Crackdown Begins as Carter Arrives in Cuba

March 28, 2011


BY: THE HILL


As former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba today, the Castro regime has begun an island-wide crackdown on pro-democracy activists to prevent any public demonstrations.

According to Afro-Cuban pro-democracy leader, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antunez," the regime is detaining activists all over the island that seek to make their way to Havana in order to conduct a peaceful protest in front of the Capitol building.

Additionally, several activists were brutally assaulted and arrested this morning by Castro's secret police, when they attempted to stand in front of the Capitol with signs reading "Freedom Without Forced Exile for Cuba's Political Prisoners," "The Streets Belong to the Cuban People," and "We Are The Resistance."

Antunez is calling upon President Carter and the Carter Center to intercede on behalf of the detained activists and to demand their human right to peacefully protest.