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Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)
CUBA: What does 2015 hold in store for Cubans?
The Cuban Revolution turned 56 on 1 January. The momentous joint announcement two weeks earlier, on 17 December, that the US and Cuba would renew diplomatic relations has fuelled speculation about whether a gradual normalisation of ties over the coming year will prolong the Castro dictatorship or hasten its end. Cuba has begun to release 53 political prisoners as agreed but there is no sign that the regime is preparing to relax restrictions on individual liberties. On 30 December the police arrested several dissidents, as well as a Cuban-born artist, Tania Bruguera, ahead of her planned ‘performance’ that day to discuss the future of the island.
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