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The Cuban government continue to repress and punishment dissent and public criticism. The number of short term arbitrary, arrest og human rights defenders independent journalism and other was less in 2018 than 2017, but still remained high with more than 2000 reports of arbitrary detention between January to August. The government continue to use other repressive measures.
Labour law supposedly designed to safeguard the interest of Cuban workers has been one of the bulwarks of the political mythology of the Castro Revolution since the early 1960s such a mythification has served several purposes.
Deny any accomplishment of the cuban republic that predated the 1959 revolution.
Rewrite Cuban history to convert what was essentially a middle class revolution to one that was spearheaded by the traditional Marxist protogonists of peasants and workers and present a progressive labour policyb recognise and guarantees basic labour rights.