Juan Carlos Hernandez 
juanchernandez2002@yahoo.es

SANTIAGO OF CUBA - May 8, the 2009 (www.aplopess.com) political police unfolded colossal an operative one to prevent the celebration of the Congress of independent farmers that would the past take place 5 of May in the property of the leader farmer, Pedro Antonio Alonso Perez, Director of the Project of Cuban Rural Civic Development.

The activity that was predicted to be celebrated in Jutinicú, Mayan Songo-La municipality, in this province of Santiago of Cuba was aborted by the confrontation forces, that from the dawn mobilized an endless number of agents to intercept all the farmers who had been summoned for the meeting.

The neighbors of the place woke up been strange before the strong police presence in the zone, other people's of the true reasons of that one spectacle, that he prevented the access to the place of the independent farmers who were invited to participate in the First Congress of Independent Farmers who would celebrate in commemoration to the 12 anniversary of the creation of the first independent cooperative “Transition� and to the inauguration within the framework of this event of the Independent Library “To appear again�.

Days before already had been mentioned for the Unit of Confrontation the President of the National Alliance of Independent Agriculturists Pedro Carballosa Ferrer. Also other managers of the rural organizations like Angel were mentioned Luis Martinez Gonza'les, Pedro Antonio Alonso Perez.

Own day 5 of May, Pedro Antonio Alonso Perez was retained in Unit of Confrontation of the Political Police from the 8 in the morning to the 4 of afternoon. At dawn I was intercepted way to the omnibus terminal Gerald Sanchez Grouse and who I would cover the event by the News agency APLO. Similar luck the Go'mez, Anastasio Núñez Tip, Arnol Hernandez, Rolando Berenguer Roman and Adrian ran Arthur Aryan San Emeterio.

In spite of all these disadvantages, he says Pedro Antonio Alonso: “The primary target was fulfilled, we had the intention to mobilize the punitive forces, so that they prevented the event and in this way to leave well clearly, that in Cuba nothing has changed, situations similar already we lived with Fidel Castro and now with its brother, the same happens. To the relaxation on the part of the United States of the options of sale in the agricultural sector, the government of Raul I castrate responds closing the doors to him to the farmers, the true producers potentially in charge to remove the country ahead�.

“We to reunite do not have us to request permission to him to anybody, we did therefore it after this unfruitful celebration, where we decided the steps to follow in our work, of rural development, still without receiving the minimum cooperation from the outside�.