Cuban singer Rey Manuel has died after being fatally shot in the head on the National Highway, near the Nazareno Bridge in Mayabeque Province in Cuba.
    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      232·
      5 days ago

      Did you read it?

      These incidents underscore the rising crime rate in Cuba, attributed to widespread hunger, poverty, and societal desperation.

      Surely unfair, crippling embargo has nothing to do with any of that.

      • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        5 days ago

        Reports suggested that he was shot in the head while kneeling as a result of a political vendetta.

        Tangentially related. He wasn’t shot by some desperate hungry rando, he was assassinated over politics.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          31·
          5 days ago

          I mean mafiosi do that too, and while often can be political, it can also be because a person took a look, comment, or song lyric personally.