Let me guess, she was e-mailing Ayatollah cagastro, right?

The Italian journo Francesco Battistini, who was kidnapped in Cuba for a few hours and treated rather roughly, told the Italian press at his return that his treatment at Cuban police and G2 hands was worse than the treatment received by the Saddam Hussein secret police when he was in Baghdad covering the American invasion of that country. Meaning, the bloody goonhackers of Saddam, Uday and Qusay were nicer and more professional, and they were under the American bombs and the artillery shelling. The GIs were at the doors of Baghdad tearing them down and this journalist received a better treatment than in Havana.
He managed to land an interview with Osvaldo Paya Sardiñas whom he describes as " the historic leader of the Catholic movement who opposes the regime". Paya did not participate in the meeting.
Mr Battistini also talks about the detention of a female journalist from La Reppublica, an influential Roman newspaper. I will try to dig some information on that story to share with all of you.

The female journalist roughed up in Cuba is Francesca Caferri, from La Reppublica of Rome.
She was picked up from her hotel by operatives of the G2 after being filmed secretly while she met with dissidents. She was held for a few hours in Havana and the Italian Embassy had to intercede on her behalf to obtain her release. She was not given to the Italian officials in Cuba, the G2 kept her captive until the minute she was put in a plane out of Cuba.
The other journalist, Battistini, was able to alert his colleagues in Milan by sending them a text message with his cell phone when he was taken in custody. The message was "arrestato" signaling that the political police had him.
That action alerted the Italian authorities who contacted the Italian Embassy immediately.

I just came back from the Cuba Nostalgia show and it was great to meet Val and Amanda. You guys are doing a great job and the email fidel idea is fantastic! It was great to send that scumbag fidel a few choice words while my 15 year old daughter watched!

Viva Cuba Libre!!!

It's really hard to BS kids, they have a way of seeing through to the truth.

Qu'e extra~no... that the Italian female Communist journalist "rescued" recently in Irak didn't travel to the "Caribbean Workers Paradise" last weekend to report on the assembly for a civil society...
After all, she should be fully recovered from the "grievous" wounds she suffered when the vehicle carrying her tried to barrel through a roadside inspection post manned by American soldiers.
And she *should* be concerned about all those fellow proletarians in Cuba... workers who are forbidden to work or to create/operate any sort of business by the castro dictatorship.
Yes, folks, the "greatest democracy in the world" won't allow its people to show any sort of enterprise.
Dove estai, si~nora comunista?
Julio