Posted on 02/24/2016 6:03:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Cuban government has loosened travel restrictions on some of the island's best-known dissidents, granting them one-time permission to travel abroad ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to the island, activists said Wednesday. [...]
Members of a group of 11 dissidents imprisoned during the 2003 crackdown known as the Black Spring said Wednesday that officials have told seven of them that they will be free to travel one time as a reward for good behavior. Four more-politically active members of the group remain unable to travel, the dissidents said.
Activist Marta Beatriz Roque said that she and six other former prisoners were contacted by Cuban immigration officials on Sunday and told to report to state offices the following day. There, they were told that they would be able to travel overseas once and return to Cuba. ...
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Yes, with the stipulation that if they do not return, their families are toast.
The question Gov. Thug McAuliffe, Pres. Comrade Obama and others should ask of Communist Cuba, “Why are there any political prisoners”?
RIGHT! In a communist country (which they seem to ignore) all the people are “political prisoners” either now or potentially in the future if they think about real freedom and political/human rights.
On second thought, Obama seems to think that the longtime Communist oppression of the Castro’s is a normal state of affairs, one that he wishes he could duplicate here in the US (and boy is he trying to do that).
Image, fearless leader fleabag Castro and his psychopathic brother Raul are afraid of a handful of unarmed, peaceful protestors. Something is rotten in Havana and its ain’t bananas. Only the leaders are bananas and coconuts.
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