I'm hoping this doesn't start a fight, I'm just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women's rights, environmentalism, etc. Wondering where people here land?
The UMAPs only existed for 32 months between 1965 and 1968, they were an awful failing of the government but to claim that the cuban government did this for decades as a point of policy is a blatant ahistorical lie.
It's also worth noting that just 60 miles off Cuba's coast in the United States, it was only in 2003 that the government made it so that gay men would no longer be thrown in jail and forced to carry out labour for pay low enough that it would (depending on the state) legally be classified as slave labour if they weren't imprisoned.