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Same food served dogs in the penal kennel is being served to prisoners
at Combinado de Guantánamo
(GUANTÁNAMO, January 19)–The provincial maximum security prison
Combinado de Guantánamo is considered a concentration camp, where
prisoners are not only being subjected to all cruel and torturous treatments
but the food they are being served is either rotted or filled with worms, as it
has been happening with a well-known food called cerela, a kind of a cereal that
is being served to prisoners at breakfast and also to the dogs in the penal
kennel. These dogs are trained to attack and bite the prisoners as one of the
many means of torture.
Another meal served to prisoners as the main course also filled with worms
is the well-known morcilla casserole, which is nothing more than a blend of
flour with blood coming taken from cows.
Reporting from the city of Guantánamo, Ferdinando Castro of
Lardiller, Provincial delegate of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank
País" and Coordinator of CODCE. For the Information Bridge Cuba
Miami, given on January 2002.
A few miles from Combinado de Guantánamo, a Delegation of the
American Red Cross is verifying the condition of the prisoners that were
transferred from Afghanistan to the Guantánamo Naval Base.
Health of political prisoner deteriorating in the prison "La
Pendiente"
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(HAVANA, January 19)– Carlos Manuel Campos Moya, Delegate in Functions
of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País" in the County
of Las Villa, declared that the health of political prisoner Amado Ruíz
Moreno, provincial Delegate of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País",
sanctioned unjustly to a 3 year sentence is deteriorating in the prison "La
Pendiente" in the County of Las Villas.
During the last visit to Ruiz Moreno on January 8th of this year, one was
able to ascertain how deteriorated was his health. Also, the food offered to
prisoners and especially to him, is terrible and scarce and the repression
against him personally is increasing on a daily basis for his posture against
the Castro regime.
Reporting from The Cuban Center of Information in Havana, Luis Osvaldo
Manzaneira Cúcalo,President in Function of the Democratic Party November
30 "Frank País." For the Information Bridge Cuba Miami. Given
in the month of January 2002.
In Fidel Castro's jails, "plantados" are the
most stubborn political prisoners, the ones who have endured the harshes
punishment. http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/plantados.html
The Guantanamo Naval Base
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(GUANTÁNAMO, January 18th) –The installation of the Guantánamo
Naval Base is an area, which covers c.45 sq mi (116 sq km) with one of the
best inlets in the Country. In the past, this Base has served as a refuge to
Thousands of Cubans who were forced to seek asylum due to the harassment and
repression of the totalitarian regime of Fidel Castro.
In 1994 a large number of Cuban rafters were gathered at the base, this
situation helped improve the tense relations between the naval base authorities
and the government of Cuba.
In 1999 when the government of the United States notified the Cuban
government of their plans to use the base as safe heaven for the refugees from
Kosovo, the government in Havana stated that they were going to cooperate and
said they had offered to provide whatever may be medically necessary and any
other services they would need, but ultimately, the Kosovo refugees were brought
to the naval base.
In July of last year, through mutual agreement between both authorities, the
general teaching hospital "Agustino Neto" of Guantánamo, was
visited by high-ranking naval base officials after having completed recent
major repairs in their most important wards, said repairs were facilitated with
U.S. funds, all of this took place under complete secrecy.
It is no surprise that the government of Cuba as a communist regime omits
information, manipulates the facts and publishes or informs only what is
convenient for them to publish.
The roads that join Guantánamo with the naval base were also
repaired, as were the telephone lines that run along the entire frontier.
However, the people of Cuba were informed that these repairs were being made in
response to possible future natural disasters so that the personnel in that
enclave could have access to the hospital in case of need.
After the terrorist act of September 11, 2001 perpetrated against the
people of The United States, which caused the subsequent declaration of war
against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Government of the United States has
decided to transfer the prisoners of war to the naval base. They notified
their intentions to the Cuban Government on January 7, 2002.
Since then, and due to the possibility of escape of members of the Taliban
and their crossing over to Cuban territory, a situation which could cause a
conflict between Cuba and the United States, the Cuban Government issued a
press release stating that Cuba will not increase the personnel nor its
military stationed on the perimeter of that installation.
What the Cuban Government doesn't say is that ever since the prisoners
began to arrive at the Base in Guantánamo, a special force troop unit is
in place in the Cuban perimeter with the Base (ready for combat), and that this
same unit has reinforced the mine field all throughout the perimeter
Surrounding the base nor has it made public the fact that they have put in
place many more surveillance cameras all pointing to the military installation.
The press release further states that the Cuban military personnel
stationed on the perimeter around the base is highly disciplined and qualified,
enough to guarantee that there would be no risk to the Cuban population living
in zones close to the frontier
In reality, penetration through that area towards Cuban territory is very
difficult for they would have to cross a stretch of mined field of
approximately 150 meters and go over a security fence which immediately detects
the exact location upon contact.
The Cuban population does fear having to have the terrorist detained in the
Naval Base in Guantánamo.
In closing, speaking of terrorists, this coming January 19th, is the 8th
anniversary of the horrendous killings of Kande Malera Pedroso and Ángel
Luis Valverde Linfernal, whose bodies were pierced with bullets by Cuban
boarder patrols on January 19, 1994, when these young men tried to reach the
naval base in search of freedom, fleeing from the terrorism of state imposed in
Cuba by the Castro Brothers, whom have brought so many deaths and suffering to
the Cuban people, implanting a reign of terror and death since day one of their
revolution.
From the Presss Bureau of the 30th of November in the city of Havana
reported, Ferdinando Castro de Lardiller, provincial Delegate in Guantánamo
of the Democratic Party 30 of November "Frank País". For the
Information Bridge Cuba Miami, given on January 2002.
A lawyer fired for being a dissident
(HAVANA, 21 of enero/Reinaldo Cosano Alen/LUX INFOPRESS) - Rolando Jiménez,
a lawyer who worked as Legal Advisor for the Institute of Veterinarian
Medicine in the Municipality of the Youth Island, was fired last December 20th.
On January 10th, they formally presented him with the formal discharge
papers which this 31 years old lawyer refused to accept for he considered
this action humiliating and discriminatory for it's lack of merits.
A few days prior to January 10th, Luis Blanco Placeres, manager of the
Institute in question made a public statement stating that Jimenez was not
politically reliable for he confronted problems with the State Security for
being a promoter of respect for Human Rights in Cuba, although they used
supposed labor violations such as absences and supposed unfulfilled agreements
involving the executives in that Company.
This young lawyer is Vice-President of the Association of Human Rights and
Territorial Development of the Youth's Island.
Reported from the city of Havana, Reinaldo Cosano Alen, LUX NFOPRESS.
Given to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami on January 21, 2002.
Prisoner in critical health at Combinado de Guantánamo
(GUANTÁNAMO, CUBA, January 15 the 2002) - Juan Balón Cespedes
a 25 years old common prisoner confined in floor 4-TO of the provincial prison
Combinado de Guantánamo, sanctioned to 2 years and 9 months for fraud
and 3 years for trying to escape, is being victim of the violations the
repressive system in this penitentiary, for he suffers from chronic asthma and
has continuous crisis, and due to the lack of proper medical attention in this
prison, it has also affected his heart.
His sister, Osmada Balón Cespedes in reiterated occasions has gone
to the prison authorities requesting appropriate medical attention to the
constant asthma crises that her brother is suffering but the authorities have
paid no attention to her petitions. These unattended crises have increased to a
point that at the present time this prisoner is in a cell, in critical
condition with no medical care.
The prison officials who have constantly denied medical attention to Juan
Balón Cespedes in Combinado de Guantánamo are:
4. Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Chediak Pérez, Warden of the Prison
5. Bigger Pablo King Coba, Chief of Interior Order
6. Dra. Aracelis, Head of the medical post in the Prison
Reported from the City of Guantánamo, Ferdinando Castro de
Lardiller, National Delegate of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País"
and Coordinator of the COOCE. For the Information Bridge Cuba Miami. Given in
the month of January 2002 .
In Fidel Castro's jails, "plantados" are the
most stubborn political prisoners, the ones who have endured the hashes
punishment. http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/plantados.html | 
