{"id":6623,"date":"2026-01-09T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/repression-of-religious-freedom-in-latin-americas-authoritarian-triad-cuba-nicaragua-and-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:24:02","slug":"repression-of-religious-freedom-in-latin-americas-authoritarian-triad-cuba-nicaragua-and-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/repression-of-religious-freedom-in-latin-americas-authoritarian-triad-cuba-nicaragua-and-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Repression of Religious Freedom in Latin America\u2019s Authoritarian Triad \u2013 Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Repression of Religious Freedom in Latin America\u2019s Authoritarian Triad \u2013 Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-18730\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are the most clearly authoritarian states in Latin America and the region\u2019s most flagrant FoRB violators. All three countries use similar methods of repressing religious freedom, including harassment of religious communities, legal obstruction, favoritism toward certain religious groups, and closure of civic space. This report focuses on the parallel strategies used by the authoritarian governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to violate freedom of religion or belief (FoRB).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-11\/2025%20Issue%20Update%20Patterns%20of%20Religious%20Repression%20in%20Latin%20America.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publication\/repression-religious-freedom-latin-americas-authoritarian-triad-cuba-nicaragua-and?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repression of Religious Freedom in Latin America\u2019s Authoritarian Triad \u2013 Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are the most clearly authoritarian states in Latin America and the region\u2019s most flagrant FoRB violators. All three countries use similar methods of repressing religious freedom, including harassment of religious communities, legal obstruction, favoritism toward certain religious groups, and closure of civic&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":6624,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[768,769,771,766,767,772,661,765,770,773],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-6623","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-americas","tag-authoritarian","tag-cuba","tag-freedom","tag-latin","tag-nicaragua","tag-religious","tag-repression","tag-triad","tag-venezuela","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Thumbnail%20for%20Publication%20%28Presentation%29.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}