Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua Are Black Holes the United Nations Can't Ignore
Latin America isn’t immune to the wave of repression washing over the world, with increasingly nasty consequences that its healthy democracies and northern neighbors can’t afford to ignore.
Havana, Managua, Caracas…where next?
Photographer: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty
Just days ago, a Cuban magazine called AM:PM was forced to shut down, its management denouncing the “increasing pressure and harassment” of the country’s counterintelligence agencies. But AM:PM wasn’t in the business of uncovering political scandals or reporting on the communist island’s crumbling economy; it focused on celebrating Cuban music.
That secret police now torment those who give voice to one of the richest regional rhythms solely because they were receiving international financing is yet one more example of the extremes to which the region’s autocratic regimes are going in their relentless crackdown on dissent.