March 18, 2005
CSI: Cuba
They've called in the CSI team in Cuba. The area's been cordoned off. Theyre dusting for prints. The luminol is being used generously.
Was it a murder? No. Was it a rape? No. Heist? No. Breaking and entering? Home invasion? Nope nope.
Some Cuban had the audacity to write anti-government slogans on walls:
Santa Clara, Cuba, March 17 (Karel Castillo, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - A group of garbage collectors saw some anti-government slogans painted on walls at a pickup point last week, prompting a team of state security agents with sniffing to cordon off the area.Garbage man Pedro Leiva Pedraza said the slogans were painted on bathroom walls and other places in the Santo Domingo district. He said they said "Down with Fidel," "Down with the dictatorship" and "They're killing us with hunger."
The agents dusted the area for fingerprints.
Leiva Pedroza said that the guard on duty during the night - a man named Alexandre - was picked up by the agents, who said he would be fired, presumably for not seeing the slogans being painted.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 18, 2005 07:31 AM
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So will the garbage collectors get a 'hero of socialist labor' distinction for this? Or better from their point of view, an extra bowl of gruel?
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at March 18, 2005 07:36 AM
And this is the regime being defended by librarians.
It is so pitifully transparent of the left here, who accuses Bush of taking us down a fascist path when they are so busy defending castro, no matter how much he behaves like a fascist for over 40 years.
Thanks for posting in one place so many real items about Cuba.
Posted by: ebnelson at March 18, 2005 07:50 AM
Actually I think the garbage collecters get a rice cooker and 1/2 lb of rice each.
Posted by: Jorge at March 18, 2005 08:43 AM
At least some people have the balls to get their message across. I heard this news yesterday in Radio Mambi. Oye Val, pavilate asere, tiene que ser como la noticia 41 "Una hora antes de los demas." Lol
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 18, 2005 08:47 AM
Coño, Felix, I was striving for news ala Diario las Americas:
Yesterday's News in Tommorrow's Paper.
Posted by: Val Prieto at March 18, 2005 09:12 AM
Jorge: but electricity, that'll cost 'em extra!
I doubt they got anything for their deed now that I think of it - they probably avoided a punishment, or thought they'd get something and then didn't get it. fidel loves to screw people that way.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at March 18, 2005 09:13 AM
ah ok. my mistake then. lol
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 18, 2005 09:16 AM
The guard is probably lucky he's being fired, instead of fired at.
Posted by: Jay at March 18, 2005 09:34 AM
Sounds like Hilary Clinton's book "The Village"
I saw that episode on Sienfeld also, they got thrown in jail for not helping during a purse snatching!
Posted by: Ed Perez-Pantoja at March 18, 2005 10:10 AM
for those that missed out on [N]othing [B]ut [C]rap's airing of the ninety miles episode of the Left Wing, I've scrounged up a guide of some sort with spoilers:
http://westwing.bewarne.com/extras/spoilerblog1-05.html#90miles2
They ya go. I wonder if there is a comment thinngy in the LEFT wing site. I'd like to give them a piece of Cuban American justice.
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 18, 2005 10:13 AM
there [typo corrected]
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 18, 2005 10:14 AM
Actually what's sad is that these guys probably came forward out of fear of being accused of commiting the "crime" or worse not reporting it.
Posted by: Jorge at March 18, 2005 10:21 AM
Coño, and there are countries fighting for Cuba to remain in the human rights commission.
Posted by: Songuacassal at March 19, 2005 07:43 PM
