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NUEVA GERONA, June 6 (Carlos Serpa Maceira, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) -
Everyone agrees dissident René Gómez Manzano’s phone hasn’t
worked since May 10. As to how and why it hasn’t, Gómez has his own
ideas.
"There are four apartments in my building... I don’t know of any
problems with the phones in the other three units, or with anyone else’s
phone in the neighborhood," says Gómez, who adds that he has
regularly paid for the service as required.
Gómez was released from jail in May, 2000, after serving 1,043 days
for having signed a document called "The Fatherland Belongs
To All," advocating pluralism as an alternative to the present
government’s policies of restricting the benefits of citizenship to "Revolutionaries,"
or advocates of the government.
Gómez is convinced his inoperative phone is another way for the
government to harass him. He has complained to ETECSA, the joint venture between
Italian capital and Cuban officials that provides phone service in the island,
but has had no response so far.
"This has to do with my activities as an opponent of the government.
Until they show me otherwise, I’m going to think the harassment is due to
my activities as a dissident," said Gómez.
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