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Bloggers
Denounce Spain in New Advertising Campaign
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Billboards to Highlight
Spanish Complicity in Cuban Exploitation
MIAMI, 18--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Spanish
government is being denounced by Bloggers
United for Cuban Liberty (http://bucl.org)
in a new advertising campaign aimed at educating
the public about oppression in Castro's
Cuba.
The multimedia campaign, unveiled today,
consists of bus shelter panels that target
areas near the Spanish consulate and the
Spanish Cultural Center, both in Coral Gables,
Florida. An online component, launching
today, will steer readers searching for
certain information about Cuba and Spain
to BUCL.org.
"This effort marks the first of several
coordinated activities aimed at exposing
those countries, companies and institutions
that aid and abet the Castro regime in oppressing
the Cuban people," said Henry Gomez,
the spokesman for Bloggers United for Cuban
Freedom.
Gomez continues: "Spanish businesses
are dealing directly with the Castro regime
and are helping perpetuate Cuba's totalitarian
system by complying with that country's
unfair labor laws and enforcing an apartheid
system in which Cubans are not allowed to
use the same facilities as tourists. From
the Spanish perspective, there is no reason
to pursue change in Cuba, they are benefiting
from exploitation of Cuban workers and would
like to see the status quo perpetuated."
The Socialist Spanish government of Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been leading
an effort to normalize relations between
the European Union and Cuba. Those relations
have been strained since the Castro regime's
crackdown on and jailing of 75 dissidents
and independent journalists in 2003. In
April of this year, Spain's foreign minister
Miguel Angel Moratinos visited Cuba and
met with Raul Castro, while noticeably snubbing
Cuban dissidents that had requested a meeting
with him.
"It's important for the Spanish government
and business interests to know that freedom-loving
Cubans will not forget who conspired with
the Castro brothers and against their liberty
when the inevitable fall of the dictatorship
comes," said Val Prieto, editor of
BabaluBlog.com and member of Bloggers United
for Cuban Liberty.
Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty is a
confederation of blogs and web sites that
pool resources and ideas for use in campaigns
that raise awareness of the Cuban reality.
Current campaign sponsors include: BabaluBlog.com;
CubanAmericanPundits.com; BlogforCuba.typepad.com;
Claudia4Libertad.com; jluix.com; TheRealCuba.com;
the26thparallel.blogspot.com; CubaCompanioni.blogspot.com;
LaContraRevolucion.blogspot.com; MarcMasferrer.typepad.com;
TomasEstradaPalma4Today.blogspot.com; TrenBlindado.com;
NelsonGuirado.com; Cubanology.com; AbajoFidel.blogspot.com;
and albertodelacruz.com.
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