FROM
CUBA
Government supporters taking repressive
measures against dissidents
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - August 18 (Niurvys
Díaz Redmond, Cubanacán Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Members of the Democratic
Christian Movement of Cuba in Santa Clara
say supporters of the government have been
taking repressive actions against them.
Roberto Carlos Pérez García,
national coordinator of the organization,
and Fidel Rodríguez García,
a neighbor, were surrounded by government
supporters who shouted "Terrorists!"
and "Mercenaries!" at them.
Member Freddy Martín Fraga said
he was shoved by a member of Power Power
when he took his infant daughter to a day-care
center. "The man told me that I was
forbidden to leave my home," Fraga
said.
A member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
told his wife to stop caring for the daughter
of independent journalist Karel Castillo.
Julio Marrero, a movement member, said
some 30 members of the Communist Party congregated
outside his house and shouted, "Fatty,
come out of your house! We're going to kill
you!"
An advisor to the movement, Guillermo Fariñas
Hernández, was shoved by a member
of the Communist Party while he was talking
to a neighbor in front of his house.
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