April 21, 2008
The more things change, in Cuba...
...the more they stay the same:
April 21 - A group of Cuban women peacefully demonstrating for the release of their jailed husbands were roughed up by a mob and arrested on Monday near the offices of Cuban dictator Raul Castro..The 10 women, members of an organization known as the "Women in White," gathered at a park Monday morning at the edge of Cuba's Revolution Square, where the government and Communist Party headquarters are located.
They wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the faces and names of their loved ones, but carried no signs.
"We are here to demand the release of our husbands and won't leave until they are free or they arrest us. We have waited long enough, we want to talk to the new president," group leader Laura Pollan said.
Moments later, a bus pulled up and about 20 female corrections officers tried to arrest the women, who sat on the sidewalk, clasped arms and refused to move. "They are dying, they are dying," one women yelled with tears in her eyes as the corrections officer tried to move her toward the bus.
A mob of about 100 government supporters, mainly women from nearby government buildings, quickly entered the fray, pushing the women, picking them up, throwing them into the waiting bus and yelling insults
Photo via The Real Cuba, who has more.
Posted by Val Prieto at April 21, 2008 12:25 PM
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How are these pictures getting out? This is a good sign if the regime can't stop these pictures.
Posted by: Zhangliqun ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 21, 2008 12:51 PM
Every face in the pictures should be documented.
Pay back is a bitch! I can't wait to see the those scumbag commies beg for mercy. "No I wasn't a prison gaurd" No MERCY!
Posted by: readytoshoot at April 21, 2008 12:52 PM
yep, raul is giving them a kinder, gentler tyrannical dictatorship.
Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at April 21, 2008 01:31 PM
Hey, isn't that Obama in there beating those women up?
Posted by: JackW at April 21, 2008 01:51 PM
Comment deleted and asshole banned by el que mas mea.
Enough with the pseudo-Cuban elitist partisan bullshit, miramira.
Val
Posted by: miramiradePalmira at April 21, 2008 02:08 PM
opiano licario // Apr 21, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Esta serie de fotos deberían publicarse en todos los medios a nuestro alcance. Si fuese posible que todos los blog y medios las enlacen para que se divulguen lo más posible, estaríamos haciendo algo para echar a rodar la bola de nieve.
Posted by: Abajofidel at April 21, 2008 02:17 PM
The photos were taken by Reuters news photographers in Havana and posted on their website.
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USN2142503920080421&channelName=worldNews#a=1
Posted by: delacova at April 21, 2008 02:40 PM
Now Val,
When you follow one of my posts with ASSHOLE, I know its your blog and all but I must insist on MISTER ASSHOLE.
I know it was directed at miramiradePalmira, but I was busting you on that Obama connection with The Rapid Response Force.
The pictures speak for themselves and if we had e-mail addresses for Danny Glover, Harry Belefante and the usual suspects a little e-mail cramming would be in order.
Posted by: JackW at April 21, 2008 03:27 PM
Noticed the new bus in the back?!!! So that's what they are using the new buses from China for!!!!!!
Posted by: Odyfab at April 21, 2008 04:05 PM
raul Bull Conner unleashes his tonton macoute pit bulls, Alabama or Havana?
Posted by: Doorgunner at April 21, 2008 06:36 PM
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