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Award-winning Cuban blogger says she was beaten, detained Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/7/2009 7:04:03 PM
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| HAVANA — Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday. Three agents in street clothes snatched her and friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado. "They beat me and then they shoved me into a car head first. They did not give me |
Comments: After all the Michael Moore and Oliver Stone froth, the stark reality is that Castro's island dictatorship is an evil, brutal, violent police state that rules by terror. |
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pageturner, 11/7/2009 7:10:00 PM (No. 6009708)
Here is her blog that's well worth reading. Just click the tiny British flag at the top for a professional hand-done (not machine-done) English translation:
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Pageturner, 11/7/2009 7:14:33 PM (No. 6009720) Read the account, she says she grabbed one of the thug's tiny cojones and gave him a good yank. Somewhere out there, there's a castroite goon with some strategic problems in Havana.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cap MarineTet68, 11/7/2009 8:23:04 PM (No. 6009883) Whoopi opined that it was not a beating beating.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
shepsmum, 11/7/2009 8:24:38 PM (No. 6009887)
Good thing they have universal healthcare...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SP101_357, 11/7/2009 9:31:23 PM (No. 6010044) Suppose Rhambo is taking notes? After Øbama forms his ''civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded'' as our military services, this account might serve as a useful model for how the new regime can deal with those pesky Tea Party folks, and talk radio, and bloggers, and other various and sundry conservatives.
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