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FROM
CUBA
Communist
Party militant protests lack of governmental
response to his wife's death
HOLGUIN, Cuba, December 11 (www.cubanet.org)
- A Communist Party militant held a brief
hunger strike this week to protest what
he called lack of response from Fidel Castro
on down to demands for clarification of
his wife's death.
Rolando Pérez Consuegra, 50, said
his wife, Milagros de la Caridad Sotolongo,
died two years ago after being misdiagnosed
and given a blood transfusion of the wrong
type.
Pérez Consuegra set up a table at
the entrance to his home on which he placed
a photo of his wife and copies of 11 letters
sent to Castro and other government officials.
He also posted a sign which read: "I,
Rolando Pérez Conuegra, based on
article 54 of the Constitution of the Republic,
which gives me the right to protest, declare
myself on a hunger strike because the penalties
called for by the law have not been applied
to those responsible for the death of my
wife, Milagros de la Caridad Sotolongo."
Another sign said that his protest was
not directed at the revolution, nor the
socialist state nor the doctors who attended
his wife.
Members of the Rapid Response Brigade and
the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution,
as well as government officials, showed
up at the site and, after several hours
of discussion, Pérez Consuegra took
his table and the posters back inside his
home.
Pérez Consuegra is an economist
with a state fishing company.
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