CASA CUBA INFORMA

CASA CUBA
Non Profit-Organization
Houston, Texas
www.casacuba.org

Casa Cuba is sending to the authorities of Texas to know directly the tragedy the Cuban People lives the slave situation for 51 years. The dissident movement follows the Nonviolence method of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Damas de Blanco, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Guillermo Fariñas, Oswaldo Payá, Christian Movement of Liberation, and many more). The totalitarian regime practice the racism politic, ideological, religious, syndicalism, entrepreneurs, and also racial. The blacks are specially mistreated.



He was tortured, but he didn’t give up. By Efrén Fernández Fernández, (47 year old, member of the Christian Movement of Liberation, condemned to 12 years of prison in the Cause of the 75 of 2003 and declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International). Recorded by phone and transcribed by Tania Maceda Guerra, Center of Information and Board of Reporters of Human Rights in Cuba. (as given by Fernandez on March 1st of 2010 from Guanajay Maximum Security Prison).

On May of 2004 I was transferred here. I remember the stories told by the common prisoners on my arrival here about the beatings the guards gave to Orlando Zapata Tamayo. Every day I Could see his cell windows from mine some 30 meters from the cell where I am still prisoner. We would talk, screaming at each other, and writing with the help of the common prisoners that would trick the guards in spite of the siege to prevent us from communicating. That was how Zapata himself told me how “when they brought me to this prison and put me in wing #6, where first lieutenant Emilia Guilarte Ramirez and first sub-official Leonel Torres Reñí savagely beat me black and blue all over my body. That was just the beginning of a horrible story of cruelty against Zapata. Many times I saw the guards pull him out of his cell with his hands handcuffed without a shirt, thrown to the floor grabbed by his feet dragged some 200 meters on top of the rough sidewalks until they got to the military area. They also used to cross a gravel basketball court giving him lesions on his skin. At the end of 2003 during a general inspection he was handcuffed and thrown on the floor so first lieutenant Quintana would kick him in the head so that he would fall on top of a swarm of guards that kicked him with hate and sadism. Around those days a group of guards handcuffed him and the prison warden, lieutenant cornel Wilfredo Velásquez, broke his lips with a punch while his subordinates beat him with a club. Our late brother was the victim of a lot of beatings and humiliations in this Guanajay Prison, the persecution hit so deep that even the captain of prisoner control Delia, slapped him. He was also beaten by guard Felito, Alejandro, Orestes, Pileta and Reinier, among others. On one of those gloomy dark nights of the Taco-Taco prison in 2006, Zapata was tortured in a solitary confinement cell for screaming slogans and going on a hunger strike, demanding an end to the ill treatment and inhuman conditions, demanding respect to the political prisoners’ human rights. He was tortured by applying a type of torture known in the Pinar del Río province as the “little chair” where after a beating they handcuff the prisoner feet, handcuff his arms behind his back, and then arch his back when both handcuffs and handcuffed by a third, throwing him on the floor for several days. But he didn’t give up and continued screaming: “Down with Fidel! Down with the dictatiorship! Long live human Rights!”

The swarm of mosquitoes, the plague of bed Bugs, the rats, would add to his suffering; that is why common prisoners Ramón Acosta Moreno, Michel Jáuregui Pérez, Enrique González Silva, Michel Rodríguez Roldán y Jesús, alias Monín, who were next to the solitary confinement cells, called the guards to put and end to the torture. It was then that Major Orlando, head of prison control promised consult the provincial authorities that according to him were the only ones who could put a stop to the torture that was an order from his superiors. Hours went by, but Major Orlando did not return and they began making noise hitting the floor with empty plastic containers, making the guards come back. Then they threatened the guards with joining Zapata’s hunger strike. That was the reason they pretended to give in to their demands and took off his handcuffs, but when all went to sleep they surrounded the solitary confinement cells with guard dogs and woke him up to give him another beating.

However, the Cuban government could never silence the defender of human rights Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who never lost heart in his pacific quest for liberty in Cuba. Still today in these walls stained with his blood his potent voice is heard and it seems as if every day is raised against the abuses of the regimen defending the rights of the common prisoners to be treated as human beings.



The Cuban dissident and opposition movement follows the Nonviolence method of Martin Luther King, Jr

The Cuban dissident and opposition is a peaceful movement which follow the Nonviolence method of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the fight for justice, for the right to the rights of Cuban People. The Tyranny is an illegal, ilegitimate and anti-constitutional regime, which is a totalitarian government who oppress the Cuba People. They only govern to the Communists, and all the rest are excluded from a civic and peaceful life. The Tyrant govern Cuba life their personal farm.



Below is the Pledge of Nonviolence that Martin Luther King, Jr. asked those who believed in his message to abide by as well as his core principles of nonviolence.



Pledge of Nonviolence

1. As you prepare to march meditate on the life and teachings of Jesus

2. Remember the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation - not victory.

3. Walk and talk in the manner of love; for God is love.

4. Pray daily to be used by God that all men and women might be free.

5. Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.

6. Observe with friend and foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.

7. Perform regular service for others and the world.

8. Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.

9. Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.

10. Follow the directions of the movement leaders and of the captains on demonstrations.


The Five Principles of Nonviolence

1. Non-violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests, as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonaggressive in the sense that he is not physically aggressive toward his opponent, but his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade the opponent that he is mistaken. This method is passive physically but strongly active spiritually; it is nonaggressive physically but dynamically aggressive spiritually.

2. Nonviolent resistance does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. The nonviolent resister must often express his protest through noncooperation but he realizes that noncooperation is not the ends itself; it is merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent.

3. The attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who are caught in those forces. It is a struggle between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

4. Nonviolent resistance avoids not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

5. Nonviolence is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. It is the deep faith in the future that allows a nonviolent resister to accept suffering without retaliation. The nonviolent resister knows that in his struggle for justice, he has a cosmic companionship.





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