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- Source/Author: Radio Televisión Martí
UNPACU in fifth day of hunger strike; the regime hands out "little boxes" to divert attention.
The Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) entered on Wednesday its fifth day of hunger strike with almost fifty activists planted, while the siege that the political police have been maintaining around the headquarters of the opposition organization, in the Santiago neighborhood of Altamira, for 10 days now, continued.
Activist Ovidio Martin Castellanos, who updated Radio Martí on what is happening at the site, said that the repressors are trying to counteract the humanitarian work of the organization by handing out "little boxes with food" to people in a school next to the UNPACU headquarters.
According to Martin Castellanos, the police siege "is set up as a routine" to prevent UNPACU members and needy people in the community from reaching the site "in search of food and medicine", or to denounce human rights violations.
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- Source/Author: Luis Zuñiga
Response to Castroism's reaction to the film Plantados. Only an ignorant person of the Cuban reality can deny the content of the film Plantados.
They have been so annoyed by the impact of the film and the fact that it is already being seen in Cuba, that they felt obliged to throw the usual mud at it.
On Thursday, March 18, the Castroist newspaper Granma published an article under the byline of Rolando Perez Betancourt, criticizing the film "Plantados" by director Lilo Vilaplana. The first indication of the displeasure (and evidently, the anger) of the Castro gerontocracy is the article itself. They have been so annoyed by the impact caused by the film and that, in addition, some are already watching it in Cuba, that they felt obliged to throw the usual mud at it. The dictatorship does not quite understand that the Cuban people know them very well and know that if the regime criticizes or attacks something, it is because that something is effective. That was Fidel Castro's tactic: he criticized, but did not allow the people to see or read the object of criticism. The old ostrich stupidity. But, this time they have not been able to hide the cause of their anger.
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- Source/Author: The CubanAmerican Voice
Hotel Meliá Cayo Guillermo (Photo: MINTUR)
Why Meliá abandons one of its best hotels in Cayo Guillermo?
Nobody saw the disaffiliation of the Meliá Cayo Guillermo hotel coming. Will the Spanish company's decision have to do with its human rights policy?
HAVANA, Cuba. - According to its most recent management report, dated December 31, 2020, Meliá Hotels International has disaffiliated three hotels in Cuba. In the last few hours, the news has been replicated in several media inside and outside the island.
The document recently published by Meliá tersely mentions the "scarce commercial opportunities" and the "operational problems faced" as causes for such a decision; however, in none of the reports prior to 2020 did the Spanish company give any indication of having started such disaffiliation process, not even in the report of the Interim Financial Statements of June 30, 2020.
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- Source/Author: John Suarez
Fact Sheet on February 24, 1996, Brothers to the Rescue Shoot down.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”― John Adams, Boston Massacre trial (1770).
February 24, 1996, shoot down was an act of state terrorism that blew two civilian aircraft out of the sky with air-to-air missiles while in international airspace after the regime planned the act months beforehand with its espionage network in the United States.
FACT 1: By definition: Terrorism is the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
Read more: Fact Sheet on February 24, 1996 Brothers to the Rescue Shoot down
