Via IJR:
Nearly 90 individual activists were arrested in Cuba on Sunday, just days ahead of Secretary of State John Kerry’s expected visit to the new American embassy on communist island-nation.
According to Agence France-Presse, Cuban security forces engaged and arrested 40 or so activists who were marching through Havana wearing masks depicting President Obama.
Angel Moya, a former political prisoner, as AFP notes, placed blame on the U.S. president’s normalization efforts as a partial culprit to the crackdowns on free expression: