Business as Usual in Cubaland
Marta Beatriz Roque, one of Cuba's best known dissidents, has asked the government to put her back in jail (only in Cubaland, folks). why?
the 61-year old dissident, who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and has heart problems (truly a dangerous woman, no?) says she can no longer live with the threats and on-going insults of government agents who shout at her in the street and slip threatening notes under her front door. last week, a gun was fired next to her window, at midnight (and don't nobody but the government has guns in Cuba).
marta beatriz roque
this type of bullying (and even worse) is a common weapon of King Fidel's forces. just a few examples from this past month:
Felipe Bernardino Morell, the vice-president of the Cuban Liberal Movement (MLC in Spanish) was arrested by security forces this past August 22. He was beaten, and his family says he suffered at least one head wound.
recently, another one of MLC's officers, Alexander Santos Hernandez, was sentenced to four years in prison for "dangerousness" (of the political kind, of course).
approximately 100 members of the state-controlled Rapid Response Brigades blocked off the house of dissident Idael Perez Diaz from 4 to 8 p.m. this past August 24. the paramilitaries played music through loudspeakers and threatened to kill anyone who left the house.
twelve dissidents had gathered there for a peaceful meeting.
Lester Fernandez Zamora, a member of the Liberal Cuban Party (PLC in Spanish) was fired on August 17 from his job as a teamster. the reasons given were that he was a "worm" and a "counter-revolutionary" who did not attend the (voluntary) political rallies held at his workplace.
thus King Castro ensures the love of his wayward subjects
the 61-year old dissident, who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and has heart problems (truly a dangerous woman, no?) says she can no longer live with the threats and on-going insults of government agents who shout at her in the street and slip threatening notes under her front door. last week, a gun was fired next to her window, at midnight (and don't nobody but the government has guns in Cuba).
marta beatriz roque
this type of bullying (and even worse) is a common weapon of King Fidel's forces. just a few examples from this past month:
Felipe Bernardino Morell, the vice-president of the Cuban Liberal Movement (MLC in Spanish) was arrested by security forces this past August 22. He was beaten, and his family says he suffered at least one head wound.
recently, another one of MLC's officers, Alexander Santos Hernandez, was sentenced to four years in prison for "dangerousness" (of the political kind, of course).
approximately 100 members of the state-controlled Rapid Response Brigades blocked off the house of dissident Idael Perez Diaz from 4 to 8 p.m. this past August 24. the paramilitaries played music through loudspeakers and threatened to kill anyone who left the house.
twelve dissidents had gathered there for a peaceful meeting.
Lester Fernandez Zamora, a member of the Liberal Cuban Party (PLC in Spanish) was fired on August 17 from his job as a teamster. the reasons given were that he was a "worm" and a "counter-revolutionary" who did not attend the (voluntary) political rallies held at his workplace.
thus King Castro ensures the love of his wayward subjects
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