⚖ Documented HR Violators
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⚖ PERPETRATORS 60 / 212
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POLITICAL
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
"Fidel Castro"
Founder of the Cuban Communist regime; deceased 25 November 2016
📋 39
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
INTEL_SECURITY
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Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas
"Alvarez Casas"
Minister of the Interior (MININT)
📋 7
⛔ 1
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
Manuel Marrero Cruz
Prime Minister of Cuba; Politburo member
📋 3
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Maricela Sosa Ravelo
tribunal officer (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
"Díaz-Canel"
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba; President of the Republic
📋 47
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz
"Raúl Castro"
Retired General; former First Secretary of the PCC; member of the Politburo
📋 40
⛔ 1
🔗 0
T1
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Rubén Remigio Ferro
tribunal officer (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
MILITARY
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Álvaro López Miera
Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR); General de Cuerpo de Ejército
📋 4
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
Esteban Lazo Hernández
President of the National Assembly of People's Power; member of the Politburo
📋 2
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
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Manuel ANIDO CUESTA
OFAC SDN (EO-14404); stepson of President Diaz-Canel (son of Lis Cuesta Peraza)
📋 3
⛔ 1
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
Vice President of the Council of Ministers; Comandante de la Revolución
📋 2
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T1
INTEL_SECURITY
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Raul Alejandro CASTRO CALIS
OFAC SDN (EO-14404); son of Alejandro Castro Espin (grandson of Raul Castro)
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T1
POLITICAL
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Roberto Tomás Morales Ojeda
PCC Politburo, Secretary of Organization
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Alvaro Victoriano LOPEZ MIERA
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Ania Guillermina LASTRES MORERA
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Annalie Lilliam RUEDA CARDERO
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Eddy Manuel SIERRA ARIAS
Deputy Director, Policia Nacional Revolucionaria
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Eugenio Armando RABILERO AGUILERA
Chief of the Eastern Army (Ejercito Oriental), FAR — since March 2024
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Fidel Ernesto CASTRO CALIS
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Gretza SANCHEZ PADRON
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Heriberto SANCHEZ ALLEYNE
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Jose Antonio REMON RODRIGUEZ
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Jose Miguel GOMEZ DEL VALLIN
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Juan Esteban LAZO HERNANDEZ
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Leima MARTINEZ FREIRE
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Monica MILIAN GOMEZ
📋 1
⛔ 1
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Noemi Ramona RABAZA FERNANDEZ
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Oscar Alejandro CALLEJAS VALCARCE
Director, Policia Nacional Revolucionaria
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Oscar Enrique BIOSCA GALLEGO
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Raul VILLAR KESSELL
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Roberto Jesus VICIANA MOUSSET
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Roberto LEGRA SOTOLONGO
Deputy Chief of the General Staff Revolutionary Armed Forces and Chief of the Directorate of Operations of the…
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Rosabel GAMON VERDE
📋 2
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
⛔
Vicente DE LA O LEVY
📋 4
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Waldo PEREZ CORTES
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
INTEL_SECURITY
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Alejandro Castro Espín
Colonel; reportedly senior figure in regime intelligence and security coordination
📋 6
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Carlos Martínez Rodríguez
"Carlitos El Cojo"
Prison commander — Lt-Col (teniente coronel)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Guillermo Cordero Monduy
teniente coronel
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Humberto Garcés Tassé
jefe de Orden Interior
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Jimmy Ricardo Torres
Prison commander — jefe de orden interior
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Joselín Sánchez
magistrado (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Juan Miguel Sanchez Duarte
director de la prisión
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Kenia Morales
teniente coronel (MININT/MINFAR)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Landín
Prison deputy commander — segundo jefe, penitentiary unit (Lt-Col)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Luis Alberto Lopez-Calleja
general
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja
President / Chairman, GAESA
📋 1
⛔ 2
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Noel Morales López
Prison commander — jefe de prisiones (Mayor)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Osmani Leyva
coronel (MININT/MINFAR)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
MINISTRY
Ulises Rosales del Toro
"Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro"
Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Vladimir Pineda Guerra
Coronel
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_COMMAND
Yanieskys Trecus
La directora
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
SANCTIONED_OFFICIAL
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Álvaro LOPEZ MIERA
"Alvaro López Miera"
Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR)
📋 3
⛔ 1
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Betancourt Leyva
juez
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Gladys María Padrón Canals
juez (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Hugo Liens Martínez
Jueza Ponente
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Irina Díaz Delis
Jueza Ponente
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Iris González Martín
juez (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Juan Sosa Orama
juez (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
María Elena Fornari Conde
juez (Tribunal)
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
T2
HR_VIOLATOR_JUDICIAL
Melody González Pedraza
jueza
📋 0
⛔ 0
🔗 0
⏱ HR EVENT TIMELINE 50 events · last 12 months · perpetrator + linked-victim
Cuban Leader Emphasizes UN Support While Ignoring Bruno Rodríguez's UN Disruption
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Cuban Leader Emphasizes UN Support While Ignoring Bruno Rodríguez's UN Disruption
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Cuban Leader Emphasizes UN Support While Ignoring Bruno Rodríguez's UN Disruption
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"Cuban Intellectual Condemns Bruno Rodríguez's Embarrassing Display at the UN"
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Rubio warns Venezuela's Machado: Street protests won't get you democracy
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Marco Rubio exhibe Cayo Piedra y denuncia los privilegios de la cúpula cubana
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Identifican al diplomático del régimen cubano que habría intentado cortar los micrófonos de EE.UU. en la ONU
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Show cubano en la ONU: quiénes acompañan a Bruno Rodríguez en Naciones Unidas
Auto-ingested from CubaNet RSS feed.
“No es tu dictadura comunista”: el choque entre Waltz y Bruno Rodríguez en la ONU
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“No es tu dictadura comunista”: el choque entre Waltz y Bruno Rodríguez en la ONU
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Bruno Rodríguez lidera un acto de repudio contra el embajador de EE UU en la Asamblea General de la ONU
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'No me vas a intimidar': el embajador de EEUU frena a Bruno Rodríguez, que ensaya un acto de repudio en la Asamblea General de la ONU
Auto-ingested from Diario de Cuba RSS feed.
Las noticias como son
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Las noticias como son
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Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-27: Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU.
Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-27: Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU.
Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-27: Este es el funcionario cubano que intentó silenciar al embajador de EE. UU. en la ONU.
Qué pueden hacer (y qué no) los agentes de ICE durante un operativo migratorio
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-27: Qué pueden hacer (y qué no) los agentes de ICE durante un operativo migratorio.
Cuántas casas se puede tener en Cuba, quién puede comprarlas y qué hacer ante una ocupación ilegal
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-27: Cuántas casas se puede tener en Cuba, quién puede comprarlas y qué hacer ante una ocupación ilegal.
Cuban Leader Congratulates Lula on Electoral Win, Extends Support to Brazil
Auto-ingested from CubaHeadlines RSS feed.
Cuban Leader Congratulates Lula on Electoral Win, Extends Support to Brazil
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Cubano con tumor lleva más de ocho meses preso por fotografiar carteles
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Cubano con tumor lleva más de ocho meses preso por fotografiar carteles
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Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-26: Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos.
Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-26: Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos.
Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-26: Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos.
Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-26: Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos.
Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos
Named in El Toque human-rights coverage on 2026-10-26: Destierros sin decreto: un legionario polaco y dos periodistas cubanos.
Guiteras Power Plant Disconnects from National Grid Due to Turbine Vibrations
Auto-ingested from CubaHeadlines RSS feed.
Falla en línea de alta tensión deja sin electricidad a Santiago de Cuba y Guantánamo
Auto-ingested from CubaNet RSS feed.
Xi Jinping refuerza la disciplina del Partido Comunista tras años de purgas internas
Auto-ingested from 14ymedio RSS feed.
Fidel Castro y los fantasmas nazis de la Revolución
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Regreso de Machado es resultado de diálogo de reconciliación en Venezuela, afirma Rubio
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Regreso de Machado es resultado de diálogo de reconciliación en Venezuela, afirma Rubio
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Regreso de Machado es resultado de diálogo de reconciliación en Venezuela, afirma Rubio
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Cuban Leader Urges Endurance as Citizens Demand Change: "Enough with Repression"
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Cuban Leader Urges Endurance as Citizens Demand Change: "Enough with Repression"
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Díaz-Canel Challenges Trump's Remarks, Upholds 1959 as True Independence Day for Cuba
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Díaz-Canel Challenges Trump's Remarks, Upholds 1959 as True Independence Day for Cuba
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Díaz-Canel Challenges Trump's Remarks, Upholds 1959 as True Independence Day for Cuba
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🔗 PRIMARY SOURCES & MONITORS
HRW Cuba ↗
Human Rights Watch country page
OHCHR UPR Cuba ↗
UN UPR cycle reports & treaty bodies
Cubalex ↗
Cuban legal-defence archive — torture & detention casework
Amnesty Cuba ↗
Amnesty International — Cuba urgent actions
IACHR Cuba ↗
Inter-American Commission decisions on Cuba
Prisoners Defenders ↗
Monthly political-prisoner list (primary ingestion source)
Cuban Observatory HR ↗
Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos
CADAL ↗
CADAL — Latin American democratic analysis
⚠ DATA GAP
Currently tracking 212 documented violators since 2019. Historical totals (1959–present) estimated at 500+ per HRW / OHCHR — pre-2012 ingestion pending. See
scan_hr_historical.py (planned).
Roadmap: 1) walk Cubalex archive for 2012–2019 cases · 2) cross-reference IACHR decisions (1959–present) · 3) ingest HRW long-form reports · 4) link perpetrators to victim records via
political_prisoner_perpetrators.