Coincidence ?? - UPDATED !!

I don't think so !! Come on, a guy who spends the majority of his time promoting a FREE Cuba and is found hung in his cell. Then the Cuban "Gestapo" does not want to handover the body to his family. They want to wait 60 days !! Of course, all of his noticeable marks would have disappeared by then.

Read the article: Miami Herald

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Here is a video to accompany the story above about the murdered dissident while in Cuban custody. Dissidents in Cuba, during a phone press conference, gave out first and last names of the suspected murders in the Cuban government.



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Candlelight Vigil Tonight

Please visit the BUCL website to learn more about the candlelight vigil that will take place tonight in support of ALL political prisoners and denouncing human rights violations in Cuba.

Reporters Without Borders call for help

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the well being of all imprisoned journalist's in castro's gulag. They are worried especially about Normando Hernández González. He is editor of the Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey which is an independent news agency. His wife requested a year ago for the special release of her husband because of his poor health.

Excerpt from the article:

This concern is heightened by the news of the death on 24 June of 47-year-old dissident Manuel Acosta in Cienfuegos provincial prison, in the centre of the country, where he had been held for three days for “pre-criminal dangerousness.” The authorities said he killed himself.

When will this 50 year nightmare end ?? Read the rest of the article: Reporters Without Borders

Finally !!

Finally, someone in the press understands and get's it. I could not have said it better. So based on the definition the article gives of human rights, the Cuban government is currently violating 11.3 million and God knows how many throughout the almost half a century of hell and torture.

Speaking of the embargo, that many say it has done nothing positive, it should be mentioned that if it did not imply a problem for the totalitarian dictatorship there would be no campaign against the embargo.

Read the rest: Diario Las Americas

What did you expect?

Did anyone think it was going to change?................Please speak up now.................Did you hear that?................Yes, that was a pin dropping on the carpet.

'No human rights under Raul Castro'

July 06, 2007

ALMOST a year after Raul Castro took over as communist Cuba's interim leader, blanket human rights violations remain the rule, dissidents have said.

The Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said reported that "the systematic and institutionalized violation of each and every civil, political, economic and even cultural right remains'' since Raul Castro came to power.