Latin America Witnesses the Repression in Cuba Thanks to Television

Latin America Witnesses the Repression in Cuba Thanks to Television /
Angel Santiesteban
Posted on October 12, 2013

NTN24's programme "The Night", directed by Claudia Gurisarri and
Jeferson Beltrán and hosted by Jason Calderón, has dedicated its 9th of
October broadcast to Cuba and the terrible situation and the terrible
repression its people are suffering from the Castro dictatorship. Far
from seeing some improvement with false "reforms", the regime wants to
make the international community believe that it is leading the country
towards openness; the only thing that they are really doing is an
unparalleled multiplication of repression and violence against all
peaceful opposition on the island.

"The Night", on top of doing an excellent job denouncing the
dictatorship of the Castro family, the repressive situation which has
existed in Cuba and the violation of human rights on the island, has
dedicated a privileged space in its programme for Ángel
Santiesteban-Prats, who will soon have completed eight months
incarcerated after a judicial farce with invented charges by the
political police, using the mother of his son to place false accusations
against him with the only objective to silence his critical voice
against the regime, and therefore they intend to keep him imprisoned for
five years.

But so clumsy and so thinly disguised are the crimes that it wasn't
sufficient for them to jail him for being innocent but to jail him for
political crimes according to them, they offered him his freedom in
exchange for renouncing his political position, becoming the first
ordinary criminal to whom they offered the freedom in order for giving
up his political activism. A strange way of understanding freedom which
the dictator Castro Ruz has.

All our gratitude to Claudia Gurisatti, Jeferson Beltrán, Jason Calderón
and the Cuban Lilo Vilaplana, tireless figther for the freedom of Cuba
for the rights of their brothers and Friend (with capital letters),

in the name of Ángel Santiesteban-Prats,

The Editor

Translated by Shane J. Cassidy

11 October 2013

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