Cuba’s Racial Reckoning, and What It Means for Biden
Recent protests have challenged longstanding taboos, with unpredictable consequences for the regime.
At the end of November, a group of approximately 500 Cubans staged a small protest outside the Ministry of Culture This group, now called the N27, demanded the end to the permanent harassment directed toward a young social movement of mostly Afro-Cuban artists and musicians called the San Isidro Movement Like the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, the N27 protest was sparked by police brutality against Afro-Cubans The focal incident was the arrest of rapper Denis Solís, one of San Isidro’s members The incident was caught on a cell phone video which went viral on social...
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