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

Progressives like to remark that Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and director of Cenesex, is at the forefront of the fight for gay rights. What they omitted to say is that the Castro regime control the LGBT movement, and that independents LGBT organizations are not permitted. Every time they try to do something without the regime sanction, they are expose to persecution, repression and risk prison terms.
 
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And quite right too.
 
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And quite right too.
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I see, you approve of independents LGBT persecution, repression and been sent to prison for exercise their freedom. Typical response from a progressive/regressive person.
 
The Castroit regime official “gay rights” business, like most official business, is used for its own benefit. The regime does not care at all for any human rights, period. But of courses, the progressives would try to sell the “gay rights” political strategy promoted by Mariela Castro as a way to gain outside support for the totalitarian regime. Most people will see this scheme for what it is and would not buy it.
 
Mariela Castro, which is in charge of Cenesex, said that the LGBT rights depend on “the continuity of the Communist Party's policies that they have been developing”. As we can see only LGTB controlled by the Catroit regime is allow. As Fidel Castro said in June 1961 speech to the intellectuals, “Within the Revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing”, mimicking Benito Mussolini in his Doctrine of Fascism of 1932 that wrote, “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”. That is what you get in s Marxist/Fascist totalitarian regime. Only the regime determined who has the right to speak, write or establishing an independent LGBT organization. The regime does not permit dissenting opinion of any type, it control every aspect of the lives of the people. It rule their lives with an iron fist.
 

How do you suppose this will same sex business will shake out with tourists? I can tell you firsthand that the register of each casa particular is inspected by law enforcement. For heterosexuals anyway, having ONE Cubana registered with you for the duration of a trip is considered a "girlfriend", but two could result in both Cubanas with up to two years in prison and a $3,000 fine for the tourist.

The iron fist you speak of is very noticeable. I got yelled at and threatened to be thrown out of the country for offering free computer programming tutoring. I was very sternly told that only the state is permitted to offer any educational activity.
 
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Thanks you for validating my point with your firsthand experience during your stay in the country.
 
The mainstream media is praising the Castroit regime law allowing same-sex marriage, saying that this make Cuba “one of the most progressive countries in the world.” The LGTB community will have the right to get married, but like the rest of the Cuban population won’t have the fundamental human rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and religion. This is merely a façade to conceal what is behind the new electoral and business laws aimed to represses the Cuban people even further.
 
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“In a very short time a catastrophic nuclear war will break out”

A humorous joke is not the same as a prophecy. Castrodamus also “predicted” that the standard of living in Cuba will be superior than in the U.S.; the citrus industry will be superior to that of Florida; the milk production will reach 30 million liters of milk in 1975; the Cuban people would be counted among the best-fed people in the world; turn the island into a coffee power; would harvest 10 million tons of sugar; breed a super cow; Cuba will become an energetic model for the world. The Babalawo (priest of the oracle) that guided him in the predictions was not a good Babalawo.
 
Decree 349 has been condemned by Amnesty International. It states that artists must have a permit from the culture ministry to undertake any artistic activity. It regulate the hiring system of artists in both the private and public sector, using it to legalizes the censorship of any creative activity criminalizing independent art.
 
Of course, there is a financial incentive too. Grupo Gaviota in charge of the tourist industry, is hold by “Grupo de Administración Empresarial SA” (GAESA), headed by Raul Castro son in law, an army general, recently signed an agreement with the European chain Muthu Hotels and Resorts to administer a hotel aimed at the LGBT community. The hotel is being built in Cayo Guillermo to cater to the LGBT community and will have 248 rooms. The LGBTQ tourism will help to increase the tourism income control by the regime military.
 
The draft of the proposed constitution in fact puts more obstacles before citizen initiatives such as the Varela Project, launched by Oswaldo Payá, to demand civil liberties. He gathered 10,000 signatures, but the new constitution requires 50,000 signatures before such initiatives can be officially recognized.
 
Mariela Castro, CENESEX director, said that, “With this proposal for constitutional regulation, Cuba places itself among the vanguard countries in recognizing and guaranteeing human rights.” She also said, in reference to the UMAP force labor camps, that “the camps were an isolated mistake and that they were never forced labor camp.”

The Castroit regime approval of same-sex married included in the new constitution has been used as a public relation ploy. The mainstream media praised the regime for approval of same-sex married and the “democratic” nature of the amendment of the constitution. Lo and behold the Cuba’s National Assembly announced the removal of the same-sex married from the new constitution, but the new electoral and business laws aimed to represses the Cuban people even further remain. The ploy worked as a charm.
 
This is an attempt by Mariela to rewrite history. The first labor force camp established in Cuba, was set up in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Pinar del Río Province, at the end of 1960 by Che Guevara, where according to him were confined “people who have committed crimes against revolutionary morals, to a lesser or greater degree.” These ‘crimes’ involved drinking, vagrancy, disrespect for authorities, laziness and playing loud music.
 
The Guanahacabibes camp was the forerunner of the UMAP (Military Units to Help Production), labor force camp stablished by the Castro regime in Camagüey Province in 1965 and were in operation until 1968. The regime sent to those camps dissidents, Catholics, Baptist, Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Santería practitioners, priests, artists, intellectuals, gays, lesbians, prostitutes, pimps, hippies, drug addicts and anyone considered anti-social. Some died from torture, others committed suicide, were rape, beating, mutilated and many were 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=oATGXqa69TA
 
The proposed constitution in fact puts more obstacles before citizen initiatives such as the Varela Project, launched by Rosa María Payá father, Oswaldo Payá, to demand civil liberties. He gathered 10,000 signatures, but the new constitution requires 50,000 signatures before such initiatives can be officially recognized. Article five of the previous constitution established the “irrevocable” character of socialism, is also present in the new one that in article one say, “Socialism and the social revolutionary political system instituted in this Constitution are irrevocable.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. It just reinforce the status quo.
 
Prostitution is rampant in Cuba and for many women, selling their bodies to foreigners and tourists is the only way they can earn enough money for their families to survive. This is what the Castro revolution has brought to Cuba. This is what socialism has done to this island nation.

Tourism has created thousands of jobs in the sex trade. A higher ratio of tourists goes to Cuba nowadays for prostitution, instead of the beaches and climate, than any other country in the world. Hotel workers, taxi drivers and the security personnel involved in the tourist industry, facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children by tourists, meanwhile the corrupt regime authorities look the other way.

Fidel Castro is the main responsible for the increased of prostitution, since in order to survive women need to trade in their bodies. It shows the outside world the real face of socialism.
 
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Now having a prostitute at home is not seen as something bad, and their families support them even, since they bring a standard of living that is unthinkable for the rest of the population.
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Cuban prostitution is the consequence of the misery to which the communist regime has led the Cuban people. The regime has destroyed the family, the fabric of society.

Quotes from the horse mouth: Fidel Castro speech at the National Assembly, July 11, 1992, “In Cuba there are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily, and without any need for it. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy.” He also said in 1992 that, “Cuban women become jineteras (prostitutes) because they like sex.” He remarked in 1993 that, “thanks to socialism Cuban girls must make the cleanest and best-educated prostitutes in the world.”
Castro, the Pimp in Chief, turned the island into the brothel of the Caribbean.
 
Michael Petrelis, a prominent LGBT activist, was harassed by agents of the Castroit regime during his recent stayed in Cuba. LGTB activists abroad believed the regime public relation that it has improve LGTB rights. Only LGBT Mariela Castro Cenesex activism, that is control by the regime, is allowed. Independent LGBT activism continuum to be the target of repression by the regime, which remain homophobic and repressive against the Cuban LGBT community. It never has the intention to legalize same-sex marriage, or tolerate sexual diversity.
 
Petrelis find out the reality of it as soon as he arrive at José Martí Havana airport and was interrogated by the regime security agents about why he was bringing in so many rainbow stickers and gay pride bracelets to Cuba. He learned a few thing about living under the Castroit regime, like been under constant surveillance and several interrogations where he was told not to participate in demonstration or attaint meetings, which he shear with the Blade. If these human rights violations happened to him, considered a friend of the regime, what is happening to the Cubans dissident straight and gays, considered enemies of the state, is really much worse that what you think since they don’t have any rights at all.
 
In December 2018 the regime remove an amendment from the draft constitution that would have extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Cuba. The Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights that works independently of Mariela Castro CENESEX, urged LGBTI Cubans to vote no for the approval of the new constitution.

The Castroit regime did not responded to the Blade’s request for comment. Independent journalists and activists face harassment and arrest if they dare to publicly criticize the Castroit regime. The new constitution is a public-relations stunt. It reiterates the “irrevocable” role of central planning and state control over production and land use. It denies the Cuban people’s most basic human rights.
 
Thirty five 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.
 
Gay life after the Cuban revolution has been a horrible nightmare of repression, persecution, massive raids, incarceration, concentration camps and death as depicted in the film. The nightmare for gays and lesbians in Cuba, despite the well-orchestrated Castro propaganda, which includes tours of gay life in his "island paradise", is hardly over.
 
Pre-criminal danger to society is a legal charge under the Castroit regime law which allows the authorities to detain people whom they think they are likely to commit crimes in the future. Under the regime 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.
 
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