Over the last few months, we've watched massive repression. Of course, this is on top of "the police state" that Cubans have lived under since the "workers paradise" was created many years ago.
Keep an eye on one very courageous couple: Ivonne Malleza and Ignacio Martinez, husband and wife
"Malleza has been imprisoned since November 30th- for 6 weeks now- for the simple act of protesting publicly in a centric park of Havana, where a group of dissidents shouted that the Cuban people were hungry, tired, and desperate for freedom.
Malleza has been on and off carrying out hunger strikes while in captivity, though as of now she is not.
However, her husband Ignacio Martinez, also imprisoned since November 30th, just declared on Thursday, January 12th that he had initiated a hunger strike in demand for his liberation, as well as that of his wife and Isabel Haydee Alvarez, a Cuban citizen not affiliated to any opposition group who simply joined in the protest of the 30th."
There is Sara Marta Fonseca, another brave Cuban woman standing up against the corrupt communist regime
"If State Security goes through with the threat they made that I can end up handicapped, well then they are going to have to beat me in my wheelchair. Because putting me in a wheelchair is not going to stop me from taking to the streets and continuing to demand the liberty of all political prisoners and liberty and democracy for all the people of Cuba."
And there is a lot more.
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