In 1994, the Maleconazo showed the world a desperate cry for freedom. The regime silenced the protest with repression — a silence that still echoes today. Cuba remains without freedom of expression. The imprisonment and suffering of artists like Maykel Osorbo and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara remind us that the struggle has never stopped. Past and present are tied by the same pain, but also by the same courage. Next week we turn to the Balsero Crisis, when desperation drove thousands to risk every