Academic ousted from CCP for criticizing gov’t corruption

Esteban Morales, the Cuban academic who wrote the article “Corruption: The True Counterrevolution?” (published by the National Artists and Writers Union of Cuba in early April 2010, and later removed from its website) criticizing government corruption in Cuba as the greatest threat to the island’s communist system has been stripped of membership in the Cuban Communist Party as punishment for his criticism, reports Havana Times.

(Image: Esteban Morales. By Patricia Grogg-IPS.)

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