October 23, 2010
Yesterday, the world's attention was focused on the courage and sacrifice of Cuban hunger striker, Guillermo Farinas, who was awarded the 2010 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament.
Needless to say, this recognition was bad news for the Castro regime's public relations campaign to ease human rights scrutiny.
Therefore, it quickly called in its last remaining spinmeisters (now that Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has been dismissed) -- the Catholic Church.
So they immediately sent out a press release (in order to compete or overshadow news of Farinas), and the AP reported:
The Roman Catholic Church on Thursday announced the names of five more Cuban inmates who have accepted exile in Spain in return for freedom, though none are among a group of 52 political prisoners jailed in a 2003 roundup of dissidents.
The Church identified the four men and one woman as Juana Maria Mena Nieves, Domingo Mederos Ozuna, Juan Francisco Gomez Marimon, Misael Mena Fernandez, and Jose Luis Navarro Ramn -- we wish them the absolute best.
Meanwhile, 13 of the 52 originally announced for release in July remain in prison because they refuse to be banished to Spain.
Once again, the Catholic Church has glazed right over them in order to focus on 5 others that will accept banishment.
As such, there has yet to be a single political prisoner release in Cuba.
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