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Don't Give Me Moore Crap
2007-07-24 04:20:00
Yes, I am going to see "Sicko". No, I haven't yet.I have seen some clips from the film of a Cuban hospital that made my blood boil.Supposedly, Moore went to Cuba and took with him some aid workers who were injured and supposedly asked the Cuban government to give them "the same care they give their own Cuban citizens [....] No more, no less. And that's what they did."Yea. Great. And that proves what exactly? I know I need to see the whole film first to see what this hospital looked like. But still, this sounds way too fishy for me because I know people, family members, friends, I have twenty-six years of listening to Cuban family and friends talking about Cuba, I know what's going on over there. I hear it every day. Things are not better over there than they are here. Also, I saw a clip of Moore boasting about the price of medicine. How it was loads cheaper in Cuba than in the states. Yea. I bet they are. With Moore's salary, his American dollars, and his American citizenship an...
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Cuban dissident Luis Garcia Perez freed after 17 years
2007-04-27 22:12:00
Here is the article from Taipei Times (original source here).AP, HAVANAWednesday, Apr 25, 2007, Page 7Cuban dissident leader Jorge Luis Garcia Perez , who wrote a book about prison conditions on the island while behind bars, was freed after serving his full 17-year sentence, human-rights groups said.Garcia Perez, widely known as "Antunez," was released on Sunday, the opposition human-rights group Bitacora Cubana said on Monday.He was arrested for enemy propaganda and attempted sabotage in 1990. Pope John Paul II petitioned for his early release before his historic visit in 1998. Cuba freed 14 others as a goodwill gesture tied to the pope's visit, but left Garcia Perez in prison.PRISON JOURNALWhile serving out his sentence he wrote Boitel Lives, a book about prison conditions that was published outside Cuba.The book is named after Pedro Luis Boitel who died in 1972 in a Cuban prison after 53 days on hunger strike.The Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation, a which represents ...
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Seven Cuban dissidents freed
2007-04-25 17:13:00
HAVANA - The Cuban government has released seven dissidents from prison, including a 42-year-old man who had been behind bars for 17 years, dissident sources said on Tuesday.Six dissidents were released Tuesday after spending two years in prison for “public disorder,” ”posing a danger” and “insolence,” the sources said.Their release came two days after another prominent dissident, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, 42, was freed after spending 17 years and 37 days in prison on charges of “verbal enemy propaganda,” ”attempted sabotage” and failing to respect Cuban leader Fidel Castro.Perez, known as Antunez, was arrested for speaking out against Castro, who leads the Americas’ only one-party communist regime, on March 15, 1990.Dissident s did not see the prisoners’ release as a goodwill gesture from the government, saying recent summary and secretive trials show that the government repression persists.“We don’t see anything special in this,” Elizardo Sanchez, who ...

Petition to Protest Gloria Estefan's new CD: 90 Millas
2007-03-21 19:24:00
Apparently, Gloria Este fan is collaborating with Carlos Santana for her new CD. During the 2005 Oscars Santana appeared wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt, a very trendy fashion statement for uneducated and uncultured Americans. As a result, many Cuban Americans, the majority of Estefan's fan base, may be outraged by her decision to collaborate with a communist sympathizer. In order to spread the news about this please visit the link below to read more about and sign the petition.http://www.petitiononline.com/05 201902/petition.html
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What's all this about?
2006-12-05 06:02:00
I need to voice some pent-up frustrations about Cuba, Cubans, Cuban-Americans, Castro, and injustice. I can't believe that in America, a country so focused on justice, the concept of justice itself vanishes from discourses about Cuba. Within a system of justice, justice is ignored in order to perpetuate the status quo, in order to mystify the public of the atrocities that occur 90 miles from Key West, and in order to vanquish the voices of those who dare to notice and speak out. I thought that the next best thing to getting an aneurism because of people's idiocy on this subject is to write about my feelings. So, I'll post articles, blogs, videos, things my friends write, and things that I have written over the years. At the very least, I hope that one or two people will stumble across my blog and be educated, and have the opportunity to voice their opinions about the subject.