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Separated Families:
Please, add my case, another "Elian" case
Please, see also my Petition in http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/182129310

I do not know my child because the Cuban Government do not allow me to come back to my own country.

My child, Juan Paolo López Fiallo, was born on April 4, 1999 in Havana, Cuba.

"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country" Article 13 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

My case, like the one of so many other Cubans, it is very simple. I got bachelor and master degrees in Physics in the University of Havana, in Cuba. After lecturing Physics for 3 years for life science students as a teaching assistance, I got a scholarship to participate of a specialization course in the "International Centre for Theoretical Physics" in Trieste, Italy.

The Cuban government, contrary to the majority of the countries in the world, controls every leave from Cuba of his citizens. That it is why I was forced to request an authorization to the Cuban government to be able to study in Italy. This authorization was given for a year. At the same time, I was NOT allowed to make a Ph.D. in "Northeastern University" in Boston, US, but this is another story.

Once my specialization course was over, I requested in the Cuban consulate in Milan, Italy, an authorization to make Ph.D. studies out of Cuba, but this was neglected by the consul straightaway. He offered a well known Cuban alternative "Patriotism or Death": I had to choose between coming back, renouncing to a already approved Ph.D. scholarship, or adding up to a
social Cuban class called "quedados".

This class of Cubans do NOT has the right to return to Cuba before five (5) years after the change in category, and even when accepted, only for a transitory visit of twenty one (21) days, and NOT permanently.

Your are right if you guess that I chose "Death" to be able to continue my studies. I finished last year my Ph.D. in the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) and now I am making a post-doctor in the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Both of them are situated in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

I requested, and paid without reimbursement right, authorization to visit Cuba on day 10/01/2002. My first request to enter Cuba was made in July 2000. I also tried a request between these two ones, on September 2001, but one of the Cuban officials in the São Paulo consulate personally advised me not to do it because several other Cubans of the same class
(quedados) had been completed unsuccessful. In the two cases that I formally requested, and paid, for an entrance visa, these were rejected without justification and orally only, nothing written.

At this point, I wonder myself why I can not see my little boy, mother or walk in the streets of My country. Are these what are called respect to individual liberties and human rights? What are the reasons that let the Cuban government to obstruct, difficult and even completed forbid family meetings? Would it be that persons do not have the right to choose where and when study and work, or it is that we "quedados" are not persons at all?

The Cuban jurist Dr. Claudio Benedí Beruff, one of the founders of the Interamerican Human Rights Commission, presented in june before said entity in Washington, a denouncement about my human drama.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely Yours,

Juan López Linares, Ph.D.
Cuban Passport: C181817

P.S.--- Please, sign my Petition in http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/182129310
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Further information:

- More details about my professional life in http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/jlopezlbr

- Pictures of my child and me in http://espanol.geocities.com/jlopezlbr

- Fotocopy of my passports in http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/pruebasjuan

- Artículo del Periodico "Diario Las Américas", Miami, Estados Unidos, reproducido en
http://www.cubdest.org/0206/cjlopezcpr.html

- E-mail de 24/06/2002 reproducido en http://www.cubdest.org/0206/cjlopez.html

- Artigo do Jornal de Campinas Correio Popular reproduzido em http://www.cubdest.org/0206/cjlopezcpop.html

- Artigo do Jornal O Estado de S. Paulo em http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/editorias/2002/06/27/cid024.html>

-Artigo do Jornal da Tarde em http://www.jt.com.br/editorias/2002/06/27/ger025.html

- "Itamaraty intervendrá en favor del físico cubano" Derechos Sin Fronteras (DSF), en Brasilia / Destaque Internacional (DI), en Washington en http://www.cubdest.org/0206/cjlopezch.html

- Artigo do Jornal O Dia em
http://odia.ig.com.br/odia/mundo/mu300601.htm
http://odia.ig.com.br/odia/mundo/mu300602.htm
http://odia.ig.com.br/odia/mundo/mu300603.htm

- Artículo publicado en Sydney, 5 Julio 2002 - Spanish Herald, Australia. Edición Nro. 53 en
http://www.geocities.com/escritorperuano/boletin11

E-mails e telefones ÚTEIS:
* Embaixada de Cuba em Brasilia
Jorge Lezcano Pérez, Embaixador
E-mail: embacuba@uol.com.br
Tels.: (61) 2484710, 2484130, 2484517 y 2484215
Faxes: (61) 248 6778 y 248 7559

* Consulado de Cuba em São Paulo
Rafael Suárez Tabares, Cónsul General
E-mail: consulcuba@uol.com.br
Tels.: (11) 3873 4537 y 3873 2800
Fax: (11) 264 5052

* Ministério das Relações Exteriores de Cuba
Felipe Pérez Roque, Ministro
E-mail: cubaminrex@minrex.gov.cu
Tels.: (537) 553537, 553260
Fax: (537) 333460
Calzada #360, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba.

* Presidente de los Consejos de Estados y de Ministros de Cuba,
Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz
E-mail: f_castro@one.gov.cu
Faxes: (537) 333085 / 335261

* Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Brasil
Professor Celso Lafer, Ministro
E-mail: acs@mre.gov.br
Tel.: (61) 4116161
Tels. Ass. Com. Social: (61) 4116160 4116163
Esplanada dos Ministérios - Bloco H
CEP: 70 170-900, Brasília-DF

Dr. Juan López Linares (Father of Juan Paolo López Fiallo, D.O.B.: 4/4/1999, Havana, Cuba)
LMBT, DFMC, I. de Física G.W., UNICAMP, Campinas, SP,
13083-970, BRASIL
Phones:+55 (19) 3788 5504 (Lab.)
Fax: +55 (19) 3289 3137
mailto:jlopez@ifi.unicamp.br ou
mailto:jlopezlbr@yahoo.com.br
Web: http://br.geocities.com/jlopezlbr e
http://espanol.geocities.com/jlopezlbr
http://br.geocities.com/jlopezlbr

COMMENTS:
Elian Gonzales became a political pawn of both the Clinton administration and Fidel Castro. Both wanted Elian returned with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzales, but his relatives in Miami wanted the boy to stay with them, where his mother had decided to rase him, yet lost her life in the process of bringing him to freedom. Because of all the strange legalities and the relationship between Cuba and the Clinton administration, the boys father was sent to the USA to regain custody of his son. Elian then, was reunited with his father by force under Reno and the Pastors for Peace, claiming it was the right thing to do. I ask my self: what is the difference between both parents, Juan Miguel Gonzales and Juan López Linares? Why is Juan López Linares prohibited to see, hold, and play with his little boy in Cuba, wile Juan M. Gonzalez was welcomed with open arms in our United States to take his little boy back to a country that violates human rights? Is this what fidel castro calls justice and respect for human rights? NO! fidel violates all the human rights in Cuba. Sincerely yours, Dinorah Rivas. Tampa, FL.
The above is sent to you by
Chachi Novellas Bengochea
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE GROUP
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForFreedomandJustice