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Talk is Cheap, Jail is Real — Canada’s Hollow Rebuke of Cuba’s Crackdown | Teich, Payá and Lima in the Toronto Star

By January 2, 2023August 31st, 2024No Comments

When hundreds of thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July 2021 in a peaceful protest seeking personal and political rights, the regime responded with a violent crackdown on its own population.

Cuba’s militarized autocracy made so many arrests in the aftermath of the protests that, today, the country still has over 1,000 political prisoners in its jails — that’s more than Venezuela and Nicaragua combined.