@JasonPoblete @CubaStudyGroup Jason, you are right. many political prisoners are charged with non-political crimes and their detention is political in nature. in fact, in a totalitarian, police state, it is difficult to uncorrelate the two.
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RafaelSánchezAballí
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Rafael, you and I have discussed this many times; we have no way of knowing how many political prisoners, dissidents, journalists, and other civil society members have been detained in Cuba.
There are even respected groups that have been using data points such as 1,500 or 2,000 or so, and respectfully those numbers are not accurate. Anecdotal reports from an expert on the island put the figure at much higher than those data points. It’s difficult to appreciate that there are people locked up for political crimes for well over 20 or more years—people you never hear about on social media.
Until Cuban lawyers in Cuba are independent and allowed to represent people without fear of persecution from the Communist Party, this task will be even more challenging. There has not been one independent review of the Cuban prison system since 1959. Let that sink in for a minute.
So to human rights activists and other groups attaching political significance to the release of prisoners in Cuba, my one piece of advice is to exercise caution. Politicizing this issue can lead to serious problems for accountability, truth, and perhaps someday reconciliation. That is why groups that are paid by foreign governments to prepare some of these reports, in my book, are somewhat less reliable than the reports that could be produced by Cuban lawyers someday.
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Cuba has released ZERO political prisoners. The announcement of the release of prisoners was part of the PR campaign being waged by the Regime, its acolytes and its useful idiots.
This tweet below celebrating the Regime's "goodwill" has aged poorly. @CubaStudyGroup
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@AlbertoMiguelF5 Once they announce departures they will scream like a stuck pig just like they did during the BRAC process
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Leaving them with empty bases and unemployed local staff is not a bad idea if you can find good replacements.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Trump administration considering plan to punish members of NATO who were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during Iran war, and possibly moving U.S. troops out of those countries and stationing them in countries that were more supportive, according to WSJ report.
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@business it isn't only the critics that say this, it is the regime itself. they stated that anyone that committed "crimes against the authority" (vague)(ie political "crimes"), would not be released.
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Civil rights advocates say Cuba excluded regime critics and political prisoners from its release of more than 2,000 prisoners last week bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@JasonPoblete @JoeGarcia @OnCuba @HugoCancio por qué Cancio. el socio del régimen cubano residente en los EEUU, escribe un ensayo sobre el racismo en este momento, cuando existe posiblemente un cambio fundamental en Cuba?
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¿Por qué deberían los cubanos ver los desafíos políticos de Cuba a través de un lente negro, blanco o de cualquier color? Los cubanos son cubanos. Batista era mulato. El ajiaco cubano lleva cocinándose desde 1902, y sufrió un retroceso en 1959. Como creo que escribió José Martí, "el hombre no tiene color." Ese tema, dejémoslo estar.
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La pieza publicada hoy en @OnCuba por @HugoCancio trae a la meza el tema racial que a sido abandonado tanto por los que gobernaron, como los que gobiernan #Cuba, por no mencionar la oposición fuera de la Isla. Siempre es buen momento para hablar de justicia. oncubanews.com/opinion/column…
@EmbaCubaUS @USEmbCuba @edelstudio @CarlosFdeCossio @HugoCancio @AllianceForCuba @CiberCuba @MillieHerrera @Nelidafara @23yflagler @OdriozolaJohana @JohanaTablada @RepMariaSalazar @RepCarlos @MarioDB @USLatAmEnvoy @brhodes @TheFHRC @vozdelafnca @dmorca @SoberonGuzman @FelixLlerenaCUB @justfp @Ginamontaner @JasonPoblete @LeonKrauze @Kelley4Florida @lianystr @leivamiriam @nmasUnivision23 @pmmonreal @wsvn @viaSimonRomero @librocrepusculo @rachel_dz @SimonWDC @Univision @martinoticias @dadams7308 @LeBatardShow @XochitlHinojosa @edlavaCNN @DiazCanelB @ucicarlos @jclopezcnn @MCaruso_Cabrera @I220aCubans @tomaskenn
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La acusación por parte de los EEUU debería recoger todos los actos criminales cometidos por el régimen en territorio de los EEUU durante 7 décadas, como son (a) narcotráfico (del cual existe mucha evidencia), (b) asesinato de ciudadanos norteamericanos (desde los 1960s) y (c) conspiración por defraudar Medicaid/Medicare, entre otros.
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🔴El régimen cubano rechazó las acusaciones de funcionarios estadounidenses que lo vinculan con fraudes al programa Medicare en Florida, calificándolas de “calumnias” sin evidencia. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores aseguró que estas denuncias forman parte de campañas contra la isla y negó cualquier implicación estatal.
⭕Aunque reconoció que ciudadanos cubanos han estado involucrados en este tipo de delitos, afirmó que Cuba ha cooperado compartiendo información con Estados Unidos, criticando la falta de reciprocidad.
⭕Las acusaciones surgieron tras declaraciones de altos funcionarios de la administración de Donald Trump, quienes señalaron posibles redes vinculadas a Cuba en esquemas de fraude millonario al sistema de salud.
CON INFORMACIÓN DE CIBERCUBA
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Jusqu'à ce jour, les marxistes sont incapables de donner une réponse satisfaisante à ce genre de meme. C'est dire la nullité de leur pensée économique.
La valeur n'est pas dans le bien ni dans l'effort fourni pour le produire. Elle est dans l'esprit de celui qui désire ce bien pour résoudre un besoin individuel. La valeur est donc subjective, marginale, contextuelle. Elle n'est pas objective, mesurable, mathématisable.
Ainsi s'écrase lamentablement la théorie marxiste de la valeur travail et les théories classiques de la valeur objective. Si ces théories ont réussi à survivre jusqu'à aujourd'hui, c'est uniquement parce qu'elle donne une caution scientifique à l'interventionnisme étatique, rien d'autre.
I,Hypocrite@lporiginalg
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Human Rights Watch confirms that zero political prisoners have been released. So far, it has been a PR move by the Regime. Was the Russian tanker allowed into port in exchange for the release of political prisoners?
Juan Pappier@JuanPappierHRW
Cuba announced a big release of prisoners last week. How many political prisoners has it freed? ZERO. Read our @hrw piece: hrw.org/news/2026/04/0…
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@drantbradley @Gundisalvus Preach louder to the deaf ears
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Racism is NOT the reason for this disparity. The black middle/upper-classes don’t live in NYC. They left for Atlanta, Charlotte, etc. They also live in New Jersey & work in NYC. Conflating race & class leads to wrong policies. NYC loses about 50K black folks annually.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 MAMDANI: “The wealth of a median white household in the city is more than $200,000, while that of a black household is less than $20,000 … We are reckoning with the long history of racism here and starting to act upon a framework that puts equity right at the center of it.”
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The fraud committed by the Cuban regime is but another reason to indict Raul Castro and the leadership. All must go.
MAHA Action@MAHA_Action
RFK Jr. says the Cuban government was tied to a massive healthcare fraud operation in South Florida. “There’s an entire racket that is run by the Cuban government of durable medical equipment.” “We found one hotel that had 129 rooms and every one of them was a durable medical equipment company.” “There are 2 times the number of durable medical equipment companies in South Florida as there are McDonald’s.” “Most of them don’t sell anything. They’re just there to steal from the federal government.”
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@isladelporvenir @CubaOrtografia claro que si. gracias. me bis abuelo está ahí en algún lugar, formaba parte del gabinete de Machado
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@RJSanchezAballi @CubaOrtografia Esto es al frente del Capitolio
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#EstampasDeMiCuba - La Habana, 1929.
Ceremonia de inauguración de la presidencia de Gerardo Machado en su segundo mandato. Protocolo y elegancia en la República.
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@DanielDiMartino government needs to get out of the business of education. it needs to be just a regulator.
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Over $40,000 spent per each NYC K-12 student.
Does anyone doubt that these families would be better off with $40K per year per kid and letting the schools compete or close and parents stay home to tutor?
A single or married mom could stay home with her two kids and make 80K.
Michelle Tandler@michelletandler
There are 900,000 children in NYC Public Schools. That's roughly 1 in 360 Americans. ~ 50% of them cannot read or perform math at grade level. Yet, the city spends $35B/year on Education ($40k/child) What is going on here?
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@SteveKim323 he is in my Mount Rushmore of basketball. how can he not be?
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nobody played more quality big men than Cap, from Wilt to guys like Ewing and 'the Dream'....
WiltStats@WiltStats
40-Year-Old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar makes SIX skyhooks in a row over Patrick Ewing.
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Still together 50 years later.
No scandals.
No cheating.
No drama.
Just pure love.
Modern History@modernhistory
A young Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1970s.
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@btrembly you guys drank all those bottles for third place?
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Me and the boys celebrating that third place finish in a 2003 charity golf scramble.
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RafaelSánchezAballí retweetledi
Watch as Gene Simmons calls America the promised land and says he's never had a bad day in his life since moving to America. @genesimmons
It's a beautiful and moving interview. His love for his Mother and our great land, America, is immense. ❤️🇺🇸
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Maybe the indictment that is rumored and that hopefully will be filed against Raul Castro and the Cuban Regime has something to do with the Medicaid and Medicare fraud committed by likely Regime agents in South Florida. #cuba
Center for a Free Cuba@cubacenter
Medicaid and Medicare Fraud The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2011 “unveiled its top 10 most wanted Medicare fraud fugitives and 7 of the 10 had ties to Cuba.” Some high profile cases linked to Cuba are: Oscar Sanchez was arrested in 2012 for defrauding Medicare of $31 million and laundering funds into Cuban banks. He was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison in 2013. Ubert Guillermo Rodriguez had been wanted by authorities since 2013 for $2.6 million in false Medicare claims. He was arrested upon arrival from Cuba in 2015. He pled guilty in 2016, and was sentenced to three years in prison. Joel Regino Díaz Martín returned to Cuba in 2020. The scheme involving a mental health clinic through which he had defrauded Medicaid of $4 million was discovered in 2024. NPR reported on February 8, 2011 on the curious case of what he described as a “homeless guy” who “supposedly got rent money and food to be the front man for a discount pharmacy that defrauded Medicare.” The “homeless guy” was Lieutenant Colonel Renier Vicente Rodriguez Fleitas, a former Cuban military officer who ran Pirifer Pharmacy and Discount and submitted approximately $1.8 million in false Medicare claims, according to the NPR story. politicsrights.com/cuba-kleptocra…
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This congresswoman and her Communist colleagues are in the pocket of the Cuban totalitarian and criminal regime. This visit is part of a significant public relations campaign by the Regime in the US press to "get them off the hook for old time's sake" while the Trump administration seeks, at long last, regime change in Havana.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal@RepJayapal
I spent the last few days on a Congressional delegation to Cuba to see firsthand the devastation and suffering caused by the U.S. blockade of fuel. Read my full statement.
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