With bare hands – the legacy of Oswaldo Payá
I’ve often wondered, what does it take for a lone individual to stand up to a totalitarian system, and to risk it all for the right to speak and associate… Read more »
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Payá’s lesson – ‘Cubans have to change Cuba themselves’
Pulitzer Prize winning author David E. Hoffman has written a “riveting” biography of leading dissident Oswaldo Payá – ‘Cuba’s Vaclav Havel’ – whose Varela Project defied Fidel Castro’s Communist regime,… Read more »
Cuba’s ‘inner circle of power’ ramps up repression
Raúl Castro lacked the theatrical skills of Fidel Castro, but being a precise and methodological manager, he hand–picked the military inner circle of power, with the close input of retiring… Read more »
‘Outside the Revolution’: Cubans anticipate new revolt a year after historic protests
The Cuban government committed systematic human rights violations in response to massive anti-government protests in July 2021 with the apparent goal of punishing protesters and deterring future demonstrations, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
What happened to Cuba’s pro-democracy protests?
In 2010 Cuba’s Castro regime began releasing journalists and human rights activists, most of whom it had imprisoned seven years earlier during the Black Spring crackdown on political dissent, notes… Read more »
The Challenge of Renewal for a Democratic Future
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will convene an online symposium honoring NED’s founding president, Carl Gershman. The event will include remarks by Gershman and two outstanding panels: Francis Fukuyama… Read more »
Democratic renewal: Pushing back attacks on civil society
The narrative of democratic crisis and the populist surge is too one-sided. European politics is in fact in a state of push-and-pull between democratic rollback and democratic revival, argues Richard… Read more »
How democracies breed their own support
@nedemocracy honors the work of our partners, who advance democracy and universal human rights in some of the world’s most difficult circumstances. @DamonMacWilson #DemocracyDay #NEDemocracy https://t.co/YITEYBNGPx pic.twitter.com/cM59kNC1Hr — NEDemocracy… Read more »
Will Cuba’s ‘historic protests’ lead to lasting change?
The whereabouts of hundreds of arrested demonstrators in Cuba is unknown and others are being held incommunicado without charges nine days after nationwide demonstrations rocked the country, the Wall Street… Read more »
‘No turning back:’ Protests embolden Cuba’s dissidents
From Miami to Mexico City, protests have erupted across Latin American communities in solidarity with demonstrators in Cuba, Reuters reports (above). Cuba’s dissidents are emboldened despite the current crackdown over… Read more »