Since mid-July, whenever Cuban journalist Camila Acosta looks out her window, there are five people watching over her home in Havana: two policemen, two women dressed in everyday clothes and one man — always a man — also in plain clothes; she’s certain he is from Cuba’s state security agency.
Acosta was arrested while covering anti-regime protests that erupted in the Cuban capital in July. It was the biggest show of defiance in decades against the communist era that began in 1959.