English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
The sending of troops for the occupation of Ukraine continues to be the predominant factor in Putin’s war of imperialist aggression 14ymedio, Luis Zúñiga, Miami, July 15, 2024 — Europe has given great support to Ukraine for its defense against the war of aggression that Vladimir Putin launched two years and four months ago. European … Continue reading “Cuban Mercenaries Against Ukraine: Why Doesn’t the European Union Act?”
14ymedio, Havana, February 17, 2024 — The mother of Raibel Palacio Herrera, a 21-year-old Cuban recruited by Russia who died last week in Jerson, in southern Ukraine, said that her son was used as “cannon fodder” by the Russian Army. Interviewed by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Danelia Herrera, a resident of … Continue reading “Ukraine Places Between 400 and 3,000 the Number of Cuban Mercenaries in the Service of Russia”
They have been given Russian citizenship, but they are not given the document 14ymedio, Madrid, 18 January 2025 / Seduced by a salary of 2,000 dollars per month, a flight from the Island and other benefits, many Cubans did not see the deadly trap that the Russian nationality promised by Vladimir Putin would become to … Continue reading “To Prevent Desertions, Russian Authorities Keep the Passports of the Cuban Mercenaries”
The activist claims that several of them have died at the front and cites Commander Kirill Veres as a source. 14ymedio, Madrid, 8 July 2024 — Several Cubans who were part of the Russian Army died on the Soledar-Siversk front, in Donetsk (eastern Ukraine), according to the secretary general of the Assembly of the Cuban … Continue reading “According to Gutiérrez Boronat, the Cubans Killed in Ukraine Were From the Elite Russian Troops”
14ymedio interviews a Cuban captured by Ukraine on the war front 14ymedio, Xavier Carbonell, Salamanca, 6 April 2024 — When Ukrainian troops captured Frank Darío Jarrosay Manfugás, a 35-year-old musician from Guantánamo, he had neither helmet nor weapons. It was night. He had left a bunker with a Russian soldier with the mission of moving … Continue reading “Young Cuban Captured in Ukraine: ‘I Haven’t Killed Anyone, I Never Touched a Weapon, I Am Not a Mercenary’”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Kiev, 16 March 2024 — The Ukrainian body that deals with prisoners of war warned this Friday of the high number of Cubans fighting with Russian troops in the war in Ukraine, and reproached the authorities of Havana for their tolerance of Russian recruitment operations on the Island. “We see photographs and … Continue reading “Ukraine Warns of the High Number of Cubans Fighting With Russian Troops”
14ymedio, Madrid, 17 January 2024 — A 21-year-old Cuban, Raibel Palacio Herrera, a volunteer for Russia in the war in Ukraine, died last week in the city of Kherson. As reported this Tuesday by Univisión, with a source in the family itself, the young man was recruited last November by a Russian woman, who covered … Continue reading “The Death of a 21-Year-Old Cuban Mercenary Fighting for Russia in Ukraine is Confirmed”
14ymedio, Madrid, 23 October 2023 — The hackers who revealed the identities of 200 Cuban mercenaries fighting with the Russian Army in Ukraine have again leaked data. According to the available information, 59 more Cubans have signed a contract to join the Russian Armed Forces in the city of Tula. Of these, at least 11 … Continue reading “The ‘International Legion’ of the Russian Army Continues To Recruit Cubans To Fight in Ukraine”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 28 September 2023 — The Russian ambassador to Cuba, Viktor Koronelli, said on Wednesday that Moscow and Havana are “in contact” and “working” to clarify the issue of hiring Cubans in both countries to fight on the Russian side in the war in Ukraine. Koronelli made these statements to the international … Continue reading “Moscow Is ‘In Contact’ With Havana About the Cubans Hired To Fight in Ukraine”
14ymedio, Madrid, 11 September 2023 — “If Cuba, as a sovereign nation, had decided to allow mercenaries to be hired within its borders, it wouldn’t be anything unusual,” said an anonymous Cuban government spokesperson who goes by the name Guerrero Cubano (Cuban Warrior) on his YouTube channel. During the Sunday episode, which once again focused … Continue reading “Cuban Regime’s Propaganda Machine Entangled in Its Denials about Mercenaries”
14ymedio, Madrid, 8 September 2023 — The security forces of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior have arrested 17 people linked to the “trafficking network” for the recruitment of nationals to fight on the Russian side in the war in Ukraine. Those involved will be accused of the crimes of human trafficking, trafficking and/or mercenarism … Continue reading “With the Arrest of 17 Cubans, the Regime Seeks To Detach Itself From the Recruitment of Mercenaries for Russia”
14ymedio, Havana, 5 September 2023 — Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday the dismantling of a human trafficking network based in Russia that recruited Cubans residing in that country and on the Island to join as mercenaries in the war in Ukraine, which the report calls a “war operation.” The information comes after … Continue reading “Late and Without Giving Details, the Cuban Foreign Ministry Denies It Is Sending Mercenaries to Russia”
The official Cuban media reports, immediately, when the citizens of the world’s imperfect democracies take to the streets. In these cases the words “injustice,” “capitalism” and “exploitation” are used by the court’s newscasters to explain the whys of such social protests. Something very different occurs if the protestors rise up against an authoritarian regime, or … Continue reading “What’s Happening in Ukraine? / Yoani Sanchez”
A government spokesperson explains the advantages of the new Migration Law regarding property ownership for overseas residents 14ymedio, Madrid, 27 June 2024 — Doubts have been raised in Cuba since the preliminary draft bills of the Migration, Immigration and Citizenship laws were published last week. Not yet passed in the National Assembly and the subsequent … Continue reading “Cuban Citizenship May Be Lost for Acts Against the Regime, but Not for Being a Mercenary for Russia”
14ymedio, Xavier Carbonell, Salamanca, 22 May 2024 — Ten years ago, I thought I would always live in Cuba. I knew where the graves of my relatives were. I knew how to speak Cuban, not the standard dialect, not Canarian, nor Iberian, which is what I speak now. I knew that my country was mediocre … Continue reading “Cuba: The Decade of the Creative Stampede”
