Friday, August 21, 2009

Odds and ends

  • Elizardo Sanchez, head of the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, released this report (pdf, in English and Spanish) last week including 208 persons on its “partial list of persons sentenced or tried for political reasons.” Of these, 65 are prisoners of conscience recognized by Amnesty International. The report (see paragraphs 11 and 12) chides the government for surveillance of citizens and notes that if high officials such as Carlos Lage are surreptitiously filmed, no citizen can feel immune from surveillance.

  • The New York Times on the ongoing contact and exchange of information between meteorologists in the United States and Cuba regarding hurricanes.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now we have a list of 208 people who are not likely to attend Juanes' concert. Will some of their wives be allowed to attend if they dress in their customary white?

Vecino de NF

leftside said...

Will some of their wives be allowed to attend if they dress in their customary white?

I doubt they are Juanes fans, but why wouldn't they be able to come? They march down 5th Avenue in Miaramar every weekend...

Anonymous said...

yes, free as birds, leftside, and no regime goons openly watching their every move in case any other citizen gets the wrong impression that the regime approves of such activity...

chingon

Anonymous said...

Leftside, chingon,

Was there something between you too that we are not aware? C'mon let's play nice, OK!

Vecino de NF

Anonymous said...

From the comfort of their capitalist existence, leftside and his ilk live out their ideological fantasy on the backs of the Cuban people. It is morally reprehensible and deserves to be treated as such.

chingon

Anonymous said...

Chingon,

Isn't this a political blog and therefore morality had no place in it? After all wasn't Signor Machiavlli who said "Politics have no relation to morals"?

Vecino de NF