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

[Sandokan]

Cuban activist banned from leaving home ahead of planned protests (losangelesblade.com)

Raúl Soublett López is director of Alianza Afro-Cubana

Published 1 week ago on November 15, 2021

By Michael K. Lavers



HAVANA — Cuban authorities have prevented an LGBTQ activist from leaving his home ahead of anti-government protests that are scheduled to take place across the country on Monday.

Alianza Afro-Cubana, a group that advocates for LGBTQ Cubans of African descent, in a tweet said authorities have not allowed its director, Raúl Soublett López, to leave his home in Havana’s Plaza neighborhood “to go to work as a teacher.”

“Today they have prohibited me from leaving my home,” Soublett told the Los Angeles Blade on Monday, referring to Cuba’s state security.

The Communist island on Monday reopened to tourists after a 20-month lockdown because of the pandemic. Authorities in recent days have targeted human rights activists, journalists and others who publicly criticize the government.
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Raúl Soublett director of Alianza Afro-Cubana, an LGBTQ activist has been prohibited from leaving his home ahead of anti-government protests along with independent journalists that 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. Unbelievable, what a draconian law! The Castroit tyrannical regime controls all modes of communication and no political opposition is permitted. What a terrible regime.

 

[Sandokan]

The Cuban LGBT community have been treated very harsh by the police, due to their support of the San Isidro Movement and participation on July11 national protest. Members of the movement along with independent journalists have been under house arrest. The regime violent response to protests and the detentions of peaceful LGBT protestors are a violation of human rights.

 

[Indydave]

Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.

what a load of crap.....

 

[CLAX1911]

The Cuban LGBT community have been treated very harsh by the police, due to their support of the San Isidro Movement and participation on July11 national protest. Members of the movement along with independent journalists have been under house arrest. The regime violent response to protests and the detentions of peaceful LGBT protestors are a violation of human rights.

LGBT people are a problem for authoritarians.

 

[Sandokan]

Brief Biography and Bibliography of Reinaldo Arenas – Deinós (deinospoesia.com)

ON 7 DECEMBER, 2021
Radamés Suárez

Reinaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 in the Cuban easternmost province of Oriente, the illegitimate son of José Arenas and Oneida Fuentes. Raised in poverty in the countryside, he grew up to be one of the most talented and prolific writers of the Hispanic World despite the relative cultural sterility of his early rural environment.

At the age of 14, he joined the rebel forces fighting the dictatorship of once populist Fulgencio Batista [1952-58]. In 1959, the Revolutionary Government awarded him a scholarship to a former military school —converted into a polytechnic institute— to study agricultural accounting. This allowed him to move to Havana three years later when he enrolled in a professional development course for agricultural accountants at the University of Havana. It was in the capital city that young Reinaldo met accomplished intellectuals who mentored him, most notably two gay writers: 1) Virgilio Piñera, a brilliant dramatist who was an existentialist before Jean Paul Sartre and wrote theatre of the absurd before Eugene Ionesco; and 2) José Lezama Lima, author of Paradiso, considered a zenith in 20th-century Latin American letters.
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Excellent Brief Biography of Reinaldo Arenas. It is worth the time to read it. Reinaldo Arenas in his novel the Assault describe the living hell suffered by the homosexual along with dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses and other “scum” interned in the Military Units to Help Production (UMA) forced labor camps.

The poster placed at the entrance to the forced labor camp, where homosexuals were confined, read: “The work will make you men”', replica of the slogan “The work will make you free” used in the Nazi concentration camps. It intended to correct the homosexual behavior applying rigorous punishments with the intention of modifying this social deviation, which does not constitute a crime punishable by law.

 

[Sandokan]

Thirty seven years ago, Néstor Almendros, who won the best cinematography Oscar for “Days of Heaven” and Orlando Jiménez Leal co-directed the film “Improper Conduct” that document the systematic violation of human rights and the widespread persecution of homosexuals by the Castro regime. Testimonies from Reinaldo Arenas, Heberto Padilla, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Juan Goytisolo and Susan Sontag are featured in the film. Orlando Jiménez restored and re-edited the film to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its released. The film is as relevant today as it was when it was released in 1984.

Improper Conduct video

 

[Sandokan]

Pre-criminal danger to society is a legal charge under the Castroist regime law, which allows the authorities to detain people whom they think they are likely to commit crimes in the future. Under Cuba's penal code, the charge covers behaviors contrary “to the standards of communist morality.” The charge carries a penalty of up to four years in prison. By using this law, the regime imprisons people without justification. Many LGBT people through the years have been jailed under those charges. What an Orwellian law.

Fidel Castro got rid of criminals, mentally ill patients and “homosexuals” by forcing, according to the regime “this scum out of Cuba” and sending them to the US during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Arenas used the opportunity to escape the “Island of Dr. Castro.”

 

[bomberfox]

Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.

Why are you not reporting on Snake Thing and Woof, and the zoosadist ring they created? (Woof specifically in south America) Why didnt the mainstream media report on it? Must be a conspiracy and you are in on it with the lamestream media! Your advertising gimmick is lame.

 

[Sandokan]

In 1965 Fidel Castro said, “We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true revolutionary, a true communist militant.” ... A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.” That year the Castro regime set up the Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP , ), forced labor camps were those suspected of “improper conduct”, like people of “extravagant behavior” (gays), were sent to those camps. Castro had a history of homophobia, he was an oppressor, torturer and murderer of gay people.

 

[bomberfox]

In 1965 Fidel Castro said, “We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true revolutionary, a true communist militant.” ... A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.” That year the Castro regime set up the Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP , ), forced labor camps were those suspected of “improper conduct”, like people of “extravagant behavior” (gays), were sent to those camps. Castro had a history of homophobia, he was an oppressor, torturer and murderer of gay people.

This is talked about often in left spaces.

 

[Sandokan]

A number of Arenas works has been translated into English, among them Before Night Falls; The Color of Summer; The Doorman and Farewell to the Sea among and others. The movie Before Night Fall is base in the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas. It was directed by Julian Schnabel. Javier Barden that plays the role of Arenas, was nominated for the Academy Awards for best actor.

 

[Sandokan]

Six Years in Jail for Yoan de la Cruz for Streaming the July 11 Protests in Cuba – Translating Cuba


Yoan de la Cruz was nearly isolated in Melena del Sur prison, in Mayabeque, until the day of his trial. (Cubalex)

14ymedio, Havana, March 22, 2022–Yoan de la Cruz, who last July 11th livestreamed the first protests in San Antonio de los Baños, which then spread throughout the country, has been sentenced to six years in prison by a tribunal, according to statements made on Tuesday by his mother, Maribel Cruz, on her Facebook profile.

“So that all my friends and family, who have always worried about Yoan, know. Today we learned his sentence: they gave him 6 years. As a mother, I feel like dying, it is very sad and difficult, the feelings for so much injustice, but God is great and one day such great injustice will be paid for,” she wrote. The Prosecutor asked for eight years.

Until the day of his trial, the young man remained nearly isolated in Melena del Sur prison, in Mayabeque province, where he will serve the rest of his sentence.

The sentencing for the 11J protesters in San Antonio de los Baños was delayed by three months. The trial began on December 15th and the sentences were expected last week. The deployment of a broad operation in the city made some activists think that the sentences would be made public on Wednesday, March 16th, but ultimately it was due to the presence of Cuban Communist Party officials in different zones of Artemisa.

The case of Yoan de la Cruz led to a broad mobilization on social media of organizations, family and friends since he was arrested on July 23rd. The main argument in his defense was the strictly peaceful presence of the young man.
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Yoan de la Cruz, gay man that on July 11, 2021, used Facebook Live to livestream a protest in San Antonio de los Baños, has been sentenced to 6 years in jail. He has remained in prison practically incommunicado until the day of the trial. Like in 1984 novel of George Orwell, the regime prosecutors have reversed the law. His livestream of the protest is considered by the Castroit tyrannical regime a crime punishable by law. Protestors have been sentenced to many years of in jail for crimes defined by the Orwellian regime as “public disorder”, during the peacefully protest of July 11, violating their rights to a fair trial.

 

[Sandokan]

‘The Body Never Forgets’, an Essay on the Concentration Camps in Cuba – Translating Cuba

The official Cuban press extolling the work of the UMAP camps in the 1960s. Headline: Where work makes the man.

EFE (via 14ymedio), Jorge I. Pérez, Miami, 5 April 2022 — The forced labor camps in which, as in the Soviet gulag, dissidents, religious, homosexuals and artists were confined in the Cuba of the 1960s, left “a lot of pain and trauma” not yet healed, affirms the Cuban historian Abel Sierra Madero, who has just published an essay on this subject with the title El cuerpo nunca olvida [The body never forgets].

Subtitled Trabajo forzado, hombre nuevo y memoria en Cuba (1959-1980) [Forced work, new man and memory in Cuba (1959-1980)], the book brings together, for the first time, memorabilia, personal photos, testimonial sources and fictional literature on what was officially called Military Production Assistance Units (UMAP), “Because it must be said that I handle fiction as truth,” Sierra told Efe in an interview.

A specialist in studies of sexuality, concentration camps, the Cold War, memory and trauma, Sierra, who has lived in the US for years, interviewed more than 30 people or relatives of people who between 1965 and 1968 were in the UMAP. The interviews were conducted between Cuba, Miami, New Jersey and New York.

According to Sierra (1976) in the book’s introduction, “the UMAPs formed part of a more complex economic system within a broad project of social engineering.”
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Che Guevara established the first labor camp in the Guanahacabibes region in western Cuba in 1960, to confine people who had committed no crime punishable by law. This camp was the precursor of the concentration camps established in Camagüey province from 1965 to 1968 called Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP), to confined dissidents, homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and other such “scum.”

In those camps homosexuals were often beaten, and occasionally raped, by criminal gangs in the camps. Some gays were killed; others committed suicide. The western left didn't care of what was going on, and did nothing in defense of those confined in the concentration camps. Shame on them.

 

[Sandokan]

The late Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in his novel the Assault describe the living hell suffered by the homosexuals along with dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses and other “scum” interned in the Military Units to Help Production (UMA) forced labor camps. Shame on them.

 

[ChrisIsLeft]

Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.

My God the links the right wing provide as evidence are HILARIOUS

 

[Sandokan]

The poster placed at the entrance to the forced labor camp, where homosexuals were confined, read: “The work will make you men”', replica of the slogan “The work will make you free” used in the Nazi concentration camps. It intended to correct the homosexual behavior applying rigorous punishments with the intention of modifying this social deviation, which does not constitute a crime punishable by law.

 

[Sandokan]

The reporter of the New York Times Herbert Matthews, who interview Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra and afterwards visited Cuba several times, commented that "There seems to be an unusually strong emotional aversion to homosexuals in Cuba which Castro shares."

In 1963 Castro approved Operation P, so called because of a big, black "P", used to identify prostitutes, pimps and pederasts, was paint on the uniform of the inmates. Operation P was a massive dragnet of homosexuals which began with a nation-wide census of them. It was the first step in the creation of the Military Units to Help Production (UMAPs), a euphemism for concentration camps used for the internment of homosexuals and other “deviates.” In 1965 the battle against the Cuban homosexuals intensified as the Castro regime unleashed a fierce campaign against them, forcefully imprisoned them into the UMAPs.

 

[Sandokan]

On November 1965, Castro’s tyrannical regime launched the Military Units to Help Production (UMAP), labor camps in the province of Camagüey. The regime claimed as justification that the disqualified to serve in the military would be sent to the UMAP, where he used them to confine people who had committed no crime. The regime sent to these camps dissidents, believers of all types and condition, artists, intellectuals, homosexuals, prostitutes, bums, drug addicts and those considered anti-social. The camps were surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fences 10 feet tall, patrolled by guards with machine guns and police dogs, lacking running water and electricity.

 

[Sandokan]

According to Joseph Tahbaz, (https://www1.udel.edu/LAS/Vol14-2Tahbaz.html)’ former Cuban intelligence agents have estimated that approximately 35,000 people were interned in the UMAP camps. About 70 died from torture, another 180 committed suicides, others were rape, beating, mutilated and about 500 ended up in psychiatric wards, traumatized for life, as shown in Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal 1988 award-winning documentary Improper Conduct that recorded the testimonies of victims and witnesses (576) Conducta Impropria - Improper Conduct (Part 1) - YouTube

 

[Sandokan]

A poster placed at the entrance to the forced labor camps, where homosexuals were confined, read: “The work will make you men”, replica of the slogan “The work will make you free” used in the Nazi concentration camps.

Eventually the repercussions of the international protest led to dismantle of the UMAPs, but it did not end the harassment and ill-treatment of homosexuals. In typical Castro style the control and attacks on homosexuals is now disguised as AIDS treatment.

 

[Sandokan]

14-year Prison Sentence Upheld for Cuban Trans Woman | World | News | SFGN Articles (southfloridagaynews.com)

Michael K. Lavers World 05 August 2022


Brenda Díaz (Photo courtesy of Ana María García Calderín/Tremenda Nota)

WB) Cuba’s highest court has upheld the 14-year prison sentence that a transgender woman with HIV received after she participated in an anti-government protest in July 2021.

Tremenda Nota, the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba, notes Brenda Díaz was arrested in Güira de Melena in Artemisa province on July 11, 2021.

The Güira de Melena protest was one of the dozens against the Cuban government that took place across the country on that day.

A Havana court earlier this year sentenced García to 14 years in prison. She appealed her sentence, but Agencia EFE reported the People’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the sentence.

The court, according to Agencia EFE, determined García’s sentence was “legal, just” and rational.” The U.S. Embassy in Cuba on Thursday condemned the decision and its ruling that upheld the 15-year prison sentence that journalist Jorge Bello Domínquez received after he participated in the July 11 protests.

“We condemn the confirmation of the discriminatory and unjust 14- and 15-year prison sentences for Brenda Díaz and journalist Jorge Bello Domínguez for their participation in the July 11 (protests) that were announced yesterday,” tweeted the embassy.

A State Department spokesperson last month told the Washington Blade the U.S. is “very concerned about the well-being of Brenda Díaz, especially given reports that she is being held in a men’s prison and is not receiving appropriate medical treatment.”

The embassy on Thursday reiterated these concerns.

“We express our deep concern over Brenda’s health and the treatment that she is receiving in prison,” tweeted the embassy. “We call upon the Cuban government to unconditionally release Brenda, Jorge and everyone who has been unjustly detained.”

The tweet ended with the hashtag “Prisoners, why?”

The MSM that normally write about cases involving charges of transphobia and homophobia, when this happens in other country, the story will be on front page. But in his case, since it happened in Cuba, their admire socialist utopia, they do not care to publish about it. By the way the regime locked her in a prison for men.

 

[Sandokan]

Brenda has her head shaved and was rape the first day the regime her into the men’s pavilion on the Güines, despite the fact that that prison has a pavilion for women. She was accused of throwing stones against a currency store of his municipality Güira de Melena, and also headed, with a group of people tried in the same cause, at the headquarters of the Communist Party and a PNR station and shouted slogans against the political system. According to the Supreme Court the sentence was “legal, just and rational” , and sent her to an Orwellian 1984 prison. “If the Party says that two plus two makes five, it does.”

 

[Sandokan]

Cuba’s LGTBI Community Demands Change | Institute for War and Peace Reporting (iwpr.net)

Jancel Moreno

18 May, 2022

Raul (not his real name) had his first experience of institutional homophobia aged 17, hanging out with friends near the Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana’s El Vedado neighborhood.

The police arrested him for alleged prostitution and at the station made him sign a caution without showing him evidence of any charges. As he was being taken away, an officer said, referring to his arrest, "This is for pricking turds, you fag.”

Although discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is illegal in Cuba, the reality is different. Raul recalled growing up hearing stories of people sacked or expelled from their studies for being gay, or of others forced to leave the country because their supposedly inappropriate conduct was at odds with the revolution.

The state-run National Centre for Sex Education (Cenesex), founded in 1989, created, in theory, to listen to the demands of the LGTBI community.

Raul, however, is among many LGTBI people who say they feel increasingly disillusioned with this institution.
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Yoan de la Cruz, ,gay man that on July 11, 2021, used Facebook Live to livestream a protest in San Antonio de los Baños, March 2022, was sentenced to 6 years in jail.

Ana Maria Garcia, a transgender woman, on august 2022 was sentenced to 14-year prison for participating in an anti-government protest in July 2021. She has her head shaved and was rape the first day the regime moved her into the men’s pavilion, despite the fact that that prison has a pavilion for women.

Maykel González Vivero, editor of Tremenda Nota, the Blade’s media partner in Cuba. an LGBTQ activist, was 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.

Raúl Soublett director of Alianza Afro-Cubana, an LGBTQ activist, on November 2022 has been prohibited from leaving his home. On October he was threatened by State Security ” because he made a series of videos that highlight his group’s efforts to fight racism and homophobia in Cuba. The Castroist communist regime have targeted human rights activists, journalists and others who publicly criticize the government.

 

[Sandokan]

Cuba’s LGTBI Community Demands Change | Institute for War and Peace Reporting (iwpr.net)

Jancel Moreno

18 May, 2022

Raul (not his real name) had his first experience of institutional homophobia aged 17, hanging out with friends near the Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana’s El Vedado neighborhood.

The police arrested him for alleged prostitution and at the station made him sign a caution without showing him evidence of any charges. As he was being taken away, an officer said, referring to his arrest, "This is for pricking turds, you fag.”

Although discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is illegal in Cuba, the reality is different. Raul recalled growing up hearing stories of people sacked or expelled from their studies for being gay, or of others forced to leave the country because their supposedly inappropriate conduct was at odds with the revolution.

The state-run National Centre for Sex Education (Cenesex), founded in 1989, created, in theory, to listen to the demands of the LGTBI community.

Raul, however, is among many LGTBI people who say they feel increasingly disillusioned with this institution.
Click link above for full article.

Yoan de la Cruz, ,gay man that on July 11, 2021, used Facebook Live to livestream a protest in San Antonio de los Baños, March 2022, was sentenced to 6 years in jail.

Ana Maria Garcia, a transgender woman, on august 2022 was sentenced to 14-year prison for participating in an anti-government protest in July 2021. She has her head shaved and was rape the first day the regime moved her into the men’s pavilion, despite the fact that that prison has a pavilion for women.

Maykel González Vivero, editor of Tremenda Nota, the Blade’s media partner in Cuba. an LGBTQ activist, was 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.

Raúl Soublett director of Alianza Afro-Cubana, an LGBTQ activist, on November 2022 has been prohibited from leaving his home. On October he was threatened by State Security ” because he made a series of videos that highlight his group’s efforts to fight racism and homophobia in Cuba. The Castroist communist regime have targeted human rights activists, journalists and others who publicly criticize the government

 

[Sandokan]

The Cuban LGBT community have been treated very harsh by the police, due to their support of the San Isidro Movement and participation on July11 national protest. Protestors have been sentenced to many years of in jail for crimes defined by the Orwellian regime as “public disorder”, during the peacefully protest of July 11, violating their rights to a fair trial.