Director of the Union of Journalists Free Cuba.
Phone: 535 284 5392
Email: serpamaceira@yahoo.es
Havana, March 29 .- The first independent library in Cuba, under the name of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a prisoner of conscience who died after staging a hunger strike 85 days in revolt against the Castro regime, was opened in the town of Banes in the province Holguin, 900 miles of Havana. confirmed the Free Journalists Union Cauba.
cultural installation is located in the suburb of Los Pinos, in Banes, and its director is Walter Cañete Cruz, an activist of the opposition Movement Political Prisoners "Pedro Luis Boitel."
"Our library is committed to disseminating uncensored reading a particular emphasis on giving people know who was Orlando Zapata Tamayo. That was a Cuban decent, consistent with their ideals, and died in front, without bending, we shall honor his name. " Banes said by phone from Cañete Cruz.
Tamayo Luisa Reyna Danger, mother of the martyr after hearing the news of the founding of the Library said, "We need to perpetuate and honor the memory of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, his rebellious spirit continues today in struggle in the prisons, streets, confronting oppression I live proud that my son has and will have a special place in the Library, because the length and breadth of Cuba, Zapata Lives. "
At the opening of the Independent Library Orlando Zapata Tamayo, was there a representation of the Feminist Movement for Civil Rights "Rosa Park" and the Prison Policy "Pedro Luis Boitel" led by Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez). Antúnez was arrested hours later and taken back to places, where you knew he was severely beaten by police.
Carlos Serpa Maceira 
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