¡QUE VERGÜENZA UN PAÍS EN EL QUE ESTO SUCEDA ANTE LA MIRADA COBARDE DE LOS INDIFERENTES!

TAN AGRESIVOS Y VIOLENTOS COMO SIEMPRE.
CONTINÚA OLA DE VIOLENCIA DEL RÉGIMEN CASTRISTA.

BRUTAL ATAQUE CONTRA 47 DAMAS DE BLANCO EN LA HABANA.

La Habana, 19 de agosto de 2011.

Un total de 47 Damas fueron arrastradas por las calles Neptuno y Hospital, en la Habana Vieja, cuando se disponían a caminar en apoyo al grupo De Damas de Blanco en la parte oriental del país, las cuales han sido sometidas a golpes, detenciones y vejaciones durante las últimas semanas. "Los golpes fueron propinados por hombres, y unas mujeres dieron patadas y golpes técnicos, por lo que aseguramos que eran agentes entrenados y disfrazados de pueblo", denunció Laura Pollán.

Similares actos de brutalidad se han producido en los poblados El Cristo y Palmarito de Cauto, en la provincia Santiago de Cuba, así como en las ciudades de Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, y Santa Clara, donde el activista Juan Wilfredo Soto García murió a consecuencia de una golpiza propinada por agentes de la policía.

Esta realidad se hace más notoria en un reciente artículo publicado en el sitio web de la emisora oficialista Radio Habana Cuba, donde se intenta justificar ante el mundo la violencia gubernamental alegando que la agresión a machetazos contra el activista Ernesto Carrera Moreno en Guantánamo fue "espontánea", cuando su agresor ha sido identificado como William Valverde, miembro de la sección de vigilancia de la Dirección Municipal de los CDR.

La Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana reitera su llamado de alerta a la opinión pública internacional sobre estos hechos, cuyo carácter sistemático y su extensión a diferentes provincias del país, revelan un diseño estratégico de represión por parte del sistema imperante en Cuba, llegando incluso al asesinato político. Pedimos a los organismos de derechos humanos y gobiernos que mantienen relaciones con Cuba que expresen de forma manifiesta al régimen su repudio a estos hechos, especialmente en el caso de la Unión Europea, donde próximamente se revisará la Posición Común con respecto a Cuba.

"Las Damas no detendremos nuestra lucha por ser justa y pacífica", expresó Laura Pollán desde La Habana. "Pedimos a los gobiernos, ONGs, personas de buena voluntad, instituciones religiosas y todo el que lo desee, se solidarice con nuestra causa y pida el cese de la represión a este gobierno totalitario e irrespetuoso de los Derechos Humanos". La FNCA se suma a este llamado, precisando que si no se detiene a tiempo la mano represiva del régimen de Raúl Castro, habrá que lamentar más pérdida de vidas humanas.

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Castroite goon squad attacks Damas De Blanco in Havana; 7 still in custody (UPDATED)
August 19, 2011


Damas De Blanco attacked by Castro goons in January 2011 in Havana. (Efe photo)
A gang of Castroite goons on Thursday attacked almost 50 members of the Damas De Blanco ("Ladies In White") as they attempted a peaceful march in Havana to protest recent attacks against Damas in Santiago de Cuba. Several women late Thursday remained in apparent police custody.

As they left the Havana home of their leader, Laura Pollan, the Ladies were greeted by several dozen thugs who told them, "You're not going to pass," another leader, Bertha Soler, told the Efe news agency.

The goons attacked and dragged several women down the street, Pollan told Diario de Cuba.

Pollan said seven women remained in apparent police custody: Sara Martha Fonseca, Idalmis Ramírez, Odalis Izarza, Cristina Duquezne, Ivón Mayesta, Mercedes Fresneda and Rosario Morales.

Attacks on the Damas, whose ranks are made up of the family members of political prisoners and other supporters, have become commonplace this summer, especially in Santiago where going to Sunday Mass has become a life-threatening task for many because of the Castro regime's repressive tactics.

Obviously, the Castro dictatorship is very afraid -- especially of peaceful women, young and old, who dress in white and walk the streets carrying only flowers and their determination to never forget their loved ones.

In an editorial this morning, the Boston Globe explains more:

In Cuba in recent weeks, pro-government goons have been attacking members of Ladies in White, a nonviolent protest group made up of women whose husbands, brothers, and fathers are dissidents imprisoned by the Castro regime. In one attack, the Miami Herald reported last week, the women were assaulted with “steel bars, rocks, and fists’’ as they left Mass in the cathedral of Santiago, the island’s second-largest city. At least eight of the women ended up in the hospital, where they required stitches and other treatment for their wounds. According to Elizardo Sanchez, one of Cuba’s leading human-rights activists, the attacks have left dissidents deeply alarmed; they know that no one “would dare order such beatings and so much violence without the approval of the central government.’’

Unlike Syria, Cuba has not seen massive street demonstrations, nor have there been public demands for the overthrow of the government. The Ladies in White, who received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 2005, are few and vulnerable; Cuban ruler Raul Castro has nothing to fear from them but their integrity and moral authority. That, however, they have in abundance, while the ruthless regime over which Castro and his brother Fidel have presided for more than half a century has long since lost any claim to the respect or admiration of the free world.

Despite the attacks, the Damas vowed to remain unbowed.

"This is organized by the government, and we hold it responsibe for anything that happens to us because we are peaceful women and we will continue to struggle peacefully because nothing is going to stop us from going to church to pray for the release of political prisoners or to take to the streets," Soler said.