🇺🇸 Why They Flee: Liberty, Not Just Bread. And why some stay in dangerous places in defense of liberty

Cuba’s political violence is a warning the U.S. can’t afford to ignore

Each week, sometimes every day, I receive reports from brave men and women inside Cuba. They are dissidents, human rights defenders, independent journalists, independent lawyers, and other resistance leaders who risk their lives to share stories the regime would rather the world never hear.

Not every report is easy to verify—Cuba is a surveillance state,…