‘I am Fidel’: cadets armed with sticks parade through the streets of Havana where Cubans demanded ‘light’ and ‘freedom’

Young cadets from the Military Technical Institute (ITM), in Havana, paraded armed with sticks on Friday night through the municipality of Playa, where some of the protests in which Cubans went from demanding the restoration of electricity, after several days of blackout, to demanding freedom. In two videos sent to DIARIO DE CUBA by Carlos … Read more

This is how the Cuban regime forges an assassination of reputation: the case of the tweeter Magdiel Jorge Castro

The Cuban regime knows that it has lost control in the social networks. Therefore, it resorts to old practices to try to recover ground: a fine, harassment and chases to the critical tweeters who reside on the Island and mount campaigns of discredit against those who do it from abroad. That is the case of … Read more

“It was horrible”: Sayli González details seven hours in the hands of State Security

“It was horrible,” summed up the activist Sayli González Velázquez the seven hours he was arrested and under interrogation Tuesday in Santa Clara, after a plainclothes officer of the state security physically assaulted her on the public highway to interrupt the direct he was doing and prevent him from continuing his march alone in solidarity … Read more

LASA includes a MININT colonel in an academic panel on the events of 11J in Cuba

The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) included among the speakers of an academic panel on the events of the July 11 in Cuba to Colonel of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) Abel Enrique González Santamaría, denounced on their social networks the journalist and academic José Raúl Gallego. “Colonel Abel Enrique González Santamaría is not … Read more

The Duma introduced a law on imprisonment for the implementation of Western sanctions

To the State Duma introduced draft law on criminal punishment for the execution of foreign sanctions on the territory of Russia. If the document is adopted, violators will face imprisonment for up to ten years. A criminal case could be initiated for refusing to work with Russian companies and banks that fell under Western restrictive … Read more

Bloody repression in Kazakhstan: President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev “no longer controls the country”

Published on : 08/01/2022 – 01:32 Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Friday that order had been largely “restored” in the country after days of unprecedented unrest and riots. A contingent of Russian troops and other countries allied with Moscow arrived Thursday in Kazakhstan to support the power in place by protecting strategic buildings and supporting … Read more

the president authorizes the police to open fire without warning on the demonstrators

Published on : 07/01/2022 – 07:24Modified : 07/01/2022 – 10:46 After several days of unprecedented popular revolt in this authoritarian Central Asian country, the President of Kazakhstan said in a televised address on Friday that he had authorized the police to open fire “without warning” on the demonstrators and promised “elimination” of “armed bandits”. Fire … Read more