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FROM
CUBA
Government supporters prevent independent
journalist from making pilgrimage
HAVANA, September 15 (Víctor Manuel
Domínguez, Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Some 35 female members of the government's
Rapid Response Brigade blocked the front
of the home of independent journalist Caridad
Díaz Beltrán in Jovellanos,
Matanzas province, preventing her from leading
a procession to honor Cuba's patron saint,
la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre.
The incident occurred September 8 when
Díaz Beltrán played host to
a group of mothers and wives of political
prisoners from Matanzas province. After
paying homage and praying before a statue
of the virgen, they were to have marched
to Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
church.
Díaz Beltrán said that as
the women left her home, they were followed
by members of the Rapid Response Brigade
who told them to go straight home.
The brigade members spent nearly six hours
in front of her house.
Díaz Beltrán is director
Lux Info Press.
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