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MIAMI, February 28 – Reuters’ correspondents in Havana Alfredo
Tedeschi and Andrew Cawthorne were beaten by Cuban police and their camera
confiscated while trying to cover events in Mexican embassy in Havana, according
to a Reuters’ dispatch. Tedeschi was beaten to the floor and Cawthorne was
beaten on the arm and back.
Reuters also mentioned that their television was initially blocked by state
television officials from broadcasting images of the incident.
Both correspondents were the only journalists who witnessed the break-in of
a stolen bus that smashed into Mexican embassy and the actions of the police
against foreign journalists, who were aggressively driven away by policemen and
agents in plainclothes shouting "Sons of bitches". | 
