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“The obvious goal is to avoid the international condemnation that follows long-term political prisoners, and to prevent dissident public activities to escalate into larger demonstration,” Arcos said. “As they say, the revolution cannot afford to lose the streets.”

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Cruz said, “In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000.”

Cruz’s point about the rise of political arrests happening amid improved diplomacy with the United States is basically right.

He would have been on more precise ground had he referred to 2016 and not 2015, as a spokesman said he intended to do. And while the source of his figures is widely considered to be reliable, experts said it is hard to track and label every arrest for political reasons.

Because his point requires additional explanation but is largely accurate, we rate this claim Mostly True.