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Widespread Appearance of Non Cooperation Stickers Startles Secret Police
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Stickers with messages of non-cooperation with the dictatorship on the statue of

Stickers with messages of non-cooperation with the dictatorship on the statue of "El Caballero de París".(Anonymous)

Cuba, September 19, 2007. Stickers stating “I do no cooperate with the dictatorship” have appeared in Santa Clara, Villa Clara province, and Florida, Camagüey province.

 

According to independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas, “the stickers were placed at some centers of the repressive apparatus in Santa Clara on September 18, such as State Security Department headquarters on Camajuaní, between Superación and Campos.“ Independent journalist Idania Yanes Contreras stated that the duty guard at State Security headquarters was dismissed from his job for “letting his guard down” and allowing the stickers to be placed on its door.

 

Pro-democratic slogans were also placed at the 3rd and 5th National Revolutionary Police units, located between Colón and Estrada Palma in Santa Clara. This provoked a large scale deployment of Interior Ministry forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Fidel Rodríguez, according to Fariñas.

 

Similarly, on September 8th, the Feast of Our Lady of Charity, human rights activists distributed hundreds of stickers stating “Change,” “I do not cooperate,” “I do not participate in acts of repudiation,” “I do not repress,” “I do not attend,” “I do not follow,” and “I do not inform,” as the procession of 2,000 people advanced through the streets of Florida, in Camagüey. They also distributed newsletters published by Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba.

 

According to Meibi Morán Díaz, an activist with the Cuban Human Rights Foundation, Non-Cooperation Campaign fliers and stickers were distributed in José Martí Central Park, in the Las Mercedes, and Los Pinos areas, and in front of the local Assembly of People’s Power. This provoked a large scale deployment of State Security agents and National Revolutionary Police throughout the entire city, and the imposition of a curfew.

 

“We, the officers and members of the Frank País 30th of November Democratic Party, and the activists of the Cuban Human Rights Foundations call upon international public opinion and all organizations that defend human rights to remain abreast of what may happen to these citizens,” stated Morán Díaz on Radio República. “This is the time of the people, who demand changes.”

 

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