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Cuba Miami
(GUANTÁNAMO, CUBA, March 24th) – I accuse the staff at the
elementary school "Josué País García" for the
unscrupulous measures teachers use that go against the normal development of a
child and his mental health. Specifically, against my son, Pedro Santiago Castro
Márquez, 11 years old and a six grade student at the above mentioned
school. He is the victim of constant reproaches such as: "your father is a
counter-revolutionary, because he is against Fidel" "your parents are
'gusanos' (word used by Castro to describe those against the system, more
specifically to describe exiles, literal translation means worms) and scum".
These expressions are used in the presence of their classmates, who, turned
into spokespeople for the Castro regime by early mental manipulation, use them
to verbally -and on occasion physically- assault my son, who is completely
rejecting school.
This situation started when the child's school file was being prepared and
he was asked where his parents worked. He innocently responded that his father
was a delegate of the Democratic Party November 30th and his mother the
Secretary, and that he had the first independent library for children, and that
his parents also belonged to Human Rights groups.
It should be noted that my stepson had to move to Havana because his
privileges of obtaining pre-university studies were denied to him here for the
same reasons.
My elder son was sent to a dense mountainous area for his obligatory
military service in a unit of the Juvenile Work Army, a place where the troubled
and dangerous youth are sent.
This unscrupulous measures are used by Castro's communist regime as a
systematic way of turning children against their parents, teaching them that
adults who do not profess communist ideology are reactionary enemies of the
revolution, therefore inculcating in them that they cannot allow themselves to
be guided by their parents, that they should spy and denounce the adults in
their families, bringing as a result that the home, sanctuary of affection and
reciprocated trust, is turned into a place where any criticism of the
totalitarian regime could bring disastrous consequences.
Reporting from Guantánamo, Ferdinando Castro de Lardiller,
National Delegate of the Democratic Party November 30th "Frank País"
and Coordinator of COOCE. For the Information Bridge Cuba Miami. Given on
March 2002. | 
