Via CubaNet (my translation):
Just a few days after the eighth anniversary of the diplomatic thaw pushed by the Obama administration with Raul Castro’s regime, renowned Cuban opposition leader, Guillermo “Coco” Fariñas — the 2010 Sakharov Prize winner for freedom of conscience — has affirmed that the Cuban dissidence has been betrayed by the democratic world.
His criticism is largely shared by the opposition both on and off the island that has rejected rapprochement between the U.S. government and the Castro regime, which today is led, at least nominally, by Miguel Diaz-Canel.
That “clean slate” policy promoted by Obama has been brought back by the Biden administration without much fanfare, but with clear steps towards normalization of relations between both countries. This despite Cuban prisons holding more than 1,000 political prisoners. For its part, the Communist Party continues its hostile and defamatory rhetoric against the U.S. and Cuba’s stance on the war in Ukraine is considered shameful and diametrically opposed to the interests of nations that on several occasions have rescued the longest-lasing dictatorship in the west, forgiving debt and restructuring loan payments.
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