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PINAR DEL RÍO, February 5 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI /
www.cubanet.org).- Miguel Ángel Borges sought to monitor the counting of
the votes cast in Cuba's elections for delegates to the National Assembly
January 19. Now the authorities want to try him for disobedience.
Borges showed up on election day at electoral colleges 1 and 2, in the 41st
and 50th electoral districts, in the town of Manuel Lazo, Pinar del Río
province, to oversee the counting of the votes, which he says he has a right to
do according to the Cuban constitution.
At both voting venues, police in civilian clothing prevented him from coming
closer to the tables than about 25 feet. When he demanded his constitutional
right to oversee the count, he was told he is a dissident and had no right to be
there.
Borges was later interviewed by Captain-Instructor Carlos Rivera in
neighboring Sandino about the events on election day. Reportedly authorities are
preparing to try Borges on charges of disobedience.
Borges is an activist with the "20th of May Human Rights Foundation."
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