Cuban blogger beaten up in Miami. Reason: Free speech!
Posted on October 22, 2010 by Sabina Becker
Pepe Varela shows graphically what happens to Cuban bloggers who don’t follow the hard-right Miamero line.
Dr. Paula Vernimmen, whom I’ve been following since she was trapped inside the same hospital as president Rafael Correa on September 30, during the failed coup in Ecuador, has appealed via Twitter for someone to translate this into English. It’s an entry from Yohandry, a popular Cuban blogger from the island, and it’s a shocker, so of course, I had to run with it:
Although we haven’t yet found clear references to what occurred, the images above, linked by the Miami police on an official Miami-Dade website, illustrate very well what could be the consequences of exercising your freedom of expression in that city.
During a recent trip to Cuba, Varela, who edits a blog in Miami which defends the Cuban Revolution, denounced the threats he was receiving from ultra-rightist elements in the city on Cambios en Cuba.
The Miami mafia blogosphere is already delighting in the images and celebrating the bestial beating of a man who has done no more than say what he thinks and feels in a city and a country where in reality, dissenting is a crime punished with aberrations like this one.
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http://www.sabinabecker.com/2010/10/cuban_blogger_beaten_up_in_mia.html
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Pepe Varela, before being visited by Miami blog critics. [/center]
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