Undertaking hunger strikes to protest and to demand freedom of speech in Cuba has brought hope to dozens of imprisoned activists.In a letter sent to Raul Castro in February 2010, Fariñas urged him to demonstrate to his people, and to the world, that his commitments to change addressed to the foreign media were real, and asked him to release the political prisoners held in various Cuban jails.
Tá dlúthpháirtíocht lemuintir Chúba mar aon le tacaíocht don dul chun cinn i dtreo an daonlathais, urraim agus curchun cinn shaoirsí bunúsacha curtha in iúl ag Parlaimint na hEorpa arís agus arís eile, mar a rinne sí le déanaí i mí Márta 2010.