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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
government advocate censured for turnabout
HAVANA, July 30 (www.cubanet.org) - "Give
the people what belongs to the people," said
Committee for the Defense of the Revolution member
Olga Lidia Arboláez at a meeting held to
censure her for having signed on to Project Varela,
an initiative advocating change in Cuba's government
through peaceful means, such as elections.
Arboláez was questioned by two police
officials about having signed onto Varela, which
the Cuban government strenuously opposes. Later,
she was subject to a "meeting of repudiation"
by a crowd in front of her home in Camagüey.
Arboláez argued that in Cuba liberty and
democracy are needed, and that the best way to
those ends is to let the people, through elections,
come up with answers. She also challenged the
members of the crowd, asking them to explain what
and whom they feared.
The woman later had to take refuge inside the
house when a number of old people, members of
the Association of Revolutionary Fighters asked
that she be stoned.
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