Manuel Cuesta Morúa

There was no justification for sacrificing freedoms… There was no justification for preventing the rest (of the Cuban people) — and the country’s political diversity and plurality — from expressing themselves,

• Cuesta said
  The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…Aug 13, 10:05
  The Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/08…Aug 14, 00:00

He is a controversial figure,

• said historian Manuel Cuesta Murúa, president of the opposition Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba
  The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…Aug 13, 10:05
• said historian Manuel Cuesta Morúa, president of the opposition Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba
  The Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/08…Aug 14, 00:00

The government presents it as a humanitarian gesture toward prisoners, not as the release of political prisoners,

• said Manuel Cuesta Morúa, leader of the Council for Democratic Transition in Cuba, the island’s main opposition platform
  Japan Todayjapantoday.com/category/world…Apr 3, 20:45

Civil society doesn’t have a seat at the table,

• said Manuel Cuesta Morúa, a longtime pro-democracy activist in Havana
  Los Angeles Timeslatimes.com/world/nation…Mar 29, 10:00