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News & Current Events Apr 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM

Cuba pardons 2,010 people as the US pressures the island's government

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Cuba releasing 2,010 prisoners as the US pressures the island's government
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Cuba releasing 2,010 prisoners as the US pressures the island's government
The Cuban government says it will release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island’s government with a suffocating oil blockade.
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fxkatt Apr 3, 2026 +79
>*Cuba’s government does not recognize political prisoners, but the activist group Prisoners Defended registered 1,214 people imprisoned for political reasons in Cuba.* This would indicate that perhaps less than half of the released were political prisoners. I say this because the numbers 1,214 are recorded by an activist group which might at least slightly inflate the number, and over 2000 were released.
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InterestingSpeaker Apr 3, 2026 -14
It's probably the opposite. There are probably a lot of political prisoners in cuba that no one is aware of.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 3, 2026 +7
I would imagine that the organization designed to track it has a pretty solid grasp on numbers just from surveying the population, let alone modem uses of satellites etc
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InterestingSpeaker Apr 3, 2026 +1
It's hard for an NGO to survey anything in a dictatorship.
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PatchyWhiskers Apr 3, 2026 +129
I don’t think the current USA cares about humanitarian gestures.
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CluelessChem Apr 3, 2026 +58
We just bombed a girls school and threatened to destroy all desalination plants in Iran…which are war crimes by the way 😭
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HateAccountMaking Apr 3, 2026 +1
never have.
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CarlThe94Pathfinder Apr 3, 2026 -26
You mean the administration..
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OdosSolidAdventures Apr 3, 2026 +29
As an American also, it is definitely not just the admin. The problem is Americans are so brainwashed by the status quo that they literally have no concept of the real world when reality strikes them in the face. Trump and the republicans learned that their opposition is rather toothless and won't offer a whole lot of real push back, no kings seems to be the best they could muster and look at what that accomplished? I mean, Trump is a literal child rapist, and nobody is bothered to actually do anything. Entire governments have collapsed over much lesser scandals, and yet best we got is dancing frogs.
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PixelatedFrogDotGif Apr 3, 2026 +58
No. It’s the US. This admin is not an aberration, it’s the logical conclusion of building a country on violence and money.
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PerfectAstronaut Apr 3, 2026 -19
No it isn’t. Your personal narrative means nothing. There are tons of decent people here
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bland-scape Apr 3, 2026 +17
So quickly indignant about someone correctly stating that the issues of the United States extend beyond this current administration. And I wonder if you’d extend the same line of thinking about tons of decent people when it comes to Cuba or Iran
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PixelatedFrogDotGif Apr 3, 2026 +21
I never said there wasn’t decent people. I believe that too. Our government is not and has never been fully in good people’s hands though, and quite literally can’t, by design. The decent people here need to make something better.
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Nucksfaniam Apr 3, 2026 +12
Then get your decent people together to vote out this abomination. Twice??? Wtf??
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Miserable-Savings751 Apr 3, 2026 +2
Vote ? Aren’t these the same people that said the votes were rigged? Now the world is expected to wait until their upcoming elections becuse suddenly the votes aren’t rigged anymore lolll. They will use every excuse in the book if it means not taking action.
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glaba3141 Apr 3, 2026 +2
You can't. Liberal democracies are fundamentally subordinate to the interests of capitalists, not average people
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Slavik81 Apr 3, 2026 +2
Capitalists only get one vote each and they are vastly outnumbered by average people. If the problem is that capitalists have convinced the average person to vote for fascism, then the average person is still to blame for the harm that follows.
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SmokeLauncher Apr 3, 2026 +1
Money *is* power, why do even Democrats act against the will of their base when they want things like universal healthcare and ending to the genocide? The leaders are bought out by lobbyists in private healthcare and AIPAC affiliates. Why do billionaires keep buying media companies if not to influence public discourse? Tiktok was bought by the Ellisons as it counteracted the narrative they wanted to foster. Republicans are obviously even worse but that goes without saying. Capitalists only have one vote but they have massive influence over the votes of millions of us.
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Saorren Apr 3, 2026 +2
this sort of thinking is why your problems will only be extended longer than they have to be. its time to take off your rose coloured glasses and see the actual colours as they are. reading a comment that doesnt paint 340million people with one brush as if it did actually paint all with one brush.
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CarlThe94Pathfinder Apr 3, 2026 -15
Bro, the majority of US people aren't sitting here saying "good, f*** Cuba" That's absolutely insane to sit here and actually think that. Orange Goo doesn't speak for every US Citizen.
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charavaka Apr 3, 2026 +23
Vast majority of Americans vote for the two parties that have blockaded Cuba for decades, causing untold misery, suffering, and death. Whether or not they consider Cuba while voting is immaterial to the fact that they bear the moral responsibility for the consequences of their choices. 
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GoldDoubleCup Apr 3, 2026 +19
Every democratic politician wants Iran and Cuba to fall. Both parties are completely aligned on this. In fact, Democrats seem incredibly pleased that Trump will receive all of the negative attention for accomplishing a goal that they had in mind
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ComfortableNumb9669 Apr 3, 2026 +10
The problem is that the majority of people in the US are stupid and ignorant. They don't think about Cuba because they don't really know anything about it other than the idea that "Mexicans" come from there. Americans are stupid, and their stupidity has become deadly for the entire world. It might be a few bad apples, but keeping them in the basket is destroying the whole bunch.
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PixelatedFrogDotGif Apr 3, 2026 +7
The average US citizen has never been the one in the driver’s seat for the entirety of our history. Who I speak of is not the general populous.
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glaba3141 Apr 3, 2026 +3
The average person doesn't know where Cuba is on the map. The majority of the remainder would say "fidel Castro was an evil dictator" because that's what the propaganda says
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Rich-Instruction-327 Apr 3, 2026 -11
Every country is built on violence and money. Its like calling an oceans water wet.
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GoldDoubleCup Apr 3, 2026 +6
Barack Obama overthrew Libya, a prosperous African nation, because they were disconnecting from western financial institutions and using their wealth to benefit their people through socialism. The moment Libya fell. It became an open air, slave market, and remains that way today.
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uniklyqualifd Apr 3, 2026 +85
Hard to run jails without powers, that probably goes into cruel and unusual punishment.
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BNovak183 Apr 3, 2026 +115
Yeah running prisons without power is a human rights violation but blockading a country resulting in the deaths of countless is just business as usual.
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opal_lanterns Apr 3, 2026 -13
Yeah, I read that as “without superpowers” at first and was very confused. But yeah, constant blackouts plus overcrowding… releasing people is probably cheaper than fixing the grid.
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Dofusk2012 Apr 3, 2026 +18
I mean I don’t think they *can* fix the grid, they don’t have the fuel because of US sanctions
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AdhesivenessFun2060 Apr 3, 2026 +20
Was one of them the person that was helping the guys who tried to invade cuba?
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GoldDoubleCup Apr 3, 2026 +20
Likely a lot of them were people connected to Americans or the American government and trying to harm Cuba in someway
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Pale_Sell1122 Apr 3, 2026 +20
so the feds and CIA collaborators?
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Ice-Teets Apr 3, 2026 +3
Interesting how none of these comments are impressed or accepting at all of something that seems positive.
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DroopyTers Apr 3, 2026 +5
Because the USA could do something positive about [the country with the 5th highest prison population per capita](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/), and it wouldn’t require a blockade. [“The ends don’t justify the means”](https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54332-more-americans-disapprove-than-approve-of-the-us-blocking-oil-shipments-to-cuba-and-the-us-embargo) is going to be a common belief about Trump’s violent foreign policy. [Even with Iran.](https://zeteo.com/p/no-iranian-americans-dont-support)
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Ice-Teets Apr 3, 2026 -3
Yeah it’s been that way for decades. You can’t just be happy for other people?
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