[NYTr] Cuba: Evangelical Gusano Comedy Nooz, Straight from the US Interests Psy-War Dept. Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:47:05 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit [You can't make this stuff up. The nut counterrevoutionary and Catholic fetus fanatic Dr. Oscar Bisquet now has some fundie evangelical christian company, if this report is at all accurate, which is debatable. It sounds just like many other wildly exaggerated claims sent out to websites like CubaNet by mercenaries paid by the US Interests Section in Havana. The source, "BosNewsLife News Center," advertises itself as "an Internet news agency covering stories on Christians and Jews living in difficult circumstances for whatever reason, including persecution, as well as other hard hitting news stories from around the world." (Apparently, Muslims don't concern this bunch.) Actually, it's just another propaganda front of anti-communists in one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- a Budapest-based Hungarian "Christian" news agency. Hard-hitting? Not exactly, more like unbearably comic: They sure lay on the melodrama with a trowel. Bermudez Toranza is said to be "in fear of his life" and here's why: First he claims that a barrio in Havana was invaded by state agents who dragged him and his two-year-old CHILD into the street and beat them up and then beat up the whole neighborhood (including women and children). Only someone who knows NOTHING of Cuba and raised on lurid Radio Free Europe propaganda would believe this. Then he says: "Ibm letting it be known that my state of health is failing at an extremely dangerous pace. My physical well-being remains under the Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he said in transcript obtained by BosNewsLife. "My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Ibm extremely underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said. .. Not to mention terminal hypochondria and Sara Heartburn Syndrome. Amazing he has time to write CIA counterrevolutionary drama with all that medical dictionary reading he has to do. This guy puts the Cuban dude who went on a hunger strike a couple of years ago to gain free internet access absolutely to shame. The CIA needs some new writers.-NY Transfer] *** BosNewsLife - Nov 24, 2007 http://www.bosnewslife.com/americas/cuba/3291-evangelical-pastor-and-activists-detained-in- Evangelical Pastor and Activists Detained in Cuba Political Prisoner Fears For His Life By BosNewsLife News Center HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor and several other human rights workers have been detained in Cuba shortly after security forces broke up a meeting commemorating political prisoners in the capital Havana, BosNewsLife learned from activists Saturday, November 24. "Cuban government repressive forces brutally beat members of families who live in a poor neighborhood in Havana and destroyed the furniture and personal belongings of a human rights defender. The activists arrested are threatened with being prosecuted," said Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, a blind Christian lawyer who leads the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights and the Human Rights Rapporteur Council in Cuba. He said the problems began late Thursday, November 22, when over 30 officials of "the Cuban political police and Cuban State Security violently invaded," the San Miguel del Padron area of Havana. They were seen "ransacking the home of 30 year-old activist, Juan Bermudez Toranzo, where a vigil on behalf of...all Cuban political prisoners was taking place." Police, he said, "brutally beat all families and neighbors present, including women and children." ACTIVIST "DRAGGED" He added the activist "was dragged along with his two year-old son from his bedroom to the street outside where he was thrown into a patrol car with other activists of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights." The situation of the baby was not immediately clear. Pastor Yordis Ferrer, who leads a Pentecostal congregation, and four activists were taken away at a local police station where they remain "under investigation," Gonzalez Leiva said. He said Ferrer was detained, when he "came to the aid of Juan Bermudez Toranzobs wife Nery as repressive forces where [sic] beating her up." Cuban State Security officials reportedly advised "Nery to begin looking for a lawyer since formal accusations are on the way for those arrested," added well-informed Gonzalez Leiva, who himself has been detained for his involvement in human rights activities the authorities regarded as undermining state security. The other detainees were identified as representatives of the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights, including Osmar Osmani Balman del Pino, a delegate of the group in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron and fellow officials Jose Luis Rodriguez Chavez and William Cepero. STAGING PROTEST Relatives and family members staged a protest outside the police station to demand their release, BosNewsLife learned. "These dedicated human rights defenders are in prison only for their activities on behalf of the rights of poor Cubans who, like them, live in impoverished neighborhoods" Gonzalez Leiva explained in a statement. Bermudez Toranza founded an independent labor union supporting Cubans who try to make a living despite being prohibited by the government from obtaining a license to work. In addition he has been involved in providing aid to impoverished children. His latest activity, a vigil for political prisoners, came on the heels of news that 41-year old jailed journalist Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta is fearing for his life. "Ibm letting it be known that my state of health is failing at an extremely dangerous pace. My physical well-being remains under the Sword of Damocles, and I could die," he said in transcript obtained by BosNewsLife. "My days are slowly coming to an end because of the various dangerous illnesses from which I suffer: high blood pressure, a right bundle branch block in my heart, hypertensive retinopathy, a heart murmur, a pyloric-duodenal prolapse, chronic dermatitis, asthma, cervical arthritis, lumbo-sacral arthralgia, vitiligo, kidney and liver disorders, and an obvious immunological deficiency. Ibm extremely underweight, which is quite worrisome," he said. TWENTY YEARS Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison during the March-April 2003 crackdown on dissidents and is confined in the same compound with "dangerous convicts" condemned to death and to life imprisonment, investigators and activists told BosNewsLife earlier this year. [They are talking here about the 2003 events when Cuba rolled up a network of US mercenaries who were being paid by the US interests section to write this bilge on assignment and given Internet access to send it out to the world. A number of their gang turned out to be agents of Cuban State Security -- including one of their major leaders, who testified at their trial, to the deep embarrassment of the CIA. -NY Transfer] Herrera Acosta is among over 20 journalists who were arrested in the March 2003 government-led crackdown on dissidents and still being held in prison. Mostly accused of being "mercenaries in the service of a foreign power", they were handed down sentences from 14 to 27 years in prison. However, the journalist said that although, "I am very physically weak, Ibm strong spiritually. I know nothing is in vain..." Cuban leader Fidel Castro has denied human rights abuses and the existence of dissidents in the country. He has described those detained as "mercenaries of the United States." * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================