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Protest marchers beaten, detained

The Castroit regime increased violent repression against pro-democracy activists has the reaction of increasing the number of people in hunger strike to 43, an unprecedented act of protest to bring attention to their cause. Unfortunately most of the mainstream news media have not reported the story, negating the hunger strike activists the opportunity of reaching world opinion to hear their plight.
 
Threats, arrests, fines, confiscations of work materials, invasion of independent activists homes, and house arrests are some of the many strategies employed against those promoting a position that differs from the yes vote for the referendum backed by the Castroit regime and for which an intense campaign has also unfolded in national media, schools, and public transportation. The regime does not care about the violations of international electoral standards.
 
Look how the Castroit regime treat those that dissent with it. Berta Soler in her way to mass in Good Friday was violently arrested by two women of the Ministry of the Interior. Her head hit the street pavement and she was dragged to a police car and transported to the police station. She was released after two hours without being interrogated. What a sexist and racist regime.
 
Aymara, a member of the Ladies in White, has been already condemned to 4 years in prison by the Castroit regime kangaroo court as punishment for her activism in defense of human rights. She has already spent one year in prison since her arrest on May 6, 2018. Another four member of the Ladies in White remain in prison accused of non-payment of fines imposed for evading rings of security (when going to mass on Sunday), attack and contempt, all bogus charges. In the photo she is making the sing of Liberty with her fingers


Aymara Nieto with her family
 
.The Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) is the opposition organization that has the largest number of political prisoners in the regime prisons. Nothing will change, as long as the power remains in the hands of the Castroit regime that use its power to illegally detain and jail dissidents.
 
On September 23, 2016, the regime security agents without a valid warrant resorted to force and invaded the Cubalex headquarters. They took away computers, cell phones, a server, security cameras, printers, digital media, archives and money. They acted with total impunity without any regard for the law. Laritza was devastated and eventually under pressure and harassment by the regime has no choice but to leave Cuba. Now she and her son are living in the U.S., where she continuous her Cubalex work. Her courage and determination is inspiring.
 
In the last two years the Castroit regime has step up the repression against activists and dissidents, forcing many of them to leave the island. The regime state security threatened them with physical injury, harass their families and prison in order to force them to leave. In a number of cases they have been escorted by state security to the airport and forced into exile. (Cuban security forces are forcing dissidents into exile: human rights group)
 
What can you expect from Fidel Castro who did not care that 6.6 million Cubans would be annihilated in a nuclear war. Castro, on October 26, 1962, in a letter to Khrushchev wrote: "I tell you this because I believe that the imperialists' aggressiveness makes them extremely dangerous, and that if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba -- a brutal act in violation of universal and moral law – then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever, in an act of the most legitimate self-defense. However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other.”

Khrushchev response in October 30, 1962, “In your cable of October 27 you proposed that we be the first to launch a nuclear strike against the territory of the enemy. You, of course, realize where that would have led. Rather than a simple strike, it would have been the start of a thermonuclear world war.”
 
In “The Fog of War” by Errol Morris, McNamara, in a meeting chaired by Fidel Castro in January 1992 in Havana, asked three questions to him, “Number one: did you know the nuclear warheads were there? Number two: if you did, would you have recommended to Khrushchev in the face of an U.S. attack that he use them? Number three: if he had used them, what would have happened to Cuba?"

Castro said: “Number one, I knew they were there. Number two, I would not have recommended to Khrushchev, I did recommend to Khrushchev that they be used. Number three, 'What would have happened to Cuba?' It would have been totally destroyed."
 
“Christ knew that even the slightest change in Castro’s mood could level the six-thousand-or-so prisoners inside the Isle of Pines to relative dust, and drastic action needed to be taken.”

Castro could care less about killing 6,000 prisoners. After all his regime has disposed thousands of Cubans. According to the Cuba Archive (Cuba Archive – Helping Cubans attain their rightful freedoms, foster a culture of respect for life and the rule of law, and honor the memory of those who’ve paid the highest price.) work-in-progress report close to 8,000 documented deaths and disappearances, of which 7,325 are attributed to the Cuban state during the Castro dictatorship; 382 cases are attributed to the state under Raúl Castro, since July 2006, including 51 extrajudicial killings (reported or suspected), 120 from denial of medical care or health reasons, and 52 suicides.
 
On April 22 the Castroit regime estate security beat and detained Roberto Quiñones a CubaNet reported when he was covering a trial related to religious freedom, and fine him. On August 7 he was sentenced to one year in prison for refusing to pay the fine. He appealed the sentenced but it was confirmed and the regime will through him in jail September 9.

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) criticized the Castroit regime and ordered it to suspend the punishment and “not continue to overrun human rights.”
 
Roberto is a lawyer and he knows he did not break the law. He was arrested by the regime police and drove to the station. He says that this was abuse and then“the officer hit me so hard that I was bleeding by the time we arrived. The officer even ruptured one of my eardrums. I was in such bad shape that the station chief told them to take me to the hospital.” The officer said I had resisted arrest. He was sentenced by the regime kangaroo court to one year in prison, which was enforced on September 11.
 
Roberto, as a lawyer, have continued defending opposition members and human rights activists. The regime is worried about the independent journalists, duo to the fact that many young people have joined their cause. And a number of journalists are tired of working for the regime media. He says that “I'll keep fighting for my ideals in Cuba, no matter the cost.” Roberto is a man of great moral character.
 
The regime continues to repress and punish the dissidents. Beside the arbitrary arrest it use other repressive tactics, including beatings, public shaming, travel restrictions, and termination of employment against critics. It is ironic that the Castroit regime is a current member of the Human Rights Council for the 2017-2019 period. The fox guarding the hen house.
 
José Daniel Ferrer, ex-political prisoner of the Black Spring, the 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents, was arrested on October 1 and his family has only been able to visit him once very briefly. The Castroit tyrannical regime is killing him slowly, like it has done with other opposition leaders.

Amnesty International on November 5 demanded the Cuban regime explain the charges against José Daniel Ferrer, who was arrested a week ago, or release him from jail. The international community should demand the immediate, unconditional release of Jose Daniel Ferrer
 
The Castroit tyrannical regime is extremely worry by the international campaign for the release of the dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer. It had mounted a political campaign to discredit and damage his reputation and justify his imprisoning for over a month without charges. In the meantime it is severely punishing Ferrer in prison to get rid of him one way or another.
 
The Castroit tyrannical regime is the only one in the Americas that prohibit peaceable public demonstrations. Prominent activist leaders have been arrested or prohibited from leaving their homes, before and during public demonstrations. The Ladies in White continuous to be harass and detained by the regime when going to mass on Sunday.
 
Obviously, the Castroit regime is determined to murder the Lady in White Xiomara Cruz and get away with it, like it happened before with other dissidents.
 
One of the few non-violent ways used to attract attention to the Castroit regime 60 years dictatorship is engaging in a hunger strike as an act of political protest. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime and force change.Wilman Villar Mendoza death, has strengthened the regime image of brutality and disregard for human life.
 
Another attack on independent Cuban journalist by the Castroit regimen. This is clearly part of a campaign of political persecution designed to silence journalist Iliana Hernández. For 61 years the Castroit regime have governed Cuba, severely restricting the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, freedom of movement, and due process. The regime has repressed independent journalists, as well as artists or citizens who try to voice their demands. During all this time the regime has maintained a monopoly over the media.
 
More than 90,000 people are in prison in the island under the Castroit regime, making it the highest incarceration rate in the world. The regime holds thousands of prisoners on vague charges. The judicial system is control by state security forces, which manufacture crimes against political activists.
 
This highest incarceration rate in the world, where about 99% of the people tried are found guilty, is proof of the failing Castroit tyrannical regime judiciary. People are sent to jail for “lack of ties with mass organizations (control by the regime)”, for being “prone to crime”, for” pre-criminal social danger.” These are frequently apply to activists and others citizens critical of the regime, who pose a risk to the regime.
 
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died a hero who did not compromise after an 85 day hunger strike to demand better prison conditions. Conditions in the Castroit gulag are despicable, cruelty against the prisoners have no bound. For the Castroit regime he was nothing but a "worthless nigger" like his jailers called him. Zapata was not willing to kill for his ideals, but to die by them. He represent the soul and spirit of liberty.
 
“He who says freedom of the press, says freedom, says freedom of assembly; freedom of assembly and the right to choose freely, not only the President, but also for the workers to choose their leaders. Rights which cannot be taken away”. Fidel Castro Speech, January 5, 1959, Camaguey, Cuba.

The Castro regime took away all those rights from the Cuban people since 1959, 61 years ago when he started to persecuted and jailed over 50% of the labor leaders, destroying the rights attained by the workers and the labor movement. He eliminated those who criticized the revolutionary process, coercing them to leave the country under threat, sending them to prison or executing them. That was his goal, which unfortunately became reality.
 
Orlando Zapata Tamayo a plumber and bricklayer of black race and humble origin, a member of the nonviolent Alternative Republican Movement, had been sentenced to several months in prison for public disorder, disrespect, and disobedience, and released on conditional liberty. He was arrested by the political police of the Castroit regime after the crackdown against the independents journalist in the spring of 2003 for his participation in a fast to protest the harsh treatment of the political prisoners and sentenced to three years in prison. Due to his activism and protest in prison his sentence was increased to 36 years!
 
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