January 18, 2022
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CUBA REVIEW: Mass Trials Keep State Crackdown of 11J Protests in Limelight

Two weeks into the new year and already Cuba is making international headlines for unsettling reasons. First, trumped-up charges of sedition, mass trials, and disproportionately severe sentences against 11J protesters have justifiably seized news coverage of the island government’s affairs. Then, loose talk by a senior Moscow diplomat about possible military deployments to Cuba and Venezuela in response to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis also raised eyebrows around the world. We dig into these stories and many other noteworthy developments, including the latest on the expansion of the Cuban private sector, on our first newsletter of 2022.

(Photo credit: Associated Press)

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