From: gilberto@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Herrera Ruiz GILBERTO)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re:Cuban Rights Advocate Beaten and Detained
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:04:42 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Dept. of Precision Machinery Eng., The University of Tokyo,
	Japan.


In article <20081@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes:

   Now here's some news that does fit and we expect our friend of the "peace and 
   freedom caravan" to speak out on what their friends in Havanna are doing with 
   their comunications equipment they have donated to Castro.

   (Edelmiro)

   CUBAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE BEATEN AND DETAINED

   by Tim Golden
   The New York Times 12-3-92

   HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 12 - One of Cuba's most prominent human rights advocates 
   was being held by the authorities today after being beaten by a mob of 
   Government supporters, his friends and relatives said.

   The human rights advocate, Elizardo Sanches, who is the leader of one of 
   Cuba's tine dissident humand rights groups, was said to be recovering in a 
   military hospital after having been dragged from a friends apartment on 
   Thursday afternoon and beaten nearly unconscious.

   Several other critics of the Government said they were harassed on Thursday, 
   Friday and Saturday by Government supporters who surrounded their homes, 
   shouted insults, pounded on doors and in some instances threw stones.

   Cuban officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the incident.  
   But in at least two cases, the action appeared to have been corrdingated by 
   state secutiry officials.


   In and extrememly brief telephone interview today, Gerardo Sanches, the 
   brother of Elizardo Sanchez, said the authorities were holding his borother for 
   investigation.  The telephone call was then cut off, and many other efforts to 
   call again were unsuccessful.  For the third day in a row, groups of Government 
   supporters blocked reporters from approaching the home in which Mr. Sanchez 
   lives with his brother mother and sister.
   [...]

   The government supporters broke open the apartment door, sought out Mr. 
   Sanchez and punched him about the head and face, the friends said.  The 
   apartment was ransacked, they said, but the womand was not harmed.

   Friends of Mr. Sanchez said his mother and sister had been allowed to visit 
   him on Friday at a Havanna military hospital and found him suffering from chest 
   pains and facial bruises. 

   According to neighbors, scores of men in civilian clothes gathered Thruday 
   morining at a small, unmarked building belonging to the Cuban Interior Ministry 
   and from there set our for Mr. Sanchez's home. 

   [...]

   Men with walkie-talkies who appeared to be security officials seemed to be 
   coordinating the actions, and both police and military officers passed by them 
   at various times.

   [...] 

   Among those harassed was Alvaro Prendes, a former Air Force commander and 
   one-time hero of the Cuban revoultion who earlier this month expressed his 
   sympathy with a relatively new and moderate dissident group, the Cuban 
   Democratic Socialst Current.  Mr. Prendes had not directly criticized the Cuban 
   leader, but had made public a letter asking him to open a national discussion 
   on how the country might move peacefully towards political change.



Creo que si el Sr. Sanches hubiera nacido en El Salvador en estos
tiempos o en Guatemala o en cualquiera de la dictaduras
diplomaticamente reconocidas por EU de ahora o antes (Chile, Argentina
Tailandia etc.), El no estaria en un hospital Militar sino estaria
desaparecido y muerto, sus familiares igual por eso de que no canten de mas,
sus hijos raptados para empezar una nueva vida en otra familia mas
honorable, el New York Times no escribiria de El y nuestro amigo seria
un desconocido mas muerto en el mundo y sin remordimientos por que parar
el comunismo es una noble cruzada segun el "fosforecente" y con ese
pretexto se puede hacer de lo que sea hasta matar ninyos y mujeres
embarazadas como en el mozote y en donde hasta la embajada USA siempre
nego que se hubiera hecho tal cosa (Complicidad???)....

Mi pregunta es los ninyos del mozote pudieron ser tan precozes como para
ser comunistas desde los 5 anyos????

Just Think About it "Fosforecente"!!!!!

Gilberto
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america