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Anna Bensi After the Dismissal of Her Case: “If They Think They Can Silence Me, They Are Very Wrong”

State Security suggests she cooperate with counterintelligence or go live with her sister in the US 14ymedio, Madrid, April 14, 2026 / The Havana Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has definitively dismissed the case against Cuban YouTuber and activist Anna Sofía Benítez Silvente and her mother, Caridad Silvente, who were being investigated for crimes of “acts against … Continue reading “Anna Bensi After the Dismissal of Her Case: “If They Think They Can Silence Me, They Are Very Wrong””

Cuban State Security Intensifies Harassment of Anna Bensi and Her Family Following a Visit From U.S. Mission Head Mike Hammer in Havana

The influencer reports threats against her sister and the blocking of her WhatsApp account 14ymedio, Havana, April 9, 2026 / Mike Hammer, head of the U.S. mission to Cuba, visited content creator Anna Sofía Benítez Silvente, known online as Anna Bensi, at her home in Alamar, Havana, on Tuesday. The meeting took place amid the … Continue reading “Cuban State Security Intensifies Harassment of Anna Bensi and Her Family Following a Visit From U.S. Mission Head Mike Hammer in Havana”

Cuban YouTuber Anna Bensi Appears To Testify Regarding the Accusation Against Her Mother and Leaves Charged With the Same Offense

The young woman is under house arrest and cannot leave the country or travel between provinces without notifying State Security. 14ymedio, Madrid, March 26, 2026 – Cuban YouTuber and activist Anna Sofía Benítez Silvente, known on social media as Anna Bensi, went this Wednesday to the Alamar police unit to be interrogated by State Security … Continue reading “Cuban YouTuber Anna Bensi Appears To Testify Regarding the Accusation Against Her Mother and Leaves Charged With the Same Offense”

The Mother of Cuban YouTuber Anna Bensi Is Threatened With Five Years in Prison

The Inter American Press Association denounces that this type of harassment against independent journalists and their relatives has become constant in Cuba. 14ymedio, Havana, March 12, 2026 – The wave of repression in Cuba has continued intensifying in recent days. Interrogations and arbitrary criminal proceedings are being used to stop any form of critical expression. … Continue reading “The Mother of Cuban YouTuber Anna Bensi Is Threatened With Five Years in Prison”

Félix Navarro and His Daughter Saylí Were Able To See Each Other in Prison; the Number of Political Prisoners in Cuba Rises to 1,250

Prisoners Defenders counts 32 prisoners at risk of death if they are not released “immediately” 14ymedio, Madrid, April 16, 2026 / This Wednesday, more than three months after initially denying them access, authorities at the Agüica prison in the municipality of Colón (Matanzas) allowed Félix Navarro and his daughter, Saylí, both political prisoners, to meet. … Continue reading “Félix Navarro and His Daughter Saylí Were Able To See Each Other in Prison; the Number of Political Prisoners in Cuba Rises to 1,250”

A Woman Is Threatened With Five Years in Prison for Recording a Police Operation in Cienfuegos, Cuba

Madeleiny Fuentes León, who never published the video, was arrested by the Technical Investigations Department. Madeleiny Fuentes León, 30, a resident of Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos, was arrested last Friday by agents of the Technical Investigations Department (DTI), under orders from Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, after she recorded a video of a … Continue reading “A Woman Is Threatened With Five Years in Prison for Recording a Police Operation in Cienfuegos, Cuba”

Neither Meek nor Apolitical, Cubans of Generation Z Are at the Forefront of Discontent on the Island

The clash between these young people and power is inevitable and is getting closer every day. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, 20 October 2025 — For several years now, they have positioned themselves at the center of popular protest and rebellion in Cuba. Born between the mid-1990s and 2010, they are known as Generation Z and are … Continue reading “Neither Meek nor Apolitical, Cubans of Generation Z Are at the Forefront of Discontent on the Island”

OLPL at Americas Society (NYC), 5 March 2015

We passed the book from hand to hand. A worn-out volume, despite being a new edition. An edition in Cuba means a foreign edition. As readers in revolutionary Cuba, we suffered from the oxygenating syndrome of xenophillia. The title was “Less Than One.” The author, an exiled Soviet dissident. In the early 90s this mixture … Continue reading “OLPL at Americas Society (NYC), 5 March 2015”

CUBA IN SPLINTERS in MIAMI BOOK FAIR

Imagine a country sequestered by a national narrative that leaves no space for dissent or even for disappointment. Imagine the consequences for imagination in such a closed environment, aggravated by a mass media monopoly that occupies every channel of information, opinion, criticism and legitimation. Imagine language itself as a prison, with grammar reduced to inertia, … Continue reading “CUBA IN SPLINTERS in MIAMI BOOK FAIR”

In Good Weed Trust / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Everyone around does it. To burn it is a pleasure. Smoking recovers speech hijacked, first by the country’s despotism and later by their own paranoid personalities. Smoking they fornicate (the smoke blocks them and forces them to look themselves in the eye during pleasure). Smoking founds their mercenary Made-in-USAID projects (according to the official press). … Continue reading “In Good Weed Trust / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”