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July 22, 2010 By Fausta

Moratinos falls for a sucker game

Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain’s foreign minister, oversteps the boundaries of his office (emphasis added):
Cuba release ‘could lead to US lifting embargo’

Cuba’s release of all its political prisoners would improve its relations with Europe and United States, and could lead to the lifting of a US embargo, the Spanish foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Miguel Angel Moratinos welcomed as “good news” Cuban parliament chief Ricardo Alarcon’s announcement to AFP on Tuesday that his “government’s wish is to free all the people” not accused of murder.

The Spanish foreign minister said before parliament that such releases would yield “political consequences” for relations with the European Union and the United States, in particular a possible “lifting of the embargo” that Washington has maintained against Cuba since 1962.

Interesting.

It’s either one of two things:
Either Moratinos is speculating,
or,
he’s heard from someone in the Obama administration saying something to that effect.

Either way, it would mean that Moratinos, and/or whoever else, fell for Alarcon’s bs. Notice how Alarcon said, the government’s wish, as if it was outside their control. The only thing keeping political prisoners in Cuban’s prisons is the government Alarcon represents.

Not that Moratinos was not suckered already:
Val:

I dont think Moratinos had planned to make this statement at all, or, at least, so soon after the first prisoner “releases.” What probably forced him to show his cards is the fact that the statements from first wave of Cuban prisoners in Madrid put him and his cohorts between a rock and a hard place.

See, these newly “freed” Cuban were supposed be so thankful for their release from the gulags that they were supposed to kneel to the Spanish government – like good Cubans to the Spanish, historically – and ask the EU to rethink their Cuba policy. This, in turn, could be used by the three amigos – the Catholic Church, Spain and the regime – to point to when lobbying for a change to US/Cuba policy.

As you already know, the expelled prisoners vowed to remain active against Cuba’s dictatorship.

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July 21, 2010 By Fausta

“The Mandela of Cuba”

Yesterday Congressman Licoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) wished Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet freedom on Dr Biscet’s birthday,

The world, and especially the press and the media in the United States, continue to treat the political prisoners in the gulags of the Cuban dictatorship as “non-persons”.

The most well-known and respected political prisoner in Cuba is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. He has been in the gulags of the Castros for a decade due to his peaceful pro-democracy work inside that enslaved island. Dr. Biscet is the “Mandela of Cuba.”

Today is his 49th birthday. I wish him Godspeed and freedom. And freedom for Cuba.

To the press, I ask: How long do the heroes of Cuba have to suffer before you acknowledge their existence?

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July 8, 2010 By Fausta

Cuba to expel political prisoners

In today’s Washington Post,
Cuba to release 52 political prisoners, Catholic Church says

The Cuban government will free 52 political prisoners, Catholic officials in Havana said Wednesday, the largest release of captive dissidents in decades and a surprise gesture that could help thaw relations with the United States.

The scheduled release of those arrested in a March 2003 crackdown against pro-democracy activists on the island was brokered by the country’s archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, with help from visiting Spanish diplomats.

But I thought the Cuban government says there are no political prisoners in Cuba?

The Cuban government had nothing to say about the release, and human rights activists were cautious in their response to the church’s announcement.

Before you go celebrating, bear in mind that many other political prisoners will remain jailed in sub-human conditions, and that the people of Cuba themselves are hostages of the oppressive regime.

Babalu is all over the story, and has a list of the 52 to be deported from Cuba:

Pedro Argüelles Morán, Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, Mijail Barzaga Lugo, Oscar Elías Biscet González, Marcelo Cano Rodríguez, Eduardo Diaz Fleitas, Antonio Ramón Diaz Sánchez, Alfredo Domínguez Batista, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, Efrén Fernández Fernández, Juan Adolfo Fernández Sáinz, José Daniel Ferrer García, Luis Enrique Ferrer García, Próspero Gaínza Agüero, Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, Julio César Gálvez Rodríguez, José Luis García Paneque, Ricardo Severino Gonzales Alfonso, Diosdado González Marrero, Lester González Pentón, Jorge Luis González Tanquero, Leonel Grave de Peralta Almenares, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Normando Hernández González, Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, Regis Iglesias Ramírez, José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández, Librado Ricardo Linares García, Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez, José Miguel Martínez Hernández, Luis Milán Fernández, Nelson Molinet Espino, Ángel Juan Moya Acosta, Jesús Mustafá Felipe, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodriguez, Horacio Julio Pina Borrego, Fabio Prieto Llorente, Alfredo Manuel Pulido López, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Alexis Rodríguez Fernández, Omar Rodríguez Saludes, Omar Moisés Ruiz Hernández, Claro Sánchez Altarriba, Guido Sigler Amaya, Ricardo Silva Gual, Fidel Suárez Cruz, Manuel Ubals González, Héctor Raúl Valle Hernández, Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta.

Marc Masferrer believes there are at least 213 political prisoners and links to:

For the names of the 167 political prisoners counted by the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, click  here.

For the names of the “prisoners of conscience” recognized as such by Amnesty International, go here.

Two Cuban political prisoners have been released after they completed their respective prison terms.

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December 10, 2009 By Fausta

Blogburst/blogacción: Free Darsi Ferrer NOW!

#DarsiFerrer blogburst today, Human Rights Day.

Marc Masferrer has the story:
Blogburst/blogacción, 12/10/09 | Free Darsi Ferrer NOW!

Dr. Ferrer is a leader. Dr. Ferrer is a patriot. Dr. Ferrer is a hero.

But this year, Dr. Ferrer needs our help. We must pick up his banner and demand human rights for Cuba.

NOW!

We must demand the end of tyranny.

NOW!

And we must demand the release from prison of Dr. Darsi Ferrer.

NOW!

Go to the above link and read the rest.

Dr Darsi Ferrer’s wife was arrested. More at The Real Cuba and Misceláneas de Cuba.

UPDATE
Snapped Shot is posting on how the AP captions don’t match the story: Caption Does Not Compute

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