Cuba's Long Black Spring
In her kitchen overlooking Havana's crumbling skyline, Julia Núñez Pacheco recalls the day five years ago when plainclothes state security agents, pistols on hips, stormed into her home. They accused Adolfo Fernández Saínz, her husband of three decades and an independent journalist with the small news agency Patria, of committing acts aimed at "subverting the internal order of the nation." Over the course of eight long hours, agents ransacked the apartment, confiscating items considered proof of Fernández Saínz's crimes: a typewriter, stacks of the Communist Party daily Granma with Fidel Castro's remarks underlined, and outlawed books such as George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. As Fernández Saínz was hauled away, Núñez Pacheco remembers one of the agents turning to her and saying, "You know, we've been told you are decent, quiet people. No fighting, no yelling. It's a shame you've chosen this path." Read the rest of the article here: http://cpj.org/reports/2008/03/cuba-press-crackdown.php
Six Years after ‘Black Spring’, Cuba Must Free Jailed Journalists
Six years after Cuba’s notorious "Primavera Negra" (Black Spring) crackdown on journalists and other accused dissenters, the country continues to trample on free expression and remains a leading jailer of journalists, with more than 20 reporters and news managers behind bars.
On the eve of the Primavera Negra anniversary, the International Press Institute’s Justice Denied Campaign urged President Raul Castro to free journalists who were given summary trials and convicted on charges of undermining the government in March 2003. Many received lengthy prison sentences and their appeals were dismissed.
"Raul Castro has had a year to make a break with the past and free journalists and others who were jailed on outlandish charges", IPI Director David Dadge said. "President Castro’s recent Cabinet shuffle and his diplomatic overtures may show promise, but his government will remain an international pariah until he takes concrete steps to free journalists and other prisoners of conscience".
Read the rest of the article here:http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/statements_detail.html?ctxid=CH0055&docid=CMS1237284229858&year=2009
Cuban ex political prisioner, Eusebio Peñalver Mazorra, dies
By Ariel Remos
Eusebio Peñalver
By Ariel Remos DIARIO LAS AMERICAS
With profound grief we consign the death in the city of
Congressional Black Caucus:
"He looked directly into my eyes!" gasped Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) "and then he asked: how can we help President Obama? Fidel Castro really wants President Obama to succeed." (no doubt!)
"It was quite a moment to behold!" hyperventilated Rep. Barbara Lee. (D-CA) "Fidel Castro was very engaging and very energetic."
"He's one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met!" gushed Emanuel Cleaver(D-Mo)
"Raul Castro was a very engaging, down-to-earth and kind man," according to Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) "someone who I would favor as a neighbor. It was almost like visiting an old friend," (Bobby Rush was a card-carrying Black Panther who did prison time)"The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent... We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: NOTHING!" - (Ernesto "Che" Guevara.)
"Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement
Just because Bill Clinton gave China (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/03/china.trade/) Most-Favored Trade Status.
Are we going to do the same with Cuba?
Is the CBC just ignorant or stupid?
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