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FROM
CUBA
Telephone company refuses service to independent
journalist
HAVANA, January 30 ( Roberto Pérez,
Agencia Patria / www.cubanet.org) - Independent
journalist Antonio Femenías Hechemendia
thought he'd finally obtain a telephone
when the ETECSA, the national telephone
company, assigned numbers to those living
in the historical center of the city of
Ciego de Ávila.
However, when his wife, Irsy Adelina Rodríguez
Pérez, went to the company to sign
a contract for the telephone, she was told
that service could not be connected and
she would get an explanation from the government's
Popular Power organization.
There she was told that "the benefits
of the Revolution" were not available
to dissidents. Then, officers of the political
police visited Antonio Femenías Hechemendia
and accused him of trying to enlist people
to become independent journalists.
Finally, employees of the telephone went
to the Femenías Hechemendia home
and removed the telephone cable that had
been installed.
Popular Power advised the block committee
in the historic center that a telephone
had mistakenly been assigned to Femenías
Hechemendia.
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