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21-01-2012, 06:55 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/9029404/Cuban-dissident-Wilmar-Villar-dies-on-hunger-strike.html
Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar dies on hunger strike
Barack Obama has condemned the Cuban regime following the death of political dissident Wilmar Villar after a 50-day prison hunger strike.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02115/Wilmar-Villar_2115874b.jpg
Wilmar Villar has died whilst on hunger strike
Villar, 31, died on Thursday in a prison in Santiago as he was protesting a four-year sentence for "contempt, resistance and assault" on the government. The father-of-two was one of 60 political prisoners thought to be held by Cuba and is the second to die on a hunger strike in the last two years. Havana refused to comment but his death drew criticism from governments around the world as well as human rights organisations and Cuban opposition groups.
A White House statement said: "Villar’s senseless death highlights the ongoing repression of the Cuban people and the plight faced by brave individuals standing up for the universal rights of all Cubans." Amnesty International said it had been on the verge of designating Mr Villar a prisoner of conscience, a status granted to people believed to be held for no reason other than their political views. "The Cuban government bears complete moral, political and legal responsibility for the death of Wilmar, because he was in the custody of the authorities," a spokeswoman for the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said. Mr Villar's funeral was held today outside of Santiago.
A great many of those on the left often cite Cuba as the socialist paradise we ought to mirror, yet often and purposely skate over the details of this regime and what the real Cuba is like - a regime which does not tolerate dissenting voices and a broken economy which has an overblown reputation mainly built by the left just as they used to parrot the virtues of the Soviet Union only a few decades ago. For more on the real Cuba including its healthcare, its leaders, prisons etc, see; http://therealcuba.com/.
This regime deserves no praise for either its politics or its economics, just as another hero of the left similar to the other hero of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, deserves no praise from any rational human being. (http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm)
Thoughts?
Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar dies on hunger strike
Barack Obama has condemned the Cuban regime following the death of political dissident Wilmar Villar after a 50-day prison hunger strike.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02115/Wilmar-Villar_2115874b.jpg
Wilmar Villar has died whilst on hunger strike
Villar, 31, died on Thursday in a prison in Santiago as he was protesting a four-year sentence for "contempt, resistance and assault" on the government. The father-of-two was one of 60 political prisoners thought to be held by Cuba and is the second to die on a hunger strike in the last two years. Havana refused to comment but his death drew criticism from governments around the world as well as human rights organisations and Cuban opposition groups.
A White House statement said: "Villar’s senseless death highlights the ongoing repression of the Cuban people and the plight faced by brave individuals standing up for the universal rights of all Cubans." Amnesty International said it had been on the verge of designating Mr Villar a prisoner of conscience, a status granted to people believed to be held for no reason other than their political views. "The Cuban government bears complete moral, political and legal responsibility for the death of Wilmar, because he was in the custody of the authorities," a spokeswoman for the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said. Mr Villar's funeral was held today outside of Santiago.
A great many of those on the left often cite Cuba as the socialist paradise we ought to mirror, yet often and purposely skate over the details of this regime and what the real Cuba is like - a regime which does not tolerate dissenting voices and a broken economy which has an overblown reputation mainly built by the left just as they used to parrot the virtues of the Soviet Union only a few decades ago. For more on the real Cuba including its healthcare, its leaders, prisons etc, see; http://therealcuba.com/.
This regime deserves no praise for either its politics or its economics, just as another hero of the left similar to the other hero of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, deserves no praise from any rational human being. (http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm)
Thoughts?