The authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have spent extensive efforts to diminish or outright erase the significance of their countries’ national independence days, crafting unpopular communist replacements for the anniversaries.

Of the three countries, the most egregious case is that of Cuba’s communist regime, presently led by nonagenarian dictator Raúl Castro, who succeeded his late murderous brother Fidel in the mid 2000s.

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