***ping***
I don’t think the number of arrests in cuba have ever depended on US action or presence worldwide.
Maybe a false belief that Raul is a softie compared to Castro is emboldening activists.
Or, it might have something to do w/global warming. Natives getting restless in the heat and all that.
What’s with all the hyphens? Aalready-very-repressive-country doesn’t need any hyphens. Just say already very repressive country. Asleep-at-the-wheel doesn’t need any hyphens. It’s an idiom. Just say asleep at the wheel. Rounds-up is not a noun. A round-up is where they gather a bunch of cattle together, but they round them up, they don’t round-up them. Go round up the cattle.