Amid fear, dissidents' kin in Cuba pray

Boston Globe ^ | August 7, 2003 | Letta Tayler, Newsday

[Cincinatus' Wife]

HAVANA -- Their husbands or sons have been locked behind bars for criticizing the government. Their homes have been ransacked. They say they've been threatened with imprisonment themselves.

With few places to turn, many wives and mothers of Cuban dissidents seek solace each Sunday in the Church of St. Rita, named for a patron saint of desperate causes.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[.30Carbine]

''...we are seeking the seemingly impossible: freedom for Cuba and all its political prisoners,''...

It seemed impossible that the wall in the USSR would ever fall, too. But it did. President Ronald Reagan was not afraid to speak the truth in love about that horrible and evil empire. Neither was the Voice of the Martyrs ministry, the founder of which was at one time jailed and tortured there for his religious beliefs.

It is the truth that sets men free. May truth free Cuba. Thank you for your contribution to that end.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you for a great post.

[wiseone]

Cuban dissidents Lesson; NO-ONE can be trusted in Cuba!

BBC has a report ,on the dissidents turned in by fidel’s spies, Nestor,an old Cuban spy, has been a spy 40yrs.

He infiltrated the dissidents,who met in the US interests office,he turned them into Fidel,the trial led to 75 jailed dissident intellectuals for up to 28 years in April for opposing the government of President Fidel Castro!

Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of 75 dissidents jailed in a recent crackdown by the Cuban authorities. The activists were imprisoned for up to 28 years in April for opposing the government of President Fidel Castro.

Amnesty has compiled a 91-page report detailing what it says were summary and unfair trials and protesting at the length of the jail terms.

The human rights organisation accuses the government of applying "harsh, previously unused legislation against individuals peacefully exercising their legitimate right to free expression".

[Texas_Dawg]

Yolanda Huerga -- whose husband, writer and journalist Manuel Vazquez, also was arrested in March -- said security agents told her if she didn't stop attending the Mass they'd take away her 9-year-old son, Gabriel, who is recovering from spinal surgery, and make him a ward of the state.

Earlier this year I sat in the tiny home of an elderly Cuban woman who told me of how her son went to a small Baptist church service at a home near them, only to have some government agents come into their home at 1am a few nights later and take him to a local station to interrogate him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Castro likes the reality that no one can trust anyone. It keeps him in power.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder what Jimmy Carter would have to say about that.

[Texas_Dawg]

I wonder what Jimmy Carter would have to say about that.

Jimmy Carter is an idiot.