November 15, 2006
FIDEL TO THE TURQUINO PEAK
Santiago de Cuba – Construction workers from this
province have been transferred to the outskirts of famous Turquino Peak
in the Sierra Maestra, on the east side of Cuba, where it seems they
have begun the construction of an obelisk for burying Fidel Castro.
Sources of the Communist Party and its youth organization, the UJC, in
Santiago de Cuba, assure that the participating workers in such obelisk
have been carefully selected, under the strict guidance of the
politburo. It is very common among Santiago’s population to hear the
comment about Castro’s burial in Turquino Peak. ¨The important thing is
for him to finally die, that we’ll bury him anywhere¨, expressed a young
teacher working underground as foreign tourists chauffer.
POSSIBLE PARTY CONGRESS
Havana – The possibility of summoning to an urgent
Communist Party congress, in the next days, is a rumor circulating all
over the island. An European diplomat who has not been identified
pointed out to independent journalist José Raúl García, that there are
evidences that Raúl Castro himself will call for a Communist Congress,
at the end of the month, in order to ¨reorganize¨ the government
apparatus before Fidel Castro’s imminent death. Some members of the
internal opposition have declared that after the transfer of power from
Fidel to his brother Raúl, on early August, a ¨purge¨ or settlement of
accounts is already taking place among leaders of the Communist Party,
the Ministry of the Interior and the Armed Forces.
MILITARY DISPLACEMENT
Havana – An unusual displacement of forces has been
observed in the Cuban capital, especially at the entrance and exit
points of this city with more than two million inhabitants. In certain
areas, as the Havana Bay tunnel, truck and troop transports are
circulating with no apparent reason. Also police and reservists patrols,
called to arms in early August, are moving around the city, day and
night. Comments published in the Venezuelan press indicate that Cuban
soldiers assigned to this South American country are coming back to the
island. Meanwhile, Granma newspaper keeps publishing small biographies
of generals which seemingly are going to play a more active part, under
Raúl Castro’s command.
SANCTIONED LEADERS RETURN
Havana – Carlos Aldana, who at the end of the 80s became
the “third man” in Cuba and was later sanctioned by Fidel Castro for
alleged corruption, has come back under the shadow of Raúl Castro, of
whom he was chief of office and political advisor. It is commented
inside the Party’s Central Committee –according to anonymous sources
consulted by the independent press agency Carta de Cuba-
that Aldana would return to the diplomatic sphere along with another one
likewise sanctioned to the so called “pajama plan”, Roberto Robaina,
former Minister of Foreign Relations. In the same way, it has been
mentioned the return of Humberto Pérez, main theoretician of the Marxist
economy during the first thirty years of communist power, who designed
the free peasant markets, as well the ex-ideologist of the Communist
Party, Antonio Pérez Herrero, all of them close to Raúl Castro.
COMMUNIST YOUTH PREMISES ROBBED
Ciego de Avila – In recent days, and after an inspection
of computers kept on the premises occupied by the Communist Youth Union
of the Municipality of Bolivia, in Ciego de Avila, it was discovered
that many of their components have been taken away, such as hard disks,
connecting tapes, RAM memories, etc. According to sources that supplied
the information to Carta de Cuba, these computers were not in
use, only stored away at the before mentioned communist center. Other
computers, in this case the ones used by the so called “social workers”
in their private homes, also revealed the loss of hardware elements,
according to the source.
REPUDIATION ACT
Ciego de Avila – Paramilitary mobs, along with students
and other people manipulated by the State Security, positioned
themselves in front of the home of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights
President, Juan Carlos Leiva, with the purpose of carrying out a
repudiation act. According to González Leiva himself, the repressive
action began around 7 o’clock in the morning, last Wednesday, and was
extended till close to 5 in the afternoon. Powerful loudspeakers were
broadcasting shrill and repetitive music interrupted on occasions by
pro-government speakers with short, prepared speeches. The zone was
surrounded in various blocks by police and State Security forces, while
around the house, policemen dressed in plain clothes and the very same
mobs prevented that anybody could enter or come out of the place.
Apparently, this repudiation act was provoked by the possible
participation and monitoring, by the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights,
of the trial against incapacitated Yoandri Quintana Sarría.
CITIZENS PROTEST IN MORON
Morón – Hundreds of residents of this city gathered at
the Martí park, in the center of town, to protest against a forceful
eviction performed by the Municipal Government authorities, with support
of police agents and the so called ¨social workers¨. Local sources
indicated that at dawn of November 9th, homeless families
living in the ruins of hotel ¨Perla del Norte¨, were thrown by force
into the streets. These families had been residing in the abandoned
installation, for over three years. The protest was witnessed by several
foreign tourists, who showed their surprise in face of such unexpected
situation.
PHYSICAL SEARCH OF "LADY IN WHITE"
Ciego de Avila – Clara Lourdes Prieto Llorente, a Lady
in White, sister of the independent journalist and political prisoner
Fabio Prieto Lloren, sanctioned to 20 years, denounced that her brother
has been deprived of his right to receive mail as well as religious
assistance, preventing him of all access to the Catholic magazine ¨Palabra
Nueva¨, and even of having a calendar. Clara Prieto recently visited her
brother at the Guayabo prison, in Isla de Pinos, and consequently was
physically searched till they found a seal with Fabio Prieto Llorente
picture and the inscription ¨Prisoner of Conscience¨, which was
immediately taken away. In spite the fact that Fabio is suffering from a
chronic obstructive lung disease with emphysema, the prison officers
keep him in a narrow, enclosed cell which gets wet when it rains, and
where he has to sleep over a cement bench.
Arriba (up)
November 15, 2006
Mausoleo en el Turquino