{"id":364305,"date":"2010-02-25T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/cuban-dissident-s-death-should-renew-front-against-castro-40013\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:52:08","slug":"cuban-dissident%c2%92s-death-should-renew-front-against-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364305","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Dissident\u0092s Death Should Renew Front Against Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.25.10 01:00 PM posted by Michael Powell<\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/p>As noted before at the Foundry, the free expression that we take for granted in the United States <ahref="..\/2010\/01\/29\/what-did-president-obama-learn-about-cuba-in-2009\/">is unknown to those living under the Castro regime. In a chilling reminder of the cold authoritarian repression that still exists only 90 miles from the American mainland, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a Cuban political prisoner, <ahref="http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/americas\/02\/23\/cuba.dissident\/">died Tuesday. His death came after he had initiated an 80-day hunger strike aimed at improving his conditions.<\/p>\n

Raul Castro <ahref="http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-fg-cuba25-2010feb25,0,1560294.story">made a rare motion of \u0093lamenting\u0094 over the death of Zapata. In a depressingly predictable move, however, Castro managed to somehow lay the death of Zapata at the feet of the United States, inferring that tortures and executions only occur in Cuba at the Guantanamo Bay military base, which is of course controlled by the U.S.<spanid="more-27429"><\/span><\/p>\n

Zapata\u0092s mother, Raina Luisa Tamayo Dangier, has not minced words in her response to her son\u0092s death, stating in a testimony, \u0093I think my son’s death was a premeditated murder. My son was tortured throughout his incarceration.\u0094 She also compared her son\u0092s death to the death of <ahref="http:\/\/www.cadal.org\/english\/nota.asp?id_nota=1007">Pedro Boitel, a Cuban poet opposed to the Castro regime who died during a hunger strike in 1972, before calling on \u0093the world to demand the freedom of the other prisoners and brothers unfairly.\u0094
\n Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero was <ahref="http:\/\/www.etaiwannews.com\/etn\/news_content.php?id=1189233&lang=eng_news">surpris ingly forthcoming on the issue. Speaking before the Spanish parliament, Zapatero declared that \u0093we must demand that the Cuban regime restore the freedom of prisoners of conscience and respect human rights.\u0094<\/p>\n

If Prime Minister Zapatero, a socialist who has worked to have the European Union remove sanctions toward Cuba, is willing to issue a clear condemnation of Cuba\u0092s state repression of dissidents, there may be room for optimism.<\/p>\n

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On 02.25.10 01:00 PM posted by Michael Powell <\/p>As noted before at the Foundry, the free expression that we take for granted in the United States <ahref="..\/2010\/01\/29\/what-did-president-obama-learn-about-cuba-in-2009\/">is unknown to those living under the Castro regime. In a chilling reminder of the cold authoritarian repression that still exists only 90 miles from the American mainland, Orlando […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}