at 12:03 AM Friday, August 5, 2011
BY: THE HILL
In the last 24-hour news cycle, the AP's Havana bureau ran a story on the Castro regime's new discount prices on rakes, plows and hoes for Cuban farmers -- being that the rest of Raul's agricultural "reforms" have been dismal failures.
Meanwhile, three courageous women (Mercedes García Álvarez, Tania Maldonado Sánchez, Odalys Zurma González) staged a peaceful pro-democracy protest on the steps of Havana's Capitol building.
They were brutally beaten and arrested. While in custody, they were "stripped , searched and interrogated."
Not newsworthy?
Yesterday also marked the 100th day on a hunger strike by Cuban political prisoner Marcelino Abreu.
Abreu was originally arrested in July 2010 for refusing to show a police officer ID outside a bar in the proximity of the tourist-only Hotel Nacional. He told the police officer that he was Cuban and should be free to walk through the streets of his homeland. The officer disagreed.
Not newsworthy?
Or how about the 266 known political arrests registered for the month of July 2011 -- bringing the year-long total to 1,933.
Apparently, not as newsworthy as farm equipment -- and that's (tragically) music to Castro's ears.
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