Do you plan to (or if you're answering this on or after May 9, did you) wear white on Mother's Day in support of the Ladies in White?
Total Voters: 37
Loading ...(For more on this, read this news release from Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas’ office).
Did you go to any of the March protests for the Ladies in White (Miami, L.A., etc.)?
Total Voters: 50
Loading ...Please sign this petition to nominate Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Cuban political prisoner, for the Nobel Peace Prize. Unlike somebody we all know, Dr. Biscet actually deserves to win.
Fidel Castro recently accused the U.S. of using "torture." So, which of the following is worse?
Total Voters: 20
Loading ...Afro-Cuban dissident Antúnez quit a hunger strike he began February 17, according to the Miami Herald. Antúnez began the strike to protest both the Castro government’s refusal to his sister’s hurricane-damaged home, as well as the conditions under which his brother-in-law has been imprisoned.
Antúnez had refused solid food for nearly three months, losing more than 65 pounds during his hunger strike. His plan now is to do more confrontational protests of the Castro government. Godspeed, Antúnez.
First, there was this offensive salvo launced, as noted in Gateway Pundit:
Back in February Fidel Castro was awarded the Computer Youth Club Award for being the father of this movement in Cuba.
Also awarded the prize was his brother and fellow tyrant Raul Castro.
Then, there was this, courtesy of Babalu Blog: Cuban bloggers, an endangered species?
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been attacked today by THE official Cuban journalist, Rosa Miriam Elizalde in Cubadebate site. That’s not the first time, but is a good example of the official point-of-view about independent blogging in Cuba.
Now there’s this, courtesy of the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida: Cuba cutting Internet access :
“Internet use is only for foreigners for the time being,” said a worker at the Hotel Nacional’s business center. “According to a new order from ETECSA [Cuba's telecom monopoly] only foreigners can surf the web at hotels.”
But hey, let’s just lift the embargo and everything will be alright!
Remember those Castro apologists from CONgress who visited Cuba a few weeks to kiss Castro’s rear end? Well, the sister of one prominent Cuban dissident hasn’t forgotten.
Berta Antúnez, sister of Afro-Cuban dissident and hunger striker Jorge Luis ”Antúnez” Garcia Perez, visited with staffers from the Congressional Black Caucus and hand delivered a scathing letter from her brother, according to the Miami Herald:
”While you were meeting with the Castro brothers,” he wrote to the members of Congress, “only 300 kilometers away from the capital, our home and the five protesters who remain within it were subject to a brutal siege by the combined forces of the national and political police.”
I suppose to the CBC, the color red is more important than the color black when they so quickly applaud the so-called “accomplishments” of the Castro regime while they turn a blind eye to the abuses of all Cubans under Castro–especially black Cubans.
So many of us Cuban-Americans KNEW that when Raul Castro said he’d be willing to “talk” about anything with Obama, he was just blowing smoke:
“Affirming that the president of Cuba is ready to discuss any topic with the president of the United States expresses that he’s not afraid to broach any subject,” Fidel Castro wrote of his 77-year-old brother, who succeeded him 14 months ago.
“It’s a sign of bravery and confidence in the principles of the revolution,” he said.
“Nobody should assume that he was talking about pardoning those sentenced in March 2003 and sending all of them to the United States, if the country were willing to liberate the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes,” Castro wrote.
We knew it, we knew it, we knew it.
Argentina’s Canal 5 Noticias (Channel 5 News) has done an excellent series of reports on the lack of freedom in Castro’s Cuba. They interviewed a variety of dissidents, including Dr. Hilda Molina–whose son lives in Argentina and the reporter was warned specifically not to go visit by Cuban authorities, despite having been promised by the same that she’d have “complete freedom of movement”–Yoani Sánchez, the famous and brave Cuban blogger; Las Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White; Vladimiro Roca; Martha Beatriz Roque; and others.
The first video includes a segment where Cuba’s police harasses the reporter, as well as an interview of Dr. Molina. That video is below; links to the seven remaining videos (the series was broken into eight pieces) are further below. Sorry, all the videos are in Spanish. But you can still see what goes on, including the reporter getting harassed by Castro’s thugs. Too bad you’ll never see video like this on BBC or CNN.
A Country Without Liberty (part 2)
A Country Without Liberty (part 3)
A Country Without Liberty (part 4)
A Country Without Liberty (part 5)
A Country Without Liberty (part 6)
A Country Without Liberty (part 7)
A Country Without Liberty (part 8 )
Hat tip to Enrique Artalejo.
Or wild colts, as the case may be.
Remember last year when Cuba’s chief propagandist, Ramiro Valdes, said Cuba needs to tame “the wild colt of new technologies” (meaning the Internet)?
Well, via the wonderful blog Bilingual in the Boonies, today I learned about a new blog from Cuba (yes, fron INSIDE Castro’s huge island Gulag) called “Potro Salvaje” (Wild Colt). Potro Salvaje says it’s a “blog about the thorny issue of the Internet in Cuba.” It calls itself a “virtual raft” and it’s motto is “we must liberate the tamed colt of technology,” a dig at Valdes’ comment.
Cool! I’ve added them to the blogroll and I’ll take a stab at translating some of their posts from time to time.
