CUBALEX PUBLISHES A REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CUBA

A new report published by the human rights-legal NGO CUBALEX offers a panorama of the critical human rights situation in Cuba for February 2023.  It characterizes the situation in Cuba with four terms: insecurity, precariousness, mismanagement and repression.

The report examines the lack of the regime’s political will and absence of legal procedures to face the growing cases of femicide in Cuba, with 9 cases reported in the past 28 days. It also examines a wide range of social and economic issues such as the crumbling housing, food, health care and electrical infrastructure and how the regime despite meds scarcity in Cuba sells medications to Mexico and continues sending doctors under conditions of modern slavery to 10 countries around the world.

On the international front, the report highlights how the Cuban regime consolidated relations through official visits and other contacts with autocratic regimes such as Russia, Belarus, Iran, China, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Algeria and Venezuela.

With respect to the repression of civil society, it reports 247 repressive incidents in February 2023 targeting members of pro-democratic groups such as the Movement for a New Republic, Ladies in White and the recently created Cuba in Mourning, comprised of mothers and relatives of political prisoners.

The report sheds light on the continued regime’s practice of dismantling opposition movements in Cuba using numerous repressive techniques focusing on neutralizing its leadership through deprivation of liberty  or the forced exile of its key members .

See full report titled, “Monthly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba.”