Intense safety measures by visit from Hugo Chavez to Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 18 of December (Brave Lizeth www.miamiprogressive.com) the visit from Hugo Chavez to Santiago of Cuba next the 23 of December has put in especially alerts to the governmental authorities. An accumulation of measures, that some sin of ridiculous, has been put in force, happening to be the more popular informed event of the last hours.

Agreden to Lady of Target during pacific march in Havana.

(Photo: Carlos Serpa Maceira, Independent Journalist)

Havana, 9 of December, 2007 (Carlos Serpa Maceira) Laura Pollan, one of the founders of the civilist group, “the Ladies of Target� was attacked by a subject dressed civilian when these circulated around 29 and 44, against soothes of the National Assembly of the Popular one. The man pushed first it and he struck soon it, refers Bertha Soler, source of this information.

Evacuation and demolition of Pentecostal temple in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 7 of December (Brave Lizeth www.miamiprogressive.com) The past 20 of November, around the 6:45 A.M. police forces took I finish to the demolition of the temple of the Pentecostal Church and the evacuation of the shepherd and its family in Reparto Santa Maria, in this city of Santiago of Cuba.

Golpizas and arrests to opponents in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 5 of December (Brave Lizeth www.miamiprogressive.com) a group of santiagueros opponents was enfrenado by the police when they directed towards the Church Santa Teresita. The police sprinkled tear gases and struck to several of them, including a a cerebral boy of 14 years with parláis.

The Garci'as take care of of emergencia the political express Jorge L Perez (Antúnez)

BAYAMON, Puerto Rico - November 18, the 2007 (Liborio Operation) political express Jorge L Garci'a Perez (Antúnez) had to be taken care of emergency in the hospital Arnaldo Milián¨ in the city of Santa Clara. Thus it White Enrique by means of a telephone communication with the activist could know the human rights, Mars Antonio Valdez.
According to the information provided by the activist Mars Valdez, the past Friday in hours of the Antúnez dawn underwent a faint and vomits in the automobile lead that it from Havana. The facts took place in the National Freeway, near the town of Ranchuelos, reason why it was transferred to the provincial hospital of Santa Clara where it was maintained in observation by space of one mean time.

The Eastern Free News agency feels honest by the decision of journalist Héctor Peraza Linares to use our cybernetic space to disclose its “Call to brings back to consciousness universal�.

Our humble management is awarded the being chosen for this noble mission against so many average many more subsidized professionals and in certain occasions.

That God blesses the initiative of that great human being, Héctor Peraza Linares, that from the given freedom that enjoys, fights by hers own and the one of all we.

A hug for all,

Brave Lizeth Side
Director Eastern Free News agency
 

CALL TO BRINGS BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS UNIVERSAL OF THE JOURNALIST AND WRITER CUBAN HUMORIST, HÉCTOR PERAZA LINARES, EX- EXILED CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER IN SPAIN


They repress young people in santiaguero key

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 9 of November (Brave Lizeth, www.miamiprogressive.com) a group of young people who were celebrating during the weekend in Granma key, old key Smith were repressed by the police and forces of Special Troops. According to eyewitnesses and neighboring of the place the facts were provoked when the Head of Sector of PNR (Policía Nacional Revolucionaria) Pedro Antonio Rodriguez tried to stop music when she was begun to listen to the song of Willy Chirino; “It already comes arriving�.

They reprimand farmer to express itself freely

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 1 of October, 2007 - (Victor and Sanchez www.miamiprogressive.com) the Noel farmer Castle was reprimanded to express itself freely, according to his own words. In the meeting of analysis of the speech of Raul I castrate in the credit cooperative and services in the Charity, in the town of San Benito of the Cruise, the caficultor Noel Castle questioned the prices of the coffee and the prohibitions of the sacrifice of cattle of its property.

New leader farmer to the front of the ANAIC

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 1 of October, 2007 - (Victor and Sanchez www.miamiprogressive.com) the farmer Angel Luis Martinez González, of 45 years of age was chosen like the new president of the National Alliance of Independent Agriculturists of Cuba, he presented therefore it Antonio Alonso, Chief of a main directorate of Project of Rural Civil Development.

They create independent library in camagüeyana prison

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 21 of October, 2007 - (Victor and Sanchez www.miamiprogressive.com) The past 10 of October library founded independent on prison Kilo de Camaguey, according to gave to know member Commission of Attention Prisoners Political, who rebelled in addition, that when being based on so transcendental date, was baptized with the name of, independent library “10 of October�.

The PDCR, warns of possible extreme hunger in Eastern provinces.

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 21 of October, the 2007 - (Victor and Sanchez www.miamiprogressive.com) - Project of Desarrollo Cívico Rural (PDCR) is alerting to the government and to the rural population generally of a possible extreme hunger, mainly in the Eastern provinces.  If urgent measures are not taken, the population will face this and next year a strong food shortage, essentially coming from the land.

Torrential heavy showers create chaos in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 12 of October, 2007 - (Victor and Sanchez www.miamiprogressive.com) - 27 houses have been reported with partial landslides or total in the historical helmet of the city, whereas in the marginal districts, as “We will win�, White Horse, Chicharrones, Smiling and “the Mejiquito� the situation was much more serious, due to the bad conditions of the houses, the topography and relief of the place and the deficiency of a drainage infrastructure.

Student protests in the University of East

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 27 of September (Brave Lizeth, APLO/www.cubanet.org) The past 13 of September a nourished group of students carried out an heated protest in the Rectorado of the University of East. The protest had several shades, from the political questioning to the negligent attitude of Zaida director Estrada Buckets.

It supports the PCRO protests civic in city of Santa Clara

Santiago Cuba, 25 of September - Victor and Sánchez/APLO - In an official notice circulated with urgent character of, member of the Board of directors and activists of the Cuban Party of Orthodox Renovation are calling to yesterday endorsing the carried out civic protest in 24 of September, by about 50 political opponents, in the city of Santa Clara.

Indispensable the outer aid for the rural development in Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, September 21 (Victor and Sanchez/APLO) Directive of the Project of Cuban Rural Civic Development met in soothes of the independent cooperative Transition, in Santiago of Cuba, with a central subject: the approval of new bottoms on the part of North American agency USAID to attend the civil society of the island.

It advances at national level survey on rural poverty

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, September 17 (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) the accomplishment of the survey on the inventory of the Rural Poverty in Cuba took a substantial impulse with the incorporation from activists of different independent organizations, according to I inform Carmen Alfonso Samé, executive director of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women, Cuba Chapter, attached to the Project of Rural Civic Development.

Crisis in the tax collecting currency stores in Santiago of Cuba
Brave Lisette Herrerra

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 12 of September (APLO) a constant popular outcry “shoping� are empty, motivated to me to deepen in the subject, because he is something of great social impact. From the first years of the decade of the 90 these stores they have become the main destiny of consumption of the Cuban population.

Offensive against the social indiscipline in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 12 of September (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) Effective ones of the National Police Revolutionizes are realizing, those that they call, an offensive against the social indiscipline. From the 1 of past September they are mentioning a series of citizens who of a form or another one are realizing an illicit economic activity, standardization that occurs to all informal economic activity or outside the state control.

The authorities react before possible massive exodus

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 5 of September (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) a great unfolding have realized the governmental authorities, including the organs of intelligence in Santiago of Cuba, before the possibility of an explosion towards the North American naval base in Guantánamo.

Without medication the political prisoner Jose Ramon Castle

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 30 of August (Brave Lisette, APLO/www.cubanet.org) - the political prisoner and of brings back to consciousness, Jose Gabriel Ramon Castle is not receiving the prescribed insulin treatment from the past 17 of August, has presented according to it his wife White Pink Echavarría Reoyo, which had who these injections are applied in the hospital of the prison and during his transfer to the same they extremely place the tight spouses to him, who are practically a torture.

To the expectation of a massive exodus in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 28 of August (Lisette Bravo/APLO) a great expectation by a possible massive exodus is latent in the santiaguera population. The political uncertainty in the country, with the health of Fidel Castro as state secret and the recent information of a happy end of the refugees in Naval Base of Guantánamo has exacerbated the feelings of escape of the Cuban town, therefore is appraised in Santiago of Cuba, where people say: “this time if they abren, nobody takes to me here�

(Photo courtesy of The Reall Cuba)

They strike inmate to request medical aid

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 16 of July (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) the inmate Alexander Despaigne Teutor was struck wildly by only made request medical aid. According to the information provided by the political prisoner Francisco Herodes Diaz Echemendía, the facts the past provoked day 4 of the month in course in detachment 19 of Section 5 in the jail of Sweet potato in Santiago of Cuba.

They appear anti-government posters in Santiagueros baths

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 16 of July (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) The past Sunday 8 of July were painted numerous posters with anti-government slogans in the baths for men of restaurant the Aragonese peasant, located in the centric street Eyrie, and San Pedro and San Felix, in this city, which produced a chaos in the place.

Two political prisoners in serious state in the prison of Sweet potato

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, the 26 of June (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) political prisoners Francisco Herodes Diaz Echemendía and Jose Gabriel Ramon Castle are in serious state of health, informed their relatives to the Commission into Attention to Political Prisoners in Santiago of Cuba.

¨Oficiales of the Security of the State shortages in the heat of operativo¨.

Dr. Darsi Ferrer,
Havana, Saturday, 8 of December of 2007.

Thanks to the solidarity of the neighbors of the district, it was managed to identify to two of the officials of the political police of whom they stay in operative of monitoring and the intimidation near my house, in Suárez Saints.

“They follow the maneuvers of intimidation against the Antiapartheid March�

Dr. Darsi Ferrer
City of Havana, 7 of December of 2007

Two days after being threatened of death by the political police in my own house, a major of the Armed Forces appeared today in the morning to give to me to an official citation with the aim of which it presents/displays to me in the military sector of the municipality, ¨casualmente¨ day 10 of December in hours.

The events in Santiago of Cuba, facts and protagonists.

Lizeth Bravo/APLO
Santiago of Cuba, 7 of December, 2007

A group of opponents a long walk decided to the past realize 4 of December from the Cathedral to the Church of Santa Teresita, where they tried to participate in the misa of the 5 of afternoon, the traditional misa of Santa Barbara. Some of the participants refer that they had like objective to take advantage of the religious moment to request by the political prisoners and whom three days before had been stopped in City of Havana.

The triumph of does not bring about joy in the Cuban town
Lizeth Bravo/APLO

An unusual joy was done patent in the santiaguera population when knowing itself the results of referendo in Venezuela. The triumph of was not interpreted like a political reverse also for the Cuban government. With the debate and conversation on the subject it has been possible to verify that satisfaction has been at national level.

Brave Lizeth
APLOPress director

  The carnival of the sadness

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 25 of July (Yolireidi Herrera/APLO) the traditional santiaguero carnival east year has been baptized, like the carnival of the sadness. The streets are practically empty and the people ramble like zombis, as if they needed the will to express what they take on the inside.

The independent journalist, Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, the condemned to 25 years of deprivation of freedom in the black spring of the 2003, has sent from the camagüeyana jail of K-8 a message to the international community in which she declares his terrible state of health and the possibility of his death. Next its declaration:

The PCRO supports protest of farmers in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 25 of May (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) the commission of of Social Subjects of the PCRO (Started off Cuban of Orthodox Renovation) by means of a letter made a reclamation to the competent governmental authorities, on the legitimacy that have the protests of the farmers, whom they ask for is guaranteed the electrical service to them in the town of Joturo, a rural community in Santiago of Cuba.

Infantile hospital in critical conditions in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 16 of July (Rafael Perez Chacon/APLO) the South Infantile Hospital, more known like the Spanish Colony, presents/displays terrible conditions of services and in their sanitary hygienic state. The cockroaches teem in the place, as much by day as at night it walks over the beds of the infants, furniture, closets and other equipment of the cubicles where there is between 5 and 6 beds.

The legacy of Vilma Spin
or
SANTIAGO OF CUBA, the 26 of June (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) residents of the municipality II, II In front once In front Eastern, Frank Country the past has from 22 Fridays a new guest, Vilma Spin. Something that many people catalog of positive, the highway that unites the towns of Mayarí Arriba with Songo Stop that had been several years without maintenance, although was not reconstructed, if somewhat it were adjusted so that it passed the funeral caravan until the mausoleum located between the town of Solitude of Mayarí and hills of Mícara, in the province of Santiago of Cuba.

They arrest farmers who demand electrical service in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 25 of May (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) Combined forceses of the Revolutionary National Police and the Security of the State arrested 5 farmers of the town of Joturo, defendant to illegally connect the electrical laying of the town of Joturo to the national network, that happens to a kilometer of distance of the place.

(Photo: Virgilio Delat)
Houses in a community farmer in Palmarito



(Photo: Virgilio Delat)
Luisa Maria Lebeque Chilart. wife of Alexis Rodriguez Fernandez

Problems of health of political prisoner are become serious

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 27 of February (Yolireidi Herrera/APLO) Francisco Herodes the political Diaz Echemendía and other two prisoners severely were struck by about 15 members of the trimming of the prison of Sweet potato, being the main people in charge of the facts, the Giovani Major Betancourt Batiste, Head of the prison of Boniato and Alaín Rivero Montero, Head of Internal procedure.

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Farmers for want of electrical service protest

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 11 of April (Victor E. Sánchez/APLO) Farmers of the zone of Joturo, a community located between Mayan the Songo-La municipalities and Second Front practically are in revolt state, protesting electrical service for a population of 300 families.

Life imprisonment for involved in rebellion of the Sleeve

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, the 20 of March (Lisette Bravo/APLO) recruits of the Military Service General Iran Goatherd Leon, Thin Yoelvis Arvelo and the rest of the involved ones in an act of rebellion the past 20 of December in the prison of the Sleeve in which the officials of the Department of the Interior Oliverio Orozco and Jose Antonio were killed were condemned este11 of March to life imprisonment, according to information provided by a civil servant of the prison of Sweet potato, that asked not to be identified by security questions.

It dies by integral domestic violence of the FLAMUR

SANTAIGO OF CUBA, the 13 of March (Virgilio Delat/APLO) Miriam Ramirez Perez was the past assassinated 9 of March by their husband Ramon Suárez, strangled who it in his own address in the power station Paquito Rosales, old Borjita in Two Ways of San Luis

Odysseys of the services of Internet in Office of Interests

Havana, Cuba - 4 of March (Virgilio Delat, APLO/www.cubanet.org) - the services of Internet that gives the Center of Informative Resources of the Office of Interests of the United States practically finds colapsados.

Golpiza to political prisoners in the prison of Sweet potato

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 27 of February (Yolireidi Herrera/APLO) Francisco Herodes the political Diaz Echemendía and other two prisoners severely were struck by about 15 members of the trimming of the prison of Sweet potato, being the main people in charge of the facts, the Giovani Major Betancourt Batiste, Head of the prison of Boniato and Alaín Rivero Montero, Head of Internal procedure.

Irregularities in conjugal view of prisoner of bring back to consciousness in the prison of Kilo 8.

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 27 of February (Virgilio Delat-APLO) The past 2 of Belkis February Small stone Ramirez, wife of Jose Daniel Ferrer Garci'a, one of the political prisoners of the call causes of the 75 underwent abuses and abuses on the part of civil servants of the Department of the Interior during the prescribed conjugal visit in the prison of Kilo 8 in Camaguey.

Death of Mario Chanes causes consternation in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 25 of February (Victor E. Sanchez; APLO) The news of the death of Mario Chanes de Armas spread at night of today early in the morning by Martí Radio has yesterday and consternado on way the santiaguera population.

The Security of the State attacks against independent journalist in Santiago of Cuba  

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 22 of February (Pink M. Montoya/APLO) independent journalist Brave Lisette Side, is being harassed and being intimidated by the organs of the Security of the State, after it reported the events carried out by three young recruits of the Military Service who rebelled in the prison “the Sleeve�

It founds the FLAMUR the Training center and Training for the Woman “Pink Berre�

Havana, Cuba - 9 of February (Virgilio Delat-APLO) the Latin American Federation of Rural Women, (FLAMUR) founded the Training center for the Woman “Pink Berre�, like a posthumous tribute that the civil society within Cuba to that untiring fighter by the civilist cause Pink Berre offers him, that outside publisher in head of CubaNet until its death, happened the past 19 of October.

Dengue reappears in
Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, Cuba - 7 of February (Brave Lisette, APLO/www.cubanet.org) - the Pre-university Institute of Exact Sciences Antonio Maceo, Santiago of Cuba, declared in sanitary group of forty. In its facilities was a great center of mosquitos Aedes aegypti, trasmisor of dengue. Some students and professors with symptoms of the disease have been shut in a room of the Surgical Clinical hospital, in the highway of the Hut.

Mons Pedro Meurice begins its pilgrimage of goodbye.

FROM SORIA PALM, Cuba - 6 of of February (Virgilio Delat the O/APLO) Mons Pedro Meurice Estiú, began east Saturday 3 of February a pilgrimage of goodbye of by all their community, celebrating the misa and homily of from Soria Church of Palm.
 

Without milk in Santiago of Cuba

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 1 of February (Lisette Bravo/APLO) From the 25 to the 30 of past January mainly interrupted the milk sale by the basic quota in Santiago of Cuba, affecting to the children of 0 to 7 years that are those that they have right to the purchase of the milky product, the patients with medical prescription and the old ones.

In serious state of health leader farmer

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 31 of January (Virgilio Delat/APLO) I honor leader farmer Jorge Béjar Baltazar, founder and president of the independent cooperative Transición is in a serious state of health, product of a cerebral thrombosis.

According to his wife Bolaños Orchid, Jorge Béjar is entered in the intensive care unit of the Dark-brown Saturnine provincial hospital in this city, where the medical personnel describes as very delicate its present state of health.

Haitian medicine student undergoes seizure in Cuban customs.

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 30 of January (Lisette Bravo/APLO) Telmata David, a student of Haitian nationality, that attends its studies in 5to. year of his race in the Medicine Faculty Not 1, of this city of Santiago of Cuba, Jose Martí was victim of an extraordinary seizure of his properties in the customs of the international airport, of City of Havana

In hunger strike independent journalist

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 30 of January (Pink M. Montoya /APLO) the independent journalist and Director of the Agency the Voice of Haydee East Rodriguez is in hunger strike from Saturday 20 of January, like answer to the arbitrary halting and levelling of its house carried out by the organs of the Security of the State.

A day without radioelectric interference
From Soria palm

 FROM SORIA PALM, Cuba 24 January (Virgilio Delat/APLO) an exit on watch of the antenna that is used for the interference of the transmitters of short waves caused to the palmeros to enjoy a day without interference in the signal of the foreign radio.

They face the young capital punishment that rebelled in the prison “the Sleeve�.

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, the 23 of January (Lisette Bravo/APLO) three both secluded young people of the obligatory military service and that it the past rises early in it of 20 of December carried out the revolt in the penitentiary the Sleeve, where the officials died, Tte. Oliverio Orozco and the Subte. Jose Antonio Tamayo, could be facing the capital punishment, according to the mother of the Iran young person Leon Goatherd, one of the participant recruits.

Outstanding opponent passes away in
Santiago of Cuba

 SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 23 of January (Lisette Bravo/APLO) Juan Antonio Rodriguez Betancourt, president of the Brotherly School, Flower Cisneros Palmesa passed away the past in this city 6 of February, as a result of a cardiac infarct, assured medical sources.

Police brutality detonates popular reaction

SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 7 of January (Pink M. Montoya /APLO) The past 27 of December, in the neighborhoods of the farming, situated market in Trocha and Cristina followed one another a fact, that besides being the news, draws attention powerfully.

Brave Lizeth
Director APLO    

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