The IPI global network of leading editors and journalists strongly condemns the decision by Cuban authorities to revoke the press accreditation of all journalists for the Spanish news agency EFE and urges the government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel to swiftly reverse this decision. According to EFE, Cuban authorities revoked the accreditation of all its staff […]

The IPI global network mourns the death of Cuban journalist, poet and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Raúl Rivero, who passed away due to illness on November 6, 2021, in Miami. Rivero was one of the best-known dissident journalists in Cuba and a fierce advocate of press freedom in the country. Rivero was one of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticized the exclusion of independent journalism from allowable self-employment and private enterprise activities by the Cuban government. On February 9,  the Cuban government published a list of prohibited self-employment activities. The list excludes the “production and distribution of information” and “activities of news agencies”. The document is a reform to […]

After six decades of Fidel Castro’s authoritarian rule, Cuban authorities are still persecuting independent journalists, maintaining a media monopoly and controlling information. While the country has opened to up to greater international engagement in recent years, critical journalists are still routinely subjected to intimidation, arbitrary detentions, travel restrictions, physical attacks, threats, and raids on their […]