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

Moonglow said:
I usually think about a handjob.
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The Scottish comedian Billy Connolly said he lies on his side in bed until his right arm goes completely dead...then indulges in self gratification and it feels like someone else is doing it.
It's cheaper.
 
Castro rounded up Gays in the 1960s and HIV positive people in the 1980s, and both times it was wrong.
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Castro rounded up Gays in the 1960s and HIV positive people in the 1980s, and both times it was wrong.

John Suarez - November 30, 2019

“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.” - Fidel Castro, 1965

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Pride March shut down by Castro regime's state security on May 11, 2019

The state of Academia in the United States grows more worrisome each year. Imagine for a moment a graduate student in Bioethics and a Professor of Practice in Global Health defending a totalitarian dictatorship rounding up individuals with an illness that is not casually transmitted, while using deceptive propaganda that led others to contract the disease in order to get preferential housing conditions. Morris Fabbri and Kearsley A. Stewart of Duke University in their November 29, 2019 OpEd "Cuba quarantined people with HIV. It was controversial, but it worked" have done just that in the Tampa Bay Times. Their essay also overlooks both the decades long history of the Cuban government's persecution of Gays and falsifying statistics, and jailing doctors and reporters in order to cover up epidemics.
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John Suarez response to Morris Fabbri and Kearsley A. Stewart of Duke University in their November 29, 2019 OpEd for praising the Castroit regime rounding up people with AIDS, mostly gays, and quarantined them against their will, says is nothing to celebrate.

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 include “therapeutic, re-education and vigilant measures by the organs of the National Revolutionary Police.”

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Santa Clara HIV facility that holds over 235 inmate patients
 
Gay Cuban man begins new life in D.C.
Gay Cuban man begins new life in D.C.

February 19, 2020 at 11:00 am EST | by Michael K. Lavers

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Ray Rodríguez arrived in D.C. on Feb. 16, 2020. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

A gay man from Cuba who was granted asylum in the U.S. last month says he hopes to start a new life in D.C.

“I like it,” Ray Rodríguez told the Washington Blade on Tuesday during an interview at Colada Cuban Cafe in Logan Circle, referring to the nation’s capital. “I like it a lot.”

Rodríguez, 36, is from Las Tunas, a city that is roughly 400 miles southeast of Havana.

Rodríguez told the Blade last month during a previous interview in the Mexican border city of Matamoros that Cuban police detained him when he was on Havana’s oceanfront promenade known as the Malecón and kept him in custody for “almost a day for no reason … like they do in Cuba.” Rodríguez said police in February 2019 detained him once again while he was on a portion of the Malecón that is popular with LGBTQ Cubans.

“This time was a bit harsher,” said Rodríguez, noting the police were even more suspicious of him because he was not from Havana.
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Ray was very lucky that the regime allow him to leave Cuba, was granted asylum by the U.S. and is now living in Washington D.C. He experience firsthand the horrible nightmare of repression and persecution of gays and lesbians under the Castroit regime. Wishing him the best in his new life.
 
Prostitution in Cuba, a legal perspective
Prostitution in Cuba, a legal perspective - Cubalog.eu

January 01,2020

Prostitution is the performance of sexual acts for profit. In legal terms, the word prostitute refers only to the person who participates in an economic transaction based on sex, usually in exchange for an agreed upon amount of remuneration.

In Cuba, prostitution has always generated an internal debate that has resisted going beyond public policies. Already it has come to be believed that the government is responsible for the fact that many tourists come to Cuba seeking sex, since Cuban women is thought to be the cheapest woman in the world. The government in Havana has never recognized prostitution as a serious problem, argues that it is a voluntary occupation and has even always rejected the notion that the island is viewed as a sexual paradise. Furthermore, it maintains the idea that prostitution has no structural causes here since, all of these were eliminated after the triumph of the revolution.
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The Castroit regime has never recognized the existence of prostitution. Prostitution is rampant in Cuba. Tourism has created thousands of jobs in the sex trade. A higher ratio of tourists goes to Cuba nowadays for prostitution that any other country in the world. Women have been the main victims of the economic crises, having to sell their bodies to tourists to earn enough money in order that their families have enough to eat. It is ironic that the regime, because its economic problems and the revenue the sex trade generates, allow it to attracts more tourists.

Prostitutes are increasingly indebted to police officers to ensure they can conduct their labor. Police officers will facilitate for-profit sexual encounters in exchange for a bribe.
 
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The Castroit regime has never recognized the existence of prostitution. Prostitution is rampant in Cuba. Tourism has created thousands of jobs in the sex trade. A higher ratio of tourists goes to Cuba nowadays for prostitution that any other country in the world. Women have been the main victims of the economic crises, having to sell their bodies to tourists to earn enough money in order that their families have enough to eat. It is ironic that the regime, because its economic problems and the revenue the sex trade generates, allow it to attracts more tourists.

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I never knew this about Cuba, it seems rather telling about their system of government if they have to pimp out their citizens.

I don't know what to do but hope that the Cuban people decide to rise up against the government. To be honest I haven't really paid attention since Castro died. I was hopeful that with the death of the regime leader the regime would follow but it seems to have gotten worse.
 
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The Castroit regime has never recognized the existence of prostitution. Prostitution is rampant in Cuba. Tourism has created thousands of jobs in the sex trade. A higher ratio of tourists goes to Cuba nowadays for prostitution that any other country in the world. Women have been the main victims of the economic crises, having to sell their bodies to tourists to earn enough money in order that their families have enough to eat. It is ironic that the regime, because its economic problems and the revenue the sex trade generates, allow it to attracts more tourists.

Prostitutes are increasingly indebted to police officers to ensure they can conduct their labor. Police officers will facilitate for-profit sexual encounters in exchange for a bribe.
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What do you think of Bernie Sanders praise of the Castro regime?
 
The number of children that are being sexually exploited, particularly below the age of 14, has increased noticeable. The regime provides very little information on child prostitution, and block human right organizations from finding out about human rights abuses. It doesn’t acknowledge that child sex trafficking exist.

The Castroit regime just brought to Cuba’s society more poverty, more deficits of food, clothing, increased the repression, the abuses, and finally, took and place very far away hope for all Cubans to live with dignity and freedom.
 
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The number of children that are being sexually exploited, particularly below the age of 14, has increased noticeable. The regime provides very little information on child prostitution, and block human right organizations from finding out about human rights abuses. It doesn’t acknowledge that child sex trafficking exist.

The Castroit regime just brought to Cuba’s society more poverty, more deficits of food, clothing, increased the repression, the abuses, and finally, took and place very far away hope for all Cubans to live with dignity and freedom.
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Quotes from 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.
 
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrested on way to a LGBTQ+ censorship protest
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara arrested on way to a LGBTQ+ censorship protest | The Art Newspaper

The artist will face a summary trial in ten days while activists say the arrest amounts to "state terrorism"

GABRIELLA ANGELETI
3rd March 2020 22:39 BST

The Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was arrested on 1 March in Havana for alleged property damage following his involvement in an anti-censorship protest and will face a summary trial in ten days, according to a statement released by the San Isidro Movement, a collective of Cuban activist artists that emerged in 2018 in response to the controversial censorship legislation known as Decree 349 that has since seen many artists and creatives targeted by the government.

The artist was arrested outside of his home when he was en route to participate in a “kiss-in” that had been convened by members of the LGTBIQ community to protest the censorship of a gay kiss scene in the 2018 film Love, Simon that was broadcasted by the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television. Around 25 are said to have participated in the protest; the organizer Jancel Moreno was also arrested.
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“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 a Marxist/Fascist totalitarian regime. Only the regime determined who has the right to speak, write or establishing an independent LGBT organization.
 
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“Within the Revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing”[/B], 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 a Marxist/Fascist totalitarian regime. Only the regime determined who has the right to speak, write or establishing an independent LGBT organization.
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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. Fidel Castro made the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The famous doublespeak, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” George Orwell, 1984 revisited.
 
LGBTI Activists Commemorate the First Anniversary of the Suppressed March
LGBTI Activists Commemorate the First Anniversary of the Suppressed March – Translating Cuba

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The May 11, 2019 march started peacefully but was suppressed by the security forces. (14ymedio)

14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 11 May 2020 — The independent LGBTI community is not willing to forget what happened on May 11, 2019. That day, when the Government suppressed a peaceful march that they had organized on the Paseo del Prado in Havana, has become for Cuban activists the date they commemorate the fight against repression. That is why, from the first moment, they began to organize events for this 11 May which, due to the coronavirus, had to be converted into virtual events.

11M, one year after the march in Cuba is the forum arranged by a group of activists from Havana, and will begin at two in the afternoon and be broadcast through the Facebook page Dame le mano (Give me your hand). The forum aims to “reflect on what has been generated, in this time, in terms of public policies, social initiatives and the challenges that still persist for the Cuban LGBTI community.”
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Not even the virtual forum, due to the coronavirus epidemic, commemorating the repression of the LGBTI May 11, 2019 march was allow. The regime block out the page on which the celebration of the first anniversary of 11M was planned. What an Orwellian regime of newspeak it is.
 
LGBTI Activists Commemorate the First Anniversary of the Suppressed March
LGBTI Activists Commemorate the First Anniversary of the Suppressed March – Translating Cuba

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The May 11, 2019 march started peacefully but was suppressed by the security forces. (14ymedio)

14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 11 May 2020 — The independent LGBTI community is not willing to forget what happened on May 11, 2019. That day, when the Government suppressed a peaceful march that they had organized on the Paseo del Prado in Havana, has become for Cuban activists the date they commemorate the fight against repression. That is why, from the first moment, they began to organize events for this 11 May which, due to the coronavirus, had to be converted into virtual events.

11M, one year after the march in Cuba is the forum arranged by a group of activists from Havana, and will begin at two in the afternoon and be broadcast through the Facebook page Dame le mano (Give me your hand). The forum aims to “reflect on what has been generated, in this time, in terms of public policies, social initiatives and the challenges that still persist for the Cuban LGBTI community.”
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Not even the virtual forum, due to the coronavirus epidemic, commemorating the repression of the LGBTI May 11, 2019 march was allow. The regime block out the page on which the celebration of the first anniversary of 11M was planned. Because of that the forum was broadcast on Facebook. According Mariela Castro, the daughter of Raúl Castro and director of CENESEX, those that participated in the march are “lackeys of mercenary activism.” What an Orwellian regime of newspeak it is.
 
Cuban LGBTQ activists and media correspondents harassed with death threats
Cuban LGBTQ activists and media correspondents harassed with death threats

June 2, 2020 at 10:22 am EDT | by Tremenda Nota

Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba. This article ran on their website on May 30. Tremenda Nota published a Spanish version of this article on May 25.

HAVANA — In the past several days, an anonymous individual sent dire threats to activists and media correspondents of the Cuban LGBTI+ community. The threats were sent as direct messages from a false Facebook profile, which was reported to Facebook and deactivated soon after.

The artist Nonardo Perea, known for his activism for the free expression and freedom to work of artists in Cuba, wrote about these threats the next day in a piece for the Havana Times, They Threaten Me with Death: “On Saturday, May 23rd, I received death threats on my Facebook account, and not only were they threats against me. The person, under a false identity, also threatened that something could happen to my family, and it would look like an accident, or a medical problem.”
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Every time that the independent LGBTI organization try to do something without the regime sanction, its members are expose to persecution, repression, death threats and prison terms; for the only sin of exercising their freedoms of expression, speech, movement and assemble. The regime had killed gays before and would do it again without hesitation.
 
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Every time that the independent LGBTI organization try to do something without the regime sanction, its members are expose to persecution, repression, death threats and prison terms; for the only sin of exercising their freedoms of expression, speech, movement and assemble. The regime had killed gays before and would do it again without hesitation.
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The Castroit regime official “gay rights” is a political strategy promoted by Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and director of Cenesex, the official and only gay movement allowed, as a way to gain outside support for the totalitarian regime. Hopefully, most people will see this scheme for what it is and would not buy it.
 
Transgender woman from Cuba builds new life in Fla.
Transgender woman from Cuba builds new life in Fla.

July 29, 2020 at 11:45 am PDT | by Michael K. Lavers

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Dayana Mena López (Washington Blade photo by Yariel Valdéz González)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A transgender woman who spent nearly eight months in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody won asylum in the U.S. last August because of the persecution she suffered in her native Cuba.

Dayana Mena López on July 25 noted to the Los Angeles Blade during an interview at a restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., where she now lives that she suffered persecution in her homeland because of her gender identity and her opposition to the Cuban government.

Mena, who is of African descent, is from the town of Placetas in Cuba’s Villa Clara province.
She told the Blade she came out as trans when she lived in Cienfuegos, a city in Central Cuba. Mena said her family supported her.

“I would have been able to consider myself lucky and happy in this regard because my entire family accepted me: My parents, my grandparents,” she said. “My entire family always accepted me and I never had any problem in my neighborhood with my neighbors in this sense. In this sense I lived well, with respect to this part of my life.”
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According to the article about details her life in Cuba, says that “Due to her political beliefs and identity, Cuban authorities have beaten her, taunted her with homophobic slurs, locked her in a frigid chamber for hours, and held her under arrest,” it reads, and Mena said she received death threats.

It is obvious in her case like in many other that the acceptance of the LGBTI movement by the Castroit regime is in reality ‘fake news.’ The regime, that has a horrific record on gay rights, keeps harassing, persecuting and threaten them with imprisonment. The true freedom for Cuban gays will remain un attainable, like for all Cubans, as long as the regime remain in power.
 
In May 2020, the Castroit secret police arrested several people who participated in an unsanctioned LGBTQ rights march in Havana. A number of independent LGBTQ activists were detained in order to prevent them from attending the event, and several participants were later taken into custody. The regime police regularly harass and detain trans women who they suspect are engaged in sex work.
 
Gay Cuban man with HIV plans to seek asylum in US
https://watermarkonline.com/2020/05/11/gay-cuban-man-with-hiv-plans-to-seek-asylum-in-us/

BY : MICHAEL K. LAVERS OF THE WASHINGTON BLADE, COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL LGBT MEDIA ASSOCIATION
MAY 11, 2020
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ABOVE: Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, photo via Labrada.

A gay man from Cuba who lives in Maryland says he fled persecution because of his sexual orientation and HIV status.

Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, 32, is from Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second largest city that is located in eastern Cuba.

Mayeta was a member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), one the country’s most prominent opposition groups.
Mayeta has also contributed to 14ymedio, a website founded by Yoani Sánchez, a prominent critic of the Cuban government, and other outlets that include the Miami-based CubaNet.

Mayeta on April 15 during a telephone interview from Hyattsville where he currently lives noted the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) — a group directed by Mariela Castro, the daughter of former Cuban President Raúl Castro who spearheads LGBTQ issues in Cuba — last May cancelled its annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia marches that were scheduled to take place in Havana and Camagüey.
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The Castroit regime harsh anti-homosexual policies are consistent with its enslavement of the Cuban people. These policies share a totalitarian foundation that bars basic human choice, like where you can live, whom you can love, etc. A regime that reduces human beings to personal property is hardly willing to allow manifestation of particular affection.

In Cuba there hasn't been, there isn't, and will not be freedom for anyone until the Castroit tyrannical regime and there henchmen are removed from power.
 
Gay Cuban man with HIV plans to seek asylum in US
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BY : MICHAEL K. LAVERS OF THE WASHINGTON BLADE, COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL LGBT MEDIA ASSOCIATION

MAY 11, 2020

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ABOVE: Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, photo via Labrada.

A gay man from Cuba who lives in Maryland says he fled persecution because of his sexual orientation and HIV status.

Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, 32, is from Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second largest city that is located in eastern Cuba.

Mayeta was a member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), one the country’s most prominent opposition groups. Mayeta has also contributed to 14ymedio, a website founded by Yoani Sánchez, a prominent critic of the Cuban government, and other outlets that include the Miami-based CubaNet.
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The Castroit regime harsh anti-homosexual policies are consistent with its enslavement of the Cuban people. These policies share a totalitarian foundation that bars basic human choice, like where you can live, whom you can love, etc. A regime that reduces human beings to personal property is hardly willing to allow manifestation of particular affection.

In Cuba there hasn't been, there isn't, and will not be freedom for anyone until the Castroit tyrannical regime and there henchmen are removed from power.
 
Mayeta make a reference to the forcibly quarantining of people with HIV/AIDS. Starting in 1986 persons testing HIV positive were compulsory quarantine in the "Sidatoria” violating their rights. In 1994 compulsory quarantining was relaxed. HIV-positive patients whom the regime considers "responsible in their sexual behavior”, have been allowed either to live at home or make weekend home visits. But under the Castroit regime homosexuals with AIDS are compulsory quarantining for at least 8 weeks. Those that are allow to leave after 8 weeks and engage in unsafe sex, will be permanently quarantine against their will.
 
Cuba’s LGBTQ community is living a week of celebrations and controversy
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May 21, 2020 at 4:25 pm EDT | by Tremenda Nota

Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba. Tremenda Nota published this article on their website on May 20.

HAVANA — This past Monday the LGBTI+ community celebrated the first anniversary of the march of May 11, 2019, when several hundred people demonstrated in Havana. This protest followed the cancellation of an official event for the LGBTI+ community that had taken place every year for a decade.

The independent march was also inspired by the previous year’s debates about Article 68, a proposed revision to the Cuban Constitution that would have allowed marriage equality. Article 68 was suppressed in the new Constitution’s final revision, which was submitted to popular referendum in February 2019, creating tension between the community and the Cuban government.

The government responded to the May 11 march with violence, dispersing the crowd with dozens of policemen who arrested activists and other participants. It also discredited the event in official state-run media.
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The more things changes, the more they stay the same. On October 10, 2020, anniversary of Cuba independence from Spain, about twenty artists, communicators and LGBTQ activists were detained by the police in Havana while they were on their way to a concert organized that afternoon by the independent civil society. The event did not took place due to the intervention of the regular police and other paramilitary forces.
 
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Cuba has been compare to Thailand as a “paradise of sex tourism” (Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Cuba, Redirecting...). There is a very simple answer to the problem of prostitution: change the Castroit regime and the problem for the most part will solve itself, since the women will no longer need to prostitute themselves out of necessity. This is the result of the poverty created by 54 years of dictatorship.
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What an absolute load of nonsense!
So far from any reality, it's laughable, and pathetic at the same time.

Fedel Castro and Raul Castro rid itself of the casinos and prostitition when they rid itself of the corruption living off the backs of there nation! Cuba produces more doctors than any other nation in the world! More opportunities as education is free! Free because an educated workforce won't accept slavery as Americans are forced to comply or starve!
I'm not saying prostitution doesn't exist, people are people, but child abuse, not a bloody chance!

But here, every proven institutional child abuse case is sat on by the Tory Government, William Hague lost the documents, of hundreds of children being abused in care, police threatening of witnesses, the killing of witnesses.
Judges if justice existed would be Jailed for corruption of evidence, foreign judges appointed to corrupt the case! No you need to look closer to home to find rampant child abuse!
 
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