BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS
There have been dozens of political confrontations throughout Cuba the last couple of days.
Amongst them are the arrest of Eriberto Liranza, head of Cuba's Youth for Democracy Movement and a siege at the home of pro-democracy leader Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antunez".
Other confrontations worth noting:
Fear over fate of arrested protesters in Santiago de Cuba
Yesterday, Cuba's political police arrested an undetermined number of dissidents soon after they staged a peaceful public demonstration in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
The repression was unleashed after several members of the umbrella group Cuban Council ("Concilio Cubano") took to the centric public park Cespedes in the morning hours of Saturday, February 19th. In an unprecedented and courageous public action, the demonstrators cried out for freedom and bore posters with the name Cuban Council and memorializing Orlando Zapata Tamayo, the political prisoner who died in a hunger strike last February 23rd. They also demanded justice for the four Cuban Americans murdered on February 24, 1996, when Cuban MiGS shot down their civilian airplanes, flying for "Brothers to the Rescue," over international airspace.
Among those arrested are Ernesto Vera Rodríguez, former law professor at the University of Santiago, the economist Idalmis Nuñez, and another group leader, Eunice Madaula. Held at State Security headquarters in Santiago, their condition is unknown. Vera's mother, María Rodríguez Vaillant, reported they were charged with "possessing posters and demonstrating publicly", both of which are forbidden in Cuba.
And from the Miami Herald:
Los Aldeanos involved in melee in Cuba
A top Cuban hip hop duo that lashes the ruling system with its lyrics reportedly sparked a clash with police last week when they tried to visit two youths jailed since Dec. 25 for playing their music too loudly [...]
Havana human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz said he had received reports that about 80 people were detained and five were injured, apparently by rocks thrown at police from a crowd of 1,500 youths that had gathered around the Aldeanos.
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