Press group tells tourists about repression in Cuba

Miami Herald ^ | July 1, 2003 | EFE

[Cincinatus' Wife]

PARIS - (EFE) -- The international press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders on Monday began distributing postcards at the French capital's largest airport that contained the slogan, ``Welcome to Cuba, the world's largest prison for journalists.''

The postcards, distributed at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport by the Paris-based group are part of a campaign to raise tourists' awareness of repression in Cuba.

The cards were given only to people traveling to Cuba on Cubana de Aviación, the Cuban airline.

''This is not a call to boycott flights to Cuba, but just [a way of letting] those who go to that country know that behind its sun and beaches there is a totalitarian regime that represses and impedes freedom of the press,'' Reporters Without Borders Secretary General Robert Menard said.

The cards feature Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Che Guevara's face superimposed on an anonymous police officer, who in a famous image from France's May 1968 protests held a shield in one hand while brandishing a club in the other.

``Did you choose Cuba for its friendly people, its lovely beaches, its rum and its seductive rhythms? Know where you're heading. Behind its cliches, the sun doesn't shine for everyone.

' `Che' is no more than an icon used by the authorities to legitimize their repression,'' the back of the postcard reads.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A Library in Cuba: What Is It? - ALA: What Ideology Do They Promote - Suppress?***Mark Rosenzweig, the director of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, a research center in New York City, contends that Cuba has one of the finest library systems in the developing world and that no books are officially banned by the government. He said he believed that the independent librarians had no connection to professional librarians and were supported by American anti-Castro groups. "These are a ragtag bunch of people who have been involved on the fringes of the dissident movement," Mr. Rosenzweig said of the independent librarians. ***

Fidel Castro – Cuba

[aardvark1]

This has to be a lie...there's no repression in Cuba...Castro wouldn't do any like that. X42 said he as really a good guy and we know HE wouldn't lie.

[Diogenesis]

Not all reporters are equal in Cuba.
Rabid antiAmerican anchors are welcomed,
no matter what their frequency is (Kenneth).

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Casto's so misunderstood and communism, gosh it's just another political path.

[KC_Conspirator]

Casto's so misunderstood and communism, gosh it's just another political path.

That sounds like one of my college professors. She told the class that communism "was not done right" and therefore could be tried again. I had the gall to ask her if 100 million deaths in less than a century was ok with her.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"Casto's so misunderstood and communism, gosh it's just another political path."



And theft is just another way to make a living.

[MEG33]

There are lies being exposed again .There can be no accurate reporting in Cuba without a free press and our presstitues don't want to close the door to "access".The communist ideal of changing the world if "done right"persists even though the terrible examples of failure are known.