Top 12 Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter tweets of 2018

"History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory." - George Santayana 

These are the top tweets for each month of 2018 arranged in chronological order. George Santayana understood the importance of remembering the past in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes and injustices. This was the year of the Cuba UPR and victims of the regime speaking truth to power as it sought to carry out its fraudulent change. It was the year that the steady work of completely undermining democracy in Nicaragua finally brought forth the murderous assault of the regime as it clamped down its totalitarian cage on the people of Nicaragua. The year ended with a campaign to release political prisoners in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

January 2018

Today, January 29, 2018 would have been Harold's 38th birthday but he was killed with Oswaldo Payá on July 22, 2012 at the age of 32 in what appears to have been an extrajudicial killing engineered by Castro's State Security. https://t.co/55IRJUu9A3 pic.twitter.com/qwymy3UfLv

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) January 29, 2018

 February 2018

Remembering some of the victims of Cuban communism: Génesis Carmona, Venezuelan fashion model, beauty queen, and college student. Shot in the head on February 18, 2014, died a day later.https://t.co/eIK3OmD40a cc: @GenesisCarmona pic.twitter.com/x5HQI2g5vY

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) February 22, 2018

March 2018

Mother and son of 2015 machete attack victim receive death threat from Castro regime agent https://t.co/nafbtnI5XP #StandUp4HumanRights #HRC37 pic.twitter.com/bvYxxWgHDR

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) March 5, 2018

April 2018

VIII Summit of the Americas in Lima Peru: Castro regime's shock troops try to silence other voices https://t.co/JbpeuEQyoN #SummitPeru pic.twitter.com/ZD9ctMV54A

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) April 13, 2018

May 2018

#OnThisDay in 1818, Karl Heinrich Marx was born. The man who was an anti-semite, racist, advocate of terrorism, and genocide, who changed the politics of the world for the worse causing the death of over 100 million. #KarlMarx200 https://t.co/77tkR5selZ #KarlMarxWasWrong pic.twitter.com/soyd90yQqy

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) May 5, 2018

June 2018

Free Cuban prisoners of conscience Dr. Eduardo Cardet Concepción and Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola. 120 identified political prisoners in Cuba: spotlight on two prisoners of conscience https://t.co/0CIevn6cFA pic.twitter.com/CUHiXOzpkY

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) June 24, 2018

July 2018

A CRIME BEHIND THE BACK OF THE CHRIST OF HAVANA by Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas https://t.co/Pw87WGvq3s pic.twitter.com/GhCPVJ1H36

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) July 13, 2018

August 2018

Family of jailed Cuban human rights defender denounces that he is being tortured https://t.co/2o13QPs1g9 #FreeEbert #Cuba #torture #HumanRights pic.twitter.com/xxMi9ryeTq

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) August 10, 2018

September 2018

Ortega's hooded police wielding AK-47s arrest, hold incomunicado Amaya Coppens, a human rights defender and medical student in Nicaragua. https://t.co/JsIpqshUdH #WHRDFAlert #DefendWHRDS #SOSNicaragua pic.twitter.com/r0hV0aTZUt

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) September 15, 2018

October 2018

Speaking truth to power: Cuban dissident and machete attack victim Sirley Avila Leon addresses the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. https://t.co/rtRQ0pXFTt #CubaUPR #Cuba #Justice #MeToo pic.twitter.com/7SSyTBgkTQ

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) September 28, 2018

November 2018

Not mourning the death of Fidel Castro is punishable by prison, beatings and death in Cuba. https://t.co/O5NUVyfhW4 1/15 pic.twitter.com/6CSko2sHPa

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) November 24, 2018

December 2018

Join the campaign for Christmas without political prisoners in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua https://t.co/malcep4qot #LiberenLosYa
#FreeThemNow #FreedomForPoliticalPrisoners #CubaNicaraguaVenezuela #ChristmasWithoutPoliticalPrisonersInCubaVenezuelaYNicaragua pic.twitter.com/EU1swq1dhi

— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) December 24, 2018