In recent months, as a result of the Country Email List actions of the San Isidro Movement and 27-N, the Cuban State and the official media have rescued Law 88 of 1999. It has been said that some activists from both organizations could be Country Email List prosecuted in accordance with that legal norm. In itself, the existence of a law that is there is irregular and arbitrary, not to be applied to the letter, but to be used as a threat Country Email List against the exercise of public freedoms guaranteed and relatively expanded in the last Constitution of 2019.

In the two Latin American governments Country Email List most closely linked geopolitically to Cuba, the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro and the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega, very similar legal devices have been adopted. The entire offensive against the Venezuelan opposition, since 2019, has followed the Country Email List same premise. The arrests of activists, journalists and political leaders in Nicaragua, in recent months, have been based on a law that copies the letter and spirit of the Cuban law: Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence, Sovereignty and Country Email List Self-determination for Peace or Law 1055 of 2020.

Would the Cuban government be Country Email List willing to apply Law 88 of 1999 to hundreds or thousands of people involved in the demonstrations of July 11 and 12? How will that government advance in the criminal and political Country Email List prosecution of such a large group of protesters? Whichever route is chosen, it is clear that, if it wanted to do so, nothing would prevent the highest Cuban leadership from Country Email List putting together a case of mass justice and projecting it, once again, on the bilateral conflict with the United States.