Mises

Authored by Zach Foster via The Mises Institute,

Seven Cuban libertarians and activists with the Mises-Mambi Institute of Cuba were arrested on Friday morning.

Among those arrested were president Caridad Ramirez, national spokesman Nelson Rodriguez Chartrand, and Alexis Muñoz Jimenez , the Mises-Mambi regional president for Camaguey province.  The motivation of the mass arrest seems to be to prevent the Cuban libertarians from attending the trial of imprisoned Mises activists Ubaldo Herrera and Manuel Velazquez.

Via The Daily Bell

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