At a Hero's Home
Cuban human rights activists plan an "Assembly to Promote Civil Society" in Havana on May 20. The date is Cuban Independence Day, which highlights the need for liberation from Fidel Castro's despotism.
True to totalitarian form, the regime has been persecuting participants. Assembly organizer and former prisoner of conscience René Gómez Manzano comments, ''There has been harassment from the government, and some of our members [from outside Havana] already have been prohibited from traveling." (In addition to barring Cubans from leaving the island, the regime restricts internal movement.)
The assembly is planned to be held at the home of Félix Bonne Carcassés. He, Gómez Manzano, Vladimiro Roca, and assembly organizer Marta Beatriz Roque were arrested in July 1997 for the "seditious" (that is, patriotic) pamphlet "The Homeland Belongs to All."
An engineer before he suffered almost three years of imprisonment, Bonne Carcassés is also a black Cuban. May Danny Glover, Alice Walker, and Castro's other black apologists one day face this hero and account for their complicity with his oppressor.
2 Comments:
Can you imagine our "protester" types demonstrating under the conditions these people will be doing it under. Brave souls, good luck.
God I cannot wait till that bastard Fidel kicks the bucket. With the recent deaths of haters like Dworkin, Arafat, and Hunter Thompson, I am waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Will it be Fidel? Ted Kennedy, of maybe Noam Chomsky? My moneys on Fidel. Damm i will go out and celbrate.
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