Cuban dissidents keep playing waiting game with gov’t

Like house mice waiting for the cat to go away, dissidents in Cuba patiently wait for changes by the island's government. Since Raul Castro took over as Cuba’s leader, there have been no significant political changes on the island though dissidents fear a major crackdown may be coming up. It is this worry that led forty Cuban women to engage in a peaceful protest of the 2003 crackdown where the government arrested seventy-five opposition activists, and have also led some intellectuals to gradually speak out against the Castro regime.

In the meantime, the mice continue to wait.

Links- The Latin Americanist, Oberlin, Guardian UK, Kansas City Star

Image- Loki Films (Scene from 2003 film "Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project")