“The regime is incapable of solving the essential problems of the people. It only manages repression and the interests of the elite,” denounces Yaxys Cires, head of strategies at the observatory.
MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) recorded at least 225 repressive actions in Cuba during November, according to its monthly report published this Monday. The organization, based in Madrid, detailed that 18 corresponded to arbitrary detentions and 207 to other types of abuses.
Among the most frequent violations, it mentions illegal detentions in homes, threats, police summonses and abuses against political prisoners. It also highlights that the most affected provinces were Havana, Holguín, Guantánamo and Sancti Spíritus, where the majority of cases were concentrated.
“The regime maintains repression in a context of aggravated social crisis, without medicine or food to alleviate the health situation derived from several simultaneous epidemics. “The authorities do not provide solutions and at the same time continue to repress any political or citizen initiative,” the OCDH said in its statement.
In statements to CubaNetYaxys Cires, head of strategies at the observatory, stressed in this sense that “89% of families are in extreme poverty and the regime is incapable of solving the essential problems of the people, but its response is repression. They only manage repression and the interests of the elite.”
Cires also warned about the expansion of harassment beyond Cuban borders, pointing out that “signaling against journalists, influencers and activists residing abroad” has increased. In this regard, the OCDH denounced the threats against 18 journalists and collaborators of the digital media The Touchbased outside the country, which took place last month.
“We see with concern the growing use of blacklists to threaten exiled activists in several countries,” the organization said and held the regime responsible for “any situation that these people may face.”
According to data collected by the observatory, between January and November 2025, at least 2,883 repressive actions have been recorded in the country, including 651 illegal detentions in homes and 508 arbitrary detentions.
