Four inmates at the prison where rapper Maykel "El Osorbo" Castillo is serving a nine-year sentence for challenging the communist regime left the prisoner of conscience bloodied after a brutal beating. This is a common occurrence in the Castro dictatorship's gulags, where political prisoners are violently assaulted by common prisoners either at the direction of
From our Bureau of Good Books Likely to be Ignored by Canadians and Europeans Is this new book a quixotic gesture, or will it penetrate Castro, Inc.'s 65-year-old teflon coating? Only time will tell. But don't expect an immediate shrinkage in the number of tourists flocking to Castrogonia, or for sanctions to be slapped on
In the span of just five years, from 2018 to 2023, the brutality of the Castro dictatorship's National Revolutionary Police has claimed the lives of 95 Cubans. In a country where human rights are ignored, and the State has the ultimate power over life and death, the citizenry is at the mercy of the police,
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has initiated an effort to free two jailed Cuban artists who have been imprisoned since the July 11, 2021, protests.