{"id":32041,"date":"2026-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/magazines\/in-focus-cuba-6849\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:22:13","slug":"in-focus-cuba-6849","status":"publish","type":"magazines","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/magazines\/in-focus-cuba-6849\/","title":{"rendered":"En el foco: Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8d55ebd9272287f124589f28a8ba967c.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>A generation determined: How Cuba&#8217;s Christian influencers have caught the regime off-guard<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young Cubans have become the protagonists of a new revolution. Their weapons: the truth and a mobile phone. Many Christians are among them, motivated by their faith, using social media to challenge decades of state control. It caught the regime off-guard \u2013 but was not without retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernesto is imprisoned. Iv\u00e1n Daniel has fled to Spain. Anna and her mother are under house arrest. David is under surveillance and threatened with reprisals against his children and wife. And it is important to point out that, until these content creators publicly identified with Christianity and its influence in bringing freedom to the country, their posts on social media were tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018Jesus is Lord, not the Communist Party of Cuba.\u2019<\/b> <i>Ernesto Ricardo Medina<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018Neither the Party nor the Cuban government represents me [\u2026] I am represented by Christ, who never remained passive in the face of injustice and oppression\u2026\u2019<\/b> <i>Anna Bensi<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018God has been good. He has not failed. We hope we will not fail Him.\u2019<\/b><i> Iv\u00e1n Daniel Cal\u00e1s Navarro<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018What motivates us to create this Christian content is precisely our faith; [\u2026] precisely because we are Christians, we are against injustice, and the Church cannot remain silent.\u2019<\/b><i>Iv\u00e1n Daniel Cal\u00e1s Navarro<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Blog<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a shortened version of an article published on 6 May 2026. Read it in full at csw.org.uk\/blog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Facts and stats<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, CSW documented <b>505 verified cases<\/b> of violations of freedom of religion or belief in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/cuba\" target=\"_blank\"><b>csw.org.uk\/cuba<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generation determined: How Cubas Christian influencers have caught the regime off-guard<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19483,"template":"","regions":[140,137],"class_list":["post-32041","magazines","type-magazines","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-cuba","regions-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazines\/32041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazines"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazines"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazines\/32041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41814,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazines\/32041\/revisions\/41814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=32041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}