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Mob excoriates independent journalist
HAVANA, Cuba – May 22 (Ernesto Roque Cintero, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) – A mob congregated in front of independent journalist José Antonio Fornaris' home May 18 and staged an "act of repudiation" against him.
The government maintains these mobs are spontaneous manifestations of the popular will and calls the events "acts of revolutionary affirmation." Dissidents have long claimed that the mobs respond to and are organized by the government's security apparatus. In fact, the mob that congregated in front of Fornaris' home was backed up by a car loaded with loudspeakers, not
the sort of thing the average Cuban has at his ready disposal.
The crowd of about 70 strong chanted hurrahs to the revolution, and called Fornaris a mercenary, and a salaried lackey of the empire, referring to the U.S.
Fornaris called the whole thing "terrorism sponsored by the State."
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