July 05, 2008
Crackdown (UPDATED)
Update below
The castro secret police was especially busy this week rounding up anti-government activists, chiefs and Indians alike:
Miami. Directorio Democrático Cubano. 3 July 2008. Numerous pro-democracy and human rights activists from different regions of Cuba have been arrested in an operation launched by the Castro regime beginning on the night of Wednesday July, 2.The activists, including former political prisoners like Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez” and former Amnesty International Prisoners of Conscience like Francisco Chaviano González, René Montes de Oca Martijas and Leonardo Bruzón Ávila are under arrest and their whereabouts are unknown, or are being held under house arrest, according to reports by Cuban activists Juan Carlos González Leiva from the Cuban Human Rights Rapporteur Council and Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello from Agenda for the Transition.
These instances of repression are taking place after the publication of a communique from the regime’s Foreign Ministry announcing punitive measures against peaceful opposition activists under the pretext of the activists’ contacts with United States diplomats in Havana.
I guess we should pay closer attention when the dictatorship starts ranting and raving.
Cuban Democratic Directorate has a list of names of those arrested or otherwise being harrassed by the secret police.
UPDATED, July 5, 2008
There's still no word on the status of some of those arrested and/or reportedly deported from Havana to their home provinces. Most prominent among those missing is former political prisoner Leonardo Bruzón Ávila.
Posted by Marc at July 5, 2008 04:15 PM
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Oh, okay! That explains the flurry of pro-Castro articles that have been published by AP and Reuters in the last few days!
AP and Reuters has become as predictable as the sun rising in the morning and setting at night. Every time that they start with one of their little pro-Castro flurries, I know that its nothing more than a smokescreen trying to hide something extra foul at foot inside Cuba.
Posted by: Ray ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 4, 2008 08:27 AM
We expect for this regime to be overthrown with flowers and lillies???
How many flowers and lillies did it take 232 years ago to get what we're celebrating here today?
Posted by: LaConchita at July 4, 2008 11:06 AM
Conchita -
Just remember that CUBA in one or two growing seasons with proper management (MORE THAN AVAILABLE IN MIAMI), proper machinery and fertilizer (MORE THAN AVAILABLE IN THE USA), could be a major producer of foodstuffs and bio-fuel. Would ANY US President finally get that through their skulls, Fifo/Raul & Co. would be out on their asses if not hung by their ankles in the middle of Havana - a-la Mussolini in a matter of days. -S-
Posted by: Dr.Shalit at July 5, 2008 07:19 PM
Marta Beatriz Roque knew this was going to happen and, I assume, so did the dissidents, though I don't know what they could have done to avoid it. Once the regime made up their minds to carry out this charade (and blames the US!) there is nothing the dissidents could do. And, as I posted a few days ago, it's just like them to do it in time for the 4th of July to make it look like the dissidents really were set up by the United States to mark its birthday, because the 4th of July is so widely celebrated in Cuba, right?
Posted by: Claudia4Libertad at July 5, 2008 08:21 PM
Europe's constructive engagement strategy seems to be working wonders, no?
Posted by: Henry Louis Gomez at July 5, 2008 10:17 PM
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