The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has spent decades documenting the horrors inflicted by communist regimes across Latin America and beyond. Today, we are overjoyed to welcome José Daniel Ferrer, a political prisoner who spent his life standing up to… Read More
It has been years since Cubans began denouncing the shipment of young men from the island to the front lines in Ukraine as cannon fodder for the Russian army. Yet what I learned in the recent security briefing given by… Read More
Please join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, CasaCuba, and FIU in Washington D.C. Center on Tuesday, October 21 at the Victims of Communism Museum for a film screening of Cuba’s Eternal Night. What… Read More
On Thursday, September 18, VOC’s Underworld Threats in the Caribbean panel, moderated by Rodrigo Diamanti, founder and president of Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, brought together Rosa María Payá, Pedro Urruchurtu, and Ronna Rísquez to discuss the regional impact of authoritarian… Read More
The following excerpt originally appeared in the National Review. President Donald Trump has authorized air strikes targeting Venezuelan drug traffickers, resulting in the elimination of eleven traffickers. This action, far from the reckless aggression critics decry, represents a principled application of American… Read More
Last week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights warned about “the intensification of repression by the Nicaraguan regime, which now extends beyond its borders and affects people in mobility and those opposing the government.” In other words, the regime led… Read More
“Lie, lie, and something will remain. The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.” That phrase—attributed to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels—has become something of an operating manual for authoritarian regimes. Few have perfected it more methodically than… Read More
The recent protests led by university students began after the Cuban dictatorship’s state telecommunications company, Etecsa, on May 30, 2025 announced dramatic increases in internet pricing, and new restrictions in what critics describe as a “covert dollarization” and a “cash… Read More
Religious freedom in Venezuela is under attack. Led by Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s socialist regime is waging a campaign against those who dare to maintain religious autonomy in opposition of state control. As VOC’s Latin America team outlines in a new… Read More
When recently asked whether Venezuela is a dictatorship, the newly appointed Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Albert Ramdin, refused to label it in those terms. His stance, similar to that of the European Union’s new foreign affairs… Read More
