Re: Cuban political prisoners list dips to 167 - Partial list - more lies and insults from Dan Christensen
- From: PL <pl.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:19:22 +0200
What desperate Dan snipped:
Note that the authors of the list clearly stated that is was a "partial" list.
Something not well reflected in the article:
"Se trata de una Lista Parcial pues inferimos que hay otros casos de prisioneros políticos dentro de la enorme población penal existente en Cuba, debido a la naturaleza carcelaria y liberticida que es propia de todos los regímenes totalitarios."
Quick translation:
"One is a Partial List because we deduce that there are other cases of political prisoners within the enormous existing penal population in Cuba, due to the prison-minded and liberty-killing nature that is inherent of all the totalitarian regimes."
Full text of the report:
http://groups.google.be/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/4248340545b08e5d?hl=en
On 6/07/2010 16:56, Dan Christensen wrote:
It seems the cowardly PL is still at loss to explain the huge
discrepancy between Amnesty International's figures (for what they are
worth) and those from his "dissident" sources.
Don't need to.
No "discrepancy" at all to explain.
There are - on this partial list - 167 political prisoners of which Amnesty International has adopted 53 by conferring the title of "prisoner of conscience" to.
"Prisoners of conscience" are those political prisoners Amnesty international has adopted. No more, no less.
On Jul 6, 5:03 am, PL<pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:replied to:
[snipping portions of PL's posting already debunked here, or just too
lame to bother with]
> What about the other supposed 114
"political prisoners?"
Not "supposed", in fact.
Says who?(snip)
What PL snipped for obvious reasons and has repeatedly refused to
address:
Says who? (snip)
HRW and lots of other human rights organizations and everyone that is dogmatically handicapped as you are.
Are they considered by AI to be advocates or
participants in violence?
Nope.
not (yet) being recognized by Amnesty doesn't mean one is guilty of
violence.
Amnesty International's numbers, for what they are worth, have also
been steadily declining over the past few years.(snip)
What PL also snipped and refused to address:
Amnesty International's numbers, for what they are worth, have also
been steadily declining o(snip)
again addressed and duly snipped by castro lobbyist Dan Christensen
the explanation is clear: a change in tactics by the regime.
Nobody claims the repression is decreasing.
More on the changing nature of repression:
Como una muestra elocuente de la metamorfosis de la represión política en Cuba, que pretende ser ahora de “baja intensidad” mediante detenciones arbitrarias de corta duración y otras formas de hostigamiento, mostramos la tabla de detenciones de opositores que, al menos fueron arrestados en los últimos seis meses y que la CCDHRN pudo documentar a sabiendas de que las cifras reales fueron mayores:
ENERO ………………… 117 ABRIL ………………… 162
FEBRERO ………………… 235 MAYO ………………… 120
MARZO ………………… 83 JUNIO ………………… 85
As an eloquent illustration of the metamorphosis of the political repression in Cuba, that now is supposed to be “low intensity” by means of arbitrary arrests of short duration and other forms of harassment we show a table of opponents who were arrested over the last six months and that the CCDHRN could document knowing full well that the real numbers were higher:
JANUARY ..................... 117
FEBRUARY ..................... 235
MARCH ..................... 83
APRIL ..................... 162
MAY..................... 120
JUNE ..................... 85
On Cuba's prison population:
"Estimamos que la actual población penal está en el orden de unas 80 000 personas, incluyendo a varios miles internadas bajo la figura de Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva y, en sentido abarcador, decenas de miles de personas inocentes o indebidamente condenadas que permanecen en las prisiones y otros lugares de internamiento mandatorio (manicomios, sidatorios, etc). "
We consider that the present penal population is in the order of 80 000 people, including a several thousands interned under the law of Pre-Criminal Social Dangerousness and, in a comprehensive way, tens of the thousand of innocent people or unjustly condemned who remain in the prisons and other places of mandatory internment (mental hospitals, aids centers, etc).
Full text of the report:
http://groups.google.be/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/4248340545b08e5d?hl=en
Note again: thousands in jail without having committed any crime under this repressive law which includes lots of people arrested for political reasons:
Here is a list by the way:
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/media/Web1/lista2.doc
as some previously on their list were either released of placed under house arrest like Dr Darsi Ferrer.
Doesn't mean they are no longer persecuted for their defense of human rights.
(snip)[snip]but feel free to post any proof of violence you can find on any of these
people:
The best evidence is that not even Amnesty International accepts them as "prisoners of conscience." (snip)
that doesn't mean anything.
Still in denial,
Nope.
Still dealing with reality and exposing your lies.
see.
Do they even exist?
That is beyond any doubt.
Here again is a list of names:http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/media/Word1/lista1.doc
[snip]
From this list, several seem to have been convicted of terrorism,
piracy and sabotage.(snip)
You mean what the Cuba regime calls "piracy", "terrorism", ...
[snip]
It could explain why Amnesty International(snip)
Nope it doesn't.
Even the Cuban regime admits these people on the 167 list haven't done anything at all.
they were arrested "preventative" before committing any crime:
For example was convicted for "dangerousness" (no crime committed):
FERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ Osmany Leonardo 24-04-2009 Peligrosidad social Pre-delictiva. 2 años y 6 meses
CRUZ PÉREZ Jesús Santo 22-09-2008
Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva 2 años
NÚÑEZ ESPINOSA Omar Vidal 20-11-2009
Peligrosidad Social Pre-predelictiva 2 años
PERDIGÓN BRITO Raymundo 27-11-2006
Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva. 4 años
RODRÍGUEZ CHAVEZ José Luis 4-02-2008 Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva 4 años
Under this law:
Articles 72-90, which define the crime of peligrosidad, or "dangerousness." These articles come under the heading, "The Dangerous Status and Security Measures," a section of the Penal Code under which someone can be sentenced for up to four years in prison on the grounds that the authorities believe the individual has a "special proclivity" to commit crimes, even though he or she might not have actually committed a crime. These articles broadly define "dangerous" people as those who act in a manner that contradicts "socialist morality" or engage in "anti-social behavior." Moreover, Article 75 provides for an "official warning" to people the authorities deem to be in danger of becoming "dangerous," i.e., those who are not yet "dangerous" but who are regarded as having criminal tendencies because of their "ties or relations with people who are potentially dangerous to society, other people, and to the social, economic and political order of the socialist State…"
Used for:
Cuba's government is repressive. Its latest crackdown targets so-called ''anti-social'' youths, most of them black. Since January more than 400 people have been imprisoned, almost every one of them black.
The rationale for the arrests is that this is a ''pre-offense security measure,'' for not complying with the ''norms of socialist morality.'' This explains why there are no charges filed. Even the Cuban government can't
file a charge for a crime that has not been committed -- but they can and do arrest you just in case.
From: Crackdown on Cuba's disaffected youth, Miami Herald, May. 12, 2005
Political Imprisonment
In early July 2005 the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a respected local human rights group, issued a list of 306 prisoners who it said were incarcerated for political reasons. The list included the names of thirteen peaceful dissidents who had been arrested and detained in the first half of 2005, of whom eleven were being held on charges of "dangerousness.
From: HRW 2006 Human Rights Overview Cuba"
http://www.cubaverdad.net/crime_of_dangerousness.htm
For lots of articles see:
English:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=Dangerousness&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
Spanish:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=peligrosidad&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
This part cowardly Castro apologist Dan Christensen snipped without addressing as he can't provide any proof for his lies of course:
Piracy (in Cuba) is stealing a boat to leave the country for example.
tell us what acts of violence the perpetrated. Not the trumped up charges.
I will help you on one that did use violence: he in despair tried to hijack a plane.
But thanks for confirming that even according to the regime the overwhelming majority of them has not committed and act of violence.
Of those accused of "violent sounding" crimes most have no committed any act of violence.
But again: post your proof.
I gave you the names.
So again you go down in flames as the desperate liar you are.
the facts on Cuba's repressive laws that cowardly Castro apologist and serial liar Dan Christensen snipped:
"Cuba's "criminal Law"
Some examples of the "laws" used:
Articles 72-90, which define the crime of peligrosidad, or "dangerousness." These articles come under the heading, "The Dangerous Status and Security Measures," a section of the Penal Code under which someone can be sentenced for up to four years in prison on the grounds that the authorities believe the individual has a "special proclivity" to commit crimes, even though he or she might not have actually committed a crime. These articles broadly define "dangerous" people as those who act in a manner that contradicts "socialist morality" or engage in "anti-social behavior." Moreover, Article 75 provides for an "official warning" to people the authorities deem to be in danger of becoming "dangerous," i.e., those who are not yet "dangerous" but who are regarded as having criminal tendencies because of their "ties or relations with people who are potentially dangerous to society, other people, and to the social, economic and political order of the socialist State…"
Used for:
Cuba's government is repressive. Its latest crackdown targets so-called ''anti-social'' youths, most of them black. Since January more than 400 people have been imprisoned, almost every one of them black.
The rationale for the arrests is that this is a ''pre-offense security measure,'' for not complying with the ''norms of socialist morality.'' This explains why there are no charges filed. Even the Cuban government can't
file a charge for a crime that has not been committed -- but they can and do arrest you just in case.
From: Crackdown on Cuba's disaffected youth, Miami Herald, May. 12, 2005
Political Imprisonment
In early July 2005 the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a respected local human rights group, issued a list of 306 prisoners who it said were incarcerated for political reasons. The list included the names of thirteen peaceful dissidents who had been arrested and detained in the first half of 2005, of whom eleven were being held on charges of "dangerousness.
From: HRW 2006 Human Rights Overview Cuba"
http://www.cubaverdad.net/crime_of_dangerousness.htm
For lots of articles see:
English:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=Dangerousness&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
Spanish:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=peligrosidad&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
For example was convicted for "dangerousness" (no crime committed):
FERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ Osmany Leonardo 24-04-2009 Peligrosidad social Pre-delictiva. 2 años y 6 meses
CRUZ PÉREZ Jesús Santo 22-09-2008
Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva 2 años
NÚÑEZ ESPINOSA Omar Vidal 20-11-2009
Peligrosidad Social Pre-predelictiva 2 años
PERDIGÓN BRITO Raymundo 27-11-2006
Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva. 4 años
RODRÍGUEZ CHAVEZ José Luis 4-02-2008 Peligrosidad Social Pre-Delictiva 4 años
ARTICLE 91. The person who, in the interest of a foreign State, commits an act with the intent to cause damage to the independence of the Cuban State or the integrity of its territory, shall be punished with 10 to 20 years in prison or death.
Used for:
Víctor Rolando ARROYO CARMONA: journalist (Unión de Periodistas y Escritores de Cuba Independiente- Independent Cuban Union of Journalists and Writers - UPECI & CubaNet)& librarian (Reyes Magos Library) - 26 years (Chafarina, Guantánamo) - sentenced under Article 91. On 26 May 2003, Arroyo's wife reported that he had been moved from his special hardship cell to a bedless punishment cell for refusing to stand to attention in front of a prison guard. Arroyo reported having been taken from his cell by three prison guards on 31 December 2003 and beaten about the face and body. Honorary member: Finnish PEN
Oscar ESPINOSA CHEPE: economist and journalist (Cubanet) - 20 years (Transferred in early July 2003 from Chafarina, Guantánamo to Boniato, Santiago de Cuba). Sentenced under Articles 7 & 11 of Law 88 ("activities against the integrity and sovereignty of the State") and Article 91. 62-years-old. Reported to be suffering from a chronic kidney condition, a thoracic hernia, hypertension, weight loss and a possible liver disorder. Transferred to Guantánamo Provincial Hospital shortly after being sentenced and thence to Ambrosio Grillo Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, but reportedly not receiving adequate medical attention. Eventually returned to Boniato prison. On 7 August 2003, on becoming ill again, Espinoza was flown to the Finlay Military Hospital in Havana. *Reported in March 2004 to be suffering from cancer. Honorary Member: Netherlands PEN, Swedish PEN
Miguel GALVÁN GUTIÉRREZ: journalist (Havana Press) - 26 years (Agüica, Matanzas) - sentenced under Article 91. Sentence confirmed on 3 June 2003 by the Supreme Popular Tribunal. On or around 3 August 2003, Galván (born 1965), was reportedly threatened by the Agüica prison governor with a transfer to Guantánamo prison, over 500 miles away from his family, if he continued passing news to the outside about prison conditions. *Transferred in May 2004 to Block 10 of Agüica prison which houses prisoners considered highly dangerous, including those serving life sentences for murder. Reported that he had been transferred to this block so that the other prisoners would kill him. Also claimed that a prison guard was encouraging other prisoners to attack him physically and sexually. Reported to have a physical disability. Honorary Member: Sydney PEN
José Luis GARCÍA PANEQUE: journalist (Agencia Libertad) & librarian (Carlos J Finlay Library) - 24 years (Santa Clara Provisional Prison, Villa Clara) - sentenced under Law 88 and Article 91. Reported to have suffered from mental illness during the first year of his imprisonment.
Ricardo Severino GONZÁLEZ ALFONSO: president, Manuel Márquez Sterling Journalists Society,director of De Cuba magazine, and librarian (Jorge Mañach Library) - 20 years (Kilo 8, Camagüey) - sentenced under Article 91. Reported in November 2003 to have developed a nodule in his throat. González Alfonso (53) declared the start of a hunger strike on 8 December 2003 to back up his demand that he be transferred to a wing of his prison where he can be held with other political prisoners rather than common criminals who he claims have harassed him. On 14 December 2003, as a reprisal for his hunger strike, the prison authorities moved him to a cell where the lights are never switched off. Reportedly underwent an operation on 19 December 2003 to remove two nodules from his throat. *Reported in January 2004 not to have received a biopsy he had been previously told was necessary. Honorary member: Finnish PEN
Léster Luis GONZÁLEZ PENTÓN: journalist (Movimiento Democracia) and member of human rights movement ALFA-3 - 20 years (Kilo 7, Camagüey) - sentenced under Article 91. *Reportedly held a hunger strike with fellow prisoner Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta from 18-22 March 2004 to mark their first year in prison. Born in February 1977, he is the youngest of the 75 opposition members arrested in March 2003. Reported to have been transferred to from Kilo 8 prison, Camagüey, to Kilo 7 prison, also in Camagüey.
Alejandro GONZÁLEZ RAGA: freelance journalist - 14 years (Canaletas, Ciego de Ávila) - sentenced under Article 91.
Normando HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ: director of Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey (Camagüey College of Independent Journalists), journalist (CubaNet) - 25 years (Kilo 5½ prison, Pinar del Río) - sentenced under Article 91 and other provisions of the Criminal Code. Born c.1970. Reported on 5 June 2003 to be suffering from very high blood pressure. Reported to have begun a hunger strike in protest at prison conditions on 31 August 2003. *Transferred from Boniato prison, Santiago de Cuba to Kilo 5½ prison, Pinar del Río. Reported to have been held in solitary confinement since beginning his sentence. Also reported in January 2004 to be suffering from high blood pressure and undiagnosed heart problems, and to have been assaulted by the prison's Security Chief, Ramón Beúne. The prison authorities have apparently denied both the attack and Hernández' illness. In a letter, a fellow prisoner claimed in January that Hernandez was in a 2m2 cell that the prison authorities had made him share with dangerous or mentally disturbed prisoners. Moved on 25 February 2004 from a punishment cell to a more standard cell. Hernández reported in March 2004 that his wife was stripped naked and interrogated by the prison authorities before being allowed to visit him. Reported in the same month to be suffering from abdominal problems. *On 7 May 2004 was transferred to Block 8, a section housing common criminals, and was beaten by prison guards for shouting anti-Castro slogans. Reportedly staged a hunger strike in protest at the move the same day as his transfer, and was sent to a punishment cell later the same month. Eventually gave up his hunger strike, presumably after coming to some agreement with the prison authorities over the cell in which he would be detained.
José Ubaldo IZQUIERDO: journalist (Grupo de Trabajo Decoro & CubaNet) - 16 years (Kilo 5½, Pinar del Río) - sentenced under Article 91. Sentence confirmed on 3 June 2003 by the Supreme Popular Tribunal. Izquierdo reportedly broke his wrist in two places and required stitches in a head wound after falling down some steps in prison whilst handcuffed. *It was reported in March 2004 that his wife was stripped naked and interrogated by the prison authorities before being allowed to visit him.
Héctor Fernando MASEDA GUTIÉRREZ: journalist (Grupo de Trabajo Decoro & CubaNet) - 20 years (Transferred at the end of April 2003 from Manacas, Villa Clara to La Pendiente, Villa Clara) - sentenced under Law 88 and Article 91.
Mario Enrique MAYO HERNÁNDEZ: lawyer, journalist (chief of Agencia Félix Varela) - 20 years (Mar Verde, Santiago de Cuba) - sentenced under Article 91. Reported to have started a 13-day hunger strike on 15 August 2003 with Adolfo Fernández Saínz and Iván Hernández Carillo to demand decent food and medicine for seriously ill prisoners. Mayo has apparently been refused medicine brought to the prison by his wife to treat his high blood pressure and haemorrhoids. Reported to have begun another hunger strike on 18 October 2003 with Adolfo Fernández Saínz in protest at the sending of fellow journalist Iván Hernández Carrillo to a punishment cell. Transferred in mid-November 2003 from Holguín prison to Mar Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba Province, reportedly to remove him from his fellow hunger strikers.
Juan Roberto de MIRANDA HERNÁNDEZ: librarian (Padre Félix Varela Library) and vice-president of the unofficial Colegio de Pedagogos de Cuba (Teachers College of Cuba) - 20 years (Agüica, Matanzas) - sentenced under Article 91. 57-years-old. Reportedly transferred briefly to a hospital for treatment for a heart problem in April 2003. Also reported to suffer from high blood pressure and a kidney complaint. *Reported in April 2004 not to be receiving adequate medical attention for his high blood pressure.
Omar PERNET HERNÁNDEZ: librarian (20 de Mayo Library, Villa Clara) and leader of the unofficial Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos "Mario Manuel de la Peña" (National Movement for Human Rights) and involved in the Proyecto Varela* - 25 years (Guanajay, Havana) - sentenced under Article 91. Born c.1945. *Reported in May 2004 to be suffering from staphylococcus in the kidneys, an inflamed bladder and high blood pressure, and to have been transferred to the prison wing of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes hospital in Bayamo, Granma province.
Fabio PRIETO LLORENTE: freelance journalist and member of the Asemblea para la Sociedad Civil (Civil Society Assembly) - 20 years (Kilo 8, Camagüey) - sentenced under Article 91. LLorente (born 1964) was reportedly ordered to spend 21 days in solitary confinement in August 2003 for having offended a state security official. *Reported in January 2004 to be held in solitary confinement in reprisal for starting a hunger strike in protest at being held with common criminals, some of whom Prieto claimed were dangerous. Also reported to be suffering from high blood pressure. Transferred from Guanajay prison in Havana to Kilo 8, Camagüey. Honorary Member: English PEN
Alfredo PULIDO LÓPEZ: human rights activist and journalist (Agencia El Mayor) - 14 years (Combinado del Este, Havana) - sentenced under Article 91.
Raúl RIVERO CASTAÑEDA: poet, director of CubaPress, co-founder of Manuel Márquez Sterling Journalists Society, and librarian - 20 years (Canaletas, Ciego de Avila) - sentenced under Article 91. 57-years-old. Prior to his arrest on 20 March 2003, Rivero had signed, with other intellectuals, an open letter to the Cuban government calling for more openness and freedom in Cuba. For this and other alleged crimes he was charged with "acting against Cuban independence and attempting to divide Cuban territorial unity", as well as with writing "against the government", organising "subversive meetings" at his home, and collaborating with US diplomat James Cason. It was reported on 22 May 2003 that Rivero was being held in darkness in a cell measuring three square metres. Awards: PEN USA West Freedom To Write Award 2003; 2004 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Reported in August 2003 to be suffering from circulatory problems and severe weight loss. Honorary Member: Finnish, Canadian, American, English and USA West PEN
Omar RODRÍGUEZ SALUDES: director of Nueva Prensa Cubana - 27 years (Nieves Morejón, nr Cabaiguán, Sancti Spíritus) - sentenced under Article 91. Reported in December 2003 to have been transferred from Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey to Nieves Morejón. Honorary member: Finnish PEN
Marta Beatriz ROQUE CABELLO (f): author and economist - 20 years (Manto Negro, Havana) - sentenced under Article 91. Arrested while on hunger strike in support of people she considered political prisoners. Suffers from rheumatism. It was reported on 9 June 2003 that she had lost 30 lbs (13 kilos) in weight due to health problems including vomiting and diarrhoea. Has previously served time for her writing. She was released in May 2000 after serving three years of a four-year sentence for her co-authorship of a document which urged the Cuban government to hold democratic elections, liberalise the economy and improve human rights. Roque was transferred to a hospital on 23 July 2003 suffering from chest pains and nose bleeds brought on by high blood pressure. She was diagnosed as diabetic in August 2003. Reported still to be in hospital in November 2003 suffering from a variety of ailments. *In February 2004, Roque (58) wrote a letter complaining that she was not receiving adequate medical attention in the Carlos J. Finlay military hospital, and that she was in pain due to an untreated bacterial complaint. Reported in April to be refusing medical attention in protest at televised claims by government minister Felipe Pérez Roque that she was in good health and had been receiving marvellous medical care. Honorary Member: Finnish, Canadian and English PEN
Omar Moisés RUÍZ HERNÁNDEZ: journalist (Grupo de Trabajo Decoro & CubaNet) - 18 years (Guantánamo) - sentenced under Article 91. Reported in August 2003 to have been transferred to a solitary confinement cell. In September 2003, hospital doctors stated that Ruiz was not suffering from prostate inflamation, despite the fact that a urologist had previously declared that he was. *Transferred from Boniato prison, Santiago de Cuba, to Guantánamo Provinicial prison. Date of transfer unknown. No longer in a punishment cell but is detained alongside common criminals. Honorary Member: Swedish PEN
Source: http://www.pen.org/freedom/cubacases.htm
Alejandro González Raga
Arrested: March 18, 2003
González Raga, is an independent freelance journalist based in central Camagüey Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Camagüey Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 14 years in prison. On April 24 he was sent to Canaleta Prison in central Ciego de Ávila Province.
Alfredo Pulido López
Arrested: March 18, 2003
Pulido López is the director of the independent news agency El Mayor in central Camagüey Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Camagüey Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 14 years in prison. On April 24, he was sent to Combinado del Este Prison in western Ciudad Habana Province, hundreds of miles from his home.
José Gabriel Ramón Castillo
Arrested: March 18, 2003
Ramón Castillo is the director of the independent news agency Instituto Cultura y Democracia Press. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Santiago de Cuba Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On April 24 he was sent to Santa Clara Provincial Prison in central Villa Clara Province.
José Luis García Paneque
Arrested: March 18, 2003
García Paneque is the director of the independent news agency Libertad in eastern Las Tunas Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Las Tunas Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 24 years in prison. In August, he was transferred to Santa Clara Provincial Prison, also in Villa Clara.
Léster Luis González Pentón
Arrested: March 18, 2003
González Pentón is an independent journalist based in central Villa Clara Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Villa Clara Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On April 24, the journalist was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in central Camagüey Province. In November, he was transferred to Kilo 7 Prison, also in Camagüey.
Miguel Galván Gutiérrez
Arrested: March 18, 2003
Galván Gutiérrez is a journalist with the independent news agency Havana Press. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 26 years in prison. On April 24 the journalist was sent to Agüica Prison in western Matanzas Province, hundreds of miles from his home.
Omar Rodríguez Saludes
Arrested: March 18, 2003
Rodríguez Saludes is the director of the independent news agency Nueva Prensa Cubana. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 27 years in prison. In December, the journalist was transferred to Nieves Morejón Prison in central Sancti Spíritus Province.
Ricardo González Alfonso
Arrested: March 18, 2003
González Alfonso is an independent freelance journalist and Cuba correspondent for the Paris-based press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On April 24, the journalist was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in Camagüey Province. González Alfonso is also the president of the independent journalists’ association Sociedad de Periodistas Manuel Márquez Sterling, founded in May 2001. His house, which was used as the association’s office, was raided on March 18.
Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona
Arrested: March 18, 2003
Arroyo Carmona is a journalist with the independent news agency Unión de Periodistas y Escritores de Cuba Independientes (UPECI) in western Pinar del Río Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Pinar del Río Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 26 years in prison. In late April, he was sent to Guantánamo Provincial Prison in eastern Guantánamo Province.
Alfredo Felipe Fuentes
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Fuentes is an independent freelance journalist based in western Habana Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 26 years in prison. On April 24, the journalist was sent to Guamajal Prison in central Villa Clara Province.
Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Maseda Gutiérrez is a journalist with the independent news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State”; and under Law 88 for the Protection of Cuba’s National Independence and Economy, which imposes up to 20 years in prison for committing acts “aimed at subverting the internal order of the Nation and destroying its political, economic, and social system.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. In May, the journalist was transferred to La Pendiente Prison, also in Villa Clara Province.
José Ubaldo Izquierdo
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Ubaldo Izquierdo is a journalist with the independent news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro in western Habana Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Havana Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 16 years in prison. On April 24 the journalist was sent to Kilo 5 1/2 Prison in western Pinar del Río Province.
Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Mayo Hernández is the director of the independent news agency Félix Varela. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Camagüey Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On April 24, the journalist was sent to Holguín Provincial Prison in eastern Holguín Province.
Normando Hernández González
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Hernández González is the director of the independent news agency Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey (CPIC). His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Camagüey Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 25 years in prison. As punishment for his involvement in a hunger strike, Hernández González was sent to Kilo 5 1/2 Prison in western Pinar del Río Province.
Omar Ruiz Hernández
Arrested: March 19, 2003
Ruiz Hernández is a journalist with the independent news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro in central Villa Clara Province. His one-day summary trial was held in early April behind closed doors. He was tried under Article 91 of the Penal Code, which imposes lengthy prison sentences or death for those who act against “the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.” On April 7, the Villa Clara Provincial Tribunal announced he had been sentenced to 18 years in prison. On April 24, the journalist was sent to Boniato Prison in eastern Santiago de Cuba Province.
Source: http://www.wan-press.org/rubrique729.html
"Article 144, which defines the crime of desacato, or "disrespect." It states that anyone who threatens, slanders, defames, insults, harms or in anyway outrages or offends, verbally or in writing, the dignity or honor of an authority, public official, or their agents or auxiliaries, in the exercise of their functions or because of them can be imprisoned for between three months and one year or fined or both. If the act of disrespect is directed at the head of state or other senior officials the penalty is a prison term from one to three years.
Used for:
The Movimiento Cubano Jóvenes por la Democracia (Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy), founded in 1991
Cuban students learned about Perestroika in the Soviet Union and were influenced by it. Since then, many have been put in jail (the current chair-person has been in prison during the past 18 months) accused of various crimes, such as disrespect for the authorities','disobedience' or 'endangerment of the law' (suspicion of anti-revolutionary sympathy is enough), 'instigation to crime', 'distribution of enemy propaganda' (another member was imprisoned for one- and-a-half years for this crime) or 'illegal association'.
Movimiento Cívico Máximo Gómez, in Pinar del Río
A spontaneous gathering of a dozen leaders from the local section of a civil-rights movement, named after a famous general, a national hero, from Santo Domingo, in Cuba's independence struggle against the Spaniards, in 1868. The group has approximately 100 members. Members of the Antonio Maceo Movement, named after a black General from the same war of independence, also work alongside it. MCMG's headquarters are in a large house, which was formerly a mansion, but is now an extremely fire-hazardous installation; it is where Ona, a CubaPress contributor, and a numerous number of her relatives live. In some places, the foundations of the house show through. The day before, the group had had an unexpected visit from U.S. Congressmen in Cuba for the Pope's visit, who had been accompanied by someone from the U.S. Interest Office (U.S. 'representation'). For the first time this year, the movement's leaders were not arrested at the act of remembrance they hold at the statue of forefather José Martí each year. 'Contra-revolutionaries should not lay flowers by the symbol of our revolution', was always the argument used against them, and the legal infraction quoted was labelled 'desacato' or disrespect for the authorities. This was punished by several months in prison, often in solitary confinement. Last year, chairperson Blanca was held three months in a police cell.
Source: Report of Pax Christi
Cases involving more minor offences, such as "disrespect" or "dangerousness," are tried in municipal courts. According to the Cuban Penal Code, the participation of a defence lawyer is "not indispensable" in municipal court cases although, if the defendant wishes, he or she may appoint one. However, in practice, the defendant frequently has no opportunity to consult a lawyer, especially when, as often happens, the relatives are not informed of the arrest or the trial takes place within a day or so of the arrest.35
In a three-hour trial on February 22, González Valdés was found guilty of "disrespect" and "disobedience" and sentenced to fourteen months in prison. His defense lawyer was only able to speak to him minutes before the trial began and the court building was surrounded by police and a Rapid Response Brigade armed with metal bars and sticks. The next day, Dr. Morejón was tried and convicted of "resistance." He was sentenced to six months in prison. When he appealed, he was given an additional nine-month prison sentence on a charge of "disrespect."110
Source: http://worldpolicy.org/globalrights/carib/1997-cuba.html
Due to his opposition to the Cuban government, Nestor Rodríguez Lobaina has been arrested and imprisoned on a number of occasions. In 1996 he was arrested following peaceful attempts to organize a movement for university reform. After a summary trial in which he did not have access to defence counsel, he was sentenced to 12 months' restricted liberty, as well as to five years' ''banishment'' to his home town, on charges of ''resisting authority'' and ''disrespect''. In 1997, he was again arrested and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, on the same charges as before, after criticizing the Fourteenth Youth and Student Festival scheduled for later that year in Cuba. He was detained again in December 1998, July 1999 and was last arrested in connection to the current case against him on 2 March 2000.
Source: http://www.asyl.net/Magazin/Docs/docs-17/L-28/L9520cub.htm
In a third example, on April 24, 1998, a court in Santiago de Cuba convicted Julio César Coizeau Rizo, a member of the Club de Ex-Presos Políticos "Geraldo González," Club of Ex-Political Prisoners "Geraldo González," to three years in prison on a charge of desacato, disrespect for authority, for posting anti-government flyers.
Source: http://www.cubafacts.com/Humanrights/HRPers99/hrpers99p10.htm
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, aged 34, the director of Línea Sur Press, an independent press agency based in Cienfuegos, was detained on 14 August 1997 and held for three days. His trial subsequently took place on 28 November 1997. He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for "desacato", "disrespect", which was confirmed on appeal. He was accused of showing disrespect towards President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Carlos Lage after calling them liars in an interview he gave to a US-based radio station. Bernardo Arévalo Padrón is currently being held in the Prisión Provincial de Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos Provincial Prison, Ariza, Cienfuegos province, where in April 1998 he was beaten, reportedly because it was mistakenly believed that he had distributed anti-government propaganda within the prison. According to reports, as a result of the beatings he was left with a swollen face, his body was badly bruised, and he suffered from loss of memory throughout the year.
Julio César Coizeau Rizo, aged 24, was detained on 30 October 1997. He was brought to trial on 28 April 1998, charged with "desacato", "disrespect", to President Fidel Castro, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The charge was brought against him for having written anti-government slogans in different places, which he did not deny at his trial. He was reportedly angry with the government for not investigating the disappearance of his brother, Luis Alberto Coizeau Rizo, who suffers from schizophrenia and left home on 23 November 1996 leaving a note saying that he would try to leave the country via Guantánamo, but never returned. Julio César Coizeau Rizo is currently serving his sentence in Prisión de Aguadores, Aguadores Prison, Santiago de Cuba province.
Manuel Antonio González Castellanos, aged 41,a reporter for the independent press agency Cuba Press, was detained on 1 October 1998 in Holguín and charged with "desacato", "disrespect". Later that day family members Yoanis Caridad Varona González and Leonardo Varona González (see below), as well as a visitor at the house, Roberto Rodríguez Rodríguez (see below), were arrested. On 6 May 1999 the trial took place of Manuel González, Leonardo Varona, Yoanis Varona González and Roberto Rodríguez and all four defendants were convicted of "disrespect". Manuel González was sentenced to two years and seven months' imprisonment, which he is currently serving in the Prisión Provincial de Holguín, Holguín Provincial Prison. Yoanis Varona was sentenced to one and a half years' restricted freedom.
Roberto Rodríguez Rodríguez, aged 27, was detained on 2 October 1998 in Holguín and charged with "desacato", "disrespect". The day after the arrest of Manuel Antonio González Castellanos (see above), family members were reportedly subjected to an acto de repudio (act of repudiation)[3]. Their home was reportedly surrounded by several hundred people, reportedly lead by State Security agents and members of the Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida, Rapid Response Brigades [4], who chanted threats and abuse. Government agents then arrested Yoanis Caridad Varona González and Leonardo Varona González, as well as a visitor at the house, Roberto Rodríguez Rodríguez. On 6 May 1999 the trial took place of Manuel González, Leonardo Varona, Yoanis Varona González and Roberto Rodríguez and all four defendants were convicted of "disrespect". Roberto Rodríguez was sentenced to one year and five months' imprisonment and is currently imprisoned in Prisión Cuba Sí, Holguín province.
Source: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250361999?open&of=ENG-2AM
Witnessing Cuba's totalitarianism made Curry think of his rights as an American: "At home, we can openly question George W. Bush's intelligence [or deride Justice Thomas], but here it is unlawful to be disrespectful of Castro."
Curry isn't being figurative; "disrespect," or desacato, is a crime in Cuba, applicable to Castro and all of his functionaries. (Disrespecting Castro and senior functionaries carriers a harsher penalty, though) "Disrespect" is the instrument of repression often used against Cuba's bona fide journalists, those who don't work for the regime and report its reality.
One of these crushed voices belongs to Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, sentenced to six years in November 1997 for disrespecting Castro and "Vice President" Carlos Lage during an interview. Forced labor and beatings have been perpetrated against Padrón in prison.
This man should be a professor, not a prisoner.
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/11/20835.shtml
Ana María Agramonte Crespo, president of the unofficial Movimiento Acción Nacionalista, National Action Movement, remains imprisoned at the Centro de Reeducación de Mujeres de Occidente, Women's Re-education Centre in Havana (the main prison for women nicknamed "Manto Negro"). She was arrested on 1 May 1997, Labour Day, after reportedly refusing to obey a police order to stay at home that day. She was tried on 16 May 1997 and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, charged with "disrespect" and "resistance".
Ricardo de Armas Hernández, provincial delegate of the unofficial Partido Pro Derechos Humanos en Cuba, Party for Human Rights in Cuba, in Matanzas, was sentenced in July 1997 to six or nine months' imprisonment after being convicted on a charge of "disrespect". He had been arrested on 14 May 1997 and taken to Agüica Prison, Matanzas. In September 1997 he was reportedly beaten up by two common law prisoners. He may have been released since then but this has not yet been confirmed.
Radamés García de la Vega [8], vice-president of the unofficial Movimiento Cubano Jóvenes por la Democracia, Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, was arrested on 30 April 1997 in Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba province. He was sentenced on 17 June 1997 to eighteen months' "correctional work with internment", after being convicted of "desacato a la figura del Comandante en Jefe", "disrespect towards the Commander in Chief" (i.e. President Fidel Castro). Initially he was permitted to remain at home because of ill health but in mid-July he began his sentence at Prisión Correccional Pepe Blanca, Gota Blanca Reformatory, in Palma Soriano.
Adel Sigfredo Martínez Armenteros, member of the national executive of the unofficial Partido Democrático 30 de Noviembre "Frank País", Frank País 30th November Democratic Party, was arrested on 12 September 1997 in Havana and taken to the Fourth Police Unit. His mother was told the same day that he would be released on bail within three days if she paid 1,000 pesos, a large amount of money in Cuba. However, on 15 September she was told that it had been decided to bring him to trial next day at Cerro municipal court on a charge of "disrespect". He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment which he is believed to be serving in Unit 1580 (also kown as "El Pitirre") in San Miguel del Padrón, Havana.
Source: http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/political/prisoners-cuba.html";
http://www.cubaverdad.net/crime_of_disrespect.htm
For more on Cuba's repressive laws and how they are uesed against human rights activists:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/repressive_laws.htm
Must make you proud to support such a repressive dictatorship, Dan.
You are the one who supports murder, torture and genocide,
(snip)
What the cowardly apologist PL snipped for all too obvious reasons:
You are the one who supports murder, torture and genocide,(snip)
replied to exposing you as the slanderous liar you are:
You are the one who supports murder, torture and genocide
You support a regime that:
- is on the list of genocide Watch:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/genocide.htm
- does not allow freedom of speech - like the Nazi regime
http://www.cubaverdad.net/freedom_of_speech.htm
- imprisons opponents (even having it's own concentration camps in the
past: the UMAP) - like the Nazi regime
http://www.cubaverdad.net/dissidents.htm
http://www.cubaverdad.net/independent_journalists_in_cuba.htm
more about the UMAP:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=UMAP&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
- tortures opponents:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/torture_in_cuba.htm
- violates human rights - like the Nazi regime
http://www.cubaverdad.net/universal_declaration_of_human_rights.htm
- persecuted gays until very recently - like the Nazi regime
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=%22gay%22+OR+%22homo%22&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
- burns books - like the Nazi regime
- uses harsh repression against its people and has a sophisticated
system of
social control - like the Nazi regime
http://www.cubaverdad.net/totalitarian_system.htm
................................
and of course there are your own words that show you attitude:
Quote:
"In my opinion the advances made by the Revolution are morally well
worth
fighting for and justify the use of these extraordinary measures. In
this
case, the ends do indeed justify the means.
..................................
These measures, however, would NOT be morally justified in propping
less
worthy regimes in the region -- the USA and its vassal states in the
Caribbean and Latin America come immediately to mind."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=tirG3.176162%245r2.278940%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
"It is wrong to think that a particular end justifies EVERY means. At
this
time, for example, it would be wrong of the Cuban government to send
death
squads after their opponents as happens in Mexico and Colombia.
Again, the
actions of the Cuban government in detaining these so-called
dissidents seem
quite mild in comparison and are morally justified under the
circumstances."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=txMG3.176443%245r2.284921%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
Unquote
I do not.
(snip)The standard reply to Dan's Genocide lie:
No "lie," Mr. Lobbyist. Just some inconvenient facts for you.
The 1948 Geneva Convention on Genocide article 2 is quoted in a very
misleading way by serial liar Dan Christensen:.
Only you are attempting to mislead,
Nope.
you are as the facts show:
The standard reply to Dan's Genocide lie:
The 1948 Geneva Convention on Genocide article 2 is quoted in a very
misleading way by serial liar Dan Christensen:.
The text: (1)
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The text requires that the acts listed under a-e have been committed
with "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group".
In the case of the US trade sanctions this is clearly not the case.
The USA is Cuba's 5th trading partner (2) and largest food supplier
(3).
Cuba depends on food imports for 80% of total food consumption and
for
84% of the food distributed in the rationing system in place since
1962 (4).
These food imports total between 2 and 2.5 billion US dollars (5).
The
US provided in 2008 about a third of imported food in Cuba: over 700
million dollars and the US has soled over 4.4 billion dollars of food
since 2001 (6).
That means the US provided about 27% (80/3) of Cuba's food
consumption
in 2008 while the national agriculture only provided 20%.
Now: would a nation that wanted to destroy another nations' people
provide it with 27% of its food?
No.
As far as the sale of medical products: Cuba purchased only 1.2
million
dollars in 2008, but in fact deals for a total of 143 million were
duly
licensed by the US government. Cuba did not go through with 99% of
the
fully licensed deals. An expert stated that these were deliberate
political and economic decisions not to buy as Cuba prefers to get
the
goods for free(7).
Indeed: Cuba is in fact unable to pay for the imports its people
needs.
It has defaulted on various loans for years now (from way before the
financial crisis) and currently has not paid suppliers for over a
year
with debts standing at $ 1 billion. It has had to cut purchases of
food
from the US by 32% for 2009 (8).
The accusation of "genocide"is also rather hypocrite as the genocide
watchdog "Genocide Watch" has the Castro regime on its list of
genocidal
regimes for its abuses against the people based on the same article 2
of
the convention (9).
(1) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide
Genocide, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
-
- Prevent Genocide International
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm
(2) Cuba's declining trade betrays depth of its crisis
"The United States, which is Cuba's fifth trading partner despite its
47-year-old trade embargo against the island, said sales to Cuba
totaled
$383.8 million through August, down 23 percent."
Cuba's declining trade betrays depth of its crisis | Reuters (20
October
2009)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Cuba/idUSTRE59J5A620091020?sp=true
http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2009/10/cubas-declining-trade-betrays-depth-of....html
(3)Reuteman: The Cuba question: To trade or not to trade?
"In 2005, the United States became the island's biggest food
supplier."
Reuteman: The Cuba question: To trade or not to trade?
January 14, 2006
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_82_4387989,00.html
http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2006/01/cuba-question-to-trade-or-not-to-trade....html
Cuba Pins Hopes On New Farms Run for Profit
Program Part of 'New Socialist Model'
"The United States, which has maintained a diplomatic deep freeze and
a
punishing economic blockade against the island for almost 50 years,
is
the island nation's largest supplier of food and agricultural
products,
selling it an average of $350 million worth of beans, rice and frozen
chickens each year since 2001, when Congress created exceptions to
the
trade ban."
Cuba Pins Hopes on New For-Profit Farms - washingtonpost.com (28
September 2009)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092703316.html
http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2009/09/cuba-pins-hopes-on-new-farms-run-for.html
(4) WFP:
In Cuba, which imports 80 percent of its food, iron-deficiency
anaemia
is the commonest nutritional disorder: recent studies by the
Institute
of Nutrition and Food Hygiene show that anaemia prevalence in the
eastern region is 56.7 percent among children under 2 and 20.1
percent
in children aged 2-5.
Support for the National Plan on Prevention and Control of Anaemia in
the Five Eastern Provinces of Cuba | WFP | United Nations World Food
Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
http://www.wfp.org/content/support-national-plan-prevention-and-control-anaemia-five-eastern-provinces-cuba
Cuba, with a population of a little over 11 million people, imports
about 80% of its domestic food requirements.
Cuba | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger
Worldwide
http://www.wfp.org/countries/cuba
"Tengamos en cuenta que Cuba practicamente importa el 80 por ciento
de los alimentos que consume, para lo cual invirtioio pasado mas de
2000 millones de dolares."
Volveremos a los años '90?
Por Magaly Zamora Morejon (AIN)
Martes, 30 de Junio de 2009 14:18
http://www.invasor.cu/index.php/es/sociedad/325-ivolveremos-a-los-anos-90
"Asi en esta ciudad Magalys Calvo, viceministra de
Economia y Planificacion, durante una sesion de la Asamblea Provincial
del
Poder Popular.
El paiss importa anualmente el 84% de los alimentos destinados a la
canasta basica, por lo cual eroga unos mil millones de dolares, y
es
junto al petroleo el desembolso fundamental."
Necesita ia cubana aumentar produccion de alimentos
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/02/26/nacional/artic02.html
(5) Food imports
2 billion:
Cuba importa más de 80% de los alimentos que consume. La cuenta
ascenderá este año a $2.000 millones.
http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/05/28/int_art_raul-castro-exige-ma_880690.shtml
"Collective farm productivity is so bad, Cuba has been
forced to import over $2 billion a year in agricultural products."
ESR | October 12, 2009 | Cuba: Discovering personal independence (12
October 2009)
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1009/1009cubapersind.htm
Ronald R. Cooke is the proprietor of The Cultural Economist. This is
his
first contribution to Enter Stage Right.
2.5 billion:
"Food imports cost 2.5 billion dollars in 2008, an amount the
government
wants to reduce."
Balancing Cuba's Lopsided Budget
October 16, 2009
By Patricia Grogg
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=15083
Cuba importa el 80 por ciento de la comida que distribuye a la
población
a precios altamente subsidiados mediante la libreta. La factura de
alimentos llegó a 2.500 millones de dólares en el 2008.
Cuba recorta libreta de racionamiento - Yahoo! Noticias (6 November
2009)
http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091105/latinoamerica/latinoamerica_alimentos_cuba_1
http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2009/11/cuba-recorta-libreta-de-racionamiento.html
(6) 2008 imports from the USA
"In 2008, Cuba imported from the USA US$ 710 million of food and
agricultural products"
President Obama should take the lead on lifting embargo against Cuba
|
Amnesty International (9 November 2009)
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/president-obama-should-take-lead-lifting-embargo-against-cuba-20090902
Invertia.com - Cuba importó alimentos de EE.UU. por 4.400 millones de
dólares desde 2001 (9 August 2009)
http://www.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.asp?subclasid=&clasid=&idNoticia=2194204
http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2009/08/cuba-importo-alimentos-de-eeuu-por-4400.html
(7) Medical exports
"The U.S. says it approved $142 million in commercial and donated
medical exports to the communist island in 2008. So why did less than
1
percent of it get there?"
"It's not the embargo," said John Kavulich, a senior policy adviser
at
the New York-based U.S.-Cuba Economic Trade Council, which provides
nonpartisan commercial and economic information about Cuba. "These
are
economic and political decisions not to buy."
Cuba often waits for allies to donate what it needs, Kavulich said.
"They'd rather get things for free than pay for them."
It's unclear why U.S. medical exports aren't reaching Cuba | News for
Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Headline | International News
(5
December 2009)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-embargo_05int.ART.State.Edition1.4bbb4d0.html
(8)Cuba' financial problems and reduction of food purchases.
Atrapados en el «corralito» cubano (1 December 2009)
http://www.lne.es/opinion/2009/12/01/atrapados-corralito-cubano-br/841805.html
Los gobiernos extranjeros interceden para que los bancos cubanos
paguen
sus deudas con las empresas privadas
LA HABANA, 19 Nov. (Reuters/EP) -
http://www.europapress.es/latam/cuba/noticia-cuba-gobiernos-extranjeros-interceden-bancos-cubanos-paguen-deudas-empresas-privadas-20091119214214.html
THE CUBAN ECONOMY IN A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY - Miscelaneas de Cuba
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=22961
Cuba Moves to Decentralize Imports
July 21, 2009
HAVANA TIMES, July 20 - The Cuban government has decided to
decentralize
expenditures in hard currency for imports, which will now be managed
by the individual ministries instead of a single centralized super
account,
reported Mexico's La Jornada newspaper on Monday.
Nevertheless, the daily points out that the new measure does not
state
the fate of outstanding accounts that have not been paid to foreign
suppliers over the last seven months, estimated at around one billion
USD
Cuba Moves to Decentralize Imports - Havana Times.org (21 July 2009)
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=12010
Los exportadores valencianos llevan un año sin cobrar sus ventas a
Cuba
- Valencia_Valencia - Valencia - ABC.es (15 July 2009)
http://www.abc.es/20090715/valencia-valencia/exportadores-valencianos-llevan-cobrar-20090715.html
http://cubafacts.blogspot.com/2009/07/los-exportadores-valencianos-ll...
Cuba tells creditors debt grew by $1.1 billion
Fri Sep 5, 2008 6:12pm EDT
By Marc Frank
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0519102820080905?sp=true
Cuba can't pay debt to Russian bank
September 04, 2008
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2008/09/cuba-cant-pay-d.html
http://cubafacts.blogspot.com/2008/09/cuba-cant-pay-debt-to-russian-b...
South Africa waives Cuban debt
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9qVm5DSX4lG_HOpc3fZ4oLSO59g
http://cubafacts.blogspot.com/2008/04/south-africa-waives-cuban-debt.html
Ambassador says Mexico will re-negotiate Cuban debt to improve
relations
The Associated Press
Published: November 28, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/29/news/CB-GEN-Cuba-Mexico.php
http://cubafacts.blogspot.com/2007/11/ambassador-says-mexico-will-re....
India agrees to waive $62 million in Cuban debt
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/13/stories/2007041303361200.htm
http://cubafacts.blogspot.com/2007/04/india-agrees-to-waive-62-million-in.html
"Cuban purchases of food from the United States will fall by at least
a
third this year as the island slashes imports to stabilise an ever-
weak
economy further hammered by the global economic crisis, a top trade
official said Monday."
Jamaica Gleaner News - Cuba to buy less US food - Business -
Wednesday
|
November 18, 2009 (18 November 2009)
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091118/business/business6.html
(9) Genocide Watch is the Coordinator of the International Campaign
to
End Genocide
http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutus/missionstatement.html
Listing of the Castro regime:
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/Genocide_08_Genocides_and_Politicides_since_1945_with_stages_in_2008.pdf
THE STANDARD REPLY TO DAN'S LIES AND PERSONAL INSULTS.
again Dan Christensen shows what a hypocrite liar he is.
He is the one doing the "attacking" with his lies and slander.
As all can see I only post this piece that exposes his lies when he
has started his slanderous attacks.
That by the way is in general within a couple of exchanges on the
facts of the case involved as by then he is so stuck that he has to
resort to lies and insults.
Please note that lies combined with personal attacks only destroy
your credibility, Dan.
Dan Christensen knows I am not a lobbyist and that it is all just a
slander campaign.
As a good follower of Goebbels he keeps repeating his lies in the hope
that something will stick and that he maybe can mislead some people
that
don't know what he is all about.
Desperate Dan Is doing his bit in the slander campaign of the "rat
pack"
he is associated with. The contribution of his pals at the Centre
Ernesto Che Guevara in this group recently just shows what Dan and his
cronies are all about: lies, insults, slander and intimidation.
Actually: given your actions in the past Dan you fit the lobbyist
profile a lot closer.
You contact people in support of the Cuban regime and with the aim to
have them change the content of their website or change public
statements. You even pose as a "journalist" or "researcher" while
doing so.
The fact that you have been utterly unsuccessful at it and that only
your website suffered the removal of pages just shows what a bad
lobbyist you are.
Your Club Med, lobbying, CIA lies are exposed again
Links to the threads Dan produces his "lobbyist" misquotes from and
the exposure of his lies by others:
For those that want to see the full thread and the complete messages
in their context (which Dan Christensen desperately hopes nobody will
as it will expose his lies), here is a link to the threads concerned.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/browse_thread/thread/5fb621a1396ecc6c/2602f5eb5bd1c2ed?hl=3D3Den=3DE0=3DA8=3DAAf5eb5bd1c2ed
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.cuba/browse_thread/thread/56e1a7b9ca6c61e3/9cfde811fd6c7414?#9cfde811fd6c7414
To Dan Christensen's great frustration his lies by now have been
exposed by various other people in other threads like:
http://groups.google.be/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/ac34bd501ab58b97?dmode=3D3Dsource
http://groups.google.be/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/848321c82da3bbda
Dan Christensen lied when he claimed I had stated that I had been at
Club Med in Varadero - a hotel he tried to depict as a sleazy sex
resort - to "lobby" people.
Just one example:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/4b7720708da65ee0?dmode=3D3Dsource
Dan Christensen even suggested the whole trip was paid for by the CIA
thereby accusing Belgian officials of not only sexual impropriety, but
also of active corruption.
You see: Dan Christensen just doesn't know when to stop lying and gets
caught up in his "cloak and dagger" childish fantasies.
His lies are so over the top that it all become a big joke that people
can easily see though.
Here is one example of how serial liar Dan Christensen was exposed.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/848321c82da3bbda?dmode=3D3Dsource
The lies of Dan Christensen about me that were exposed:
- his lie about me playing golf to "lobby": exposed. Dan Christensen
had to admit there were no quotes to support any of that.
- his lie about singles resorts and schmoozing: exposed as various
people stated that it is merely a family resort that even had a circus
school for children
- his lie about me being in Varadero: exposed as Dan Christensen had
to admit I never said I was there
- his lie that it were all "CIA junkets" exposed as Dan Christensen
ran like hell when he realized that this lie could expose him to legal
sanctions
- his lie that I had "self-confessed" anything: exposed by people that
put the snippets Dan Christensen abusively posts in context (as shown
in this message)
All Dan Christensen's lies have been exposed by various people.
as I said comrade
Dan: whenever you post your lies about me I post the truth about you.
Your record of lies, innuendo, insults and support of human rights
abuses discredits you.
All shame you brought on yourself by your attitude and actions.
The exposure of the "lobbyist" lie in further detail.
Dan Christensen's abuse of misquotes has been exposed over and over
again. He just aped the lie of another apologist that dropped that
specific lie very quickly. The guy is indeed smarter than stupid Dan.
When Dan Christensen tried to come up with his own "new and
improved" version of the lie he fell flat on his face.
He claimed I had been "lobbying" people In Geneva while his Rat Pack
pal "cuba libre" that stalked me then showed from an IP address from
which I had posted something that I was in Santiago de Cuba at the
time. One Rat Pack member exposing another's lies with the result of
his cyber stalking. Ironic.
Dan's other exposed false claim:
"Taking a little break from arm-twisting in Geneva, Mr. Lobbyist?"
Link:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/b6375f9783e47aee?q=3D3Dg:thl174670614d&dq=3D3D&hl=3D3Den&lr=3D3D&ie=3D3DUTF-8
Again it is clear what a pathetic loser Dan Christensen is.
Below you will find what is behind Dan Christensen's slanderous
campaign: facts he can't deny.
- Frustration
I exposed Dan Christensen as a fraud in this group years ago when I
blew his "cover". In SCC he tried to portray himself as an
"independent
interested party" with no political agenda.
When I came across a blatantly different reply to a similar question
in a Stalinist e-group to which I had been invited I posted it to show
his lying hypocrisy.
Since then he has been pissed as hell as it undermined his lying
propaganda effort to mislead "those in the background" (his own words,
those that didn't have "local knowledge". He himself admitted in the
same e-group that propagandist like him can never "convince" those
with "local knowledge". In frequent exchanges he got some mad he often
forgot to keep up the pretense and made him show his hand and true
nature:
Quote:
"In my opinion the advances made by the Revolution are morally well
worth fighting for and justify the use of these extraordinary
measures. In this case, the ends do indeed justify the means.
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
These measures, however, would NOT be morally justified in propping
less worthy regimes in the region -- the USA and its vassal states in
the
Caribbean and Latin America come immediately to mind."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=3D3Den&lr=3D3D&ie=3D3DUTF-8&selm=3D3DtirG3.176162%245r2.278940%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
"It is wrong to think that a particular end justifies EVERY means. At
this time, for example, it would be wrong of the Cuban government to
send death squads after their opponents as happens in Mexico and
Colombia. Again, the actions of the Cuban government in detaining
these so-called dissidents seem quite mild in comparison and are
morally justified under the circumstances."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=3D3Den&lr=3D3D&ie=3D3DUTF-8&selm=3D3DtxMG3.176443%245r2.284921%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
That meant he was exposed a the hypocrite liar he is. It showed that
the false claims he made about others (support of genocide, torture,
abuses, ..) in fact only applied to him.
I have also frequently exposed his lies about facts and people in SCC.
Dan Christensen once claimed:
"It is clear from Smith's article here (and his website, CIP Online)
that he does, in fact, support an immediate and unconditional lifting
of your beloved embargo."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/3f1fe3a55c12d7d7?dmode=3D3Dsource&hl=3D3Den
Mr. Smith's own words:
'We should reduce tensions, not aggravate it, making it clear to the
Cuban government that we do not have hostile intentions toward them,''
Smith
said during a 40-minute speech at a conference titled Cuba and the
United States: Relations in Permanent Conflict, Causes, Effects and
Solutions.
''I did not say lift the embargo without conditions,'' he said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/12157593.htm
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Permanent copy in the Cubaverdad archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/16823
Then there is the issue of his lying website: acting with a third
person I had pages removed (for violations of law, slander, ...), I
have shamed him in to changing it on
various occasions (adding links that would then expose his lies,
remove lying caption from pictures, ...) and I have in general exposed
the lies on it (on Amnesty International for example)
What Dan claimed on his website (the misquote):
"Today, for the first time, Amnesty International has explicitly
denounced the US embargo on Cuba in humanitarian terms, and made clear
its support for the immediate and unconditional lifting of these cruel
sanctions"
http://members.allstream.net/~dchris/CubaFAQ215.html
now moved to:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/danchristienses/CubaFAQ215.html
Link to the "report": (the one Dan didn't give until I shamed him in
to it)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=3D3DENG-CUB
where the only thing Amnesty international asks for "immediately and
unconditionally" is the release of political prisoners.
Quote:
"in 1.
"On the basis of the available information, therefore, Amnesty
International considers the 75 dissidents to be prisoners of
conscience
(2) and calls for their immediate and unconditional release."
In 8.1
" to immediately and unconditionally release the 15 prisoners
previously named by Amnesty International as prisoners of conscience.
" to immediately and unconditionally release anyone else who is
detained or imprisoned solely for having peacefully exercised their
rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly."
end of quote
- Dogmatic hatred.
Dan Christensen is a hard-line Stalinist. His first steps in SCC were
to defend Stalin and in other forums he has praised "workers
democracy" under Stalin.
He has admitted that he is ready to fight to the last Cuban (from his
comfortable armchair in Canada) for his cause.
By posting the reports from the international press, human rights
organizations and Cuban independent journalists I have exposed his
propaganda as a lie. That makes the man wild with rage.
As he like to see himself as the "victim" (he once claimed he was
being censored in SCC) he therefore lashes out at people claiming that
those that contradict him are "CIA" agents (as if the CIA would care
about a third rate liar as Dan) and professional "lobbyists" probably
to make himself feel that he is "important" and to explain away his
complete propaganda failure (portraying himself as "overcome by
unsurmountable institutional odds").
- Personal hate and the "rat pack"
Dan has suffered the trauma of having part of his website remove
after a long battle over the personal attacks and falsifications he
had posted there.
The frequent exposures of his lies and hypocrisy only fueled the
personal hatred.
Dan ganged up with various other propagandists that people that have
been attacked by them refer to as the "rat pack". I have been the
target of the lies and slanderous insults of this "rat pack".
They specialize in online slander (from posting private information,
attacking their business or businesses they are associated with,
inciting others to harass people, over accusing people of being "CIA
agents" or "lobbyists" to the worst things one can imagine) and direct
harassment (phone calls, letters, letters with razor blade or white
powder, loitering in front of people's houses,.. up to death threats
in France).
All they succeeded in doing was to dramatically increase traffic to a
website I participate in ( www.cubaverdad.net ) and to suffer the
consequences of their slander.
Dan Christensen had part of his website removed. The Centre Che in
France had their complete website removed and their "secretary" known
here as "cubalibre" real name François Valy was sentenced to 6 months
in
jail for a whole series of abuses (including racism). A Spanish
"subsidiary" of the rat pack still has a surprise coming.
All because of their lies were exposed.
But then in the end this is what it boils down to: those that don't
have rational arguments find themselves exposed as the liars they are.
When that happens all they have left are the old
slander tactics: they attack the people that expose their lies in the
hope that they can intimidate them.
If Dan Christensen felt he had any chance to convince people directly
he would try to do so by posting facts and arguing facts.
He is reduced to snipping, posting the same snippets over and over
again, lies and slander.
As long as he and the rest of the "rat pack" (and their hangers on)
are reduced to that they expose" their own failure as Dan Christensen
does here every time.
Fine by me.
PL
"The Cuban government is based on lies and cheap propaganda. That is
why it is afraid of words and the truth."
Raul Rivero, April 2006, University of Sevilla
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