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Politics● Elevated5d ago · Nov 5, 2026, 7:19 PM

Cuba detains award-winning journalist Yoani Sanchez

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America

Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sanchez, the award-winning founder and director of the independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid the latest government crackdown on independent journalists. It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week. “Yoani Sanchez has been detained by State Security today in Havana,” journalist Reinaldo Escobar, Sanchez’s husband, who is currently in Madrid, announced on social media. Sanchez left...

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