The organization Archivo Cuba launched this Tuesday a request for help to continue its work promoting human rights through studies and publications. The Miami-based NGO took advantage of the statement to detail its projects and underlined the impact that its reports have had on the unequal “information war against the Cuban regime.”
The Government of the Island, denounces the text, dedicates “enormous financial and human resources” to “internal control and to disseminate its nefarious influence and propaganda“. Archivo Cuba, which publishes its materials in Spanish and English, affirms that the only possibility of counteracting these campaigns is the publication of reliable data on the country.
To endorse its work of more than twenty years, the organization points out that its information is received by journalists, researchers, officials from different governments and multiple organizations, in addition to civil society and activists on the Island.
“Only in 2022, to date we have received 137 requests for information from the media, academies, governments and organizations from 15 countries; and we have participated in numerous interviews and academic events,” they say.
Archivo Cuba carries out specific projects in three areas of interest related to human rights, human trafficking and the “imperialist” attitude and regional interference that, they say, the Cuban government has sustained for six decades.
“In 2022 alone, to date we have received 137 requests for information from the media, academia, governments and organizations from 15 countries; and we have participated in numerous interviews and academic events”
The project on Truth and Memory explores how a transition to democracy could take place on the Island and “builds historical memory and honors the victims”, more than 11,445 dead and disappeared by Castroism, according to the organization’s databases.
Cuba Salud, the second of its projects, denounces the “forced labor of Cuban export workers”, sanctioned by the Pan American Health Organization. The regime exploits the medical brigades that it sends abroad, while the doctors receive a minimal profit, they denounce.
Lastly, Archivo Cuba describes in its project International Interventions in Cuba the “history and methodology” of the regime’s interference in other nations, warning about the insecurity represented by intelligence services infiltrated in the region.
The organization refers potential donors to the postal address of the project or to their website.
The last of the Archivo Cuba reports detailed the events in Bahía Honda, Artemisa, when a boat with 26 migrants was rammed by a boat from the Border Guard Troops. The balance of the meeting was seven people dead, including a two-year-old girl who was traveling with her mother.
“Cuba’s totalitarian regime is the only government in the history of Latin America that systematically prevents its citizens from leaving the country and kills them for trying,” the organization states in its report.
“The totalitarian regime of Cuba is the only government in the history of Latin America that systematically prevents its citizens from leaving the country and kills them for trying”
The NGO summarizes several cases of executions for attempting to leave Cuba, civilian massacres at sea and extrajudicial executions in the vicinity of the Guantánamo naval base and for trying to obtain asylum in foreign embassies. All these facts have been verified as of January 1, 1959, and Archivo Cuba lists events similar to that of Bahía Honda, such as the Barlovento massacre (1962), the Banes massacre (1964) or the sinking of the tugboat March 13 (1994).
They also record the executions by firing squad of 29 Cubans who tried to leave the country, including that of the García-Marín brothers, assassinated in 1981 after they tried to obtain political asylum in the apostolic nunciature – the Vatican embassy – in Havana. The arrest of the three young men had the complicity of the nuncio Giulio Einaudi and the Vatican authorities, who remained silent.
Crossing the Cuban “Berlin Wall” – the land border with the Guantánamo naval base – has been one of the most frequent causes of life imprisonment and executions without trial by the regime. The US authorities maintain classified files on these “systematic murders”, says the NGO.
Archivo Cuba proposes a series of measures to confront the Cuban regime in international forums. The claims to the United Nations rapporteurs for Extrajudicial Executions and Against Torture, the request for sanctions against the rulers and repressors, the cessation of loans and economic assistance to the State and the guarantee of reliable information for the Cuban people are some of the demands indicated by the NGO.
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