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2008-08-31 / Renato Pérez Pizarro (Cuban Colada)
Freed rocker is ready to sing about Raúl
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Interviewed by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Cuban punk rocker
Gorki Águila attributed the reduction in his charges (from "pre-delictive social dangerousness" to "disobedience") to "the pressure of people who gathered tightly around me. That is proof that when people unite to confront tyranny, things can be changed. They fear that what they do will become known and that they will be condemned internationally. That is why they reduced a possible 4-year sentence to a 600-peso fine. They want to appear as good people." Asked who he was referring to, Águila answered: "Those in State Security, the regime. But they didn't expect that I would have so much support. Justice here is not just blindfolded; it's got its nose, mouth and ears covered."
Right now, Águila says, he is "in a sort of post-traumatic stress, after four days in the dungeons." But he's ready to record a new song,
El Comandante II, an allusion to Raúl Castro; it is a sequel to
El Comandante, a tune in which he sang about Fidel Castro: "He wants me to applaud after he speaks his delirious s***." Although free, Águila feels constrained: "This is like the Russian dolls. You come out of a small jail, only to go into a slightly larger one, and so on. I am now in a larger one, but there's always the risk I'll fall into the smallest doll."
2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald
U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels
Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy
2013-04-18 / The Washington Post
Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award
Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more
2013-04-16 / The Washington Post
Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election
Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more
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