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Under Castro, independent journalists are called American stooges, enemies of the
people, and so on. Besides being subject to constant surveillance, they are subject
to actos de repudio, or "acts of repudiation." This is when the government has a mob
surround your house and throw stones at it, or beat up you and your family. The
intimidation is fierce. And this warns others to stay away from you. Liannis Merino,
while she was in that psychiatric ward, was threatened with actos de repudio.
And the government can do far worse, of course: They can abduct you, torture you, or
"disappear" you. :
She relates that Youth Without Censorship was founded in 2005, by human-rights
activists - including the heroic Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, a blind lawyer. They now
have reporters all over the island, 16 in all.
Liannis began this work because, as she says, "in a totalitarian system, the people
don't have access to information, and the regime can do or say anything it wants. It
doesn't want anything brought to light." She explains that, "between Cuba and the
world, the regime has built a wall. And we have not been able to penetrate that wall
to communicate with the world. The government wants people to think Cuba is a
paradise. That is not the case."
Free Westerners seldom comprehend the atrocities that occur in Cuba's gulags, and the
journalists who expose this hidden world put their lives and families at enormous
risk. When they shine the light of truth on Castro's monstrosities, these journalists
expose themselves to the same abuse and torture they report. Yet they continue.
All the journalists in prison have demonstrated huge courage, and their cases should
be known - well-known. One of the most remarkable is that of Juan Carlos Herrera
Acosta. He is in Kilo 8 Prison, in the province of Camaguey. Like many others, he is
kept in the most vile of conditions: surrounded by violent criminals, denied medical
care, perpetually abused. One day in December, he took the extreme step - this is
hard to understand outside the context of a totalitarian society - of sewing his
mouth shut. The news was reported by a member of Youth Without Censorship, Luis
Esteban Espinosa.
Some days later, Luis Esteban himself was arrested. He was beaten up by State
Security, but, luckily, not imprisoned. He was merely detained for a couple of
hours - and warned to quit his independent activities, lest a worse fate befall him.
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