Report: Cuba Beating Citizens into Staying Home to Prevent Nighttime Protests

The Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba published harrowing testimonies Monday from residents of Havana denouncing arrests and beatings by communist thugs intended to keep them from protesting during the routine nighttime blackouts in the country.

Cuba’s decades-old inhumane situation has worsened in the past months after the Castro regime, which has brutally repressed Cubans for over 67 years, found itself abruptly deprived of access to Venezuelan oil following the United States’s arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. For over two decades, the rogue communists relied on virtually free shipments of Venezuelan oil to keep their ailing regime afloat while helping their Venezuelan ideological protégés prop up their regime and providing security to Maduro in return.

The lack of Venezuelan support has led to a noticeable surge in daily anti-communist protests across Cuba. Protesters have availed themselves of anonymity granted by the dark during nighttime blackouts to take to the