Flashcards: Justice and Resistance in Cuba — 10 cards

Illegal detention — duration?

76 days incommunicado

Incommunicado detention—effect?

Prevents legal aid and court appearance.

Regime’s laws — misuse of?

Article 148 of the Social Defense Code

Attack on Moncada—nature?

Small-scale, heroic effort, not invasion.

Attack on Moncada — weapons?

Limited to one machine gun, no grenades

Regime’s laws—misuse?

Used to justify repression and dictatorship.

Massacres and atrocities—purpose?

Suppress dissent, instill fear.

Right to resist—basis?

Historical, moral, and legal principle.

Illegitimate government—evidence?

Coup d’état and constitutional violations.

Propaganda machinery—role?

Manipulates perception with false claims.