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Militarization in Cuba: August sees a drop in new deployments, but the structures remain

24/09/2026

The behavior of the categories reinforces the need to differentiate between the militarization structure that remains active and the new incidents that the monitoring records each month. What was observed in August and September can be described as a retreat and a simplification of the flow of new incidents, but not as [...]

Cubalex presents at the ASCE Annual Conference the legal obstacles to humanitarian assistance in Cuba

23/09/2026

Cubalex will participate this Saturday, September 26, in the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), at Florida International University (Miami). Its executive director, Laritza Diversent, will present the paper "Legal Obstacles to Humanitarian Assistance in Cuba and Their Impact on Policies [...]

Henry Constantin has been detained for a week without legal guarantees and without his lawyer's access to the case file.

23/09/2026

Independent journalist Henry Constantin, director of the Cuban news outlet La Hora, has been detained for a week without effective legal guarantees and under a supposed provisional detention order that, to date, his defense has been unable to review with documentation. [...]

Harassment, surveillance and detention: patterns of repression against civil society linked to the US Embassy

22/09/2026

Between January 23 and September 18, 2026, Cubalex documented at least 86 incidents of repression directly related to the U.S. Embassy in Havana or to Mike Hammer, the chargé d'affaires at the diplomatic mission. [...]

Mandela Rules: a guide to detecting torture, ill-treatment and abuse in prison

21/09/2026

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the "Mandela Rules," like other international human rights treaties, place human dignity at the heart of all actions. These rules are fundamental to protecting the rights of prisoners worldwide. [...]

Beating and prison transfer of political prisoner Ángel Serrano Hernández

18/09/2026

Political prisoner and prisoner of conscience Ángel Serrano Hernández, sentenced to 14 years in prison for participating in the anti-government protests of July 11 and 12, 2021, in La Güinera, Havana, was brutally beaten inside the prison and subsequently transferred to another facility [...]

Forced exile in Cuba: a repressive practice without legal recognition

17/09/2026

The departure from Cuba of former political prisoner and activist Aniette González García from Camagüey once again raises the issue of the use of exile as a means of pressuring individuals considered opponents by the authorities. [...]

Jorge Bello Domínguez: More than a year of waiting for surgery and new health complications

16/09/2026

Jorge Bello Domínguez, a political prisoner from the July 11 attacks, continues to be denied the specialized medical care he needs at the Guanajay maximum-security prison in Artemisa, where he has been held since March 2025. [...]

Sabotaje: la palabra que convierte un hurto en 20 años de cárcel

15/09/2026

En Cuba, robar el aceite de un transformador eléctrico era, hasta hace poco, un hurto: un delito contra la propiedad, con penas de meses o pocos años de prisión. Hoy, ese mismo hecho puede ser calificado como sabotaje, un delito «contra la seguridad del Estado», con condenas de entre 7 [...]

Pagar sin decidir: los cubanos financian las pérdidas del Estado

14/09/2026

En Cuba, las pérdidas de las empresas estatales se cubren con recursos públicos. Además, su gestión permanece cerrada al escrutinio ciudadano y las reglas que ordenan la economía se aprueban sin que la población tenga capacidad alguna de influir en ellas. Tales exclusiones no dan cuenta únicamente de métodos no [...]