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FROM
CUBA
Police obstruct Varela Project signature
gathering in Cuba
HAVANA, June 3 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez
/ www.cubanet.org) - Agents of the political
police threatened several government opponents
with the refusal to issue exit visas should
they persist in gathering signatures for
the Varela Project, an initiative that seeks
to reform the island's Communist system
legally from within.
Pablo García, Eslay Casas, and three
others who asked not to be named, said they
were called into the Santiago de las Vegas
police station, where they were questioned
about the movement to which they belong,
the Opponents for a New Republic.
The dissidents said the organization to
which they belong is a peaceful one, and
that all they do is exercise their rights
under the UN Declaration of the Rights of
Man.
Department of State Security agents, led
by captain Adrián, and officers Diorlis,
Adolfo, and one other, told the dissidents
that they would not countenance public demonstrations
of any kind and insisted that the dissidents
quit their "counterrevolutionary"
activities or else they would never be allowed
to leave the country.
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