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News about the Protests of July 11, 2021, in Cuba

"I survived those walls. Sayli is still behind them": the heartbreaking testimony of Sissi Abascal

Political prisoner from 11J denounces lack of medical attention: "I have no choice but to rest and wait."

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara responds to his critics: "I truly suffered in the dungeons of the dictatorship."

Masons call for a protest after reporting that the regime is attempting to take control of the Supreme Council

Granma rewrites the Maleconazo: When propaganda tries to turn the protest into a heroic legend

Activist Guillermo del Sol reaches his 46th day on hunger strike with severe dehydration symptoms

Luis Manuel Otero champions Chocolate MC: "His Bajanda has become an anthem against the Cuban dictatorship."

Otero Alcántara: "There are prisoners that no one knows exist and they are suffering."

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: "It is everyone’s responsibility for Cuba to be a better place."

The significance of 11J after five years

Cynicism in its purest form: the regime claims that Luis Manuel Otero left Cuba "without coercion."

Political prisoner Yosvany Rosell rejects exile as a way to leave prison: "Let them go."

Iliana Hernández, on the San Isidro strike: "My heart was like this... I thought I was going to have a breakdown."

Mother of political prisoners denounces that the Quivicán prison has no water and her sick son is in danger

Díaz-Canel, six months without fuel and over a thousand political prisoners

A lawyer argues that militarization in Cuba is not aimed at confronting the U.S. but rather against the people

A Cuban woman has been in preventive detention for 10 days after a video on social media criticizing the Cuban regime

Luis Manuel Otero, about to leave hell and arrive in lands of freedom

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara would travel to the U.S. on Saturday after being granted parole

Blackouts in Cuba: Analyst warns that they also cut the power to carry out massacres without witnesses

Cuban regime worried about a social outbreak: The image that exposed them on national television

"La Noche Eterna de Cuba" wins the Grand Prize at the 2026 Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas

Cacerolazo in Guanabacoa, while regime agents promise "light for Saturday."

Residents of San Isidro protest after four days without electricity and five without water

Almost two thousand repressive actions in the first half of 2026 in Cuba, five years after 11J

FMC President: "Cuban women know that the crisis weighs more heavily on our shoulders."

Five years after 11J, Oscar Casanella delivers a powerful message

Sociologist Cecilia Bobes analyzes the legacy of July 11: "The street ceased to be solely a space controlled by the State."

Gerardo Hernández mocks the exile protest in Miami: "ICE deported everyone with a criminal record."

"From that paradise island, only a land submerged in misery remains," asserts Cuban writer Daína Chaviano

Cuban exiled military personnel are calling on those on the island to remove the Castros from power

Lisbeth Fernández is aiming for Miss Florida USA after coming just short of Miss Universe Cuba

The U.S. representative to the UN commemorates July 11 and demands freedom for over 800 Cuban political prisoners

Message from political prisoner Virgilio Mantilla on the anniversary of 11J

Abel Prieto calls the 11J a "farce" and unleashes a wave of criticism on the fifth anniversary of the massive protests in Cuba

Testimony of a protester from 11J: "I went out to demand freedom and they marked me for life."

Chapel of Charity: "Our prayer for those who continue to suffer imprisonment, persecution, and exile."

Cubans in Miami protest in front of the Cubamax shipping agency on the fifth anniversary of 11J

Police patrol monitors the house of the father of a political prisoner from the 11J on the fifth anniversary of the protests

Cuba: The 11J Five Years Later

Unintentional symbolism of the Cuban Institute of the Book: Poetry collection "Migraciones" presented on 11J

Alina Bárbara López denounces on 11J that the Cuban regime is a "terrorist state against its own people."

Regime prevents family members from seeing Eddy Ceballos: He is transferred at night to an interrogation center

Justice 11J: "No cause can advance if it abandons those who rose up first."

Writer Pablo Socorro: Five years after 11J, the regime "continues to repress, but now with more ferocity and fear."

Surveillance of journalist Camila Acosta this 11J: The regime is besieging her at home as it does every anniversary

The regime celebrates "World Population Day": "We reaffirm our commitment to the well-being of our people."

Sissi Abascal raises her voice from exile on the anniversary of July 11th

State Security summons a 11J protester in Villa Marista, and he holds the regime responsible for whatever happens to him

Morales Ojeda labels the repression of July 11 as a “popular victory,” sparking a wave of rejection among Cubans

Armando Chaguaceda: Five years after 11J, the Cuban people are discovering "the value of raising their voices against those who trample on them."

Marco Rubio announces that the United States will use "all tools" to promote changes in Cuba

U.S. Embassy in Havana demands the release of political prisoners on the anniversary of 11J

Marco Rubio: "The regime and its corrupt elites continue to reject any effort for meaningful reform."

Marco Rubio warns the Cuban regime: "Real reforms before it's too late."

Marco Rubio reveals that the U.S. offered aid and reconstruction to Cuba in exchange for reforms

Rubio demands the release of Cuban political prisoners on the fifth anniversary of 11J

From the "combat order" to the heir without votes of Castroism: Cuba five years after 11J

Young woman detained on July 11 in Camagüey breaks the silence five years later

July 11: The turning point of a nation and the birth of the Cuba of the future