SPAIN: The Spanish home of Cuban dissidents.
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Norman's gaze Hernandez and Omar Rodriguez, the latest Cuban dissidents who have come to Madrid, shines in the darkness of an industrial estate in the neighborhood Vallecas. . Omar Rodriguez wields the newspaper Granma: "Ideas do not kill." Photo: Monica Glez. Linares.
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Like his seven companions who arrived on Tuesday, staying in a cheap hostel and moody, far from all, with huge neon sign that says Welcome (Welcome).
They move slowly, with no tie I wore the first day, dazed, as if just born.
are part of the first group of 52 political prisoners that the government of Raul Castro promised to release in the next four months, with the mediation of the Cuban Church and the English government. This
dissidents released Thursday will give a press conference to elaborate further his captivity and what will become of their future.
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With a pen
baggage "I feel sad and happy. Sad to leave my country, my family, my friends and happy to return to see my mother after eight years and for the first time she sees her granddaughter, "says the BBC Norman, paused, while clinging to a worn pen. His mother traveled from Miami to see him.
"That's all I brought from Cuba. What little I had, I gave it to the other prisoners, books, old clothes," he says with a knot of emotions that is just beginning to digest.
The ultimate hope is not lost. First thing that comes when you have nothing Norman Hernandez
"Just yesterday I was in the military hospital of prisoners of Havana biding my time. The soldiers themselves were glad they told me that they too would like to emigrate. We have lived savage dictatorship in Cuba, this is the beginning of change we need, "he says as if to underline his pen.
So this reporter survived seven years in prison, writing. "The ultimate hope is not lost.'s The first thing that comes when you have nothing," he adds.
Omar, meanwhile, sit still in prison. "I went from one cell to the window of an airplane. I always imagined my life in Cuba, not in exile," says the BBC while showing a copy of the Cuban newspaper Granma a headline that reads: "Ideas do not kill."
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"Best of freedom?"
All around, the malnourished doctor José Luis García Paneque (lowered almost 40 kilos for an intestinal illness), journalists Ricardo González, Julio César Gálvez, Lester Gonzalez, Omar Ruiz. They all look jeans or shorts, smile with difficulty, have taken the tie to them gave in Havana before boarding the plane to Madrid.
Cubans are housed in a modest neighborhood of Vallecas hostel in Madrid. Photo: Monica Glez. Linares.
speak in front of the hostel which serves as a temporary home. All are members of the so-called Group of the 75 dissidents arrested in the spring of 2003 and sentenced to up to 28 years in prison.
not seen since then, only through rumors and strikes of the late Orlando Zapata and Guillermo Fariñas for that liberated them.
were incarcerated in prisons far away, in tiny cells (1.80 m wide has one), doped by the stench of latrines and the silence.
"facilities were inhumane. You did not have electricity or potable water, did not know who was in the adjacent cell. You were isolated from everything," explains the BBC Gálvez. The journalist and author was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, was seven. He developed arthritis that accompanies it.
"We can not celebrate because there are still many colleagues there, but I'm optimistic. This is the starting point of a pact between the Cubans, not the continuity of a regime that wants to remain in power. If we want economic change, social there must be political change, "he says as the doctor Paneque remains attentive to the look.
We all made clear in the statement they read the day they arrived at Barajas airport: "We hope that those remaining in Cuba enjoy the same freedoms that we have at this time. And fight to make it happen."
"You know what is best for freedom," asks Gálvez. "Hug your family, feel and touch. It was the best of these early hours," he answered while peering in the darkness of a city and a country that is unknown.
"We saw the World Cup final"
The last few days before traveling to Madrid, Paneque was nervous about the soccer team of Spain. "We already had moved to a prison in Havana. There we saw the semifinal and final of the World. "
" I suffered by Spain did not want to go to penalties. And in the end won, "he recalls with a smile that does not fit into his narrow face. Paneque complaint that the prison received several beatings.
economist Antonio Villareal, also released, declined to comment. In fact," It does not your room, "say his colleagues," have destroyed psychologically. "
The group views its future as a canvas of personal uncertainty." After experiencing what I experienced, and I'm not afraid at all. It begins again, "says Hernandez while Paneque sighs. His wife and four children are Texas (United States). "I know nothing about my future but I am a doctor and I can look life," he says. Gálvez
frowns. "Right now we are in a legal limbo. We're half free, we can not return. The Castro government did not deliver us, we deported. We have no freedom to return to a Cuba, we have to ask permission to enter. How long you have to ask permission to enter your country? "says the reporter as if it opened a huge gap between him and the island.
is summer in Madrid. There is no breeze, only dry heat and questions. I still do not consider whether to stay in Spain or go to America where some have relatives.
Paneque smiles again as if to get used to a new toy: "I am very grateful to the English people. How do you feel a man who has been jailed seven years and suddenly is free? Not yet I get the word."
. Juanjo Robledo
- BBC Mundo, Madrid
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The Oppenheimer Report: Who will win in Venezuela?.
Chavez is likely to manage to win a majority in the National Assembly, because electoral laws have been drafted so that the opposition would need more than 55% of the votes to win at least 50 percent of the seats in Congress.
. Chavez is likely to manage to win a majority in the National Assembly, because electoral laws have been drafted so that the opposition would need more than 55% of the votes to win at least 50 percent of the seats in Congress.
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Source: El Nuevo Herald.
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VENEZUELA: exhumed the remains of Simón Bolívar and obtained "important findings."
One of the objectives of the exhumation is to clarify whether Bolivar died of tuberculosis, historically consolidated version, or was killed, hypotheses put forward by Chavez. . Chavez: "I confess I have cried, have sworn. I say, must be the skeleton glorious Bolívar, as you can feel the flame."
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A multidisciplinary team of forensic fifty today discussed the remains of Simón Bolívar in Caracas, which the Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Tarek El Aissami, who witnessed the proceedings, described as "important" in Venezolana de Television.
"It is a day of joy as part of the bicentennial of our independence, "said the minister, who announced the findings will be announced" in due course "as a" tribute to the history. "
The operation, which began Thursday and lasted some 19 hours, was also witnessed by the country's chief prosecutor, Luis Ortega, and later released by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, to the one in the morning (30.05 GMT) through its profile on the social network Twitter.
"From this very morning we will report details of scientific procedure that came along with the remains heroic Bolívar" wrote the ruling.
One of the objectives of the exhumation, as releases in the Venezuelan capital, is to clarify if Bolivar died of tuberculosis, historically consolidated version, or was killed, hypotheses put forward by Chavez.
"I am not convinced that Bolivar died of tuberculosis" because "three months before his death, Bolivar I do not know how many miles traveled to Bogota," he said in November 2007.
The review, conducted at the National Pantheon in Caracas, attended the Aissami and Ortega.
Other messages issued by Chávez reflected, beyond the scientific side, the emotional nature of the exhumation and analysis of remains of Bolivar.
"Hello, my friends! That we have experienced amazing moments tonight! We saw the remains of the great Bolivar! Neruda I said: 'Our Father which art in land, water and air. You wake up every hundred years when the people awake, "Chavez said.
"I confess I have cried, have sworn. I say, must be the skeleton glorious Bolívar, as you can feel the flame, "he added.
He added: "My God, my God, my Christ, Christ while praying silently watching those bones, I thought of you! And how much would have liked and wanted it arrived and ordered like Lazarus, rise Simon, who is not a time to die. I immediately remembered that Bolívar lives! ".
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Source: Information and Analysis
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