Amnistía Internacional Américas

Ernesto left Cuba in 2016. He had a communist upbringing and all his family were in the party. They and many others still maintain that the revolution in 1959 by Fidel Castro brought about positive change including free education, free health, free housing. But Ernesto believes that a revolution cannot be made without money or the support of the rest of the world and that in Cuba those with different views to the state do not have a voice.

Representatives of the Ladies in White continue to be arbitrarily detained in Cuba, usually for several hours each weekend, solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. They remain one of the primary targets of repression by the authorities and their arrests are often accompanied by severe beatings by law enforcement officials and state security agents dressed as civilians.

Our second episode of the series Cuban Lives. This is Laritza's story.

"I was working my normal job, but at the same time I was undercover collecting information for the security of the state... just like some kind of James Bond." This is Alvaro's story.

Cuban Lives Trailer by Amnistía Internacional Américas