ELIMINACIÓN DE LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN EN CUBA: EL DECRETO-LEY 370 Y LA CONSTITUCIÓN

El 16 de junio 2020 a las 9:00am (hora de Cuba) la organización Prisoners Defenders hará pública la denuncia completa ya en marcha en el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas en la que se han presentado pruebas irrefutables de la creación de un patrón de eliminación sistemática de la libertad de expresión en todas las comunicaciones electrónicas privadas y públicas en Cuba. Tendré el honor de estar entre los participantes. Tendrá una duración estimada de 90 minutos, y tanto periodistas como diplomáticos podrán acreditarse en:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdOytqD8jHdXs1JiGkheO97TsR9agITn-

El público en general podrá seguir en directo la rueda de prensa en: https://youtu.be/BWwccotVvZs

Esta será la Agenda:

  1. PRESENTACIÓN DE LA DENUNCIA EN TRÁMITE EN NACIONES UNIDAS: – D. Javier Larrondo, presidente de Prisoners Defenders.
  2. INTERVENCIÓN DE EXPERTOS Y PARLAMENTARIOS EUROPEOS:

– Dña. Dita Charanzová, eurodiputada por Renew Europe, Vice-Presidenta del Parlamento Europeo.

– D. Javier Nart, eurodiputado por Renew Europe, Vice-Presidente de la Delegación del Parlamento Europeo para las relaciones con los países de América Central y Cuba.

– D. Carlos Rojas, diputado del Congreso de España por el PP, Portavoz Adjunto – Área Constitucional.

– D. Blas Jesús Imbroda Ortiz, Presidente de la Subcomisión de Extranjería y Protección Internacional del Consejo

General de la Abogacía Española, Decano del Colegio de Abogados de Melilla.

III. INTERVENCIÓN DE LAS VÍCTIMAS:

– Dña. Camila Acosta, defensora de DDHH, periodista destacada del medio CubaNet, víctima del Decreto-Ley 370

– D. Amaury Pacheco, artista y defensor de DDHH, Vice Coordinador del Movimiento San Isidro

– Pastor D. Mario Félix Lleonart, defensor de los DDHH, Coordinador General del Instituto Patmos

– D. Iván Hernández Carrillo, sindicalista defensor de DDHH, Secretario General de ASIC y Prisionero de Conciencia

– D. José Daniel Ferrer, defensor de DDHH, Coordinador General de la UNPACU y Prisionero de Conciencia

SE REQUIERE CONFIRMACIÓN DE ASISTENCIA Y ACREDITACIÓN PARA PRENSA Y DIPLOMÁTICOS

Acreditación de periodistas/diplomáticos:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdOytqD8jHdXs1JiGkheO97TsR9agITn- Transmisión pública del evento: https://youtu.be/BWwccotVvZs

Agenda estimada de la Rueda de Prensa:

09:00 Presentación e intervenciones

10:00 Debate (ponentes)

10:15 Sesión de preguntas (prensa y diplomáticos)

Our friend Gracia started a new trip

Gracia Bennish in Yvor City, Tampa

In the five years since the establishment of the Patmos Institute – an organization that barely survives from the depths of Cuba’s resistance movement- is a very privileged group thanks to its friends, both inside and outside of Cuba.

Whithout a doubt, among our very best friends was Mrs Gracia Bennish (October 10, 1943 – August 1st, 2018), President of “United for Human Rights, Florida” who passed away this Wednesday at 7:30am Eastern time. Since 2014 she helped us strengthen our voice inside and outside of Cuba. We were introduced to Gracia by our mutual friend Lincoln Diaz Balart;   thanks to her resolve some of us were able to talk and deliver speeches on Cuba’s right to freedom, from the same stairs that our Cuban leader had so done but a century earlier.  This took place in what once was the tobacco factory at Ybor City, Tampa.  Lead by Gracia, we also were able to speak up at The United Nations where we raised the issue of systematic human rights violations in Cuba.

But more than raising our voice, perhaps this was Gracia’s greatest gesture, it was her descending as Christ did to preach to captive spirits, Gracia went down to Cuba to participate in such an unusual type of tourism:  in solidarity with those seeking democracy and human rights for all Cubans. During her trips, and they were a few, we counted on her as a unique guest speaker, she addressed those in attendance during the 121st anniversary commemoration of Jose Martí’s death, held at the Masonic Lodge “Urania – Dr. Mortera of Zulueta, Villa Clara.  Her participation in this event is to this day, reason for our gratitude.

Moving about Cuba as a badly needed infusion of freedom, Gracia met distinguished leaders of Cuba’s human rights movement, such as Dagoberto Valdés Hernández, among participants of ¨Centro de Estudios Convivencia¨, dealing with the art of coexistence in a fragmented society. This was held at Karina Galvez’s home.  Gracia was also a very distinguished visitor to the farm known as “La Isleña”  in Pinar Del Río, where she was able to see first hand, the dedication of the Pérez Gonzalez Family.  She had a glimpse there of the very best of Cuba’s soul yearning to be free. Grace also visited the headquarters of the UNPACU, Patriotic Union of Cuba, in Havana. Chely was still alive and shared with Gracia, memorable cups of Cuban coffee. It was there she met Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, among other leaders of the main opposition group in Cuba.  In Santa Clara, Gracia visited Guillermo “Coco” Fariñas, with whom she spent hours in a back and forth of ideas with the leader of the ¨Foro Antitotalitario Unido¨.

Thousands of copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were distributed along with copies of “The Way to Happiness”, a code of ethics which is ver appropriate for a nation suffering from a deep crisis in values;  these were distributed all over Cuba to thousands of citizens who to this day, avail themselves of the teachings contained therein.  All of this was done thanks to Gracia whom we will never have sufficient words of praise and gratitude.

Good bye dear Friend!  You will walk the path of freedom you paved along our countryside and cities!  Until we meet again!