Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Andy Garcia narrates new documentary featuring stories of Cuba's former political prisoners

NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Celebrating Life in Union, a new documentary narrated by Andy Garcia, will premiere at the 2012 New York City International Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas, August 14 at 6: 00p.m. The film unveils the tragedy and brotherhood of a group of former political prisoners from the Cuban Revolution, who fought for, and then were betrayed by their leader, Fidel Castro.

Celebrating Life in Union is a story of human resilience, community, and brotherhood. It follows a group of former Cuban political prisoners through their memory of imprisonment and their half century fight against the aging Castro regime. Having developed a strong community for themselves that now crosses three generations, they struggle with the realization that their own mortality may come before they can return to their homeland.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

BBC News - Top Cuba dissident Oswaldo Paya 'killed in car crash'

I find it odd that Cuba's dissidents are dying from natural causes and accidents! Looks more like they are being systematically killed, one by one! They are all in danger!
Prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya has died in a car crash, according to fellow activists.

Mr Paya, 60, was travelling near the city of Bayamo, in the eastern province of Granma, when the accident happened, they said.
He is known as the founder of the Varela Project - a campaign to gather signatures in support of a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights.
He was seen as a key spokesman for Cuba's small opposition.
A Catholic church official in Bayamo told AFP that a local hospital had told him and other activists that Mr Paya was dead, and had shown them identification.BBC News - Top Cuba dissident Oswaldo Paya 'killed in car crash':

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida-Mariela Castro in San Francisco

Gay Cuban Americans in Miami are furious that Fidel Castro's niece is meeting this week and next with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in San Francisco and New York City.
"For Mariela Castro, or anybody else under the Castro dictatorship, to say they are representing the rights of anyone is an insult to the hundreds of thousands who have either been killed, jailed or assassinated by their own hands, or the nearly 100,000 people who’ve jumped into the ocean looking for freedom who haven’t made it here," said Herb Sosa, executive director ofUnity Coalition, Miami-Dade County's leading Hispanic gay rights group.
Audio de las declaraciones del bloggero Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo sobre la visita de Mariela Castro. http://realaudio.rferl.org/CU/manual/2012/05/24/4b977d6e-e41c-41de-b8ef-2c1e9f92e6f8.mp3 

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/05/cuban-american-gay-activists-in-miami-protest-mariela-castros-visit-to-san-francisco-new-york.html#storylink=addthis#storylink=cpy


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Friday, April 20, 2012

Venezuelan General Wilmer Moreno killed - Daily News - EL UNIVERSAL

Late on Thursday, Venezuelan Army General Wilmer Antonio Moreno was killed in Anzoategui state, northeast Venezuela. 

Unofficial sources said that some people approached the military official, asked who he was and when he answered he was shot. 

The news was posted on social networks. Sources claimed that Moreno was shot 10 times, but other reports clarified that he was shot seven times. 

Moreno was a close collaborator of the current Venezuelan government. He played a role in the attempted coup of 2002, which sought to overthrow then President Carlos Andrés Pérez. 
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