Community | November 21, 2009 | 4 comments

Cuban Blogger Reinaldo Escobar is Attacked by Castro's Mob

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de_DZsDVHIY

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Cuban blogger Reinaldo Escobar, husband of Yoani Sanchez was today prevented from debating an agent who he had challenged to a public debate. A violent mob organized by agents of state security dressed in civilian clothes (seen taking Reinaldo Escobar away) seized Escobar and led him away before he was able to meet the man he was going to debate in public.

This is the second attack on Cuban bloggers in just over a week. It also comes on the heels of the report released by the Human Rights Watch which criticizes the Cuban government and Raul Castro of doing nothing to change the policies of Fidel Castro. the report can be found here: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/18/cuba-ra-l-castro-imprisons-critics-crushes...
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4 comments // Cuban Blogger Reinaldo Escobar is Attacked by Castro's Mob // Video

  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  
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    • On Thursday, she posted the U.S. president's answers to her written questions but, like nearly all sites critical of the Cuban government, access is blocked on the island.

      In the posted responses, Obama said he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicated he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.

      Escobar has his own blog, which is also blocked on the island.

      Cuba tolerates no official opposition to its single-party communist system and dismisses nearly everyone who criticizes its government publicly as paid mercenaries of Washington.

      Earlier this year, Time magazine named Sanchez - whose blog gets about 1 million hits a month - one of the world's 100 most influential people. Twice this year, she has been denied permission to leave Cuba to collect international journalism prizes.

      http://current.com/items/91523001_pro-castro-mob-attacks-spouse-of-top-cuban-blo...

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Silencing dissent is a crime, and all the more so by a government who claims to have the people's best interests in mind.

    • 2 years ago
  • UrbanGypsy
  • UrbanGypsy
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