistas Blog collective, was arrested Sunday during historic protests against the economic crisis and the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Eliana Aponte, file)
As the Comunistas blog post concerning the detention of García Hernández and other socialists during Sunday’s protests makes clear, the thousands who came out across the country were “not solely artists and intellectuals,” but embraced the widest layers of the population. Other Cuban leftists detained include Leonardo Romero Negrín, a young physics student from the University of Havana, Marco Antonio Perez Fernandez, a high school studen