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

[Fledermaus]

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!

Argument from Incredulity....

 

[Highlanders]

Argument from Incredulity....

Historical fact!

 

[Fledermaus]

Historical fact!

Citation for the "fact" child abuse was eradicated by the Castro government?

 

[Sandokan]

Cuban authorities threaten to arrest LGBTQ activist, journalist

https://www.washingtonblade.com/202...threaten-to-arrest-lgbtq-activist-journalist/

September 16, 2020 at 11:38 pm EDT | by Michael K. Lavers


Jancel Moreno (Photo courtesy of Jancel Moreno)

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.
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

A Cuban couple’s ‘great gay odyssey’

A Cuban couple’s ‘great gay odyssey’ (washingtonblade.com)

November 17, 2020 at 12:00 pm EST | by Yariel Valdés González


Diosbel_Alvarez_and_Yasmany_Sanchez_Perez_insert_courtesy_Yasmany_Sanchez_Perez.jpg (600×400) (washingtonblade.com)
From left: Diosbel Alvarez and his boyfriend, Yasmany Sánchez Pérez, in French Guiana (Photo courtesy of Yasmany Sánchez Pérez)

Yasmany Sánchez Pérez had an awakening when he read “Before Night Falls”, the autobiography of Reynaldo Arenas, a gay Cuban writer condemned by the country’s dictatorship because of his sexual orientation and political opposition. His way of seeing the reality that surrounded him completely changed and he saw his life portrayed in the pages of that book the regime banned. Sánchez, like Arenas, has been persecuted and harassed by Castroism’s homophobic minions.

Although they are separated by 50 years of history, this chronic intolerance on the part of the Cuban regime against those who raise their voices in defense of the rights denied to them as human beings prevails.
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.”

 

[Sandokan]

Gay man who participated in Cuba protest movement arrested

Gay man who participated in Cuba protest movement arrested (washingtonblade.com)

December 15, 2020 at 1:08 pm EST | by Michael K. Lavers


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Osmel Adrián Rubio Santos while on hunger strike. (Photo courtesy of Katherine Bisquet Rodríguez’s Facebook page)

Cuban authorities on Tuesday arrested a gay man who is a member of a protest movement against the government.

A video that Osmel Adrián Rubio Santos’ mother, Isbe Santos González, sent to Washington Blade contributor Yariel Valdés González shows authorities placing Rubio into a patrol car outside of his home in Havana’s Cotorro neighborhood.

Rubio in the video is wearing a face mask with his hands behind his back. Santos says her son was arrested after he left their home to buy bread at a nearby bakery.

Rubio, 18, was one of the 14 members of the San Isidro Movement who went on a hunger and thirst strike last month in a dilapidated building in Old Havana to protest the arrest of Daniel Solís, a rapper who was sentenced to eight months in prison for “disrespect” after he criticized the Cuban government in a Facebook Live video.
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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!

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

Cuba’s LGBTQ community reacts to the San Isidro Movement political crisis

Cuba's LGBTQ community reacts to the San Isidro Movement political crisis (washingtonblade.com)

December 2, 2020 at 5:38 pm EST | by Tremenda Nota

HAVANA — LGBTQ rights groups have weighed in on the political crisis in Cuba sparked by the hunger strike of the San Isidro Movement, a group of dissident activists, and the protest in front of the Culture Ministry on Nov. 27 where hundreds of people demanded the government respect the rights of artists and citizens.

La Plataforma 11M, an independent LGBTI+ collective, in a short statement it published this Saturday backed “the initiative of the group of young intellectuals and artists” to go protest at the Culture Ministry, “under the conviction that dialogue is the way forward to guarantee freedom of speech and artistic creation in Cuba.”
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

Celebrating a year of freedom
Celebrating a year of freedom (washingtonblade.com)

Yariel Valdés González

on South Beach on March 6, 2020, a day after he reunited with his family in Miami. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

WILTON MANORS, Fla. — Yariel Valdés González began his new life in freedom in this country a year ago today.

Yariel, who asked for asylum in the U.S. because of the persecution he suffered in Cuba as a journalist, spent nearly a year in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody until his release from the River Correctional Center, a privately-run detention center in Louisiana’s rural Concordia Parish, on March 4, 2020.

The details of that day remain vivid: The torrential downpour that drenched us as we ran to my car in the detention center’s parking lot, the Lady Gaga songs I played on my iPhone as we drove away, my left arm that I fractured a few hours earlier and dancing at Oz on Bourbon Street once we arrived in New Orleans.

Yariel over the last year has proven that immigrants really make our country great. He lives here in Wilton Manors and works at a local restaurant. Yariel contributes to the Washington and Los Angeles Blades, and is becoming an active member of the Wilton Manors community. Our country is far better off when people like Yariel have the opportunity to live their best lives in freedom and commit themselves to making it better for us all.
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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.”

 

[Sandokan]

Two transgender asylum seekers with MPP cases enter U.S.
Two transgender asylum seekers with MPP cases enter U.S. (washingtonblade.com)

March 10, 2021 at 12:57 pm EST | by Michael K. Lavers


Natasha, right, is a transgender woman from Honduras. Janeth, second from right, is a trans woman from Cuba. Both asked for asylum in the U.S. and entered the country on March 10, 2021, after the Trump administration forced them to pursue their cases in Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Estuardo Cifuentes)

Two transgender women who were forced to pursue their asylum cases in Mexico entered the U.S. on Wednesday.

Janeth, a trans woman from Havana, flew from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago on Jan. 26, 2019. She spent the next four months traveling through more than a dozen countries in Central and South America until she reached the U.S.-Mexico border on May 27, 2019.
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

Two Cuban activists launch marriage equality campaign

Two Cuban activists launch marriage equality campaign (washingtonblade.com)

Petition appears on All Out website

Published 2 months ago on April 1, 2021

By Yariel Valdés González

Two LGBTQ activists in Cuba have launched a petition in support of marriage equality on the island.

Jancel Moreno and Dasiel González, known in the digital world as Pinky Unicorn, launched the petition — “Yes! Equal Marriage in Cuba” — with the goal of raising awareness inside Cuba and elsewhere about the need for marriage equality on the island. All Out, an international LGBTQ rights group, has shared the petition on its website.

“From the Dame la Mano platform, I was promoting the campaign The same love, the same rights’ and Dasiel had launched one entitled ‘Not a kiss less,’” Moreno told the Washington Blade. “We decided to join forces and launch this joint call to reach more people.”
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“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.”

 

[bomberfox]

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?

 

[bomberfox]

These spam threads are better than a gish gallop i guess.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

LGBTQ Cubans participate in July 11 protests

LGBTQ Cubans participate in July 11 protests (washingtonblade.com)

Community members took to the streets to demand their rights

Published on July 17, 2021
By Tremenda Nota


Adriana Díaz and Analía Escalona (Photo courtesy of Tremenda Nota)

Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba. The Blade published a Spanish version of this story on July 16.

HAVANA — Thousands of people took to the streets in Cuba on July 11 to demand, among other things, the government improve people’s quality of life and guarantee citizens’ rights.

The protests took place in cities throughout the country, but violence that had not been seen before broke out in some Havana neighborhoods. Protesters for the first time in Cuba with such magnitude overturned police cars, looted stores and threw stones at police officers.

Parts of the LGBTQ community joined the marches. They had particular reasons for protesting that were in addition to the protesters’ general demands.

“I came because I am tired of the repression that the police inflict upon trans people,” a transgender woman who was marching among thousands of people through Centro Havana told Tremenda Nota. “They don’t allow us to go out on the streets, they ask us for our ID cards, they take us in for prostitution.”

Adriana Díaz Martínez walked with other trans women. They chanted, along with the rest of the protesters, “freedom,” “Díaz-Canel must go” and “homeland and life.” This last slogan, one of the most popular in the protests, is the title of a song from artists Yotuel Romero, Descember Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky and Gente de Zona. It has in recent months become an anthem for those who oppose the government.
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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.

 

[Fearandloathing]

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

 

[Court Jester]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

Gay man who live-streamed anti-government protests in Cuba detained

Gay man who live-streamed anti-government protests in Cuba detained (losangelesblade.com)

Yoan de la Cruz taken into custody on July 23

By Michael K. Lavers | August 1, 2021


Yoan de la Cruz is a gay man who live-streamed the first videos of the anti-government protests in Cuba that took place on July 11, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Twitter)

SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BAÑOS, Cuba — A gay man who live-streamed the first anti-government protest that took place in Cuba on July 11 has been detained.

Luis Ángel Adán Roble, a gay man who was once a member of Cuba’s National Assembly, in a July 28 tweet wrote Yoan de la Cruz used Facebook Live to livestream a protest in San Antonio de los Baños, a municipality in Artemisa province that is just outside of Havana.

The San Antonio de los Baños protest was the first of dozens of anti-government demonstrations against mounting food shortages, the government’s response to the pandemic, a worsening economic crisis and human rights that took place across Cuba on July 11. Many of those who participated in the protests chanted “libertad” or “freedom.”
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

Gay former Cuba lawmaker banned from leaving country

Gay former Cuba lawmaker banned from leaving country (losangelesblade.com)

Luis Ángel Adán Roble supports anti-government protesters

By Michael K. Lavers
August 17, 2021


Luis Ángel Adán Roble (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

HAVANA — A gay man who is a former member of Cuba’s National Assembly has been banned from leaving the country.

Luis Ángel Adán Roble on Aug. 14 tweeted a picture of a Cuba’s Interior Ministry website that indicates he cannot travel “for reasons of public interest.”

Adán told the Los Angeles Blade that authorities have not told him why they decided to ban him from traveling outside of Cuba. He speculated they sanctioned him because he refused to “work with” state security officials.

Adán in his Aug. 14 tweet described the decision as “illegal” and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights Watch Americas Division Executive Director José Miguel Vivanco and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet are among those who Adán tagged.
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

Gay man who live-streamed Cuba anti-government protest faces 8-year prison sentence (washingtonblade.com)

Yoan de la Cruz broadcast July 11 demonstration on Facebook

Published on October 7, 2021

By Michael K. Lavers


Yoan de la Cruz (Photo courtesy of Twitter)

A gay man who live-streamed an anti-government protest faces an 8-year prison sentence.

Yoan de la Cruz on July 11 used Facebook Live to livestream a protest in San Antonio de los Baños, a municipality in Artemisa province that is just west of Havana.

The San Antonio de los Baños protest was the first of dozens of anti-government demonstrations against mounting food shortages, the government’s response to the pandemic, a worsening economic crisis and human rights abuses that took place across Cuba on July 11.

De La Cruz is one of hundreds of protest participants who were arrested. Others include Maykel González Vivero, editor of Tremenda Nota, the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba.
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.”