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

[Masterhawk]

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.

What does any of this have to do with the Cuban pedophile network from 9 years ago?

 

[Sandokan]

What does any of this have to do with the Cuban pedophile network from 9 years ago?

This have to do with what happened from July 11, 2021, when the pacific anti-government protests that took place in Havana and across the country, to August 2022 when members of the LGTB community were sentenced to prison. See post #299 on page 12 for information when it happened.

 

[Litwin]

Castroit regime is not going to cooperate.

if its true, Castroit - stalinist regime is behind of this. Cuba is a totalitarian country , the local KGB knows everything , all Cuban prostitutes are the KGB´s agents

 

[Litwin]

Fidel Castro in a speech in 1993, that: “thanks to socialism Cuban girls must make the cleanest and best-educated prostitutes in the world.”

pootler disagrees

 

[Sandokan]

History will not absolve you: Shedding light on Cuba’s UMAP correctional camps | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition (elpais.com)

Cuba has approved same-sex marriage, an advance in rights that nonetheless does not erase the Castroist repression of diversity in the 1960s

PABLO DE LLANO
NOV 07, 2022 - 10:31 EST


Young people confined in a UMAP camp in Cuba.

Cuba legalized same-sex marriage in September. In addition to being an advance in rights, it could also be interpreted as an act of historical justice within a regime that locked up homosexuals in its early days. But historical traumas are not healed by merely intervening in the legal structure. The trauma is stored in the memory and that is not where the Cuban state has looked. This trauma is that of the forced labor camps, which operated in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose victims were not only those who desired people of the same sex but also those who, among other sins, loved Jesus or simply wanted to dance the twist.

Looking where the official narrative does not look is the object of critical historiography. As such, while viewing the law passed in Cuba with satisfaction, one can also delve into what happened by reading El cuerpo nunca olvida (or The body never forgets), a study by Abel Sierra Madero that ambitiously analyzes the issue of labor camps, a subject that is often touched upon but remains little investigated. The Cuban academic also conceives memory as a space for justice and considers it urgent to work on it in the face of an institutional “strategy” that promotes “an amnesiac transition, the washing of the national memory and the rewriting of history.”
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The Castroist communist regime has tried very hard to remove all traces of what happened at the UMAP force labor camps, where homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, artists, dissidents and others, considered anti-social, were interned. The progressive/regressives, natural allies of the regime, have choose to look the other way, buy history is witness of the fact of what happened at the UMAP force labor camps and will not absolve them.

 

[Litwin]

The Castroist communist regime has tried very hard to remove all traces of what happened at the UMAP force labor camps, where homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, artists, dissidents and others, considered anti-social, were interned.

all commies AROUND the world follow the same path

 

[Masterhawk]

This have to do with what happened from July 11, 2021, when the pacific anti-government protests that took place in Havana and across the country, to August 2022 when members of the LGTB community were sentenced to prison. See post #299 on page 12 for information when it happened.

Still, the original post was about a pedophile network in Cuba.

 

[Sandokan]

Cubans with AIDS were confined in five facilities, in reality prisons, based on the law of pre-criminal danger to society, a legal charge which allows the regime to imprison people without justification. The regime penal code covers behaviors contrary “to the standards of communist morality.” The law text includes “therapeutic, re-education and vigilant measures by the organs of the National Revolutionary Police.” 1984 revisited

 

[Litwin]

Cubans

I DONT NEED TO READ NEWS ABOUT commie Cubans, cos dirty Maskali did it many times before, in the much larger scale

 

[maquiscat]

SO does this thread get some kind award for running over 9 years?

 

[Sandokan]

SO does this thread get some kind award for running over 9 years?

Yes, from over the 56,000 visitors to the thread, equivalent to more than 181 views per post. One of the best ratios.

 

[Sandokan]

The Unpardonable Sins of Reinaldo Arenas | www.splicetoday.com

Alexander Rivero
December 18,2022

Whenever I’m feeling blue, I think about Reinaldo Arenas and fall back in line.



For Arenas, a Cuban writer who in 1990 ended his life in his Manhattan apartment at 47, life was a relentless downpour of extremes. He was openly gay in a country whose official stance on homosexuality mirrored the one it had on vermin. Through its early years, and especially after its clampdown on the country’s cultural institutions in 1971, the Cuban regime made it a top priority to “cleanse” its cultural and academic ranks of any semblance of what it called “false, elitist intellectualism.” For the State, this was a perfectly vague platform from which to launch political purges, ridding itself of anyone that refused to parrot its orthodoxy or live by the creed of its new, improved, revolutionary morality.

As hard as it may be to accept for the fawning masses of privileged, clueless Western academics, the Cuban Revolution always saw homosexuals as contemptible. The regime didn’t base its views on any particular concern for the natural order of things. Homosexuals weren’t repulsive to the Cuban Stalinists, for whom nature was only a plaything to mold into whatever contortion they needed to justify themselves from moment to moment. In defying the revolution’s ideal of manhood, however, homosexuals were contemptible for their prima facie disobedience to the State, which is about the only thing that will ever truly repulse a Stalinist.
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During the Mariel boatlift Castro deported criminals and homosexuals to the US, and that was when Arenas was able to get to the US. After a while of living here he wrote this: "I remember that, after I arrived in the United States, a Cuban exile who lived in Washington said to me: 'Don't ever quarrel with the left.' For people like him, to attack Castro's government was to fight against the left. But after twenty years of repression, how could I keep silent about those crimes? On the other hand, I never considered myself as belonging to the 'left' or to the 'right,' nor do I want to be included under any opportunistic or political label. I tell my truth, as does the Jew who has suffered racism, or the Russian who has been in the Gulag or any human being who has eyes to see the way things really are. I scream, therefore I exist."

 

[Sandokan]

In the short video segment of “Seres extravagantes” (Extravagant beings), which highlights the life of Cuban poet and playwright Reinaldo Arenas, he says :

"I'm a person here called dissident. In all senses because I'm not religious, I'm a homosexual and - at the same time - I'm anti-Castro. This means that I have all the conditions to never have a book published and to live at the margin of any society anywhere in the world."

Video: (5) Trailer Documental: "Seres Extravagantes". - YouTube

 

[Juks]

Why would the media cover it when it happened in Cuba. We mostly do not care about third world countries.

Because the US is the one that made Cuba into a third country?

Just a guess.... (or not)

 

[Sandokan]

Off the Wall | LGBT Cubans Who Changed History | Pier Angelo | Opinion | SFGN Articles (southfloridagaynews.com)

Pier Angelo 19 October 2021

José Lezama Lima. Public domain.


Reinaldo Arenas, (born July 16, 1943, Oriente, Cuba — died Dec. 7, 1990, N.Y., U.S.), was a Cuban-born writer of extraordinary and unconventional novels who fled persecution and immigrated to the United States.

As a teenager Arenas joined the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. He moved to Havana in 1961 and became a researcher in the José Martí National Library (1963–68), an editor for the Cuban Book Institute (1967–68), and a journalist and editor for the literary magazine La Gaceta de Cuba (1968–74). During the 1970s, Arenas was imprisoned for his writings and open homosexuality. Suffering from AIDS, Arenas committed suicide in 1990.

José Lezama Lima, (born December 19, 1910, Havana, Cuba — died August 9, 1976, Havana), was a Cuban experimental poet, novelist, and essayist whose baroque writing style and eclectic erudition profoundly influenced other Caribbean and Latin American writers.

Lezama’s father, a military officer, died in 1919. Lezama was a sickly boy, and while recuperating from various illnesses he began to read broadly and avidly. After studying law in Havana, Lezama in 1937 helped found three short-lived literary reviews, Verbum (1937; three issues), Espuela de plata (1939–41; “Silver Spur;” six issues), and Nadie paracía (1942–44; “Nobody Can Interfere;” 10 issues). When these publications ceased, Lezama joined with Cuban editor and literary critic José Rodríguez Feo (1920–93) and others to found the influential arts periodical Orígenes (1944–56). In it they published the work of a number of excellent young artists and musicians together with the work of several young poets whose contributions revolutionized Cuban and Latin American letters.
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Reinaldo Arenas, born into rural poverty in 1943, in 1959 became a supporter of the revolution. In 1963 he moved to the city of Havana, where he study politic and economic at the University of Havana and began working as a researcher at the National Library and later as a journalist for the magazine La Gazeta de Cuba. His first book, “Celestino antes del Alba” (Singing from the Well), was published in 1967, the only one allow to be published in Cuba. “El Mundo Alucinante” (Hallucinations), 1969, published in France. He was persecuted by the Castroist regime for his homosexuality and counterrevolutionary writings, and in the 1970s he spent three years in prison. He was released in 1976 and in 1980 came to the U.S. during the Mariel boatlift.

He wrote another six books and a collection of poetry, essays and letters. His last book “Before Night Fall” 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, Academy Awards nominated in 2000 for best actor. In a farewell letter he wrote, “My message is not a message of failure, but rather one of struggle and hope. Cuba will be free. I already am.”

 

[Sandokan]

José Lezama Lima, a writer, poet and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in Cuban literature. His novel “Paradiso”, is one of the best novels of the 20th Century in Spanish, and one of his works translated into English that gained international fame. This novel is a confession in obscure terms about his active homosexuality, using a skillful and subtle prose to hide it. It was published in 1966 during the massive persecution of passive and active homosexuals. After 1971, due to Virgilio’s denunciation and his book “Paradiso”, he was ostracize and when he was invited to go to Rome to receive a prize, the Castroist regime did not allow him to leave the country. They also prevented him from traveling to Mexico. He was a great poet, and in his poems “Fixity” recapture his past experiences. He lived in an internal exile in Cuba until his death in 1976.

 

[Sandokan]

Virgilio Piñera, a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and translator, was born in 1912 in Cardenas, Cuba. In his early teens he began to write. His first published poem was The Mute Scream in 1936. His most famous works are the poem La isla en peso (1943), the playwright Electra Garrigó (1948) and the short stories Cold Tales (1956). In his work he blend the fantastic with the absurd and madness. From 1946 to 1958 he lived in Argentina working in the Cuban Embassy as a translator, coming back to Cuba that year.

He was openly homosexual, and in 1961 he was jailed for “political and moral crimes”. Eventually he was released and marginalized, and in 1969 he won the Casa de las Américas Prize, for his play Two Ancient Panics. In 1971 was ostracized by the Castroist regime due to his divergent ideological beliefs and his homosexuality. He died in1979 in Havana.

 

[Sandokan]

Prostitution in Cuba: A Way of Survival (impunityobserver.com)

Amid Poverty, Jineteros Find Way to Support Families

May 3, 2023 Mauro Echeverría

Prostitution, however, does not limit itself to these tourist zones in Havana’s downtown. (Sebastián Díaz)
Key Findings:

• Despite the regime’s ban and never-ending efforts to end prostitution, it is a common practice for Cubans. They continue to resist prohibition to survive amid scarce opportunities, food, and medicine.
• Prostitutes (commonly known as jineteros) and pimps offer their services chiefly to tourists, who are able to spend more on sexual services. Therefore, sex workers usually wander tourist plazas, bars, and streets.
• There is no established price for sexual services, as jineteros and customers reach an agreement before proceeding to have intercourse. Prostitutes, if they work with pimps, must pay them fees for help getting customers.
• Prostitutes and pimps face multiple challenges and dangers such as getting arrested or scammed or contracting sexually transmitted diseases. The scarcity of protection implements such as condoms is a factor that exacerbates the dangers.

Overview

When late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro took power in 1959, he sought to eradicate homosexuality and prostitution. For Castro, people performing those practices “cannot personify the ideals of a communist militant.” In October 1962, the regime conducted numerous warrantless raids to capture them. Cubans call this episode “The Night of the Three Ps
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This is a huge issue in Cuba. Each year, more and more girls turn to prostitution as a source of income. For a country that prides itself on protecting and educating its children, child prostitution indicated a new low for the Castros regime. Many of Cuba's prostitutes began selling their bodies as young as 12 years old. Children are victimized in sexual exploitation linked to the state-run tourism industry.

 

[Sandokan]

The regime authorities turn a blind eye to this exploitation because such activity helps to draw hard currency for state-run businesses. The link between tourism and prostitution in Cuba is more wide spread than in any other country. There isn’t freedom of speech for the Cuban people, but there certainly is freedom of sex for the tourists.

 

[Gordy327]

Yes, from over the 56,000 visitors to the thread, equivalent to more than 181 views per post. One of the best ratios.

Meanwhile, no one cares and nothing changes.

 

[Sandokan]

Cinematographer Nestor Almendros a closeted gay

Born October 1930, Barcelona, Spain. At age 18 he move to Cuba to joint his exile father. Almendros, a closeted gay man,made some amateur shorts in Cuba and in 1955 spend a year in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He moved to New York where he made two shorts. In 1959 he returned to Cuba and made several documentaries. After two of his shorts, Gente en la playa (People on the Beach) and La tumba francesa (French Drum) were banned by the Castro regime, due to actual reality show on them, he moved to Paris in 1963.

 

[Gordy327]

Cinematographer Nestor Almendros a closeted gay

Born October 1930, Barcelona, Spain. At age 18 he move to Cuba to joint his exile father. Almendros, a closeted gay man,made some amateur shorts in Cuba and in 1955 spend a year in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He moved to New York where he made two shorts. In 1959 he returned to Cuba and made several documentaries. After two of his shorts, Gente en la playa (People on the Beach) and La tumba francesa (French Drum) were banned by the Castro regime, due to actual reality show on them, he moved to Paris in 1963.

Still not caring!

 

[Sandokan]

In 1984 Almendros co-directed a documentary about Cuba's persecution of gay men, Improper Conduct, an indictment of Castro’s oppression of homosexuals. In 1965, Castro established the force labor camps called Military Units to Aid Production, to confined dissidents, homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and other such “scum, suspected of improper conduct and effeminate mannerisms. In 1988, he co-directed another documentary title Nobody Listened, about repression in Cuba where real people tell their tragic stories on their own words.

Conducta Impropria - Improper Conduct (Part 1) - Bing video

(226) Nobody Listened - Nadie Escuchaba. Documental Cubano - YouTube

 

[Gordy327]

And still not caring.

 

[Sandokan]

Almendros great body of work as a cinematographer includes films like Days of Heaven (1978), for which he won an Academy Award, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The Blue Lagoon (1980), The Last Métro (1980) for which he won a Cesar award, Sophie's Choice (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), and others. His autobiography, A Man with a Camera, was published in 1984. He died of AIDS-related lymphoma in 1992 at age 61.