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Details: Source/Author: Periódico CUBANO; Published: 06 April 2021

Arrests and incommunicado detention of UNPACU strikers. Nelva Ortega, wife of José Daniel Ferrer, was detained for 3 hours, Ferrer's daughter, Fátima Victoria Ferrer, 16, and activist Yaniris Popa were also detained.

The activists of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) were victims of violent detentions and incommunicado detention while they continue with a hunger strike against repression and a police siege ordered by the government.

It was reported via Twitter that Dr. Nelva Ortega, wife of José Daniel Ferrer, leader of this opposition group, was violently detained by State Security agents when she was on her way to visit striker Niuvis Biscet, who is very weakened.

Ferrer's daughter, Fatima Victoria Ferrer, 16, and activist Yaniris Popa were also detained along with the doctor. The three women were arbitrarily detained for three hours.

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Details: Source/Author: THE EPOCH TIMES; Published: 02 April 2021

MEPs demand Castro regime to end repression against UNPACU activists.

A group of members of the European Parliament (EP) demanded Thursday that the Castro regime cease repression against the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and expressed their concern for the more than 40 activists who have been on hunger strike for thirteen days.

In a letter (pdf) sent to the Cuban regime's Ambassador to the European Union, Norma Goicochea Estenoz, the group calls for the "cessation of the repressive police siege against UNPACU and its activists for their humanitarian work".

The document was signed by EP Vice-President Dita Charanzová; Javier Nart, María Soraya Rodríguez, Leopoldo López Gil, and the vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, Hermann Tertsch.

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Details: Source/Author: Radio Televisión Martí; Published: 28 March 2021

UNPACU activists persist in hunger strike: we will continue protesting against the tyranny's criminal actions

UNPACU leader José Daniel Ferrer said that the members of the opposition group who began a hunger strike on March 20 will continue "protesting against the criminal actions of the tyranny."

"It is our right," he asserted Sunday on Facebook.

"There are more than 60 activists on strike and 4 had to abandon due to their health problems," Ferrer said. "We continue with Patria y Vida."

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Details: Source/Author: Julio M. Shiling; Published: 25 March 2021

Manifesto of Montecristi and Cuba Today. In this document, José Martí exposed the causes that lead Cuba to fight against Spain to become an independent nation, free from economic or military control by any outside source.

It is written, and in non-cryptic language, that the Castro-communist dictatorship is in full gestation. While the sycophants of barbarism are preparing, on the one hand, the mummification of the despot and his system, on the other hand, they are in a hurry to furtively plunder the national wealth, with their family members who are scouring the protection of foreign residences (giving clear demonstration of the little confidence in the survival of Cuban socialism and the delinquent and corrupt nature of the Castro revolution), multiple propositions of the pro-democratic forces are being put forward. The pristine patriotism embodied in the Montecristi Manifesto would be a sumptuous compass.

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