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Summary. Blackouts exacerbated by US oil blockade Violent protests very rare in Cuba Cuba says it has opened talks with US. HAVANA, March 14 (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters attacked a Communist Party office in central Cuba early on Saturday, a state-run newspaper reported, in ​a rare outburst of public dissent triggered by blackouts exacerbated by a U.S. oil blockade. A rally against power cuts and food shortages began peacefully in the ‌city of Moron late on Friday then turned violent in the early hours of Saturday morning, Invasor newspaper said.

The Justice Department is preparing to indict Cuban leaders as President Trump says the island country is ‘going to fall.’According to The Washington Post and NBC News, Florida prosecutors are exploring federal charges against Cuba Regime officials.On Friday, in an interview with CNN, Trump again said that Cuba is going to fall soon. President Trump told CNN that he is deploying Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Cuba.

Protests against the arrest of a pro-Palestine Columbia graduate student are being organized by a Marxist revolutionary group that is pro-Communism, anti-Israel, and has potential links to the Chinese Communist Party. Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University, was detained earlier this month by the Trump administration, with the Department of Homeland Security arguing that he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” The People’s Forum helped organize some of the campus chaos and is now organizing protests to free Khalil. Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel group...

Ahead of resident Obama's historic visit, Castro's Cuba is more oppressive than ever. An Afro-Cuban dissident who spent time in Fidel Castro’s gulags, Oscar Biscet is one of many people that represent the real Cuba, the people who will be hidden from sight as resident Obama visits this week. While the resident basks in the Cuban sun and in photo-ops with its heavy-handed dictator, the fate and freedom of political resisters like Biscet remains grim. Biscet is free now in technical terms, but in reality, he remains among a cohort of dissenters who still live in an invisible prison: a...