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It's likely that the Castro regime's defenders will dismiss any sources I provide as "western propaganda", but these are a good place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Contempor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Cuba

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/six-fact...

I do not know about a specific instance of someone holding up a sign like the one in the photo I linked to, but I also sincerely doubt anyone in their right mind would attempt such a thing.

The closest recent example I can find is someone painting the names of the Castro brothers on a pair of pigs and being thrown in prison for it (in 2015):

http://www.newsweek.com/cuban-protest-artist-el-sexto-you-ha...

Far worse things happened during the early days of the revolution. I was going to link them but I changed my mind because I don't want to weaken my point. Freedom of speech is far stronger in a place like the US than in a place like Castro's Cuba.



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