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oberliner

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5. That is total BS

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:41 PM

Mar 2016

304 Dissidents Arrested Ahead of Obama Visit, Cuba Human Rights Group Says

HAVANA, Cuba -- The head of Cuba’s leading human rights organization tells ABC News that 304 people were arrested for criticizing the Cuban government just days before President Obama’s historic visit to the island.

The Cuban Commission on Human Rights provided a list of names and the locations where the arrests took place -- 104 of them in Havana and others at locations throughout Cuba.

“Since last year, we’re talking about thousands” of arrests, Elizardo Sanchez told ABC. “The worst thing is that the Cuban government has unleashed a huge wave of political oppression, and during Obama’s visit this morning they were arresting people and this will go on for the rest of the day and probably tomorrow.”

http://abcnews.go.com/International/304-dissidents-arrested-ahead-obama-visit-cuba-human/story?id=37823936

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I'm watching the Cuba v the Tampa Bay Rays baseball game in Havana. They are awaiting Pres. Obama [View all] brush Mar 2016 OP

Thanks! Tuned in on ESPN. Land of Enchantment Mar 2016 #1

Appreciation towards the Castros? oberliner Mar 2016 #2

Most Cubans in Cuba do. Mika Mar 2016 #3

That is total BS oberliner Mar 2016 #5

You have this one wrong malaise Mar 2016 #7

You have no way of knowing that oberliner Mar 2016 #13

Then maybe you don't know the relationship between Cuba and Jamaica n/t malaise Mar 2016 #15

You have no way of knowing what you say. I lived in Cuba. Many of my family live there, I go often Mika Mar 2016 #33

I would guess that most *claim* to. trotsky Mar 2016 #17

What a bigoted and uninformed comment. Mika Mar 2016 #34

LMAO! trotsky Mar 2016 #36

HRW has no observers there. HRW's Cuba reports are based on stories fabricated by Cubanet employees. Mika Mar 2016 #38

Oh I get it. trotsky Mar 2016 #40

A lie goes around the world before truth can get its boots on. Mika Mar 2016 #41

Why don't they have human rights observers in Cuba? trotsky Mar 2016 #42

We go over this on the LatAm forum almost every time a Cuba related event comes up. Mika Mar 2016 #43

Yup, there's the forum. trotsky Mar 2016 #44

For overthrowing the dictator Batista brush Mar 2016 #4

If they don't appreciate it, they get arrested oberliner Mar 2016 #6

I'm talking intellectually, privately, historically do they wonder where Cuba would be . . . brush Mar 2016 #9

Maybe oberliner Mar 2016 #10

There's a lot of free speech in Cuba but one cannot speak badly of Fidel flamingdem Mar 2016 #31

WHAT? This is where we part ways. Mika Mar 2016 #35

Well maybe that's just folklore but I don't think so flamingdem Mar 2016 #39

Much as had happened during the Batista presidency LanternWaste Mar 2016 #20

Do you see Castro in the same light as those two right wing dictators that came before? brush Mar 2016 #25

It seems like that to you, maybe because you don't know. Mika Mar 2016 #37

Do you know why there is no baseball in the Olympics?? malaise Mar 2016 #8

No. Why do I get the feeling you're going to tell me? brush Mar 2016 #11

Is it because Cuba always wins? oberliner Mar 2016 #12

Correct n/t malaise Mar 2016 #16

There is a simple reason for that. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2016 #32

If they bring it back guess the World Baseball Congress event will dissolve brush Mar 2016 #26

Do you have a link? Are you watching on ESPN? flamingdem Mar 2016 #14

Sorry, no link. I'm watching it on ESPN brush Mar 2016 #18

They're about to interview Obama malaise Mar 2016 #19

In the middle of the game? flamingdem Mar 2016 #21

Yep - we're not seeing the game right now malaise Mar 2016 #22

Split screen every now and then malaise Mar 2016 #23

What I love most about Obama malaise Mar 2016 #24

I was thinking the same about his speech, he admitted to the faults of the USA flamingdem Mar 2016 #27

Said that on another thread malaise Mar 2016 #28

I see on twitter that the Cuban pitcher is/was chewing a toothpick flamingdem Mar 2016 #29

Very old school malaise Mar 2016 #30