June was another banner month for the Cuban dictatorship efforts to clamp down on its peaceful opposition, with a human rights monitor recording more than five times as many politically motivated arrests as it did in June 2013.
There were last month at least 963 politically motivated arrests, compared to 180 a year earlier, according to the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
That brings the total so far in 2014 to 5,904.
At June's average of pace of about 32 arrests a day, in about two weeks the Castro dictatorship and its secret police in about two weeks will surpass the 6,424 arrests recorded in all of 2013.
As always, remember that the actual numbers may be higher. The human rights commission and other activists do a valiant job in trying to record the repression in Cuba but the volume of arrests, the secretive manner in which many of them are made and the absolute lack of accountability by the regime for what it does, make an exact count almost impossible.
But the bottom line is clear: Despite the best wishes of the naive and the ignorant, the optomistic and the fellow traveling, nothing has changed in Cuba.
In fact, it's getting much worse.
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For the human rights commission's full June report and details on each arrest it counted, go here.
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