Cuban Dissidents
On May 10, 2002 a group of Cuban nationals presented their government with petitions requesting that the government hold a referendum on a number of key issues in Cuba. Article 88 of the Cuban constitution permits citizens to gather signatures and request a referendum on matters of national importance. The group gathered enough signatures to meet the Constitutional requirements for action.
Predictably, action on the petition has gone nowhere, but the petitioners have been harassed, some even jailed.
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Poor Cubans (177). They live on the last slave plantation in the western hemisphere.
Interesting to see if Castro lets Oswaldo Paya out of the country, as I recall he's been invited to Strasbourg on Dec 18th by the EU parliament. To receive the Sakharov Prize for the Varela Project. Probably not going to happen.
Interesting how Cuba has much better reputation than it deserves in here, anyway. It's apparently not even newsworthy if Cuba deposits a couple hundred or thousand people in the slammer for the "thought crime" of not agreeing with the state. Out of sight,out of mind.
Meanwhile the tourists continue pouring in the cash to prop up the regime which did it.