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A la opinión pública internacional:
Nosotras, las esposas, madres, hijos e hijas de aquellos hombres y mujeres que se encuentran injustamente encarcelados luego de la reciente ola masiva de arrestos en contra de la disidencia pacífica de Cuba, pedimos su solidaridad y apoyo para una campaña internacional exigiendo la liberación inmediata de nuestros familiares, quienes han sido arrestados por ejercer la libertad de expresión y pensamiento, y por querer lograr para nuestra querida nación la reconciliación y el respeto a los derechos humanos.
Las Damas de BlancoA la opinión pública internacional:
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It's time the world stop admiring tyranny and listen to the plight of the Cuban people. How many more have to die?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY2kOgg2VaIIt's time the world stop admiring tyranny and listen to the plight of the Cuban... more
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Under a warm Californian sun, Thousands of Cubans and many of our Latin American neighbours and Americans gathered in the name of freedom. I saw Cuban, American, Salvadorian, Mexican, Venezuelans, Honduran flags.
I imagined that our Apostle Marti was watching us proud. All united for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners. Gathered in the name of those who have no freedom of expression, or right to gather to ask for their rights. United for the Ladies in White, so they can continue to march for the freedom of their love ones, without being mistreated or imprisoned.
United in one voice for the world to listen and not be an accomplice to so much violence against a peaceful dissidence and a people that can take no more.
We marched for those we left behind, for the thousands dead at the hands of the Castro dictatorship, for all the mothers who mourn their sons and daughters, for what we lost and for what we hope for. We marched for a better future for future generations.
Sadly, just moments before the schedule speakers arrived, I received a message from Facebook about the critical condition of Guillermo Farina who is on hunger and thirst strike. I remember that shared it with a man who started to cry. Many of us had tears in our eyes during the march and I can't blame them-it's been five decades of waiting for a change that never came.
At the start of the presentation, there was an announcement that they had received news from Cuba that Reina Tamayo, mother of murdered political prisoner Orlando Zapata, had been heckled today, by a mob of Castro sympathizers. There is no honor in torturing a mother in mourning.
Present at the event were Andy Garcia, Perez Hilton, George Lopez, Maria Conchita Alonso, Steven Bower, Huber Matos, among others.
There were scream of down with Fidel, freedom, Zapata lives and in spite of Andy and Conchita's reminders that we could accomplish more in silence, we found difficult to stay quiet. The word silence is not in the Cuban dictionary.
Aproximately at four in the afternoon, we started walking and I have to say it was overcomed by the long line of people, dressed all dressed in white, united by the love of the our country of birth and the admiration of those inside Cuba, who are sacrificing their lives, to leave their children a better future.
http://sunriseinhavana.blogspot.com/2010/03/thousands-meet-by-jose-martis-bust-in.htmlUnder a warm Californian sun, Thousands of Cubans and many of our Latin American... more
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In Miami, the capital of the Cuban exile community where more than 1 million Cubans live, tens of thousands of Cubans and fellow Latin Americans went on march across the city to show solidarity with the oppressed dissidents of the island of Cuba. The march was held to honor the "Ladies in White" a group of women in Cuba who dedicate themselves to peaceful marches and protests against the repression of the Cuban regime.
It is one of the biggest marches and protests in Miami in many years. Repression is Cuba has increased over the last several months after increased discontent in the island has emboldened the opposition to go out against the government in what little space it is afforded.
Dozens of political prisoners in Cuba have opted to go on hunger strike until death rather than submit to the regime and call for human rights and better treatment of prisoners. A month ago, Orlando Zapata Tamayo's death, precipitated a flurry of condemnations from the international community against the Cuban regime. Even natural supporters of the regime found it difficult to defend the regime's actions in allowing the death of the dissident.In Miami, the capital of the Cuban exile community where more than 1 million Cubans... more
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By Lucas Garve in Havana, Cuba [Translated from Spanish by UrbanGypsy]
In the street, many people stopped me to ask me about them for most of this past week. They did so in a low voice, but making their indignation clear, in fact one young woman told me how much she had come to understand the manipulation of the state controlled media by the regime.
The majority of the people declared to me their rejection of the violent methods used by the repressive forces of the regime against this group of women dressed in white who walked though the streets of Havana giving away flowers to bystanders.
The Ladies in White honored their imprisoned husbands for the seven years for which they have endured suffering in Cuba's jails. They had to withstand the frontal attacks by mobs (Or Rapid Response Brigades, dressed in civilian clothing) organized by the repressive apparatus of the regime to make it seem as if though it was the "people themselves who rejected the Ladies in White."
This time, the attacks on the Ladies in White consisted of insults and direct physical violence. Hundreds of television viewers saw on TV the broadcasts of these events from stations in Miami which captured though illegal sources and video everything that occurred in Havana.
Not the Cuban baseball playoffs, not the news about the earthquake in Haiti, nor the newly taken stance of the European Union against the regime, was what was on the minds of those who saw the images on the TV of the regime's brigades against the Ladies dressed in white, at the entrance of the Church of Santa Barbara in the Havana neighborhood of Párraga, suburb south of the capital.
One observer said that the violence was directed not just against the Ladies in White, but also against the residents of Párraga, a poor neighborhood where discontent against the regime is more concentrated than in other parts of the city. The violence, used as a sort of warning against those who would dare to join the Ladies in White in their protest.
One mother said that it was amazing that a government that likes to say that it helps the poor of other countries would commit the brutalities it did against a group of women who only ask for the liberty of their husbands and who give out flowers. The woman was present in Coppelia one day when the Ladies in White appeared giving out flowers to people.
So powerful were the images transmitted by the Television broadcasts that one youth, disgusted by the violence of the government on TV, expressed that: "This illustrates the human degradation to which the government is willing to lower itself to in its desperation."
It is clearly a reflection of the crisis that drowns the lives of ordinary Cubans, governed by an elite that does not cease to dream about a perennial and eternal war (against the US), the only thing they have known how to do well. Because as we know it is easier to mke war than to construct peace.
No one filled with this much hate can possibly restore the time lost by so many generations of Cubans. Much less if they are afraid of the power of flowers...By Lucas Garve in Havana, Cuba [Translated from Spanish by UrbanGypsy]
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