Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
WITH CELL PHONES NOW LEGAL IN CUBA....THIS PRISONER CAN'T MAKE A PHONE CALL
this is the translation of the call a prisoner made to a human rights activist:
MAY 20, 2008:
SPEAKING: JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LEIVA ATTEMPTS TO INTERVIEW JOSE DANIEL FERRER GARCIA WHO IS IN PRISON IN CUBA
THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATED TEXT OF THE PHONE CALL AND MR. FERRER GARCIA'S ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK TO GONZALEZ LEIVA
WE REPUDIATE VIOLENCE AND HATE AND CALL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE...THOSE OF US WHO FIND OURSELVES IN PRISON DEFENDING ALL RIGHTS....NO....WHAT??
DANIEL FERRER (DF) AT THIS POINT IS INTERRUPTED BY AN OFFICIAL (A GUARD) AS HE SPEAKS TO GONZALEZ LEIVA (GL):
DF: THERE IS AN "OFFICIAL" HERE WHO IS POSSIBLY NEW HERE AND IS PLAYING THE JOKER AND DOESN'T WANT ME TO READ OUT LOUD. ARE YOU RECORDING ME?
GL: YES YES YES
DF: THIS GUY IS BEING THE IMPERTINENT ONE, BUT THIS ISN'T GONNA BE THE SAME AS THEY'RE USED TO IN OTHER OCCASSIONS...CALL SECURITY CALL WHOEVER...I'M NOT MOVING FROM HERE UNTIL I FINISH THIS CALL/RECORDING AND FROM HERE I WILL NOT MOVE AND IF YOU PULL ME THE PHONE COMES WITH ME...GO GET WHOM YOU WILL...AND DOWN WITH THE DICTATORSHIP, DOWN WITH COMMUNISM, DOWN WITH FIDEL AND LONG LIVE CUBA FREE!
DF: YOU ARE NOT TAKING MY PHONE....YOU'RE NOT PASSING ME FROM THIS POINT....PERMISSION! NOTHING! PERMISSION? NOTHING!
AIN'T NOTHING DOING! GO GET WHO YOU WANT. I AM TIED TO THIS PHONE. TO GET ME MOVING FROM HERE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KILL ME!
(GUARD IS HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND ARGUING WITH DF)
GUARD: NO MAN, NO ONE'S GONNA KILL YOU.
DF: OVER MY DEAD BODY ARE YOU GETTING ME OUT OF HERE
GUARD: WE'RE NOT GOING TO KILL YOU.
DF: I'M NOT LETTING GO OF THIS PHONE. THIS IS MY LIFE MY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.NO ONE TAKES THAT AWAY FROM ME.
GUARD: NO BUT BY THE PHONE....
DF: BY PHONE WHAT? I'VE BEEN IN PRISON FIVE YEARS SPEAKING THE TRUTH ABOUT (CUBAN) PRISONS AND I AM GOING TO CONTINUE SPEAKING ABOUT THEM. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE NEW IN THIS PRISON OR IF YOU CAME FROM THE PLANET MARS. BUT I'M JOSE DANIEL FERRER GARCIA (indistinct) WILL CONTINUE TO STATE VIA TELEPHONE WHAT GOES ON IN PRISON IN CUBA.
GUARD: ...ANOTHER PLANET
DF: I'M PRETTY SURE...BUT FROM THIS POINT I WILL NOT LET GO OF THIS PHONE...YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KILL ME TO TAKE THIS PHONE FROM ME
GUARD: NO MAN, THERE IS NO NEED IN KILLING YOU
DF: NO, BUT YOU'LL DO SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW BUT I DO KNOW I WILL MAINTAIN THIS PHONE IN MY HAND. I AM NOT LETTING GO OF THIS PHONE
GL: THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO WITH THESE TYRANTS DANIEL
DF: indistinct.....NO, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GET REINFORCEMENTS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO
GL: DON'T LET THEM COUNT THIS TIME AGAINST YOU
DF: NO I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO SPEAK YET...IT'S 25 MINUTES TO SAY WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY...WHAT I WANT TO SAY. OF COURSE I WON'T LET IT COUNT...I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO READ YET. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO SILENCE JOSE DANIEL, THAT'S KILLING HIM
GUARD: WE WON'T KILL YOU YOU GOT 25 MINUTES ONLY. (indistinct) FINE. BUT LISTEN TO ME
DF: I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU
GL: TELL HIM THAT YOU'LL LISTEN AFTER YOU FINISH SPEAKING. TELL HIM TO GET LOST
INDISTINCT...
SOME OTHER MAN INTERRUPTS AND STATED "I'VE BEEN INFORMED OF THIS SITUATION..."
DF: HE (THE GUARD) SHOULD HAVE NEVER COME...THERE ARE TWO (PERSONS?) THAT ARE DESIGNATED TO GIVE ME THE CHANCE TO USE THE PHONE...IF (HE?) DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT THE RIGHT TO ALLOW ME TO SPEAK TO SAY WHAT I WANT TO SAY, WHAT I THINK, FEEL, NO? IF HE DOESN'T KNOW IT LET HIM FIND OUT...
ANOTHER MAN SPEAKS IN THE BACKGROUND.
DF: I WILL STAY HERE WITH YOU. I WON'T LET GO OF THIS PHONE AND I AM NOT GOING WITH YOU.
GUARD: indistinct YOU HAVE TO LET GO!
DF: NO! FROM HERE I AM NOT MOVING UNTIL I USE MY 25 MINUTES WILL NOT LEAVE...IN WHAT I FIND CONVENIENT... I WON'T LEAVE
GUARD: HANG UP THE PHONE
DF: I WON'T HANG UP THE PHONE...YOU WILL NOT PUT HANDCUFFS ON ME...YOU WILL NOT PUT HANDCUFFS ON ME...YOU WILL NOT.. DOWN WITH THE DICTATORSHIP!...DOWN WITH COMMUNISM!....YOU....
AT THIS POINT DANIEL'S PHONE WAS TAKEN FROM HIM AND HE WAS BEATEN MERCILESSLY BY THE GUARD
THERE HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF ACTS OF REPUDIATION AGAINST PEACEFUL ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTIVISTS SINCE JAN 2008 IN CUBA
Friday, February 15, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
THE CRIMES OF FIDEL CASTRO
Here are some of the statements made in this video and its captions:
“Those who sing to Fidel despite everything”
“Attorney “Human Rights Defender” goes to Cuba to sing Happy Birthday to Caribbean Jackal”
“We remind Gutierrez the savage crimes of the totalitarian dictator that has been in power for over half a century”
Deaths attributed to Fidel Castro:
More than 5700 executed with or without trial
More than 2000 dead in prison
More than 2000 disappeared
In the exterior of Cuba, in wars, more than 13,000 dead in Africa, Latin America, Granada and the Middle East
The dead during the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961
Feb 24 1996 4 killed in Brothers to the Rescue Airplane peaceful missions looking for rafters
Escapees: more than 77,000
Castro’s government according to testimony of a rafter, would drop sacks of sand from helicopters on fleeing rafters in hopes of inundating the rafters and causing them to drown
One man who testifies at the White Crosses Display commemorating the deaths of those who lived under the Castro regimes, states: ‘Of 20 person imprisoned they were shot by firing squad’; another woman testifies that her mother spent 8 years in prison….the list goes on…
Castro’s government never informs family members when an execution will be carried out nor where the person is buried
Castro isn’t responsible just for the deaths of 100,000 Cubans, but also responsible for training terrorists and guerrilleros (warriors) responsible for thousands of deaths in Latin American and Africa
President of El Salvador (until 2004), Francisco Flores Perez speaks about Fidel Castro’s murder machine…”Therefore…it is totally intolerable that you involved in the deaths of so many Salvadorians that you trained many to kill Salvadorians…that is absolutely intolerable…”
In Peru the Truth Commission estimates that more than 70,000 deaths in Peru can be attributed to Cuba’s interventionist policies
The guerrillas of Colombia trained by Cuba, have resulted in more than 200,000 deaths in Colombia
The list goes on:
Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Guatemala, Bolivia, and others
The Cuban government, directly and indirectly, has caused approximately more than half a million human deaths...all ignored by the world and the press
Friday, December 28, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
MIGUEL RUIZ POO
This video is from Youtube.com and some one posted the following comments in reference to the film clip:
elaone (7 months ago)
es la primera vez que veo este video,tengo 28 años,mi nombre es Gisela Ruiz González,el hombre del video es Miguel Ruiz Poo,mi padre.Tal vez su mayor error fué y sigue siendo amar a FIdel y al a revolucion cubana mas que a nada.Somos diferentes pero stoy orgullosa de él!
which translates into "it is the first time I see this video, I am 28 years of age, my name is Gisela Ruiz Gonzalez and the man in the video is Miguel Ruiz Poo, my father. Maybe his greatest error was and continues to be loving Fidel and the Cuban Revolution more than anything. We are different but I am proud of him!"
She has a page on youtube.com: http://youtube.com/user/elaone which links over to http://www.elaruiz.es/ The veracity of the above comments (in its original Spanish translated here into English) has not been confirmed.
This is an interesting video showing the fear an individual (even one loyal to his master) has of the tyrant.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
THREE CUBANS
Below is a video entitled "Three Cubans" by Robert Carl Cohen which is an interesting look at Cuba 4 to 5 years into the Communist regime:
'In 1963-64 Robert Carl Cohen became the first American authorized by the US State Dept. & Cuban Foreign Ministry to film in Cuba. Three Cubans documents the effects of Castro's Revolution on an upper, middle, & lower economic class Cuban.'
Friday, October 19, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
EDUARDO VIDAL FRANCO
This video is in Spanish. Dr. Eduardo Vidal Franco protests the Cuban government. He reminds in addition to other things that that government of Cuba has 6 jails filled with AIDS patients who receive absolutely no medical attention for their disease. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Eduardo+Vidal+Franco
