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A Change.org petition calling for the United States government to invade Cuba, started by a Belgian citizen, gained nearly 500,000 signatures by 21 July. [16] A protest against the Cuban government in Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. On 13 July 2021, a protest march was held starting at 6 pm between North Bergen, New Jersey, and West New ...
A reporter for BBC News stated that protest groups like the Ladies in White were seeking to raise their profile in advance of an impending visit by Pope Benedict XVI—who was expected to discuss the issue of human rights with the Cuban government—and that the Cuban Communist Party was accordingly seeking to clamp down on protest. [8]
Pro-Cuban government protesters in Cienfuegos, July 2021. The 2021–2024 Cuban migration crisis was sparked by a convergence of factors in the country. Political repression and escalating economic difficulties led to public discontent, culminating in mass protests during the summer of 2021. The demonstrations were a response to rising ...
Three years after the largest anti-government protests in Cuba, at least 670 Cubans are still in prison for participating in the demonstrations on July 11, 2021, some of them serving sentences of ...
Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday to protest longstanding sanctions in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, and as the island's ...
On 11 July 2021, a series of demonstrations began in Cuba against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.The first protests erupted in San Antonio de los Baños, near Havana, and in Palma Soriano, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, with people chanting "Patria y Vida", as well as other slogans and criticizing the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the island and the subsequent ...
Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, who was arrested two years ago while trying to join the July 11 street protests, is in solitary confinement at high-security prison near Santiago de Cuba.
[5] [6] Since its founding in 2018, the San Isidro Movement has held a variety of protests including those by performative artist Otero Alcántara who performed a striptease to draw attention to the lack of privacy when accessing the internet, created the Museum of Dissidence in Cuba, as well as a protest to criticize the removal of a bust of ...