The Cuban Dictatorship Took Him · He Recorded This First
Cuba's government says it is not a dictatorship, so this episode checks it against eight markers drawn from Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and Prisoners Defenders. On June 1, 2026, state security arrested Despingovery Channel creator Eddy Ceballos outside his Havana home and blocked him from calling his wife; he had recorded a farewell video weeks earlier, to be released only if they took him. The checklist runs fast: 470 candidates for 470 seats with no candidate ever losing, courts that receive written instructions from the Council of State, a sole state telecom that blocks independent media, and a political-prisoner count that climbed from 700 to 1,260 in six months. The 2019 constitution calls the socialist system irrevocable and defines its single recognized party as fidelista. One unbroken line since 1959.
Cuba's Military Starves Its People · Then Asks Them to Die for Them
Díaz-Canel told Newsweek Cuba would fight guerrilla war against the US. On NBC, he smiled and couldn't answer whether he'd step down. His military runs 121 empty hotels, manufactures soap, and controls 37% of GDP. His "War of All the People" doctrine forces children into defense drills and was used against peaceful protesters on July 11, 2021. Jonathan Muir is sixteen. He joined a protest about electricity. He's been in a cell since March 16. The charge: sabotage. The regime pardoned 2,010 prisoners in April. Not a single political prisoner was released.
54 Dead Teens, 0 Investigations · Cuba's Mandatory Military Service
Dailier Rodríguez Tamayo was 19. A military doctor ordered that he not carry weapons. Officers handed him a loaded gun. He used it. Cuba's mandatory military service has killed at least 54 documented young men — through suicide, explosions, and neglect — with zero investigations and zero accountability. The only countries with a comparable system are North Korea and Eritrea. This episode follows one boy's story to expose a machine that treats teenagers as state property, pays them a dollar a month, and says nothing when they die.
Two Lost Sailboats, an AKM for Silvio, and a 16-Year-Old Boy Sleeping with Bedbugs for Asking for Freedom
Nine people and a small child vanish in the Caribbean aboard two convoy sailboats. The U.S. Coast Guard says they're safe, then retracts. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Jonathan Muir sleeps on a bedbug-infested floor in a Cuban detention cell - no charges, no medicine, no one from the 650-delegate convoy saying his name. Plus: Silvio Rodríguez gets a combat rifle, and the regime finds a way to charge in dollars for sunlight.
Cuban Safari: 650 Leftists, a 5-Star Hotel, and a Country Without Power
In March 2026, 650 international delegates flew into Havana on charter planes, checked into a generator-powered five-star hotel, and paraded through the city in electric buses - while Cuba suffered its third nationwide blackout in 17 days and seven in ten Cubans skipped meals. This is the story of solidarity tourism at its most obscene, told through the voices of the Cubans who actually live it.
Yes, Cuba Is A Dictatorship
A Cuban teacher screams at her students that Cuba is not a dictatorship. The video goes viral. Then leaked directives reveal she was following orders from the regime. Behind her words: 26,000 empty teaching positions, $13/month salaries, and a school system that has nothing left except indoctrination.
Cuba's $18 Billion Secret
Cuba's military conglomerate GAESA holds $18 billion in reserves while the civilian economy collapses, revealing a country that isn't a failed socialist state but a successful military corporation running a failed state as a side business.
We show what the Cuban regime hides. The numbers they bury, the stories they silence, the price ordinary Cubans pay every day. No filtered version. No side to protect. Every number is a family. Every policy is someone's life.