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HAVANA, June (www.cubanet.org) - These last few weeks, officers from the
Department of State Security (DSE) have been insistently harassing the
independent journalists who are still at large to discourage them from
continuing their work.
Whether through phone calls, summons for interviews at official places, or
home visits, the message is always the same, sometimes subtle, sometimes not.
When agents phoned journalist Juan Carlos Linares recently, it was to tell him
that if he continued writing "they would run him over with a tank,"
perhaps anticipating a tropical Tienanmen.
Journalist Fara Armenteros has received several visits lately. Recently, two
DSE officers told her that there is no official interest in imprisoning anyone
else, that the government's only concern now is for the remaining independent
journalists to rejoin society.
Problem is, we never left society. So who excluded us?
Presumably the same people who give the orders these hapless agents follow.
So now they want us back.
Meaning what? Does rejoining society mean accepting as good everything the
government has done and does, such as unjustly sentencing 75 citizens to 1454
years in jail? Or accepting that the government constantly talk about war
instead of leading the country toward a policy of understanding with the
neighbors and among all Cubans?
Very well. There is a very simple way for us to rejoin society, and even for
the close to two million Cubans who are scattered throughout the planet to
rejoin society. And that is for Fidel Castro to abandon power.
Once that happens, the political police will have no need to tell
journalists to rejoin society.
As a matter of fact, we will have no need for a political police.
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