La Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU) es una organización opositora cubana no violenta que agrupa a disidentes cubanos. Fue creada el 24 de agosto de 2011 por José Daniel Ferrer García luego que éste fuera excarcelado en marzo de 2011 y se negara a abandonar el país.
Despite starting with just twelve individuals, UNPACU now has over ten thousand affiliated activists and 122 cells. By 2017, they reported that 53 of their activists were imprisoned in Cuba for political reasons.
UNPACU has representation in both the United States and the European Union
On the organization's website, it can be read: “UNPACU's activism is based on non-violent resistance and disobedience, the same principle that has underpinned the so-called 'color revolutions,' whose action frameworks were outlined in their time by Gene Sharp.”
Recognized by Amnesty International since its inception, this movement has denounced the harassment, intimidation, and detentions that its members have suffered at the hands of the Cuban authorities.
As part of its growth and consolidation, UNPACU absorbed in 2013 the peaceful dissident organization FANTU, led by the well-known dissident journalist Guillermo Fariñas.
Among its objectives, the organization actively denounces the shortcomings of civil liberties as well as the economic precariousness experienced on the island.
In January 2012, one of its members, the Cuban dissident Wilman Villar Mendoza, 31 years old, died at the Juan Bruno Zayas hospital in Santiago de Cuba after a 50-day hunger strike he had initiated in prison after being sentenced to four years in jail for participating in a peaceful protest.
