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Forbidden City By: Enyor Díaz Allen, political prisoner and prisoner of consciente, member of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy and Eastern Democratic Alliance. He is serving a one year sentence at Combinado de Guantánamo prison for the supposed crime of “disrespect.” By: Enyor Díaz Allen, political prisoner and prisoner of consciente, member of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy and Eastern Democratic Alliance. He is serving a one year sentence at Combinado de Guantánamo prison for the supposed crime of “disrespect.” There is an excellent film called “The Lost City,” sparring Cuban American actor Andy García More than 490 years have passed since Diego Velázquez founded the first town in But unfortunately, not even masterpieces are perfect. The In other cases, many employed men are imprisoned for pre-criminal social dangerousness, merely because they spend their nights drinking alcoholic beverages to forget the hell through which they are living. Others are imprisoned for this “crime” because they have refused to collaborate with or serve as informants for the police such as Armando Paumier, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Many people who were affected by the recent hurricanes have still not received government aid. Much of the construction material designated for storm victims ended up in the hands of the police, delegates, and leaders of the Cuban Communist Party and the Assembly of Popular Power, but never in the people’s. Families who had to make homes out of bus shelters and others who built makeshift housing with their own means were forcibly evicted by the authorities. The courts and the police (who are agents of repression), along with the local government are like an organized brotherhood or mafia. The police accuse citizens without evidence and the courts sentence them unjustly, as in my own case. I was sentenced for supposedly commiting “disrespect” in a fascist trial without any legal representation—a hearing where all the witnesses were military personnel and the courtroom was full of State Security officers. In December 2007, the town’s political police, as part of its normal operations, received an order to mount a full-scale repression operation at the home of the Rodríguez Lobaina family located at Calle Marti #434, Apartment F, where the brave brothers Nestor and Rolando live. They promote university reform through a project called “University Students without Borders” which seeks to restore university autonomy in The first were the young Denia Rodríguez del Toro, Carmelo, Yordis García Fournier, Jorge Corrales Ceballo, Joanny Beltrán Gamboa, and others, who were deported on December 23rd that year. They repeated the effort on the 28th, which is like April Fool’s Day for Cubans, but in December. What a paradox! On both of these days, Rolando was detained, as their guest, and held at the Operations Department, located on The events of summer 2008 had not yet occurred, but, as I understand it, 14 young people were deported from the city. Afterward, others who were not from the city, were also forcibly removed, including There is also the other family home, belonging to the young men’s mother, located at Calle 9 #62, Reparto Joa. The municipal authorities do not allow any outside person to frequent that place either. It is a strange thing, not experienced in any country in the world. I myself have visited the home, using special means and ways of not being perceived, because otherwise I would also be fodder for repression. Sometimes one gets used to it, but at the bottom of our hearts we know that this situation is the weight of a mercenary boot imposed on us. There are two checkpoints in the city, where military personnel search a list for our names. If one is recognized as being on that list, then he will have to spend the night in their dungeons and then be internally “repatriated,” in his own country. The first checkpoint is at the entrance to the Moa-Baracoa highway called Santa María. The other is in Glorieta, near the province’s capital city but in the direction of La Primada. Although the province stands out because of the For any citizen from this place, life seems pleasant: good coffee, the mystery of cocoa, refreshing coconut milk, crystal clear rivers and beaches, the Indian caves that transport you through time, the majestic Yunque and its bride, the Sleeping Beauty, mountainous massifs s that symbolize the city as much as the incredible human construction called La Farola, and why not, the easy going manner of the Baracoans. But dissent exacts a heavy price in this part of the world. That’s how the military personnel born her were educated. People do not understand or know anything about politics or civilization. Their sole mission has been to survive thanks to the crab, coconut oil, as well as plantain skins as a main course during the 90s, among other local cusiine inherited from the indigenous peoples.
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