In September 2025, Cuba once again plunged into a crisis affecting every aspect of daily life. Disease outbreaks, overwhelmed and under-resourced hospitals, streets overflowing with garbage, and endless power outages reveal the abysmal state management and the neglect of the population's basic needs. The [...]
Executive Summary In July 2025, the economic, social, and human rights crisis in Cuba deepened. The government itself acknowledged its failure to meet its targets in key sectors—exports, tourism, retail, agricultural and energy production—while inflation, a lack of foreign investment, and other problems persisted.
Executive Summary: June was marked by increased repression against a backdrop of widespread impoverishment and growing citizen discontent. The Cuban state maintains an active repressive apparatus against dissenting voices while strengthening its alliances with other authoritarian regimes. The human rights situation on the island continues [...]
Executive Summary: May was a month marked by a notable increase in social, political, and economic tension in Cuba. In addition to blackouts lasting up to 36 hours, which sparked some thirty citizen protests, measures such as the dollarization of internet service were implemented, interpreted as a [...]
Executive Summary In April 2025, Cuba experienced a worsening of its economic, social, and political crisis, with direct consequences for the human rights situation. The Cubalex team documented 301 repressive acts with a total of 647 incidents, mostly violations against people deprived of their liberty, [...]
Between 2022 and February 2025, Cubalex documented at least 225 repressive actions against incarcerated individuals with psychosocial disabilities. Through constant monitoring, Cubalex reveals a pattern of institutional repression, structural neglect, and lack of protection that jeopardizes their lives, mental health, and dignity.
Cubalex systematically documents human rights violations in Cuba based on direct reports from victims and witnesses, monitoring of open sources on the internet and social media, and cross-verification with allied organizations.
Each documented event may contain multiple linked incidents, carried out by State agents or by third parties acting with their acquiescence. Incidents include harassment, persecution, criminalization, and physical violence against personal integrity, liberty, and life. Repression is widespread; the majority of identified victims are activists, human rights defenders, and independent journalists.
The gender of each victim is recorded based on the information available at the time of documentation. Cubalex acknowledges the limitations of this record in a context where gender self-identification does not have legal protection in Cuba.
The figures presented are not exhaustive. Digital monitoring does not reach victims without internet or mobile phone access, nor those who depend on third parties to make their situation public. Cubalex acknowledges that a significant number of violations remain undocumented.
If you have information on cases that have not been documented, you may contact us confidentially at [email protected]. Cubalex protects the identity of victims, witnesses and sources in accordance with its own security protocols.
