Orlando Zapata

Gov’t harasses mother of deceased political prisoner

August 17, 2010

Reina Tamayo, mother of deceased political prisoner, Orlando Zapata, is being mistreated by the Cuban government. She is being harassed and repressed from even attending Mass. [Catholic News Agency]

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Hankering for freedom

July 8, 2010

From today’s The Economist: CUBA’S leadership understands only too well how starving to death can help a cause. In 2000 Fidel Castro, who had apparently been moved by the plight of Irish republican hunger-strikers, approved the construction in Havana of a memorial to Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners. Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein’s leader, attended [...]

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Brazil and the despots

June 14, 2010

Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal details Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s trend toward defending despots: The repressive Iranian government is only the latest example. There is also Lula’s unconditional support for Cuba’s dictatorship and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. In February, Cuba allowed political dissident Orlando Zapata to starve to death the same week [...]

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Beginning of the end?

April 13, 2010

Former Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Castañeda questions whether this is the beginning of the end of the Castro regime in his El País op-ed, where he formulates three factors precipitating an end: (i) a fierce economic crisis; (ii) the death of Orlando Zapata, Damas de Blanco movement and Guillermo Fariñas hunger strike; and (iii) Fidel [...]

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