Prayer Ineffective Shield Against Cuban Thought Police Tear Gas
5 December 2007, 4:45 PM. By Carlos Posas
A group of policemen wearing plain clothes kicked their way into a Cuban church to beat the shit out of a group of political dissidents that were getting ready to participate in mass. Ay Dios Mío! Jose Conrado Rodriguez, the priest who was about to officiate the mass said that the police used non-beauty pageant pepper spray and force to arrest five people who had participated in a silent demonstration against Cuba’s communist government. The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation condemned the events as a “most serious and almost unprecedented act of political repression.” We thought the entire Castro regime was an “unprecedented act of political repression”, but who are we to judge. To quote our mad love Rebekah, “Cubans have places to live, food to eat, education, and health care.” Yes, and a nice gestapo should you dare to think differently.
Police Beat Dissidents In Cuban Church: Priest [New York Times]
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come on Rebekah, make the Leninist/communist/crazy/zingy Cuban government actions legitimate once more
@Rebekah: Maybe these people were in church, thanking the lord for their “quality of life” in Cuba.
Daaaamn! I guess I could take on ALL 30 Guanabee readers by myself, but would that really be fair? I feel like I’m being gang-raped by all these attacks! Give a girl a break… I just wanna chillax sometimes like the rest of you…
I’m not into Fidel or Chavez but I find the right wing politics mixed in with the pop culture stuff disconcerting. Perhaps if you all were a bit more balanced with the politics it wouldn’t be so weird. I’m sure there are plenty of human rights issues in Mexico right now too and other Latin American countries not ruled by lefty leaders. How about some diversity?
@neither right nor left: Castro and Chavez are lightining-rod topics which stirs up the masses. I imagine it is good in terms of web traffic and readership. I take it that the editors of this blog know that. But I agree that it fuels the perception that the blog posts heavily on the Castro/Chavez topic. I would add that this topic has significant resonance because Castro/Chavez is being referenced in many elections throughout Latin America. The candidates in many recent elections in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Nicaragua referenced both Chavez and Castro heavily in some cases. So I can understand the blog’s desire to focus on these guys.
Bekah: Don’t stop…chill for a bit but come right back.