UPDATED – Another Political Murder in Cuba or What Should We Call This?
The first time I read this January 26 letter published by “Cruzar las Alambradas” (Spanish, English) blog on June 18 , I felt compelled to immediately respond to this imprisoned dissident’s plea for help.
But I had not read the introduction written by Luis Felipe Rojas, the blogger, and instead jumped immediately to the letter at Internet reading speed. After my first reading, I quickly felt compelled to write something about this allegedly endangered Cuban dissident and began rereading it only to discover that he had already died in a Cuban prison on February 12 at the age of 39.
“They imprison us, disappear us, humiliate us, violate us, and I think there no words to explain so much crime. And the nations, the governments, and all humanity on this earth does nothing to put an end to so much pain and suffering.”
“I am 39 years old, which I have lived in prison, approximately 14 in maximum security prisons and only 2 in those with forced labor, in infra-human conditions, plagued with diseases such as H.I.V.- AIDS, tuberculosis, bronchitis, lectopirosis, bronco-pneumonia, hunger, mice, cockroaches, Chinch, ticks, and God knows it is true.”
One might argue that it is possible that Mr. Brito was a criminal manipulator and not telling the truth, but is it reasonable to believe that? Isn’t what he reports consistent with what is reported about Cuba since Che Guevara began executing prisoners in La Cabaña on the same night they were tried. My father was one of the attorneys appointed to defend them. He told me how he would be assigned cases fifteen minutes before they were tried. He only won one, and only on appeal, but the defendant was executed nevertheless.
Add that the Castro regime continues to prevent a visit to Cuba´s prisons by Manfred Nowak, Special Investigator on Torture for the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Add the other historical precedents, Mr. Brito´s letter (assuming it is authentic), and the tyranny´s additional refusal to allow visits by the International Red Cross, and it is fair to conclude that Mr. Harold Brito was telling the truth.
May he now be with Christ in His glory.
Harold Brito (1972-2011) From cruzarlasalambradas . wordpress. com
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I was initially pointed to said blog by Capitol Hill Cubans and somehow missed or failed to register their first sentence and introduction too.
Censored Cuba Post
This instance of censorship was corrected by Google about one minute after I published this new post denouncing it. It only lasted approximately thirty-five minutes. But it is is a chronic problem. I have denounced it before here , and in several other posts (links listed there).
In the past the censorship has extended over 24 hours, enough to damagingly influence the spread of the censored post’s visibility on Google’s blog search engine. That’s why I stopped blogging in Google Blogger and began in WordPress. But the change did not bring about the desired results. Google supposedly lists all blog posts that are published in the past ten minutes in its blog search engine. What I write should not repeatedly be the exception.
The temporarily censored post on this occasion was “Cuban Dissidents Have Right to Self Defense, Not Suicide” and is located at the following address:
http://invisiblecuba.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/cuban-dissidents-have-right-to-self-defense-not-suicide/
It still cannot be found on the Yahoo and Bing search engines even though this blog is listed with them.
I will most likely stop blogging in wordpress and open a simple non blog site, in Spanish, at http://www.invisiblecuba.com/ linking directly to the Internet backbone.
Dead Cuban Dissident’s Mother Arrives in Miami: “The Castros Must Dissapear!”
Expressing her gratitude to the people and government of the United States and twice proclaiming “Viva Cuba libre”, Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s mother finally arrived in Miami seven hours ago. A little earlier the Cuban regime had exhumed her son and permitted her to identify him and pay last respects. He was then cremated, after which she immediately journeyed into exile with her remaining children and the martyred nationalist´s ashes. Once in Miami Mrs. Tamayo wasted no time accusing the regime of murdering him, alleging they deprived him of water for the last eighteen days of his eighty-five day hunger strike, while under their custody.
“The Castros must disappear! They assassinated Zapata depriving him of water for eighteen days, the pacific young man (protesting for) human rights in Cuba…”
Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s memory has become a living unifying icon on this sixth decade of resistance to Castro.
Mrs. Tamayo Carries urn with son Orlando Zapata Tamayo's ashes - From Miscelaneas de Cuba and Levantamiento Popular en Cuba
Mrs. Tamayo is a simple, charismatic, outspoken and evidently courageous Cuban woman of African descent. Upon stepping outside the cemetery on one unforgettable occasion after her 42-year-old son´s death, the political police grabbed and pushed the elderly woman unto the ground, dragging her further once she was down. They then allegedly began pulling off part of her clothing, right in the street.
In a subsequent attack the regime displayed psychological torture tactics: a political police woman allegedly mocked her, telling the grieving mother how happy she was that her son had died.
Afterwards, they just prevented her from visiting her son’s tomb.
After months of continuing abuse, the embattled Mrs. Tamayo finally offered to march into exile, but under the condition that they would allow her to take the remains of her son.
Most likely, because her departure would deprive local Cuban dissidents of a critical rallying point, the regime concurred.
But on May 8, 2011 another dissident, Juan Wilfredo Soto García died three days after allegedly telling his pastor and a neighbor that he had been severely beaten by Cuba´s political police.
Welcome to Miami, Mrs. Tamayo. Bienvenida a Miami, Sra. Reina Luisa Tamayo. Viva Cuba libre! Zapata vive!
Related
You Tube video of Mrs. Tamayo’s arrival in Miami
El Nuevo Herald – Video of her arrival
Castro Says Leave But Some Say No
ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT – New Testimony: Cuban Police “…were assassinating him…”
This is my English language translation of my transcript of an interview in which a woman who identifies herself as Natividad Blanco Carrero alleges that the dead Cuban dissident, Juan Wilfredo Soto García, told her, while hospitalized, that he was being assassinated by Cuba´s police. The interview in Spanish can be seen here.
INTERVIEW
“My name is Natividad Blanco Carrero …(provides her physical address ….Apt. 3…in the America latina neighborhood)”
Read more…
New Evidence Dead Dissident Was Beaten Up
A tweet from an allegedly assassinated Cuban dissident’s pastor upends the Castro regime’s contention that it did not beat up the victim 3 days prior to his death. While the regime contends that Mr. Juan Wilfredo Soto García died of a pancreatic disease on May 8, his pastor declares in a You Tube video that on May 5 he had tweeted:
Wilfredo nicknamed “the student” ex political prisoner with cardiovascular problems has just been beaten up in S. Clara park by PNR.”
PNR stands for Policía Nacional Revolucionaria (National Revolutionary Police). The tweet appears recorded on May 5, signed by “maritovoz mario” and is viewable Read more…
Cuban Refuses Military Service, Serves Someone Else
Miscelaneas de Cuba reported that a Cuban has refused to obey a citation in the “Area of Attention” ordering him to participate in 15 days of military exercises. Mr. Adonis Salgado Pérez informed Major Tomás Martínez that he belonged to a political party led by Huber Matos, one of the principal Comandantes of the Cuban uprising against Batista, imprisoned for thirty years after rejecting the betrayal of the 1950′s rebellion by the emerging dictator, Mr. Fidel Castro.
The mayor threatened Mr. Salgado with imprisonment too.
EIA
