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UNPACU activists persist in hunger strike: we will continue protesting against the tyranny's criminal actions

UNPACU leader José Daniel Ferrer said that the members of the opposition group who began a hunger strike on March 20 will continue "protesting against the criminal actions of the tyranny."

"It is our right," he asserted Sunday on Facebook.

"There are more than 60 activists on strike and 4 had to abandon due to their health problems," Ferrer said. "We continue with Patria y Vida."

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Manifesto of Montecristi and Cuba Today. In this document, José Martí exposed the causes that lead Cuba to fight against Spain to become an independent nation, free from economic or military control by any outside source.

It is written, and in non-cryptic language, that the Castro-communist dictatorship is in full gestation. While the sycophants of barbarism are preparing, on the one hand, the mummification of the despot and his system, on the other hand, they are in a hurry to furtively plunder the national wealth, with their family members who are scouring the protection of foreign residences (giving clear demonstration of the little confidence in the survival of Cuban socialism and the delinquent and corrupt nature of the Castro revolution), multiple propositions of the pro-democratic forces are being put forward. The pristine patriotism embodied in the Montecristi Manifesto would be a sumptuous compass. 

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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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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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