Cuban dissident movement

Tries, the Cuban opposition since 1959 against the Castro regime to achieve a transformation in Cuba against the dictatorial ruling power elite to Fidel and Raúl Castro. Means to do so, in addition to reconnaissance work against the ever-present state propaganda in particular actions such as ( unapproved ) demonstrations, collections of interviews citizen, petitions for (and later not approved ) referendums and (rejected ) offers to the government for the common dialog. These actions are not harmful to the participants, as they bring nature a public confession of anti-government attitude with them. There are also small independent unions or libraries. Historically, there have also been violent forms of resistance that included even terrorist attacks on civilian targets.

A the state and the party opposing, organized opposition is not provided in the political system of Cuba. Non- state compliant parties or civil society organizations are illegal. The task for the suppression of internal opposition groups and the use against troublemakers falls to the police and special intelligence groups. Also, there are specially formed for paramilitary units.

There are several hundred, mostly of only a few members of existing organizations and parties in umbrella organizations such as the Asamblea para PROMOVER la Sociedad Civil ( Assembly to Promote Civil Society ), Todos Unidos ( All Together ), Convergencia Liberal Cubana (Liberal Cuban convergence ) or the Frente de Unidad Nacional ( the National Unity Front ) work together are partially but also among themselves.

Important groups are the Partido Solidaridad Democrática ( Party of the Democratic Solidarity), the Movimiento Cristiano Liberación (MCL, Christian Liberation Movement, Founder: Oswaldo Paya ) or the Arco Progresista (spectrum of progress ) and led by Martha Beatriz Roque Asamblea para PROMOVER la Sociedad Civil en Cuba, where the latter works closely with right Cuban exile organizations in Miami, what is seen by the other major opposition groups very critical. It became clear that difference in attitude to the first public and tolerated by the Cuban government meeting to promote civil society in Cuba on 20 May 2005, chaired by Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and Vladimiro Roca in Havana: the former organizations and half of the 75 victims of the last mass arrest declared their non-attendance or rejection of the represented there policy objectives.

Outside of Cuba exists among the 2 million Cuban exiles (→ Cuban exiles ) in Miami an active opposition, the most important organization is the anti-communist Cuban - American National Foundation CANF. In addition to educational and lobbying some Cuban exile organizations also regular air services to the Caribbean, Cuban refugees to fish out of the sea and sure to bring ashore. Some flew light aircraft as far away as Cuba and throwing leaflets critical of the government there from. In February 1996, the government had two of these aircraft after two warnings that were ignored by the pilots who shoot over international waters by the air force, a significant deterioration of relations between the U.S. and Cuba had the consequence.

For the Cuban government all opposition groups and activities are principally the work of U.S. imperialism. In fact, in particular are close to some Cuban exile organizations the U.S. and its political system; its critics refer to this as overt or covert annexation. The U.S. government has provided only for 2006, U.S. $ 15 million in the budget for the support of the Cuban opposition groups and Cuban exile organizations in Miami ( source: USAID Cuba Program ), which in part were paid directly by the U.S. Interests Section in Havana to the target organizations or distributed over the exile organizations in Miami. These funds were raised to 2012 $ 20 million U.S..

Various Cuban opposition and opposition movements have been awarded with international human rights prizes. The Sakharov Prize has been awarded to the same three times: 2002 to Oswaldo Paya, 2005, the Ladies in White, and in 2010 Guillermo Fariñas.