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Center of Information will be reporting the repression in Cuba during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI
By Assembly of the Resistance

MIAMI, March 26, 2012. ASSEMBLY OF THE CUBAN RESISTANCE. The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), a coalition of organizations within Cuba and in exile opposed to Castro’s regime, officially opened an Information and Support Center to monitor the repression in Cuba, which will be relaying information during the visit of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Island of Cuba. “We hope that the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba will contribute to the reinstatement of all liberties and rights to the Cuban people. The repression that the regime has imposed against the people in Cuba constitutes itself an insult to the spirit of the visit of His Holiness”, said Sylvia Iriondo, President of Mother and Women against Repression (MAR por Cuba) and member of the Secretariat of the ACR during a press conference informing on the five-point statement publicly made. During the press conference a tape was played with a message by Berta Soler Fernandez, the leader of the Ladies in White who from Havana informed about the many women arrested to impede their assisting to Mass in Santiago de Cuba. She also informed of the brutal repression in Santiago de Cuba as well as in Havana. Also shown, a short documentary produced by Emilio Estefan demonstrating the reality in Cuba, which ARC will be distributing internationally and in the United States. The Information and Support Center will monitor the situation inside Cuba from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. during the 26, 27, and 28 of March, 2012. As of now, we have been able to ascertain that the following members of the Resistance Movement have been arrested: Pinar del Río: Yoel Reinoso, Víctor Rodríguez Morejón, Raquel Rodríguez Riverón, Dianelis Rodríguez Suárez, Yoangel Palacios Hernández, Luís Enrique Milián, José Rolando Cáceres Soto, Adalberto Abascal Quintana, Roberto Blanco Gil, Raquel Rodriguez Suárez and Eduardo Díaz Fleitas. La Habana: Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo, Julio León Fonseca. Matanzas: Leticia Ramón Herrería, Emilio Bringas Évora. Cienfuegos: Juan de Dios Medina Vázquez. Santa Clara: Rolando Ferrer Espinosa, María del Carmen Martínez López, Yanisbel Valido Pérez, Natividad Blanco Carrero and Alcides Rivera Rodriguez. Camagüey: Virgilio Mantilla Arango, Elicardo Freire, Osmani Fernández González. Holguín: Luís Felipe Rojas Rosabal, Delmides Fidalgo López, Mariblanca Ávila Expósito, Anni Sarrión Romero, Juan Carlos Vázquez Osorio, Jorge Luís Freeman Palermo, Jorge Luís Claro Velásquez, Juan Oriol Verdecia, Rafael Meneses Pupo, Alexander Cruz, Maritza Cardoso, Caridad Caballero Batista, Marta Díaz Rondón, Milagros Leiva Ramírez. Santiago de Cuba: Misael Valdés Díaz, Jorge Cervantes García, Guillermo Cobas, Liudmila Rodriguez Palomo, Belkis Cantillo, Yanai Ferrer Santos, Marta Beatriz Ferrer Cantillo. Guantánamo: Francisco Luís Manzanet, Roberto González Pelegrin, Rodolfo Bartelemy Cobas, Isael Poveda Silva, Reinier Cubas, Randy Caballero Suárez, Roneidi Salas, Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina. ###

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