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There is enough evidence against Spanish pedophile network that operated in Cuba


Argument from Incredulity....
 
Cuban authorities threaten to arrest LGBTQ activist, journalist
According to the MSM the Castroit regime has made substantial progress in LGTB rights, but the real facts contradicts those reports. These LGTBQ Cubans seeking asylum in the U.S. and Netherlands, which operated outside of the CENESEX organization, are oppressed and persecuted by the Castroit regime.







An LGBTQ activist and journalist in Cuba says authorities on Wednesday threatened to arrest him.



Jancel Moreno, who contributes to ADN Cuba, an independent website, in a Facebook post said he arrived at a police station in Matanzas, a city on the island’s northern coast that is roughly 60 miles east of Havana, at around 2 p.m. after he received an order to do on Tuesday.



Moreno wrote a major with Cuba’s National Revolutionary Police showed him a file with “more than 40 publications from my profile, also telling me that I am a follower of” José Daniel Ferrer, head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), and other opposition figures.



“It was really impossible to enter into a debate, because neither he will change his position, nor will I,” wrote Moreno.
 
Despite the Castroit regime claims of tolerance of LGTBQ Cubans, there situation in the island remain dreadful. They are subject to harassment, persecution and imprisonment. Those are the reason that many of them have fled the island of Dr. Castro.
 
A Cuban couple’s ‘great gay odyssey’
This is what the Castroit tyrannical regime has been doing to gays since it took over the government in Cuba. Yasmany, like Reynaldo Arenas, has been persecuted since he became increasingly disenchanted with the revolution’s homophobic rhetoric and policies. And like Arenas, he too has to abandon his country leaving everything he cherish behind with the possibility of not be able to return to the island again.
 
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright, who was persecuted by the Castro regime for his homosexuality, counterrevolutionary writings, and publishing activity. He spent two years in prison for “"ideological deviation”, and in 1980 he manage to escaped during the Mariel boatlift. In New York he keep writing poetry, essays, plays, and other stories. He wrote “Before Night Falls”, which was named one of the Times’ best books of 1993, and, in 2000, was adapted by Julian Schnabel into a film of the same name. In1987, Arena was diagnosed with AIDS, and committed suicide on December 7, 1990. In his final letter, he wrote, “I end my life voluntarily because I cannot continue working … I do not want to convey to you a message of defeat but of continued struggle and of hope. Cuba will be free. I already am.”
 
Gay man who participated in Cuba protest movement arrested
Amnesty International released a statement on December 15, 2020 saying that the members of the movement along with independent journalists have been placed under strict surveillance in the country and they face the threat of arrest by police and state security officials if they leave their houses, which amounts to house arrest. What a draconian law!
 
The Castroit tyrannical regime controls all modes of communication and no political opposition is permitted. This young man Rubio, shall be praised for his courage and convictions, regardless of the consequences this would bring to him.
 
Cuba’s LGBTQ community reacts to the San Isidro Movement political crisis
The LGBTQ rights groups have taken the right stance in support of the San Isidro Movement who went on a hunger strike. One of his members, Osmel Adrián Rubio Santos, participated in the hunger strike. They are very aware that unity is strength because the work that cannot be done by a group, can be done with multiple groups working together.
 
Celebrating a year of freedom
Celebrating a year of freedom (washingtonblade.com)


Yariel Valdés González
Yariel Valdés González suffered persecution and harassment in Cuba by the Castroit regime due to his work as a journalist reporting on LGBTQ issues. He was many times interrogated by State security officials about his job, in order to intimidate him and make him to quit his job as a journalist. He was granted asylum in the U.S. and was able to reunited with his family in Florida a year ago. In an interview with Global Journalist he says “it’s hard to get used to the idea that nothing is going to happen to you if you talk about Donald Trump in a bad way. I tell myself every day, you are in a free country,” he adds. “You have the right to say whatever you want.”
 
The Castroit regime has a horrific record on gay rights. It continuous to harassed, persecuted and threaten them with imprisonment due their political beliefs and identity. The regime police regularly harass and detain trans women who they suspect are engaged in sex work.
 
Two Cuban activists launch marriage equality campaign
“The petition as of deadline has been signed by 7,532 people. Moreno and González hope it will have 10,000 signatures.”

Oswaldo Payá 2002, through the Varela Project submitted almost 25,000 signatures to the People’s Assembly on a citizens’ petition for a plebiscite. Payá, through pacific means, was seeking free elections, freedom of expression and association and amnesty for political prisoners. The Castroit regime constitution only required 10,000 signatures to approve a plebiscite. The National Assembly of People’s Power never acknowledged Payá’s petition, and the Castroit regime refused to hold one and went ahead and change the constitution.

This demonstrating that the regime does not care about the Rule of Law and that it does not even respect its own draconian laws. But as the saying says “so many times the jug goes to the fountain that in the end it breaks.” Maybe this time their petition would “break the camel back.”
 
Who is going to tell the Hollywood elite who are such fans of the Castro's regime that visiting Cuba has unintended implications?
Hollywood elite? Who might that be?
 
These spam threads are better than a gish gallop i guess.
 
The Castroit regime denied political rights to all Cuban citizens, men, women, blacks and members of other demographic groups. LGBT political interest are not represented eider, since Mariela Castro daughter or Raul Castro, director of CENESEX, control and direct LGBT, which does not allow any LGBT organization outside her political umbrella. So much for the support of Mariela’s gay rights. It is pure baloney.
 
LGBTQ Cubans participate in July 11 protests
González said upwards of 8,000 people took part in the protest in which he participated. According to him “The riot police charged towards the protesters. They responded by throwing rocks, and all that violence was unleashed at that moment. There were many people who were injured.” He is among the journalists who were arrested during the protests. He was released 24 hours after his arrest, but he is under house arrest.
 

That is definitely NOT the riot I watched.

Repeating a lie is the same as lying

Stop lying
 
Why would the media cover it when it happened in Cuba. We mostly do not care about third world countries.
This is silly, how do we control what the Castro regime does in Cuba, especially over the Cuban people, when the Castro regime has 100% control.

You would think it would be easy for a nation with a total ruling authority to be able to step in and control criminals in their own country. Back before the Cuban communist revolution one of the messages Castro made to the people was that the Bautista government was in bed with criminals, notably the Italian mafia. That Bautista was therefore an immoral man.

60 years later the Castro regime has wholeheartedly embraced the illicit sex tourism trade as it has become a major source of cash for the communist regime. The exploitation of women and especially children for the desires of pedophiles from around the world is nearly equal to the same in Thailand and few other Asian nations. Men from all over North America and Europe travel to Cuba to "legally" have sex with children, and there are no consequences for that inside of Cuba. The only good thing in this is that right thinking nations like the USA, Canada, and Britain, upon finding out any of their citizens have traveled to a foreign nation to have sex with children, at least they do try to apply some criminal consequences to that kind of thing, but it is difficult enforce.

The USA did not make Castro and his regime become pimps, that is all on them.
 
Gay man who live-streamed anti-government protests in Cuba detained
Yoan de la Cruz committed no crime, he just share a live video from the protests in San Antonio de los Baños that went viral, and because of that he has been arrested. The regime accused him of “incitement of the masses.” What an Orwellian regime.
 
Gay former Cuba lawmaker banned from leaving country
De La Cruz still remain in prison. The LGBT community have been treated very harsh by the police, due to their participation on July11 national protest. The regime violent response to protests and the detentions of peaceful LGBT protestors are a violation of human rights.
 
Tremenda Nota Director Maykel González Vivero is among the hundreds of people who the Castroit regime police arrested on July 11 during anti-government protests that took place in Havana and across the country, and Luis Ángel Adán Roble, a gay man who was once a member of the National Assembly, is among those who have been banned from leaving the country. Now under degree 35, which places further restrictions on freedom of expression online, Maykel González, a gay man Director of Tremenda Nota, has to be very careful on what he post, in order not to be charged with cyberterrorism, and been hit with a double whammy.
 
The Castroit regime prosecutors are asking for 8 years prison sentence for Yoan de la Cruz accusing him of public disorder, because on July 11 he live streamed an anti-government pacific protest in San Antonio de los Baños. He has been kept in prison practically incommunicado, only allowed to call his family for a few minutes a few times. Orwell’s 1984 revisited. The prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice, like in 1984, have reversed the law. The right to assemble and peacefully protest against the government, which just to be a constitutional right, now is considered a crime punishable by law.
 
Human Rights Watch’s research indicates that the July demonstrations were overwhelmingly peaceful. Many peaceful protesters have been sentenced through summary” criminal trials that lacked basic due process guarantees. Protesters, like in Yoan case, are frequently accused of committing vaguely defined crimes, such as “public disorder”, and systematically violate their rights to a fair trial.
 
Marta María Ramírez, a feminist and LGBT activist, who participated in the July 11 peaceful demonstration, said “she knew dozens of people who had been arrested, among them Gretel Medina, a young film director who is breastfeeding her baby son. I’m very sad about the violent response from authorities. Police are repressive everywhere. But that’s not what’s proclaimed here – in Cuba they are supposed to be an organ of the people, they are supposed to protect the people.”