I can confirm that human rights are being violated in Cuban prisons now as they always have been. Labels: Armando Betancourt Reina , beatings , Cuban Democratic Directorate , independent journalists , political prisoners , prison. By Will Weissert, Associated Press. July 15, Miguel is in mid-sentence when his face darkens and his eyes dart to the ground. His mouth is still open, but no words come out.
He has been talking about what it must be like to live in a country where the government doesn't control all radio and television. What he says is hardly incendiary, but when a policeman saunters by, he freezes. Insulting Fidel Castro or other leaders in public can mean jail. Still, freedom of speech in Cuba is more nuanced than may appear. One such relatively free space is the enclave of benches and shade trees of Havana's Central Park where Miguel was sounding off. It's called the Esquina Caliente, or "Hot Corner," from baseball lingo for third base.
But debate sometimes spills into other areas: women, ration cards, clothes and cars. Illegal TV hookups, water shortages, booze and last night's neighborhood Communist Party meeting. Cuba has no free press, Internet access is restricted and phones are assumed bugged.
State security agents follow government critics and foreigners, while nearly every block has its "Revolutionary Defense Committee" keeping tabs on the neighbors. So at the Hot Corner, those who deviate from sports tend to do so quietly. Miguel asked that his last name not appear in print for fear of government repercussions.
Dissident Miriam Leiva is well known enough not to mind her surname being published. Then nothing changes. Saily Cordero, a year-old housewife, wrote saying she was being denied her entitlement to free powdered milk as a woman five months pregnant.
Within hours, the neighborhood councilwoman and a host of top communists appeared at her door. They checked her story and determined she was not owed free milk until her sixth month of pregnancy. But Cordero said the fast response left her feeling empowered. Whoever gets in trouble, I don't care. It was, 'you're with us or you're against us' and you can imagine what happens if you're against us," Leiva said.
He was one of 75 dissidents arrested in a roundup of government critics in March Though he was released for health reasons, Leiva and other women dress in white and march silently down Havana's busy Fifth Avenue every Sunday after Mass, wearing buttons with photos of relatives still in jail.
Their every move is watched by security officials and sometimes they are openly harassed by government supporters, but the march by the "Women in White" is largely tolerated. They can do to us anything they want. Joggers padded past on the sidewalk. A few cars honked and flashed their headlights in support. At the end of the march, the women locked arms, prayed silently and cried "Libertad!
As she spoke, a passer-by muttered obscenities while avoiding eye contact. Especially in Cuba. The "Maximum Leader" has not been seen in public since, though he writes several essays a week that appear in state media. He's not there.
He used to be everywhere. It was like you breathed, and you were breathing him in, almost. More obvious are the uniformed policemen. Once, while a reporter was visiting, an officer listened to the conversation and checked the IDs of all Cubans participating.
Another time, a policeman with a German shepherd watched in silence. One Friday, a man named Lorenzo said he watches TV using a hidden antenna that illegally captures signals from Florida. That started an argument about how to best stash antennas during government raids. The talk then went from what caused a power outage in Central Havana to who would be the U.
Democratic nominee for president. Lorenzo, a Hot Corner regular in his 70s who is old enough to remember Cuba and its heavy American presence before Castro's revolution, said he is keeping up with the U. The economy was strong. They threw Monica Lewinsky at him, and he just kept going. That will help his wife. Labels: control , free speech , secret police , snitches.
Zoila Meyer with her children at her Apple Valley home. Meyer has been in the United States since she was one year old, and thought she was a citizen until Meyer spent Tuesday arrested and is facing deportation stemming from her election case. Meyer has not been involved in any other criminal action except her voting and election in Adelanto, yet she may still be deported in thirty days. She has been living the American dream; marrying her high school sweetheart, raising their four children, working on a college education and winning a seat for city office.
They messed up. It just happened. Meyer ran for — and won — a seat for Adelanto City Council where she served for 10 weeks before resigning after a family member raised questions regarding her legal status. While it is not illegal for an illegal immigrant to register to vote — it is if they actually do vote.
Meyer has long contended that she was unaware of her illegal citizenship status. We believe what we are told. When not busy at home, she can be found at one of the local college campuses. She attends both Barstow and Victor Valley colleges and hopes to graduate this year having earned four associate of arts degrees in nursing, math and science, liberal arts and criminal justice.
Before becoming certified she had to go through a background check. On Tuesday, her husband drove her to the San Bernardino County office of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Service office where she was arrested for violation of immigration laws and now faces deportation.
This is where my family is. This is where I have built my life. She would be sent to Canada, the last point of entry in her immigration record. Attorney Tristan Pelayes, who is not involved in the case, said he believes her situation would fall under a lot of exceptions under the deportation law.
She was brought here when she was 1. On July 18, she must surrender herself to immigration. She is unclear what will happen at that point. Labels: deportation , Homeland Security , Zoila Meyer. Twenty other migrants were keeping up the strike that began July 29 to protest their conditions and Washington's refusal to let them settle in the United States, said Ramon Saul Sanchez, president of the Miami-based exile group Democracy Movement.
The strikers voted against the pair rejoining them because of their ''very precarious'' condition -- one had a blood clot in his lung and the other suffered a hypoglycemic seizure, said Sanchez, who said he regularly speaks with the migrants by telephone. A medical team has been evaluating some 20 people on ''voluntary fast,'' said Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman. The protesters are among 44 Cubans captured at sea by the U. Coast Guard but could not be returned to Cuba because authorities determined they had a credible fear of persecution.
Some have complained about head counts and aggressive searches for contraband. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez defended searches of the migrants, saying they have turned up contraband, including pornography, knives and scissors. Unusual issues define Cuban girl's custody battle The custody battle over a 4-year-old Cuban girl is filled with unusual circumstances. July 21, His 4-year-old daughter needs to go to the bathroom. Search the Casa Directory.
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