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Opposition March Gains Popular Support Homage Given to Opposition leader Miguel Valdes Tamayo in Havana ![]() Human rights activists: Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez", Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello, Idania Yanes Contreras, and Féliz Bonne hand out flyers with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Central Park and at Paseo del Prado on December 21, 2007. (photgraph courtesy of Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello) The several activists marched with a cloth banner that read: “Freedom! Eternal Glory to Miguel Valdés Tamayo and to Mario Chanes de Armas!” The activists would yell out “Freedom! May Human Rights live! Freedom for Cuba! Freedom for Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience!” and also sang the national anthem. The march ended with a chant of “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom!” The activists started the activity with a fast at the house of Rodolfo Ramírez Cardozo, located on 212th Street, Number 40937, between 409 and 413, La Catalina Complex, Santiago de las Vegas, in the municipality of Boyeros, Havana. After the fast, the participants walked together to the Mazorra Complex, where the aforementioned march began. According to declarations made by René Montes de Oca Martijas to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, during their walk between 231st and 206th streets, the neighbors came out in a massive form from their homes to watch the activity. The neighbors told those participating to continue in the struggle, and that soon they too will join in these activities in order to fight together. Among those participants were, activists Osmany Rojas Díaz, Yaidel González Rodríguez, Ricardo Rubén Barreto Fuentes, Luis Álvarez López, Julián Guerra Derié, Luismel Chávez Morales, Guillermo Llerena, José Muñoz Suárez, Francisco Rubio Paneque, Rogelio Hernández Mill, Rodolfo Ramírez Cardozo, Ángel Enrique Fernández Rivero, Miguel López Santos and René Montes de Oca Martijas. In another location, in El Vedado Complex in Havana, activists Blas Fortún Martínez, Alejandro Gabriel Martínez Martínez, Carlos Cordero Páez and Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez” were arrested at noon on January 10, 2008, after the autorities broke into the home of the activist Carlos Cordero Páez, located on Those that were arrested were taken to the Zapata Unit in the city of The Ladies in White attended a mass in the Carmen Catholic Church, located in the Calzada de Infanta and Neptunre in the Miguel Valdés Tamayo died in Send by E-mail | Printable Version
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