By the end of the summer months, people in Cuba, especially in the western end of the island, were wondering what rare disease had them bedridden, with body aches and swelling, fevers as high as 40C, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and even skin blemishes. In Matanzas, the epicenter of the disaster, entire families reported infections, which then spread to every neighborhood, then to the entire province, almost encompassing the entire country.
In a letter from prison, the 55-year-old said that since he was re-imprisoned in April after being briefly freed under a deal with former US president Joe Biden, the cruelty of the dictatorship towards me has known no bounds. He cited blows, torture, humiliation, threats and extreme conditions in prison, including the theft of food and hygiene products ordered by the regime's minions.
One day, in early-August, just before 5 p.m., Marta Perez was seen begging for money. She was doing so under the relentless sun that was beating down on San Rafael Boulevard. With her finely-wrinkled skin, striped dress, short hair and very long nails, she was like an apparition on the streets of Havana. The 70-year-old was pushing her one-year-old granddaughter in a stroller.
On Monday, Trump held a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and made a number of unfounded claims about autism, blamed women for taking Tylenol during pregnancy, misrepresented the current vaccine schedule, and erroneously asserting that the Amish have no autism. Trump made a similar claim about Cuba. I will say there are parts of the world that don't take Tylenol, Trump said. I mean, there's a rumor, and I don't know if it's so or not, that Cuba they don't have Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism. OK? Tell me about that one.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that sanctions were imposed on officials abetting Cuba's coercive labor export scheme, which enriches the Cuban regime and deprives its people of medical care.
"The punishments inflicted on detainees from the protests that began on July 11, 2021, in Cuba span a wide range of abuses, according to a Human Rights Watch report."
"This surge in internet prices without notice has pushed students to their limits, causing them to demand accountability from a government that seems increasingly detached from their struggles."
