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Carlos Wotzkow, December 2, 2002.
Early this year, the Major of Bienne, the socialist Hans Stöckli,
invited Fidel Castro to the inauguration of Expo 02. At that time he made a bet
with the local newspaper (Biel Bienne), in which he ascertained that dictator
Castro would come to his city (a small village not bigger than San José
de las Lajas in Cuba), to visit the Expo (which appeared to be the hugest
economic squandering made in Switzerland after the purchase of the F-18 planes).
Like a shameless messenger, Major Stöckli ran from Bienne to Bern to
beg the Cuban ambassador, "comrade Theresa Vicente" for news about the
visit of his honored guest. But the plain and open ambassador, neither
diplomatic nor polite, hid from him all the time leaving an answering machine
and fax - which she never answered - in charge of her consulate functions.
Sad and melancholic, Hans Stöckli, watched how his Expo was ending
without the arrival of his "Líder Máximo", which caused
him to physically chase the Cuban representative in Switzerland on several
occasions. Hans Stöckli‘ s dilemma, about three months ago was more or
less the following: "Everybody is informed - pledged hopeless - from the
Cuban ambassador to Swiss ambassador in Cuba, including the Federal Counselor
Joseph Deiss. It is only a matter of a little help from destiny, and I will win
the bet" (1).
In January, this year, when I new of this repulsive invitation, I wrote an
article entitled "Bienne: Headquarters of Fools on Switzerland" (2),
and I sent it by certified mail to Stöckli office. So far, just as it
happened to him with the Cuban ambassador, he has not answered me or even tried
to find out a bit more about his honorable guest, the Cuban Polpot, or the
modern Hitler of the Caribbean, as you may consider best.
However, the topic that inspires me to write this today is not that of a
mean dictator like Castro invited by a fool Swiss to "teach a lecture on
history to Swiss youths" neither the Expo 02 which is not even worth a good
criticism. The topic today is that there are two Cubans in danger, and not even
Stöckli, or a good help from destiny will save them, if we do not join
forces together against the human disaster that communist Cuba represents.
In December 1998, Manuel Antonio Vega González applied for political
asylum status in Geneva and was sent to Ticino. From that moment on, a long
process starts in which, after all the evidence presented, the Swiss authorities
are still not convinced of the alleged persecution causes. On June 11th , 2001,
Susana María Martínez López, sentimentally related to the
above mentioned Cuban, asked for an asylum status in the Ticino canton and even
after explaining that her fiancé was in Ticino, she is sent to Bern.
So the Federal Bureau for the Refugees in Switzerland joined efforts with
Castro in his attempts to segregate and destroy Cuban family bonds, forcing them
apart and needing to spend a lot of money to see each other.
But the worst decision was yet to come. On October 21st, of the current
year, the Swiss Federal Bureau for the Refugees informed Manuel Vega that his
appeal was not accepted and that his deportation to Cuba was "practicable".
That means: imminent, and with date December 12th, 2002.
I don’t have to explain any Cuban what these fellow countryman and
woman felt when they knew that the Swiss authorities had failed to back them or
understand them. Their solution to his dilemma was clear: only dead they will
return to Cuba. And in a matter of hours they sell all their belongings cheap
and with the amount of the sale they bought two false Spanish passports and two
plane tickets to escape the fate, but unfortunately were arrested when boarding
the plane in Zürich.
For the Swiss authorities and for majors as Stöckli, it is only a
matter of two foreign citizens that broke the law. For any Cuban it is a matter
of life or death. It is a case of two honest people that confronted themselves
ethically and for the first time, due to the Swiss policy of asylum, are forced
to break the law to save their lives. That is why I am ashamed of Stöckli,
and I am ashamed of Switzerland, a country that until now was far from the
mediocrity of Europe but shamefully is little by little falling into it.
For those, Cubans or not, that might feel touched by the efforts and fate of
these two fellow citizens of Cuba, there is just a hope to save them. This hope
is to write. Write letters to the Federal Bureau for the Refugees in Switzerland
and ask for them a humanitarian permit so they could stay in Switzerland until
the end of Castro and then they can be sent back, but only then and not to the
claws of the murderer of Fidel Castro. I myself have already started to write,
because I still do believe much more in Swiss institutions that in those of my
country now. You can help. Please write now:
Office Féderal des Réfugiés
Quellenweg 6
CH-
3003 Bern-Wabern
Switzerland.
Carlos Wotzkow
Bienne 2nd 2002
gundlachi@hotmail.com
Notes:
1.- The information stated in paragraph 1 to 3 was taken
from the Biel Bienne in the section "Actuel", September 12th 2002,
scorning Stöckli.
2.- The article "Bienne: general headquarters of fools
in Switzerland" was published in dozens of internet web pages. A printed
copy of La Nueva Cuba of January 24th 2002 was the version I sent to Stöckli`s
Office.
Manuel A. Vega González: Swiss temp ID N° : N 360 234
Mas / Mct. Ref. N° 12 809 147
Susana M. Matínez López: Swiss temp ID N° : N 409
678 Ebl. Ref. N° 13 043 491 | 
