Category
page 1Cuban democracy movements
Cuban dissident movement
Political movement in Cuba whose aim is "to replace the current regime with a more democratic form of government"
Patriotic Union of Cuba
Cuban human rights organization
Maleconazo
The '''''' was a protest on 5 August 1994, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets around the Malecón in Havana to demand freedom and express frustration with the government. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba fell into a crippling economic crisis that had many citizens looking to flee the island. On the day of the protest, the Cuban police blocked people from boarding tugboats leaving Havana, prompting thousands of citizens to storm the streets in the largest anti-government demonstration Cuba had seen since the Cuban Revolution. In the following week