March 25, 2005
Tira la piedra, esconde la mano.
Throw the rock, hide the hand.
The extent to which the castro regime will go stifle those with the cojones to speak the truth about their lives is beyond the absurd:
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, March 24 (Guillermo Fariñas, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - An independent journalist who called authorities when she discovered a bloody machete in the entrance to her home was later accused by police of of stealing and butchering a cow.María Elena Alpízar Ariosa did not enter the home last week in the municipality of Placetas but went instead to a public telephone where she called police.
She was joined at her home by fellow dissidents Bertha Antúnez Pernet, Amado Ruiz Moreno and Alejandro García Sardinas.
When no one else showed up, they went to the local unit of the National Revolutionary Police, where a captain named Julio said he was unaware of any complaint.
Bertha Antúnez then called Major Rubén Álvarez, who said he would order an investigation. When they returned to the journalist's home, José Ramón Valdés of the revolutionary police entered the residence. He accused Alpízar Ariosa of stealing a cow and butchering it.
If the corruption and the stifling of dissent is prevalent even at the local government level, how can anyone truly believe that there could be any honest dialogue with anyone in the castro regime?
Posted by Val Prieto at March 25, 2005 05:38 AM
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This alleged cow stealing incident speaks volumes about the prosperity of the worker's paradise. How many people in the US would even consider stealing a cow to butcher at home for food? The sad thing is that the state figures Cubans will believe that she did it because they have thought of doing it themselves.
El corazón en la revolución, y la mano donde puedas.
Posted by: PTG at March 25, 2005 08:40 AM
Would there even be a cow in the vicinity of where this journo would live? It speaks volumes about the quality of life there.
But that's a small detail - I find this knife incident extremely terrifying. How would you like to come home to something like that and then receive the sneering accusations of the cop chief when you had the innocence to call the cops. Of course the cops did not expect to be called, they were the ones who did it! It's chilling the amount of distrust and suspicion from the castro side of things in that society. To that police chief everyone is a liar if they are a dissident. There is nothing he can believe with his eyes, nobody's word he can take, there is only the party and the party line. This is a hideous existence.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at March 25, 2005 09:38 AM
fidel´s regime is slowly but surely losing control and the arresting of all dissenters with trumped up charges is just one more sign of their desperation. Cubans on the island are beginning to realize they too can hope to be free. Their minds is the one thing castro will not be able to control! Nuestro dia ya viene llegando!
Posted by: Jose Aguirre at March 25, 2005 10:30 AM
Man that Cuban RON at 11:36PM can REALLY fuck up someone's gray matter !
This is funny cause I spend the whole of last night dreaming about the "What is the frequency Kenneth" shit , now how freaky is THAT?
Bote seems to be under some same kind of Cubiche code.
Drop every third letter of the entire post , move to the NEXT letter in the alphabet , (Except if the number is odd) then multiply .. ooh fuck why are they so god damn cryptic.
Posted by: KillCastro at March 26, 2005 09:33 AM
