Cuban dictatorship officials visited control areas of Miami International Airport on May 20, 2024, in what was described as an exchange between the Transportation Security Administration and its "counterparts" on the Island. 

CBS's 60 Minutes on May 19, 2024 on their 56th season finale aired the segment titled "Cuban Spycraft": 

"For decades, prolific Cuban spies working in the U.S. government, serving in high-profile positions with top security clearances, have evaded American intelligence officials. This Sunday, Cecilia Vega reports on two undercover agents." 

Some have questioned what concrete harm Manuel Rocha has done to others beyond the U.S. government, but an official review is underway that will take years to determine the full extent of the damage done, but other Cuban spies offer some ideas that are looked at in an OpEd published in the Miami Herald online on May 14, 2024.

Twenty two years ago on May 10, 2002, carrying 11,020 signed petitions in support of the Varela Project, the Christian Liberation Movement's Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, Antonio Diaz Sanchez, and Regis Iglesias Ramirez delivered them to the Cuban National Assembly.

The Christian Liberation Movement was founded by Catholic lay people in Havana in September 1988, and is part of a non-violent dissident movement that traces its origins and influences to the Cuban Committee for Human Rights that was founded in 1976.

The past week has seen two news articles about Russia and Cuba that highlight the close alliance between Havana and Moscow.  The relationship between these two countries starting in 1959 reveals that the strength of their relations has been defined by their respective anti-American agendas. "We wish you success and the Russian Federation in carrying out the special military operation,"  said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting today in Moscow, reported Sputnik Africa. One day earlier on May 8, 2024 adnAmerica reported that the number of "Cubans conscripted into fighting for Moscow are closer to 5,000."

Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on May 2, 2024 that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces, reported The Catholic Register. Journalist Gelet Martínez Fragela in a detailed article published yesterday in ADN America outlining Havana's connections to anti-Israel protests in the United States confirming Father Landry's observation.

El Informe Anual sobre Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad en Venezuela del Instituto CASLA, con nuevas denuncias de crímenes de lesa humanidad del régimen de Venezuela. El informe está disponible aquí: https://www.oas.org/fpdb/press/Informe-Anual-sobre-Crimenes-de-Lesa-Humanidad-Mar-2023-Mar-2024.pdf

Senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice on the program  'We Make Cuba' broadcast in April 2024 warned of the legal consequences of those who participate in large scale protests including being charged with "sedition", "disturbing the socialist constitutional order" with prison sentences ranging between 10 and 30 years, life imprisonment, and in "exceptional cases" the "death penalty."

Thirteen Cubans have received sentences ranging from 4 to 15 years in prison for nonviolently protesting in the streets.

The Cuban military runs the tourism industry in Cuba, and tourism literally assists the apparatus that represses not only Cubans, and Venezuelans, but seeks to subvert democracies across the hemisphere. This does not prevent large numbers of tourists from traveling to the island, and spending their money.

The Catholic Church in Cuba today is not a monolith, but an independent institution that like the Church in other countries under Communism has been subjected to infiltration by both informers and high level agents from these communist dictatorship's respective intelligence agencies.

Today, April 18, 2024, Sayli Navarro Álvarez marked two years of serving an unjust sentence in the La Bellotex prison in Matanzas, Cuba. There, she is enduring harsh living conditions, unhygienic conditions, cramped quarters, poorly prepared food, an abundance of cockroaches and mosquitoes, and a bed bug infestation.

Sixty three years ago Brigade 2506 members invaded Cuba seeking to end the communist dictatorship then being consolidated by Fidel Castro. Before the world knew what was going on in Cuba, these Cubans tried to prevent these 65 years and counting of horror under the communist dictatorship of the Castro brothers. Outnumbered and outgunned they fought between April 17-19, 1961 and one hundred and four Brigade 2506 members died fighting to liberate Cuba, and eight were executed by firing squad. Most Brigade members were captured and spent 22 months in prison before a ransom was paid for their release.

Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a former career U.S. diplomat, admitted in a plea deal that he had conspired to operate as an agent of a foreign government for decades, and as a result, he was sentenced on Friday April 12th to 15 years in federal prison and fined $500,000. Prosecutors dropped over a dozen other offenses, including making false statements and wire fraud, in return.

Eight years later, a string of attacks that started in 2016 and targeted Canadian and U.S. diplomats stationed at their respective embassies in Havana remain unsolved officially. However, after a five-year investigation, CBS Newsmagazine 60 Minutes concluded that Russia was responsible for the attacks, despite official denials from the US government.

“60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados discuss the evolution of their 5-year investigation into ‘Havana Syndrome,’ which led them to what one source calls "a receipt" for acoustic weapon testing done by a Russian intelligence unit.”

Officials in the Cuban government have also been quick to dismiss the Havana Syndrome, but the record shows that if Russia was testing an acoustic weapon on American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Havana, the Cuban secret police would know about it, report it to their superiors, and approve it. Havana's role in supporting Putin's illegal war in Ukraine, including the deployment of Cuban soldiers in Russian uniforms fighting on the front lines, underscores their strategic relationship with Moscow.

Earlier today in a courageous speech where Rosa María Payá highlighted crimes of the Cuban dictatorship, called for the rights of the Cuban people to live in democracy, she also made the case for expelling Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council in a two minute statement. The dictatorship’s spokesman, Cuban Ambassador Juan Antonio Quintanilla, then maligned the Cuban human rights defender. The video with Spanish subtitles provided by CubaDecide contains her statement, and dictatorship’s response.

Take action and join Rosa María Payá’s call to expel the Cuban dictatorship from the UN Human Rights Council by signing the petition, Expel Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council. Below is her statement in both English and Spanish.

More mass protests broke out initially in Santiago de Cuba province on March 17, 2024, and despite mass mobilization of repressive forces, the existing new draconian penal code, and a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of disaffected Cubans, protests spread to four others ( Artemisa, Granma, Holguin, and Matanzas ).

There are good and courageous people in Cuba who are risking everything for a better tomorrow. Four of these people are Ramón Jesús Velázquez Toranzo, his wife Bárbara María González Cruz, his son René Ramón Velázquez González and his niece Lorena Velázquez Hechavarría who traveled to the Sanctuary of El Cobre, and on March 8th made public a video, and statement inviting Cubans to come together, and reflect on finding solutions to the problems they face as a people. This is a nonviolent action that is reminiscent of Kingian nonviolence, but profoundly Cuban. Ramón Jesús Velázquez Toranzo, his wife Bárbara María González Cruz until last week were U.S. residents. Ramón Jesus Velásquez Toranzo, a former prisoner of conscience, with his family are risking all for a better Cuba tomorrow.

Cuba marked 72 years without democracy on March 10, 2024. General Fulgencio Batista carried out a military coup against the legitimately elected democratic government. The last democratically elected president, Carlos Prío Socarrás, and his first lady went into exile, and over the next seven years, this authoritarian dictator ruled Cuba, becoming increasingly unpopular.

Joy Zavalick in her column published in the Washington Examiner on March 8, 2022 "Rescue International Women's Day from its Communist roots" exposes the Marxist influences on the holiday. She is right, the holiday has a problematic history linked to the Soviet Union. Existing communist regimes, and post-communist regimes also have a poor track record on women's rights.

Havana on March 4, 2024 confirmed it had sought help from the World Food Program to guarantee the supply of subsidized powdered milk for children. On February 24, 2024 Emerio Gonzalez Lorenzo, president of the "Grupo Empresarial de la Industria Alimentaria" (GEIA) [Food Industry Business Group] which is under the Cuban government's "Ministerio de la Industria Alimenticia" (MINAL) [ Ministry of the Food Industry ] announced that "there is little bread in Cuba due to a lack of flour,"  and that this situation would continue until the end of March 2024. Official press channels made no mention of the "25,000 tons of wheat donated by the Russian government that arrived in mid-January" which "exceeds the 20,000 tons that, authorities assured [on February 24th], are necessary to cover the rationed daily bread rolls for a month. If this is the case, the shipment of Russian wheat should have been enough to supply the stores for the remainder of this month and the next", reported 14ymedio.