Posted on 11/30/2005 7:50:41 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
WASHINGTON - Amid a surging wave of repression by the Castro dictatorship, Cuba's prisoners of conscience increasingly are resorting to "acts of desperation" - including hunger strikes, suicide attempts, and self-mutilation - in a cry for international recognition and solidarity, and to advance the cause of the island's liberation.
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Dear friends,
Please see the article pasted below and consider taking a few minutes to write to the New York Sun a brief letter to let them know that their coverage of repression in Cuba is important. They, and in particular their reporter Meghan Clyne, have shown an amazing commitment to exposing the terrible realities of Cuba -as we all know that is far from the norm. Letters to the Editor should be brief and may be e-mailed to editor@nysun.com. Please make sure to refer to the article by title and date.
We were instrumental in the preparation of this piece and are delighted with it. Unfortunately, the number of victims documented to have died in prison was left out in the editing cuts for this piece. But, please take note that we have documented 1197 deaths in prison -primarily resulting from assassinations, medical negligence, and suicide. (See a summary attached.) The research work of the Truth Recovery Archive on Cuba is to date mainly derived from research conducted by our Research Director, Dr. Armando Lago, mostly with reports and materials already in existence. We believe, however, that this number falls way short of reflecting the true story of deaths in prison, particularly of the period after the 1960s, when more systematic accounts came out of prison. This, we gather from the testimony of more recent former prisoners, but additional reported cases are yet to be documented and further investigation must be done to uncover previously unreported cases.
As you all probably know, the horrific situation of political prisoners in Cuba is not new nor is it unique to the 75 dissidents that were jailed in March 2003. Historically, prison conditions for prisoners of conscience have been nightmarish, as amply documented by former prisoners as well as the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Interantional, and many other independent international groups. Their situation only gets "less bad" (not "better") when there is some international attention protecting certain prisoners. As the article well points out, the recent worsening in conditions responds to the regime's perception of the international scene. Thus, we need to work harder to call attention to the plight of political prisoners in Cuba.
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It's just a matter of time. Cuba will be FREE!
But Hollywood says Cuba is paradise.
FREE CUBA!!!
This is exactly the kind of tyrrany that Hollywood could help expose. Oh, wait, never mind . . . . . .
Cuba Libre!
Bump
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Thanks to Chomsky, the liberals will never understand that there is no such thing (on this earth) as their utopia.
Wasn't it MSNBC that started the "countdown clock" showing that it was Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc...for the number of days that political prisoners were held in violation of their civil rights in Cuba??
No?!
Oh, you mean that because Castro is a Communist that our Red Media spikes the saga of political prisoners in Cuba...
Hell itself could not accomodate the depth of the Dominant
Liberal Media's indifference to those who suffer in inconvenient ways.
No, that was the countdown to Rather's retirement party.
Capitalist intellectuals -– and there are not many, since most of these people have jobs -– argue that Cuba is a squalid, corrupt, poverty-ridden basket case, a land of oppression and secret police and torture chambers run by a megalomaniac who practices the most idiotic, inhuman and degrading economic system ever invented.
So here we sit in the chartroom, with our competing maps. What to think?
Well, we can agree that the act of giving up your home, your friends and your family must be traumatic, especially since you will face prison, or worse, if you are caught trying to vote with your feet. And I think all can agree that placing your infant daughter and your aged mother on a raft of inner tubes would be a trifle more traumatic and horrifying than not getting enough whole cane sugar in your grande frappucino at Starbucks.
So, is Socialism a better way to live, or is Capitalism? Leave the armies of experts and intellectuals down in the bilge where they belong.
Go up on deck, get out the telescope, and answer one simple question for me and for yourself:
Which way are the rafts headed?
Bump.
Cuba será libre.
Soon..
check out realcuba.com.
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When Castro dies, I predict there will be celebration in the streets of Havana, and mourning on American college campuses.
Sure would be nice to go to Cuba one day and water the flowers on the monster's grave.
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