The Lives Of Opposition Leaders Have Their Names On The Government’s Blacklist

The Lives Of Opposition Leaders Have Their Names On The Government's
Blacklist / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on July 1, 2015

Ángel Santiesteban-Prats, 3 June 2015If the Cuban dictatorship has an
enemy, it is themselves, as an institution of evil. After committing
their outrages, the injustices and atrocities carried out by their
henchmen who commit the atrocities they are ordered to commit — at any
cost — in exchange for benefits awarded them by the governing officials
who believe they are the owners of the nation. They cannot hide who they
are.

The government has just exposed that there are two penal codes, one for
dissidents, and another one for the acolytes who commit crimes on behalf
of its totalitarian regime.

Recently they have "sentenced" José Alberto Botell, who was charged with
the crime of "injuries," after wounding five dissidents with a knife,
one of them, Maria Arango Percibal, a member of the worthy Ladies in White.

Mary was in intensive care because of the severity of the injuries she
received she when stood in front of the assailant to protect the leader
of the United Antitotalitarian Front (FANTU), Guillermo Fariñas, winner
of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, for whom the attack was
intended. The attacker also severely injured another glorious Lady in
White, Isabel Fernandez Llanes, and three other regime opponents.

It is laughable that for such a criminal specimen, the prosecution would
ask for a five-year sentence and the Criminal Court itself would reduce
it by one year to leave it at four years maximum. Needless to say Botell
was sent by the political police to get Fariñas out of the way because
he openly opposes the negotiations between the United States and Cuba,
unless the Castro brothers put an end to the systematic violations of
human rights in advance.

If Fariñas had gone alone, or his companions had not reacted as they
did, we would be grieving the loss of another opposition leader today.
The type of violence shown by the attacker — who turned the scene into a
carnage — even against women, shows that his intentions, meaning
"orders," were to assassinate Fariñas.

Had their plan gone well, we would now add another dead to our cause,
just like they did with Laura Pollan, the leader of the Ladies in White,
whose health condition deteriorated rapidly — strangely in and odd
circumstances — in a hospital room commanded, supervised, ruled and
surrounded by State Security agents.

Or as they did to Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation
Movement, who died after an alleged "traffic accident", in which there
is evidence showing the hand of the political police behind it, as a
result of which his family and one of his companions in the car raise
their voices at international bodies to demand justice.

The lives of opposition leaders, especially those who oppose the Cuba-US
negotiations, have their names on the government's blacklist and, in
advance, they have been labeled already: Berta Soler and the Ladies in
White, Angel Moya, Guillermo Fariñas and Antonio Rodiles, are today the
"targets under the sniper's scope with a finger on the trigger".


Ángel Santiesteban-Prats, 3 June 2015

Border Patrol Prison, Havana, Cuba

Translated by: Rafael

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