July 24, 2008
Oppression in Cuba? BAH!
It's all hunky dory in the island paradise.
Because if you just read the MSM headlines, it's all about new freedoms and skipping for joy in Cuba. The following, however, from the Christian Science Monitor, says something altogether different:
Why women now lead the dissident fight in CubaCampo de Florido, Cuba - In the past year, Nereida Rodriguez Rivero says she has been punched in the mouth, almost thrown from a moving bus, and stabbed on the street in her otherwise sleepy rural hometown.
In May, government agents took all the books out of the independent library that she continues to restock and run out of her humble home.
But – as is often the case in Cuba – the punishment for her dissent isn't limited to her alone.
Her feisty daughter Yuricel Perez Rodriguez was summarily fired from her position at a state-run children's library last year. "They said I wasn't safe for children, because I took books to [political] prisoners," says Ms. Rodriguez.
But this mother-daughter duo won't being backing down.
Besides a few very brave men, most of whom are either in jail or under constant government scrutiny and excessive repression, it seems that it's the women in Cuba who now have the balls to fight for change.
Read the whole excellent article right here.
Posted by Val Prieto at July 24, 2008 12:57 PM
Comments
Pedro Freyre, who is quoted in the piece is the husband (or ex-husband) of Elena Freyre, the anti-embargo activist that I highlighted in the post about Joe Garcia's smarmy donors. He's a scumbag in his own right. He used to be my dad's next door neighbor.
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at July 24, 2008 01:44 PM
It's light years better than the stuff yesterday.
Posted by: rsnlk at July 24, 2008 02:32 PM
Yesterday, they even quoted the ubiquitous cattle rancher.
Posted by: rsnlk at July 24, 2008 02:33 PM
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