Selected Articles

  • Cuba: Crackdown on Dissidents

    NACLA Report on the Americas, News Report, May 02, 2003

    Cuban courts handed down heavy sentences of up to 28 years in the first weeks of April, after authorities arrested scores of government critics in a crackdown on what they deemed subversive activities. According to the unofficial Cuban Commission on Human Rights and Reconciliation led by veteran human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez, among the arrested were at least 75 independent journalists, pro-democracy activists, owners of private lending libraries and leaders of opposition political parties.