Cuba commutes death sentence of rebel exile

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Cuba commutes death sentence of rebel exile
1 hour 52 mins ago

A former Cuban exile convicted of killing a man when he returned to the island to try to start a rebellion had his death sentence commuted Tuesday in the third such decision this month by Cuba's Supreme Court.

The court reduced the sentence of Humberto Eladio Real Suarez to 30 years, said Elizardo Sanchez of the independent Cuban Commission of Human Rights.

Real has been imprisoned since 1994 when he and six other exiles came to Cuba from Florida to organise an armed uprising against the communist-led government.

He was accused of killing a guard and stealing his car before police caught the group, heavily armed with pistols and automatic weapons.





Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101229/tpl-uk-cuba-exile-43a8d4f.html

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http://www.payolibre.com.nyud.net:8090/fotos/Humberto%20E.%20Real%20Suarez.jpg

Humberto Eladio Real Suarez as a young man.

[RandomThoughts]

1. His name is Real.

That is a bit funny, not the story, but the name Real. Label trap.

I posted many sequences with Real as an name My initials and Dads first name. (actually there were some attempts to distort meaing of Al, and then there was the Albertsons, Al be Rt sons. but anyways, first attempt I have seen of a post to load 'Real' label.

To many mixed metaphors in there to comment on the actual post.


See how it is done, take something that points one way, reverse half the stuff in the story, then if you comment on the story, what part are you commenting on, the reversed or the things you agree with.

It is actually a way to try and even break up a comment on a topic.

Although that is the first attempt I have seen to load the label 'Real' with other meanings, so groups are progressing nicely through the steps.


Side note, since there is a label trap in there, if you let someone 'free you' you say they have some right to say if you should be in prison.

In my particular case, when they correct the beer and travel money issue, then I will be able to resume doing things in a more normal way while continuing thoughts on justice and compassion.

[dipsydoodle]

5. What about Real Madrid ?

:shrug:

[Judi Lynn]

2. Cuba commutes sentence of last death row inmate

28 December 2010 Last updated at 21:29 ET
Cuba commutes sentence of last death row inmate

Cuba's Supreme Tribunal has commuted the sentence of the country's last death row inmate, a rights group has said.

Humberto Eladio Real, a 40-year-old Cuban American, was convicted of killing a man in 1994 during an attempted insurgency raid.

The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation commuted his sentence to 30 years in prison.

Cuba has had an effective moratorium on carrying out death sentences for years.

Earlier this month, two other death row inmates also had their sentences commuted.

Ernesto Cruz Leon and Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, both from El Salvador, had been convicted over a bombing campaign of tourism sites in Cuba in the 1990s which killed one Italian and injured 11 other people.

More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12087865

[martymar64]

3. That terrorist can rot in prison for all I care

Murderous right thugs should all be in prison.

Somehow, Miami always lauds them and declare holidays for them.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Within the Yahoo link

is reference to :

Cuba last applied the death penalty in 2003 when three people were executed by firing squad for seizing a boat with the intent of fleeing to Miami.

For the general benefit of anyone not familiar with that particular episode :

A group of men armed with at least one pistol and several knives seized the ferry in Havana Bay early on April 2 and set sail for the United States about 50 hostages on board.

Later that day, the ferry ran out of fuel in the high seas of the Florida Straits and officers on the two Cuban Coast Guard patrol boats that chased them there tried to persuade the hijackers to return to the island.

The hijackers allegedly threatened to throw passengers from the boxy, flat-bottomed boat into the pitched waves but after much negotiation agreed to let the ferry be towed the 30 miles back to Cuba's Mariel port for refueling.

After the boat was docked in Mariel, west of Havana, Cuban authorities eventually gained control of the ferry. The suspects were arrested after a quick-thinking French woman jumped into the water to confuse her captors.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20030412/ai_n11386342/

Some of that Miami financed bunch of charlatons, The Ladies in White, are the mothers of those executed by firing squad. Being hung, drawn and quartered might have been more appropriate.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Heard at the time that they held knives to the throats of hostages.

They intended to take a ferry only capable of scooting around the bay out to sea, and it was not capable of sustaining itself against that kind of trip. It was NOT sea-worthy.

Didn't know some of those dregs in Marta Beatriz's (US-paid dissident) organization were mothers of those true criminals. It's easy to see why their government was furious with them. They are murderous scum.

People who have clean records can simply go to the American Interests Section and apply for a visa. The US offers 20,000 openings to that country annually, higher than the allottment for any other country. Only a small portion of those slots are ever taken.

Criminals have to go to extremes to get to the U.S., like the cigarette boats they hire, operated by fellow criminals from Miami.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Yes - idiots

They should've just stolen a few pedalos for the trip to Miami. :rofl:

[bitchkitty]

8. Or rode on dolphins, like Elián! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

13. Isn't that sad? The idiots heard Sam Ciancio, the REAL "fisherman" who said he was fishing

for the small dolphin FISH off the Florida coast, when he and his idiot cousin Donato Dalrymple came across Elian, and Sam jumped in the water and retrieved him, and concluded that somehow DOLPHINS SAVED ELIAN by watching over him, keeping him from drowning. OMG. OMG. OMG.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_KgBT8kIRgBo/SXi36ioawhI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/WwAHWu42sgg/s320/elian+mural.jpg

Here's a nice mural showing non-fish dolphins saving Elian,
painted by a local Miami painter, and hung on the side of a building.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Absolutely love that image! Perfect.

Going Back to Miami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-N32QhIgA

If you just watch this now, the rest of the day is guaranteed to look a whole lot better. (You'll know it can't get worse.)

[dipsydoodle]

12. He's a kinda honky James Brown

His fans call him the The White Knight of Soul. :)

A lot of that early crowd who are still alive seem to have a similar appearance to him but not the Dusty Springfield hair do. :rofl:



Yes today can now only get better. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Sorry, I am unable to cheer executions.

No death penalty. Anywhere.

[Judi Lynn]

14. It's hard to believe but several decades ago it looked as if capital punishment had been ended here.

For a brief moment, it appeared the U.S. was joining the civilized world, finally.

Damned sad.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Mmmm. Do I see abolition in their near future?

Let's hope so.

[Judi Lynn]

15. 80 years on, Cuba's Hotel Nacional still shines

80 years on, Cuba's Hotel Nacional still shines
By JENNY BARCHFIELD
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 30, 2010; 1:32 PM

HAVANA -- The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana's iconic Hotel Nacional, which marked its 80th birthday Thursday, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an aging beauty a bit past its prime.

The hotel has welcomed movie stars and mobsters, but today's visitors are mostly flip-flop-wearing tourists from Britain and Spain hoping to get a taste of the past at the apricot-colored monolith on Havana's seaside Malecon boulevard.

The hotel's story reads like a parable of recent Cuban history, chronicling the island's evolution from naughty tropical playground to communism's Caribbean enclave.

"The strength of the hotel lies in its history, in everything it's lived through and remained standing," said general manager Antonio Martinez Rodriguez. "Its fissures are like wrinkles on the face of an old and wise person who's seen it all."

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123002541.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Hotel_nacional_habana.jpg

Hotel Nacional, as seen from the Malecon.