Activism record

Verifiable affiliation

July 7, 2026

Registration on the MADL Board of Directors

Rafael Alberto Gómez Sánchez is recorded as a member of the Board of Directors (Officer) of the Anti-Communist Movement and Freedom Defenders, per the 2026 Amended Annual Report filed with the Florida Division of Corporations. Daylenis Lorenzo Salinas is listed as a registered member of the organization.

Verify: Board of Directors · Members directory · Florida Sunbiz, Doc. N26000001625 · EIN 41-4208008

Publications and denunciations

September 2026

Documented series on digital repression in Cuba

Eight articles published on this blog, in Spanish and English, documenting with primary sources the prison sentences handed down for posting online, the legal framework that permits them, the 11J internet blackout, and ETECSA’s technical censorship mechanisms.

Read: You do not have to publish · The law that takes your phone · Three layers · see all

Anti-censorship infrastructure

Since September 3, 2026

A Tor Snowflake proxy on this blog’s server

Since September 3, 2026, I have been running a Tor Snowflake proxy on the server that hosts this blog, for Tor users in countries with censorship.

What the proxy itself records. This figure cannot be verified from outside: the Tor Project does not publish the list of proxies, because that list is exactly what a censor would need to block them. In its first week, from September 3 to 10, 2026, it served 1,544 connections and relayed more than 70 GB.

Read: A bridge in your browser · What Snowflake is, on the Tor Project website

Events, marches and campaigns

July 11, 2026 · Tampa, Florida

Caravan for the freedom of Cuba, on the anniversary of 11J

We took part in the caravan called in Tampa to commemorate 11J, the protests that swept Cuba in 2021. The gathering formed in the parking lot of Al Lopez Park, on North Himes Avenue, and from there the caravan set off along Himes, Hillsborough Avenue and SR 60, crossing the bay over the Courtney Campbell Causeway.

Cars carried the Cuban flag across the hood, with Cuban and United States flags mounted on the pickups. Before setting off, the group closed into a circle and several people took turns speaking and leading chants. The two quotes below come from those interventions. They were spoken in Spanish; the translations are mine, and the original wording appears on the Spanish version of this page:

“Thank you for being here, thank you for allowing the Cuban exile community to stay alive. It is so important here in Tampa that this is not lost, and that will be thanks to you and to all of us. Every day we have to keep going.”

And shortly afterwards, addressing the island:

“We want to tell the people of Cuba, if you are watching this, that we support you in the best way we can, in the way we know how, by giving you encouragement and giving you a voice.”

T-shirts reading “Patria y Vida” were visible, and raised arms. Along the route, Willy Chirino’s “Nuestro Día (Ya Viene Llegando)” was playing.

Cars with Cuban flags in line during the caravan

The caravan in line along North Himes Avenue. The other vehicle’s license plate has been pixelated.

The bay seen from the Courtney Campbell Causeway

The Courtney Campbell Causeway at the end of the day.

Documented with 10 photographs and 13 videos recorded first-person, with time and GPS coordinates embedded in every file. Afternoon documented from 16:10 to 17:50 (1 hr 40 min), including 52 minutes of gathering at the park and 14.3 km of route recorded by GPS. Original material retained and available.

The recorded material

Eleven clips recorded first-person on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with time and GPS coordinates embedded. Eleven of the thirteen clips and two of the ten photographs are published here: the files left out show identifiable third parties in the foreground. They are converted to web format; the originals are kept untouched.

At the gathering, Al Lopez Park

16:12 · Pickups with Cuban and United States flags

16:24 · Our son with a red scarf, the flag behind him

16:46 · The speech: “Thank you for being here”

16:46 · The message to the people of Cuba

16:48 · “Patria y Vida” t-shirts and raised arms

The caravan on the road

16:56 · The caravan leaves Al Lopez Park

16:58 · Joining North Himes Avenue

16:59 · The caravan in line along Himes

17:10 · Along Hillsborough Avenue

17:32 · Along SR 60 heading west

17:37 · Crossing the bay over the Courtney Campbell Causeway

What the participant adds. These points do not come from the files but from the testimony of Rafael A. Gómez Sánchez, who took part in the caravan:

There was no specific convening organization. The call was a general one, around the meaning of the date: the anniversary of 11J.
There was no designated speaker. Several people stepped forward to speak and lead chants, and the words quoted above come from that.
There was no formal road closure, but police did help the cars move along in caravan in an orderly and swift manner.

What still cannot be established. There is no legible banner or emblem in any file, consistent with there having been no convening organization. No single frame covers the whole event, so attendance is described as being in the dozens, without a figure: the most populated frame shows between twenty and thirty people. Nor are the people who speak identified, nor the person referred to as being “in a completely unknown whereabouts” at the start of the second clip, because the audio does not allow the surname to be made out. We leave it that way rather than fill it in by assumption.

This section is being built out. Each event will be published here with its date, its location, what was done, and the material that evidences it: photographs, video and press coverage where it exists. Nothing is published with a false date: where an entry documents a past event, the date of the event appears in the text and the publication date is the day it was uploaded.

Outreach and denunciation on social media

Sustained public activity under our real names

We maintain personal Facebook profiles under our own names, with no pseudonym, from which we continuously circulate information about repression in Cuba: reports from independent outlets such as CiberCuba and Martí Noticias, videos of repression recorded on the island, music censored by the regime, and calling out official propaganda.

That activity is neither anecdotal nor occasional. It is the channel through which, from exile, we amplify what inside Cuba costs prison to publish: four years in prison for sharing a call to protest is a documented sentence, not a hypothesis.

Profile: facebook.com/rafaelfreecuba · more than 1,300 contacts

On the evidentiary value of this, frankly. A social media post is, on its own, weak evidence: it can be deleted, its reach depends on privacy settings, and a third party cannot date it independently. That is why this record works the other way round: what is circulated gets documented here, on our own site, with a publication date and always linking to the original source, which anyone can verify. The detailed, dated inventory of that outreach will be added to this section.

Press coverage

The Movement in the media

MADL’s work and denunciations have been covered by Martí Noticias, CiberCuba, Telemundo 51, TV Azteca and Cubanos por el Mundo, among others.

Full compilation on the Movement’s website

The opinions published on this blog are strictly personal and do not necessarily represent the position of the Anti-Communist Movement and Freedom Defenders.

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