Carlos Serpa Maceira Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
Phone: 535 284 5392
Email: serpamaceira@yahoo.es
Havana, 7 April. - Photos and videos showing the Damas de Blanco, wives and families of prisoners of conscience in Cuba, being dragged by the hands and other immobilized with keys in the neck, by agents of state security, police and mobs pro government during a protest march in the neighborhood of Parraga, Arroyo Naranjo municipality, in Havana, toured the world.
Police officers and civilians were beaten, they pulled their hair, insulted and told obscenities. Several of the Damas de Blanco, including Reyna Luisa Tamayo Danger, the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a prisoner of conscience who died after a prolonged hunger strike, were the Calixto Garcia hospital, treated for his bruises. Laura Pollan Toledo, leader of the Damas de Blanco, I plastered the right arm from one finger to the elbow.
violence reported by the Foreign Press correspondents accredited in the island, is not an isolated event, has its antecedents.
Revolution Castro came to power not through elections, bombs, attacks, kidnappings, political assassinations and sabotage decided the fate of the Republic on January 1, 1959.
The Cuban Revolution, stimulated violence, first against the collaborators of the deposed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and ultimately, against their opponents. Thousands of Cubans were arrested and taken to the firing squads. Others were driven to emigrate by terror and death.
Those who lived through those turbulent days, reminiscent of the street mobs calling for the wall! Many times without really knowing who condemned.
The communist regime has promoted violence and hatred between Cubans, organizing firing squads, concentration camps, the UMAP (Military Units to Aid Production) acts of repudiation, designed the Rapid Response Brigades disguised as people. Inciting hatred against those who leave Cuba, calling them stateless and criticizing and opts for a dissenting position.
The threat, insult, blows and rudeness are part of the official philosophy, scoring more than the absence of moral and ethical values.
violence at individual and social, is spreading like a cancer, becoming a powerful strategy of domination and obedience imposed by the authorities Cuban.
extirpate the violence and hatred with the help of everyone. We need to embrace us as brothers. Condemn those who have broken the feeling of brotherhood and familiarity that has always characterized the Cuban people. Let justice take care of the guilty, but we as people, erasing our history forever.
was an article written from Havana, Cuba, by journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira, Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
Note: To accompany the article attached a photograph taken by this reporter last March 17, 2010, which shows a 10 Damas de Blanco, who were beaten by state security police and pro-government mobs in the protest march in the neighborhood of Parraga, to mark the 7th anniversary of the Black Spring of 2003 in Cuba.
Carlos Serpa Maceira 
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