These guys Luis is referencing were making regular encroachments into Cuban air space, if I recall, in an effort to bait the Havana regime into an incident. I guess their ploy worked. But ... I don't think they were just wayward pilots who wandered off course and were summarily butchered.
Castro frequently says his one-party communist system is more democratic than the Western model and denies the existence of political prisoners or repression of freedom of expression.
The signatures, gathered by activists across the Caribbean island of 11 million inhabitants over the last year, will be presented to the National Assembly in a few weeks, once all 10,000 signatures have been checked and ratified, Paya said.
"This has never been done before, it has no precedent," he added. "It shows Cubans not only want changes, but also are ready to face the risks to show they want changes." [End Excerpt]
I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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