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The Attorney General's Office considers my insults intolerable. They instructed me that from the year 1997 and to that date (2002), after the application in 1996 of the Decree-Law 164 to my wife, I had expressed offenses and insults toward different attorneys, like to the Vice Attorney General Mr. Rafael Pino Bécquer, Chief of Assistantship Direction, whom I had called corrupt; to Luis Pablo Ibáñez Silva, Provincial Chief Attorney whom I called immoral; And that I had rated answer of Francisco Javier Fernandez Guerra, Assistantship Director of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic as accessory and his acting as prepotent and cynical; calling him lier as well as Mr. Rafael Pino Bécquer. To be continued... 

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As I expected the legal course of my well-founded accusation against General Juan Escalona Regueira was obstructed; and when on March 26th, 2002 I put a Complaint for Lawbreaking of Penal Procedure in the Accusation against the Attorney General of the Republic, they decided to play their last card to silence me once and for all; and on May 14th, I was summoned to the police Station of my home town, Abreus; where I was informed of the start of a file of preparatory phase for Denunciation No. 152-20, for the Crime of Contempt. I knew Castro's government had eliminated from the crime code a pre-revolutionary provision, that allowed those charged with contempt to invoke the truthfulness of their statements as a defense; so I decided to hire a fourth lawyer, the best one available, and of course, in Havana; and Ivan Celestrín was finally my choice. To be continued...

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¿Por qué muchos cubanos no firman la Petición de Denuncia a las Cortes de Derechos Humanos contra la Manipulación y Secuestro de la Constitución de Cuba por los Castros?

1-Limitación del Derecho a la libre información.-Todos sabemos que en Cuba el acceso a Internet es escaso y controlado por el régimen.

2-Desconocimiento.-La falta de tiempo y lo complejo de la política muchas veces hace que las personas no comprendan con claridad el mensaje y el objetivo de determinada iniciativa.

3-Incomprensión.-También sucede que aunque tienen conocimientos de política y tiempo para estudiar la iniciativa no la comprenden o confunden su objetivo.

4-Miedo.-El natural que quien ha vivido casi toda su vida bajo una dictadura totalitaria, aún después de liberarse continúen sintiendo miedo a las posibles represalias del régimen a la hora de regresar a su país para visitar sus seres queridos.

5-Desconfianza.-Otros que aunque son disidentes y críticos activos del régimen en las redes sociales desconfían del fruto que puede rendir determinada iniciativa y optan por no apoyarla a expensas incluso de favorecer al régimen con semejante actitud.

6-Apatía.-Lamentablemente para la mayoría de las iniciativas y proyectos políticos que se lanzan en las redes sociales, existe un número significativo de personas que simplemente no les interesa la política, aunque hayan sido víctimas de ella, y viven a su aire sin importarles nada más que lo que les afecta directa e inmediatamente a ellos mismos.

7-Castristas.-La realidad es dura pero hay que aceptarla; hay todavía quien cree y defiende a los Castros, abierta o solapadamente.

Es nuestro trabajo descubrir cuál de estos motivos justifica la falta de apoyo de los que nos niegan o no nos dan su firma y encaminar nuestros esfuerzos en los casos que sea posible a tratar de cambiar la situación a nuestro favor.

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In 2001 I continued with my demands and accusations, but the lack of justice and respect for Human Rights always prevailed as an inherent feature of Castro's dictatorship. On January 8th, I sent an Impugnation Letter to the Attorney General of the Republic. But on May 8th, I had to insist on my Impugnation again; and as it was evident that they were violating their duty, on November 11th, I had no other alternative than to make a Formal Accusation against the Attorney General of the Republic, General Juan Escalona Regueira, for the Crime of Prevarication. To be continued...

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The following year 2000, after I had delivered a COMPLAINT on February 12th for violation of Legality against Urbano Pedraza Linares, director of Legal Assistance at the Ministry of Justice; and after I had written my first Complaint to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on March 15th, informing him that it was outrageous and shameful that a formal Accusation made under legal assistance on January 30th, 1997 had reached the year 2000, and perhaps later, because of unscrupulous interests evading to rectify errors at the expense of a serious economic, psychological and moral damage for my whole family, and even worse, at the expense of the denigration of the Cuban judicial system; on April 24th I formally denounced of Prevarication the two judges involved in the contrary to law acquittal of  the accused Navy commander Diaz Padron. Likewise, on April 25th, 2000, I accused Major Luis Alberto Coca Valdes, Court-Martial President who dictated sentence No.117, in the cause No.68 of 1999, at the Court-Martial's seat of Cienfuegos Garrison, for the Crime of Prevarication,  accusation ceased temporarily, even without allowing me to depose. And finally that year, on August 20th I applied to the State Council for the SEPARATION of María del Carmen Romero Pérez, as Chief of the Direction of Civic Rights Protection at the Attorney General's Office of the Republic for gross incompetence, negligence and inexcusable ignorance. To be continued...

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Castro´s government's lack of respect for law and the reigning Impunity in Cuba when officials are involved not only did not make me give up, but made me more aggressive instead.  On January 1999, I sent Raul Castro, Army General and Minister of the Armed Forces then, 2 new complaints, in addition to another one I had written him on October 21st, 1998. And on May 4th, 1999 I put a report against Navy Commander Orlando Díaz Padrón, Chief of Fishing Inspection in Cienfuegos, for the crime of defamation. And on August 25th, 1999 I accused Martha Martínez Samalea, legal advisor of the Minister of Fishing, for the Crime of Prevarication. To be continued...

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Seeing Castro´s government's lack of respect for law from the very beginning, I had decided to fight them hard. Just imagine that to finally take the five officials to Court it took me two years, three lawyers and almost every single judicial procedure available. Only in 1997: On January 30th Lawyer Antonio Gainza reported the crimes of  Tresspassing and Ilegal Search perpetrated in my home. On July 9th Lawyer Gainza impugned the answer given by the District Attorney's Office. On December 16th Lawyer Santiago Barceló Landeira filed for the Nullity of the Administrative Act of December 16th, 1996, for Illicit acting of inspectors of fishing, when violating their objective competition in my home. To be continued...

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Cassation sentence No. 146/99 of October 7th,1999, finally absolved the three inspectors acting in the illegal search, discovering the gross fabrication conceived to help the colleague Officials, avoid the action of justice. But on November 25th I requested the Vice-Attorney General, Chief of The Military Prosecutor's Office, to promote the exam of cause 68 of 1999 of the Central Territorial Court-Martial, and the judicial Inspection of Cassation sentence No 146/99. But, to top it all, The answer of Colonel Felipe Aleman Cruz, Vice-Attorney General, Chief of the Military Prosecutor's Office, infringed flagrantly the precepts dictated in the Article 450 of the Military Penal Procedure Law, omitting to inform me the reasons he had in order not to give course to my request; violating in this way, additionally, Article 66 of Cuban Constitution. To be continued...

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On August 3rd, 1999 the trial had to be repeated, and the sentence No. 117/99 again skipped to notice the crime of Trespassing; and although they found the five accused guilty of illegal search, the wording of the sentence laid the groundwork for the defense in order that a Cassation recourse might prosper eventually, and so being able to absolve the three inspectors finally. I presented Request of amendment of the sentence questioning the evident help given by the judge Major Luis Alberto Coca Valdes to the accused. But the request was obviously denied, adducing: “..it is trivial and empty of significance the substitution of the words used in the wording of the sentence for those suggested by the aggrieved, for the sustenance of the process.. ”. I had requested that in the FIRST RESULTING, in sheet 2 of the sentence, in line 20, instead of saying “the inspection and seek...” It should be consigned: “The search and seek...” Insofar as the FIRST POSTULATE was indicating as proven the consummated crime of Illegal Search. To be continued...

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Impunity reigns in Cuba when officials are involved, so two of these inspectors, one of fishing and another one of self-employment, were absolved illegally in the first-instance trial, held on April 13th of the same year, at the Court-Martial's seat of Cienfuegos Garrison, sentence No. 70/99, which was recurred by me in Cassation the on 18th of the following month. On June 17th, 1999, The Cassation sentence No 90 was dictated, at the Central Territorial Court-Martial, making my appeal prosper, and consequently revoking the sentence combated. However, the aforementioned Court chose to send the case back for a new trial, instead of ordering a new proceeding for Trespassing, in front of the vast accumulation of evidence that came about or were supplied by me in the process. To be continued...

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It constitutes a practice widely generalized in Cuba to conceal or to obstruct all report against an Official; and after lawyer Antonio Gainza denounced during 1997 in two occasions the trespassing and the illegal search perpetrated at my home, and having I repeated my denounce in the Municipal Attorney's Office of my locality, on October 22nd, 1997, and again on dates May 4th and July 23rd, 1998, in the Military Prosecutor’s office of Cienfuegos; it was not until February 13th, 1999, two years later, that the start of the file of preparatory phase was communicated to me, and still then they excluded arbitrarily the three inspectors; having another lawyer, Antonio Tiel, to impugn in complaint the aforementioned resolution two days later, and only in that way we got them included. To be continued...

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On the day following the police operation, I claimed to the Provincial Office director of Fishing Inspection of Cienfuegos with the hope that the error was rectified; But unfortunately he ratified the measure without any hesitation. Straightaway, lawyer Antonio Gainza, in our legal representation, impugned to the Provincial Attorney's Office of Cienfuegos, and to the General Attorney's Office of the Republic, on January 30th and on July 9th, 1997, respectively, requesting the Reestablishment of the infringed Legality. Both legal negotiations concluded unfavorably. To be continued...

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I shall never forget the Cuban Government's harassment operation to my family on December 16th, 1996. That day 5 Officials, from the Technical Department of Investigation (DTI), The National Revolutionary Police (PNR), the Provincial Office of Fishing Inspection, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) of Cienfuegos, trespassed my home and committed an illegal search. And what did they find? Only four pounds of third-class frozen shrimps, moreover acquired legally. And you might ask yourselves: Is that a crime in Cuba? Well, that was enough for them to impose five thousand Cuban pesos of fine and the confiscation of the refrigerator of the family, valued in some fifteen thousand Cuban pesos. But guess what followed later. To be continued...

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¡Por fin apareció un líder dentro de la Oposición a los Castros y su Socialismo Totalitario! El mismo se acaba de reunir con varios representantes de los cubanos víctimas del régimen dentro y fuera de la isla; y ha propuesto una línea de combate a seguir contra la dictadura. ¡Al fin llega la unidad necesaria! Y todos unidos a trabajar por el derrocamiento de los tiranos. En el exilio se han creado varios frentes de acción, entre los que destacan los que optan "Por el levantamiento en Cuba", los que optan por la "Unione per la liberta a Cuba", "los cubanos que solicitan la intervención de la O.N.U. en Cuba", los que se inclinan por el "Debate en Cuba", los del "Grupo anticomunistas", y los llamados emigrantes económicos entre otros. Aunque nos parezca imposible de creer la tarea más importante se la han dado a los más pasivos. A éstos se les encargó aparentar el mantenerse al margen de la política con una aparente simpatía con el régimen, para poder continuar con los viajes a la isla, donde efectuarán un intenso trabajo político "diversionista". Deben ostentar todo su bienestar, felicidad y complacencia con su vida en el Capitalismo. Ayudarán a sus familiares para que sobresalgan económica y socialmente por encima de los demás cubanos. Y claro, dejarán a la dictadura unas migajas económicas para engañarlos. Eso ya está coordinado con dos de los grupos que operan en la Isla, quienes se encargarán de robársela y derrocharla. En próximo comentario seguiré contándoles los pormenores de tan trascendental acontecimiento; y conocerán los grupos creados dentro de Cuba e irán conociendo poco a poco del trabajo y tareas de cada uno de ellos. Ah, y muy importante; se decidió continuar trabajando por lograr más apoyo al Proyecto de Denuncia a las Cortes de Derechos Humanos contra la manipulación de la Constitución Cubana por parte de los Castros y la aberrante Irrevocabilidad del Socialismo en Cuba. Pueden apoyar firmando aquí. http://www.change.org/es-AR/peticiones/jueces-dean-spielmann-y-humberto-sierra-presidentes-de-echr-y-cidh-respectivamente-amparen-petición-de-irrevocabilidad-de-socialismo-en-cuba?

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La comunidad cubana necesita más que nunca buscar una coincidencia en su pensamiento y postura en relación a nuestra expatriación y consecuente transculturación, pues en fin de cuentas todos somos víctimas, concientes o no, de los Castros y su fracasado sistema Socialista. No es posible ocultar el trasfondo político de los casi 3 millones de emigrantes cubanos. En primer lugar, desde la instauración del sistema socialista totalitario el régimen politizó toda la vida de los cubanos, prohibiendo cualquier tipo de relación entre los primeros cubanos que emigraron principalmente a los Estados Unidos, y los familiares que quedaban en Cuba; rompiendo así sus vínculos familiares y afectivos. Llamaban a quienes disentían de la nueva línea política, "desafectos", "apátridas", "traidores", "gusanos", "escoria" "mercenarios", etcétera; y quienes violaban sus medidas secesionistas quedaban a merced de represalias y discriminaciones que arrastrarían de por vida, obligándolos igualmente al exilio. En segundo lugar, ellos reconocen el carácter político de esta emigración cuando prohíben a militares y funcionarios de diferentes niveles la relación con todos los cubanos-estadounidenses; y espían y controlan a los emigrantes cubanos de otros países. Y es que en realidad hasta los que se autodenominan emigrantes económicos representan un problema político para los Castros. Primero, porque cuando ellos salieron de Cuba, sin importar la razón expuesta evadiendo la ira revanchista de los Castros y sus secuaces, lo hicieron ante el fracaso económico del régimen y la pérdida de toda esperanza en un futuro mejor en la isla; y sus números en el exilio denuncian el fracaso del socialismo totalitario como sistema político social, tanto como lo denuncian los ex-presos políticos o los disidentes y opositores. Segundo, porque cuando los emigrantes mandan dinero a sus familiares o los visitan en la isla, llevan el mensaje del éxito que han tenido en apenas unos pocos años de trabajo, y con mucha más libertad, pasándole la factura del alto precio político-ideológico que los Castros tienen que pagar por dichas remesas. La situación de las familias que han trabajado toda su vida para el régimen, y de las familias que algunos de sus miembros han tenido que marcharse en arriesgadas misiones a otros países como profesionales, explotados por el régimen que no sólo se apropia de la mayor parte de sus salarios, sino que les congela inescrupulosamente la exigua parte que les asigna, para evitar que deserten; contrasta negativamente con las familias que reciben remesas del exilio. El mensaje que los cubanos-estadounidenses transmiten al visitar la isla o enviar sus remesas ha sido tan fuerte y claro, que yo recuerdo que en Cuba se acuñó un refrán que decía: "Cambio cinco tíos internacionalistas por uno en la comunidad"; y eso también es una realidad. Pero además, la vida de lujo de los Castros y sus secuaces está garantizada con o sin esas remesas. Ellos han vivido igual de bien en todas las épocas, incluyendo el período especial. Y en cuanto a que las remesas ayudan a mantener al régimen, eso tampoco es sostenible. Entre lo que se despilfarra por mala planificación y control; y lo que se roban todos los funcionarios y empleados públicos y políticos, el país se auto consume estrepitosamente a una velocidad que sólo el secretismo, la censura y el engaño parecen demorar. Reconozco que éste es un tema polémico y asumo el debate respetuoso y constructivo.