Ángel Cuadra, Poet, Political Prisoner, Lawyer Passed Away. Cuban exile icon Angel Cuadra dies in Miami at the age of 89.

The historic Cuban exile community has lost another leader. Angel Cuadra, a poet and former political prisoner, passed away at the age of 89 on Saturday.

Requiescat in pace Angel. Your legacy and your integrity will live on and guide future generations.

Via Martí Noticias (my translation):

Poet and former political prisoner Angel Cuadra dies in Miami.
A former Cuban political prisoner, poet, and author, Angel Cuadra Landrove, passed away in the early morning hours of February 13 in the city of Miami at the age of 89, according to the PEN Club of Cuban Writers in Exile.

Castroism's Culture Minister Assaults Journalist in Broad Daylight. Filmed Beating Journalist During Protest.

A group of Cuban dissidents who had assembled before the Ministry of Culture headquarters in Havana on Wednesday filmed Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso physically assaulting a journalist and stealing his mobile phone.

Alonso was among several Communist Party officials who resorted to violence in the face of a small, peaceful crowd assembling in front of the ministry to demand a say in how their government manages the artistic community. The group had also chosen the date as an homage to Cuban founding father and poet José Martí, born on January 28.

Reports indicate that fewer than 30 people had assembled before the Ministry of Culture, but the group was enough to intimidate officials into violence.

Martí: Communist?  What is happening today in Cuba, its instigators have told us, began with the attack on a barracks in Oriente. The intellectual responsibility for the monstrosity that resulted from that attack on Moncada has been attributed to José Martí. How much truth is there in that statement?

The Castro revolution is based on a foundation of lies. Cuba is the only case in the world where communism achieved power by insistently denying its Marxist essence. The methodological need to insert into praxis the "scientific" socialism of Marx and Engels institutionalized the lie. This was undoubtedly made more acute by the eccentric directives of the foreman of the Creole version: false nationalism, ruthless anti-Americanism and hypocritical anti-capitalism. The falsification of data, history and facts has been part of the modus operandi of Castroism. The Cuban communists have spared nothing when lying. It was to be expected that Cuba's distinguished figure would not escape the trolling onslaught.

Trump admin places Communist Cuba back on terrorist. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that his department would return Cuba to its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism over the Castro regime’s ties to international terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The Castro regime — which regularly imprisons Cuban citizens for crimes such as “disrespect” if caught speaking ill about the government in public — also openly harbors violent American criminals, most prominently Joanne Chesimard, who killed a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973.

After decades on the list — since 1982 — President Barack Obama removed Cuba from the official State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism in 2015, claiming the evidence did not support a place for the regime on that list. At the time, Cuba shared the list with Iran, Syria, North Korea and Sudan; the administration of President Donald Trump removed Sudan from the list in 2020.