lunes, 1 de diciembre de 2014

Let there be light Sixth Part Extraordinary 169

As a third line of opposition to Castros' dictatorship, once advanced my secret work of developing a well supported history of violations suffered by my family, and the state of impunity and violation of Constitutional and Human Rights reigning in Cuba, I started looking for ways out of the country to carry out my plans of an international Report. In December 2008 I got a passport and made several unsuccessful attempts with some friends to get out to Canada, because I had appreciated some new evidence of harassment, threats and persecution. A series of suspicious incidents began to take place, just after I had got a passport. In late January 2009, two uniformed policemen, accompanied by an armed civilian, fired two pistol shots at one o'clock in the morning at the entrance of my garden, leaving a shoe and a stick in the ground. When I came out and questioned about what had happened, they told me that a prisoner had escaped and had entered through my garden, and had jumped into the neighboring yard, and that they had shot him and missed. I did not believe that story and the next day I inquired in the neighborhood and in the village, and nobody knew anything about any escaped prisoner. I interpreted it as a clear warning that if I tried some activity against the Revolution they could kill me and blame an eventual convict. To be continued...