The event is worthy of documentation. While the people paid tribute to Saint Lazaro, dozens of oppositionists were detained. Maria Valdez stated that among the beaten oppositionists were Belkys Lugo, Jose Rene Valdez Beregera, and Hector Ramon Suarez. As Jeane Kirkpatrick said in an interview with National Review recently, oppressive regimes want their opponents to vanish into a dungeon, never to be heard from again. They want them to feel forgotten and, in fact, to be forgotten.
Regimes have an easier time with their persecutions if no one is watching.
The oppositionists feel that CNN owes them an explanation. They hardly expect that freedom will dawn on them tomorrow. But they would like to feel that the world especially as represented by its main news organs has not turned its back on them.