We are not going to heal you because you are a Black Counter-Revolutionary

Bertha Antunez Pertet, talks about racism in Cuba at the hands of the communist. She recalls how in 93 when her brother dissident Jose Luis Garcia Perez (Antunez) was in prison for political reasons, he endured additional mistreatment and humiliation due to the color of his skin and she recalls a horrible incident, that seems like something right out of 19th century Spanish colonialism, where her brother's jailers incited some dogs to attack him and they destroyed parts of his body, but he was refused medical care and was told......____"We are not going to heal you, because you are a black counter-revolutionary". 


Nowadays,  Antunez is out of prison, but lives in Cuba and in his own way he is a free man. He is an outspoken critic of the Castro Regime and twitters and blogs for freedom. He calls his blogs "Ni me Callo ni me Voy", which means, I will not be Silent and I will not Leave.


Racism is and has been evident from the early days of the communist revolution and even before the bearded men came down from the hills of Sierra Maestra in 1959. The communists want the world to believe that they are for equality, but the reality is very different and in a crowd the black man with be the first to be asked for his identity papers and racial slurs during arrests of dissidents or none dissident is common practice and if they are unlucky enough to end up in prison-they always get the worse treatment.

Interviewed March 2011

Bertha Antúnez Pernet was born in 1959 to a family of limited means. She began to become politically aware in 1990 when her brother, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez (“Antúnez”), was unjustly charged with “enemy propaganda” for saying in a public square that Cuba should experience the same political changes that were taking place in Eastern Europe. He was incarcerated and then charged with additional political offenses during his confinement, which extended his sentence until 2007.

Antúnez Pernet became increasingly aware of the gravity of the human rights situation in Cuba through visiting her brother in prison and learning about the conditions to which he and other prisoners of conscience were subjected.

In 1997, Antúnez Pernet and other family members of political prisoners founded an organization called the National Movement of Civic Resistance Pedro Luis Boitel to fight ill-treatment in prison. By 1999, the movement had collected over 5,000 signatures for a general amnesty of political prisoners in Cuba. It has also carried out protests in front of various prisons throughout the island. 

Source:

The Freedom Collection

Yoani Sanchez Havana's Newest Spain's "El Pais" Press Correspondent in Cuba

According to Penultimos Dias, since the Castro regime refuses to accredit correspondents from Spain's largest daily, El Pais, the newspaper has hired a local journalist already based in Havana.

Her name is Yoani Sanchez.

Kudos to El Pais. 

Perhaps this will serve as a lesson for all those "journalists" that have jeopardized their integrity to satisfy their dictatorial hosts. 



Sources:

Penultimos Dias

Capitol Hill Cubans

A Brave Man Takes on Cuba's Brutal Regime. Will the Pope Help?

“Police are in my house; bring summons for Oscar,” Tweeted Elsa Morejon at 11:50 Thursday morning from Havana. “Oscar” is her husband, Oscar Elias Biscet, the courageous physician who has spent 12 of his 50 years on earth in Fidel Castro’s prisons for expressing the opinion that Cubans should be free to speak their minds, to associate with whom they please, and to vote in fair elections.

On Wednesday, he voiced those opinions again in anop-ed in the Wall Street Journal. “My country continues to be run by a brutal regime that oppresses the people, systematically violating our basic freedoms,” he wrote. “Cuba is a police state…. They beat and harass anyone seeking peaceful political change.”

Thus, a knock on the door, and the summons to appear at the police station Friday at 9 a.m.

Biscet responded as any brave person responds in the Internet age. He is not cowed. Within minutes, Biscet and his wife ensure that a photo of the police who came to his door and a copy of the hand-written summons are circulating around the world. Continue reading here........

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Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: A picture is worth a thousand words...

Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: A picture is worth a thousand words...: Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera arrested together with Donaida Pérez Paseiro for trying to keep a doctor's appointment. Yris Tamara Pérez Aguil...

My Tribute to Laura Pollan, a Patriot of Cuba!

I should have posted here when I received the knews of Laura Pollan death, but I felt like the wind was just beat out of me. I know that things like this have been happening in Cuba since the Castro's came to power, but it never stops being shocking. Laura Pollan, president of "The Ladies in White", was one of the most important leaders that the dissidents had and now she is gone and though she lives in our hearts, this sad news is very difficult for us.

She marched for the freedom of Cuba among the blows and shoves of the State sponsored mobs, never bowing her head and even while being injured by the violence, she marched on. 

She and other dissidents had reported, being poked with needles by members of these mobs, so the possibility that she was poisoned or infected with a biological agent is very real. The Castro's are well documented on these methods of destroying the opposition in the style of the former Soviet Union!

She was able to accomplish what no one in 5 decades was able to acomplish. The Castro Regime feared her.

Her leadership and her fearless confrontations with the Castro mobs, made us all proud and now she is gone, but not forgotten. Bertha Soler, will now take her place.

Soler said.....___"This is a day of mourning for the Ladies in White and for the opposition in Cuba," as reported by the  Associated Press.

The Ladies in White's message to the government is that they will continue protesting!

Laura Pollan legacy will live on and her name will be published in Cuba's history books. This history is being written as we speak by the Cuban resistance. God be with them!

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"I Am the Other Cuba", a Documentary That Exposes the Sad Reality of Today's Cuba

Pierantonio Maria Micciarelli........"When I was young I was fascinated with the myth of the Cuban Revolution, but now  here in Cuba y saw a different face and reality. They are people of courage who are prisoners in their own house. 

Woman Beaten by Cuban Police!

Mariblanca, was one of a group of disidents arrested September 26. While spending time in jail, she was beaten by Cuban police and this is the state she was in when she came home.

I find it hard to belive that the cowards who beat her were born from a woman.

A few days ago a useful idtio wrote from his Twitter page, that the Cuba Revolution had done more for women and children. The trueth y something else......

This is how Cuban police treats a woman. Her crime? To think......

The following vídeo shows all the people arrested September 26 along with Mariblanca. Mariblanca can be clearly seen, before the beating by the police.

Cuban Dissident Murdered by Cuban Police!

Martha Roque, a prominent member of the Cuban oppossition reports the sad news that dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, a member of the Coalición Central Opositora (oposition group), has passed away tonight, in Santa Clara, Cuba!! Garcia died of respiratory failure as a result of a beating received at the hands of Cuban opressive state police. May he rest in peace! Listen to the report from Marta Roque. It's in Spanish, but it the source I have.


Known to his friends as "El Estudiante" (the student), Garcia was beaten by the Santa Clara police last Thursday  and was hospitalized due to his injuries. A second recording from Cuba, confirms the death of Garcia.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day and another Cuban mother with weep the loss of her son.... 

American Scholar and Blogger Ted Henken is Interrogated by Cuban State Police

The American Scholar and blogger Ted Henken, who was visiting cuba researching the Cuban bloggersphere, was interrogated before his departure, by Cuban State Police at "Jose Marti" Airport in Havana and was warned that he would not be allowed to re-enter the Island.


The heading of his blog called "El Yuma", Henken writes..... Rejecting the derogatory term "Gringos" and the accusatory epithet "Yanquis," Cubans prefer to refer to us, their North American neighbors, as "Yumas." This blog is simply one Yuma's way of sharing his thoughts on all things Cuban, a subject that often generates more heat than light.

"Esta será tu última vez" - Memorias de la última conversación que tuve en Cuba

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American Allan Gross Convicted and Sentenced by the Castro Regime!

The Castro regime has just (simultaneously) announced the conviction and sentence of American development worker Allan Gross -- 15 years in prison.


Gross was trying to improve Internet access for the Jewish communisty in Cuba.


Source-Capital Hill Cubans

WikiLeaks cables highlight Cuba's health care issues

In one Cuban hospital, patients had to bring their own light bulbs. In another, the staff used "a primitive manual vacuum" on a woman who had miscarried. In others, Cuban patients pay bribes to obtain better treatment.
Those and other observations by an unidentified nurse assigned to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana were included in a dispatch sent by the mission in January 2008 and made public this month by WikiLeaks.
Titled "Cuban healthcare: Aquí Nada es Facil'' -- Nothing here is easy -- the cable offers a withering assessment by the nurse, officially a Foreign Service Health Practitioner, or FSHP, who already had lived in Cuba for 2 1/2 years.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/12/29/1531646/wikileaks-cables-highlight-cubas.html#ixzz19Y3tcbDp

Dozens of Mental Patients Died of Starvation and Hypothermia in a Havana Hospital

These images licked to the internet, paint a gruesome picture of what is the Cuban experience. You would expect to see images like these in the Jewish holocaust archives, but this is not Nazi Germany, this is Cuba, January 2010.

Dozens of psychiatric patients perished inside the walls of the hospital known as Mazorra in Havana city, Cuba. They died from starvation and hypothermia. The people entrusted to care for them stole the food, blankets and mattresses that were supposed to be used for the patients. The bodies had signs of severe neglect, bruises and torture.

I can remember the fear we all had at the mere mention of this hospital. It is know to the average Cuban as a place of torture used by the Castro Regime to persuade agitators and contra revolutionaries. Opening these doors is opening the gates of hell. Someone in my own family was sent there, just for speaking out against the regime.

Never forget!

Cuban Dissident Guillermo Fariñas, 100 Days on Hunger Strike

While awaiting the liberation of the political prisoners in poor health, Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has now been on hunger strike for over 100 days.

"I have always said that I'm skeptical of what the Cuban authorities will do". Who could blame him-the Cuban Government could care less about the well being of the prisoners. Fariñas thinks that they are just being used as pieces on a chess game.

He has said that he will abandoned the hunger strike if at least a dozen or so of the most ill are freed and a plan is set into motion to free the remaining prisoners. His only regret is not starting the strike when Zapata was still alive.

Cuban Diplomat Bites a Noregian Girl!

If you plan on visiting the Cuban embassy in Oslo, Norway, don't forget to get a rabies vaccine, because those dogs bite.

Carmen Julia Guerra, a Cuban Diplomat in Oslo, bit Alexandra Joner's hand. The victim is a young Norwegian artist who was participating and filming across the street from the Cuban embassy in Oslo. In the video you can see clearly how the diplomat walks across the street towards Alexandra and then she proceeds to insult her and then bites her hand.


A group has been formed in Facebook asking for the expulsion from Norway of this savage accomplice of the Castro Regime.

Basic Information
Name: ¡BÓTENLA de Noruega! ¡A morder a Cuba! (Kick her out of Norway! Go bite in Cuba!

We call for the expulsion Carmen Julia Guerra from Norway and demand that diplomats of the dictatorship respect the rules of democracy.

Privacy: Open to all, content is public.
The consul at the Cuban embassy in Oslo provokes, insults and bites a demonstrator, 20 year old Alexandra Joner, on her hand, on May 22 during a worldwide pro-Cuban freedom march.

This video shows the attack.



Here you can see the Vampire wannabe, denying having bitten the girl and even goes as far as saying that it is the victim who should apologize to her-unbelievable!!



You may join the effort to get this delinquent (Carmen Julia Guerra) out of Norway here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129379947079023

Alexandra Joner Modeling for a music video.

I Feel Cuba by Andy Garcia

"Oscar's Cuba" Premieres Today in Miami

"Oscar's Cuba" is the story of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a political prisoner who has been called Fidel Castro's number one enemy; the man the Castro brothers fear most.

A medical doctor, Biscet is serving a 25-year prison term, much of it in a tiny solitary confinement cell.

Filmmaker Jordan Allott is an American who told CBS4's Eliott Rodriguez that he didn't know much about Cuba before he started filming his documentary.

"I read about Dr. Biscet and immediately connected with his story," Allott said. "I said, 'Wow if there isn't a movie about him I have to make one so people who are not Cuban will connect with him the same way I did."

Allott snuck into Cuba on two occasions to make the film. He interviewed Biscet's wife, who showed the food she takes him in prison, the bucket he uses to hold bathwater and the toilet paper and other personal items she takes him. Dissidents show how wiretaps are used by the government to spy on them.

The film captures the constant fear Cubans live with.

At one point in the film, Allot approaches a Cuban man on the street and asks, "If I was Cuban and I said I don't like Fidel would I be in jail?" The man responds by saying, "Please don't ask me that."

A man of peace, Dr. Biscet was harassed by pro-government mobs before being put in prison for speaking out against the government. Jailed but not silenced, he continues to send messages from inside prison.

"He's still having an affect even from the dungeons of Castro's prisons and if he gets out he could lead the people to freedom and that is what the Cuban people want," Allot said.

"Oscar's Cuba" is the story the Cuban government does not want you to see.

SHOW-TIMES:

The film is being shown in South Florida on Wednesday May 12th, Tuesday May 18th, Wednesday May 19th and Thursday May 20th. All four screenings will be at the Tower Theater, 1508 S.W. 8 Street in Little Havana.

Source: Capitol Hill Cubans

These are the Women Most Feared by the Communist Regime of Cuba.

In a society where civil and moral values lost their worth long ago, some find glory in stomping on the rights of those they see as inferior, for having the audacity to think different then they do.

Others have the clarity to see the lye within the daily rhetoric, we were feed for so many decades and wings of freedom start to grow.

Today, the sons of those ideals for which so many gave their lives, are devoured by the revolution.

The Ladies in White were born seven years ago, during the wave of arrests, known as the Dark Spring of 2003, when the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of the 75 dissidents who were arrested on the spring of 2003, got together to ask for freedom for their family members imprisoned by the Communists.

Every Sunday after attending mass at the Church of Santa Rita, these brave women march down 5ta Avenida in Havana, Cuba. They march for the man who gave it all, because they understood that country is above any ideology and above themselves.

These Mujeres Coraje, (Women of Courage) march in spite of the insults, violence, shoves and abuses they receive at the hands of paramilitary crowds, dresses in civilian clothes. Their only weapons.....their unconditional love for their family members and a gladiola in their hands.

These are the women most feared by the communist regime of Cuba.

Please sing the Nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize for the brave Cuban Ladies in White!

Interview - Mother of Cuban Political Prisoner Pedro Luis Boitel

Pedro Luis Boitel died in 1973 while on hunger strike in a Castro Prison. It is said that just like Orlando Zapata Tamayo, his water was taken away. His mother who pleaded to anyone that would listened, could not help him. No one cared to hear her. He was one of 12 documented prisoners who died during a hunger strike.

His tortures never imagined that his death would resonate decades later. His memory is revered by the opposition. In fact a baby that was just assaulted by Cuban police a few weeks ago, when his mother and two others including Jorge Luis Perez Antunez were being arrested, was named after him.

Boitel was allowed to die of hunger and thirst, then his body buried in darkness in an unmarked grave, so that even in death they could humiliate him. To this day acts of civil resistance are performed in front of his tomb and honors are given in his name.

His mother who fought against Batista, and recalls her house being searched often by Bastista's police, lived to see the Castro Revolution devour her own son.

She said that at least with Batista, there was always a loop hole, an open door, but with Castro there was no bargaining. She knew that man like her son could not live long. His cellmates remember a man who retained his dignity till the end.

Pedro Luis Boitel died at a time when even those of us who lived in Cuba, didn't find out what was happening in Castros dungeons.. A time when torture and murder happened in darkness while the world played footsies with a genocidal murderer.

His legacy will be that of a man who never abandoned the cause of freedom even when he was stripped of everything that he held dear. Pedro and so may others will be the ones who history will absolve. Man like Castro will join the ranks of Hitler and Stalin and their name will forever be recalled in shame.

A Revolution betrayed that swallowed our innocence and stained our soil with the blood of so many of our sons and daughters. Those of you who danced with the devil will have your own special place as accomplices to Genocine and torture.

Freedom For Cuba! (Video)

Thousands Meet by Jose Marti's Bust in Los Angeles

Under a warm Californian sun, Thousands of Cubans and many of our Latin American neighbours and Americans gathered in the name of freedom. I saw Cuban, American, Salvadorian, Mexican, Venezuelans, Honduran flags.

I imagined that our Apostle Marti was watching us proud. All united for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners. Gathered in the name of those who have no freedom of expression, or right to gather to ask for their rights. United for the Ladies in White, so they can continue to march for the freedom of their love ones, without being mistreated or imprisoned.

United in one voice for the world to listen and not be an accomplice to so much violence against a peaceful dissidence and a people that can take no more.

We marched for those we left behind, for the thousands dead at the hands of the Castro dictatorship, for all the mothers who mourn their sons and daughters, for what we lost and for what we hope for. We marched for a better future for future generations.

Sadly, just moments before the schedule speakers arrived, I received a message from Facebook about the critical condition of Guillermo Farina who is on hunger and thirst strike. I remember that shared it with a man who started to cry. Many of us had tears in our eyes during the march and I can't blame them-it's been five decades of waiting for a change that never came.

At the start of the presentation, there was an announcement that they had recieved news from Cuba that Reina Tamayo, mother of murdered political prisoner Orlando Zapata, had been Hacked today, by a mob of Castro sympathizers. There is no honor in torturing a mother in mourning.

Present at the event were Andy Garcia, Perez Hilton, George Lopez, Maria Conchita Alonso, Steven Bower, Huber Matos, among others.

There were scream of down with Fidel, freedom, Zapata lives and in spite of Andy and Conchita's reminders that we could accomplish more in silence, we found difficult to stay quiet. The word silence is not in the Cuban dictionary.

Aproximately at four in the afternoon, we started walking and I have to say it was overcomed by the long line of people, dressed all dressed in white, united by the love of the our country of birth and the admiration of those inside Cuba, who are sacrificing their lives, to leave their children a better future.