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Cuba: Evangelical Gusano Comedy Nooz, Straight from the US Interests Psy-War Dept.
Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit
[You can't make this stuff up. The nut counterrevoutionary and
Catholic fetus fanatic Dr. Oscar Bisquet now has some fundie
evangelical christian company, if this report is at all accurate, which
is debatable. It sounds just like many other wildly exaggerated
claims sent out to websites like CubaNet by mercenaries paid by the US
Interests Section in Havana. The source, "BosNewsLife News Center,"
advertises itself as "an Internet news agency covering stories on
Christians and Jews living in difficult circumstances for whatever
reason, including persecution, as well as other hard hitting news
stories from around the world." (Apparently, Muslims don't concern this
bunch.)
Actually, it's just another propaganda front of anti-communists in one
of the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- a Budapest-based Hungarian
"Christian" news agency.
Hard-hitting? Not exactly, more like unbearably comic: They sure lay
on the melodrama with a trowel. Bermudez Toranza is said to be "in fear
of his life" and here's why:
First he claims that a barrio in Havana was invaded by state agents who
dragged him and his two-year-old CHILD into the street and beat them up
and then beat up the whole neighborhood (including women and children).
Only someone who knows NOTHING of Cuba and raised on lurid Radio Free
Europe propaganda would believe this. Then he says:
"Im letting it be known that my state of health is failing at an
extremely dangerous pace. My physical well-being remains under the
Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he said in transcript obtained by
BosNewsLife.
"My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous
illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle
branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a
pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical
arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver
disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Im extremely
underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said.
... Not to mention terminal hypochondria and Sara Heartburn Syndrome.
Amazing he has time to write CIA counterrevolutionary drama with all
that medical dictionary reading he has to do. This guy puts the Cuban
dude who went on a hunger strike a couple of years ago to gain free
internet access absolutely to shame.
The CIA needs some new writers.-NY Transfer]
BosNewsLife - Nov 24, 2007
http://www.bosnewslife.com/americas/cuba/3291-evangelical-pastor-and-activists-detained-in-
Evangelical Pastor and Activists Detained in Cuba
Political Prisoner Fears For His Life
By BosNewsLife News Center
HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor and several other
human rights workers have been detained in Cuba shortly after security
forces broke up a meeting commemorating political prisoners in the
capital Havana, BosNewsLife learned from activists Saturday, November
24.
"Cuban government repressive forces brutally beat members of families
who live in a poor neighborhood in Havana and destroyed the furniture
and personal belongings of a human rights defender. The activists
arrested are threatened with being prosecuted," said Juan Carlos
Gonzalez Leiva, a blind Christian lawyer who leads the Cuban Foundation
of Human Rights and the Human Rights Rapporteur Council in Cuba.
He said the problems began late Thursday, November 22, when over 30
officials of "the Cuban political police and Cuban State Security
violently invaded," the San Miguel del Padron area of Havana.
They were seen "ransacking the home of 30 year-old activist, Juan
Bermudez Toranzo, where a vigil on behalf of...all Cuban political
prisoners was taking place." Police, he said, "brutally beat all
families and neighbors present, including women and children."
ACTIVIST "DRAGGED"
He added the activist "was dragged along with his two year-old son from
his bedroom to the street outside where he was thrown into a patrol car
with other activists of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights." The
situation of the baby was not immediately clear.
Pastor Yordis Ferrer, who leads a Pentecostal congregation, and four
activists were taken away at a local police station where they remain
"under investigation," Gonzalez Leiva said. He said Ferrer was
detained, when he "came to the aid of Juan Bermudez Toranzos wife Nery
as repressive forces where [sic] beating her up."
Cuban State Security officials reportedly advised "Nery to begin
looking for a lawyer since formal accusations are on the way for those
arrested," added well-informed Gonzalez Leiva, who himself has been
detained for his involvement in human rights activities the authorities
regarded as undermining state security.
The other detainees were identified as representatives of the Cuban
Foundation of Human Rights, including Osmar Osmani Balman del Pino, a
delegate of the group in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron and
fellow officials Jose Luis Rodriguez Chavez and William Cepero.
STAGING PROTEST
Relatives and family members staged a protest outside the police
station to demand their release, BosNewsLife learned. "These dedicated
human rights defenders are in prison only for their activities on
behalf of the rights of poor Cubans who, like them, live in
impoverished neighborhoods" Gonzalez Leiva explained in a statement.
Bermudez Toranza founded an independent labor union supporting Cubans
who try to make a living despite being prohibited by the government
from obtaining a license to work. In addition he has been involved in
providing aid to impoverished children.
His latest activity, a vigil for political prisoners, came on the heels
of news that 41-year old jailed journalist Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta
is fearing for his life. "Im letting it be known that my state of
health is failing at an extremely dangerous pace. My physical
well-being remains under the Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he
said in transcript obtained by BosNewsLife.
"My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous
illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle
branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a
pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical
arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver
disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Im extremely
underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said.
TWENTY YEARS
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison
during the March-April 2003 crackdown on dissidents and is confined in
the same compound with "dangerous convicts" condemned to death and to
life imprisonment, investigators and activists told BosNewsLife earlier
this year.
[They are talking here about the 2003 events when Cuba rolled up
a network of US mercenaries who were being paid by the US interests
section to write this bilge on assignment and given Internet access to
send it out to the world. A number of their gang turned out to
be agents of Cuban State Security -- including one of their major
leaders, who testified at their trial, to the deep embarrassment of the
CIA. -NY Transfer]
Herrera Acosta is among over 20 journalists who were arrested in the
March 2003 government-led crackdown on dissidents and still being held
in prison. Mostly accused of being "mercenaries in the service of a
foreign power", they were handed down sentences from 14 to 27 years in
prison.
However, the journalist said that although, "I am very physically weak,
Im strong spiritually. I know nothing is in vain..." Cuban leader
Fidel Castro has denied human rights abuses and the existence of
dissidents in the country. He has described those detained as
"mercenaries of the United States."
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Cuba: Evangelical Gusano Comedy Nooz, Straight from the US Interests Psy-War Dept.
Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit
[You can't make this stuff up. The nut counterrevoutionary and
Catholic fetus fanatic Dr. Oscar Bisquet now has some fundie
evangelical christian company, if this report is at all accurate, which
is debatable. It sounds just like many other wildly exaggerated
claims sent out to websites like CubaNet by mercenaries paid by the US
Interests Section in Havana. The source, "BosNewsLife News Center,"
advertises itself as "an Internet news agency covering stories on
Christians and Jews living in difficult circumstances for whatever
reason, including persecution, as well as other hard hitting news
stories from around the world." (Apparently, Muslims don't concern this
bunch.)
Actually, it's just another propaganda front of anti-communists in one
of the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- a Budapest-based Hungarian
"Christian" news agency.
Hard-hitting? Not exactly, more like unbearably comic: They sure lay
on the melodrama with a trowel. Bermudez Toranza is said to be "in fear
of his life" and here's why:
First he claims that a barrio in Havana was invaded by state agents who
dragged him and his two-year-old CHILD into the street and beat them up
and then beat up the whole neighborhood (including women and children).
Only someone who knows NOTHING of Cuba and raised on lurid Radio Free
Europe propaganda would believe this. Then he says:
"Im letting it be known that my state of health is failing at an
extremely dangerous pace. My physical well-being remains under the
Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he said in transcript obtained by
BosNewsLife.
"My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous
illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle
branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a
pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical
arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver
disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Im extremely
underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said.
... Not to mention terminal hypochondria and Sara Heartburn Syndrome.
Amazing he has time to write CIA counterrevolutionary drama with all
that medical dictionary reading he has to do. This guy puts the Cuban
dude who went on a hunger strike a couple of years ago to gain free
internet access absolutely to shame.
The CIA needs some new writers.-NY Transfer]
BosNewsLife - Nov 24, 2007
http://www.bosnewslife.com/americas/cuba/3291-evangelical-pastor-and-activists-detained-in-
Evangelical Pastor and Activists Detained in Cuba
Political Prisoner Fears For His Life
By BosNewsLife News Center
HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor and several other
human rights workers have been detained in Cuba shortly after security
forces broke up a meeting commemorating political prisoners in the
capital Havana, BosNewsLife learned from activists Saturday, November
24.
"Cuban government repressive forces brutally beat members of families
who live in a poor neighborhood in Havana and destroyed the furniture
and personal belongings of a human rights defender. The activists
arrested are threatened with being prosecuted," said Juan Carlos
Gonzalez Leiva, a blind Christian lawyer who leads the Cuban Foundation
of Human Rights and the Human Rights Rapporteur Council in Cuba.
He said the problems began late Thursday, November 22, when over 30
officials of "the Cuban political police and Cuban State Security
violently invaded," the San Miguel del Padron area of Havana.
They were seen "ransacking the home of 30 year-old activist, Juan
Bermudez Toranzo, where a vigil on behalf of...all Cuban political
prisoners was taking place." Police, he said, "brutally beat all
families and neighbors present, including women and children."
ACTIVIST "DRAGGED"
He added the activist "was dragged along with his two year-old son from
his bedroom to the street outside where he was thrown into a patrol car
with other activists of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights." The
situation of the baby was not immediately clear.
Pastor Yordis Ferrer, who leads a Pentecostal congregation, and four
activists were taken away at a local police station where they remain
"under investigation," Gonzalez Leiva said. He said Ferrer was
detained, when he "came to the aid of Juan Bermudez Toranzos wife Nery
as repressive forces where [sic] beating her up."
Cuban State Security officials reportedly advised "Nery to begin
looking for a lawyer since formal accusations are on the way for those
arrested," added well-informed Gonzalez Leiva, who himself has been
detained for his involvement in human rights activities the authorities
regarded as undermining state security.
The other detainees were identified as representatives of the Cuban
Foundation of Human Rights, including Osmar Osmani Balman del Pino, a
delegate of the group in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron and
fellow officials Jose Luis Rodriguez Chavez and William Cepero.
STAGING PROTEST
Relatives and family members staged a protest outside the police
station to demand their release, BosNewsLife learned. "These dedicated
human rights defenders are in prison only for their activities on
behalf of the rights of poor Cubans who, like them, live in
impoverished neighborhoods" Gonzalez Leiva explained in a statement.
Bermudez Toranza founded an independent labor union supporting Cubans
who try to make a living despite being prohibited by the government
from obtaining a license to work. In addition he has been involved in
providing aid to impoverished children.
His latest activity, a vigil for political prisoners, came on the heels
of news that 41-year old jailed journalist Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta
is fearing for his life. "Im letting it be known that my state of
health is failing at an extremely dangerous pace. My physical
well-being remains under the Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he
said in transcript obtained by BosNewsLife.
"My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous
illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle
branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a
pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical
arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver
disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Im extremely
underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said.
TWENTY YEARS
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison
during the March-April 2003 crackdown on dissidents and is confined in
the same compound with "dangerous convicts" condemned to death and to
life imprisonment, investigators and activists told BosNewsLife earlier
this year.
[They are talking here about the 2003 events when Cuba rolled up
a network of US mercenaries who were being paid by the US interests
section to write this bilge on assignment and given Internet access to
send it out to the world. A number of their gang turned out to
be agents of Cuban State Security -- including one of their major
leaders, who testified at their trial, to the deep embarrassment of the
CIA. -NY Transfer]
Herrera Acosta is among over 20 journalists who were arrested in the
March 2003 government-led crackdown on dissidents and still being held
in prison. Mostly accused of being "mercenaries in the service of a
foreign power", they were handed down sentences from 14 to 27 years in
prison.
However, the journalist said that although, "I am very physically weak,
Im strong spiritually. I know nothing is in vain..." Cuban leader
Fidel Castro has denied human rights abuses and the existence of
dissidents in the country. He has described those detained as
"mercenaries of the United States."
=================================================================
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Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us
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