January brings record number of political arrests in Cuba by U.S.-backed dictatorship

Since securing the backing and support of the U.S. government, Cuba’s notoriously repressive and murderous apartheid dictatorship has been on a rampage. President Obama’s decision to embrace the Castro regime in December of 2014 has unleashed a wave of violent repression on Cuba’s human rights and pro-democracy activists. Just last month, there were 1,414 violent political arrests in Cuba, a number surpassed only by the 1,447 violent political arrests that took place two months earlier in November of 2015.

These record-setting political arrests have all taken place during the supposed “thaw” in relations between Cuba’s apartheid dictatorship and the U.S. Apparently, this is the Hope and Change that president Obama promised the Cuban people.

Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:

January 2016: Second Most Repressive Month in Decades #Cuba

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The Cuban Commission for Human Rights (CCHR) has documented 1,414 political arrests by the Castro regime in Cuba during the month of January 2016.

This is — by far — the second highest monthly tally of political arrests recorded in decades.

The first?

November 2015 — when 1,447 political arrest were documented.

In sum, the two most repressive months in decades have been under the Obama Administration’s new policy.

These are only political arrests that have been thoroughly documented. Many more are suspected.

Thus, despite the Obama Administration’s engagement with the Castro dictatorship and increased travel to the island, repression on the island is exponentially rising.

Yet, the Obama Administration, business lobbyists and the media, keep giving the Castro regime a pass for its repressive acts.

Shameful.