The wanted so much!
For us, there were more than a fleeting image in black and white. But even without color, were the living image of freedom.
And those pictures you went around the world, and will continue because this story is not finished being told.
Who could not feel impatient and sight of the brave in the Sierra Maestra bearded, dressed in tattered rags, these Robins Hoods of tropical forests, chased and surrounded by the army of men with helmets of a bloodthirsty despot!
Beyond the tremor and the grayness of the images of the day, we return to see them.
want them because they put an end to the odious regime of a tyrant and his henchmen who lived in the torture and murder.
were young, and had dedicated their lives for democracy and freedom.
Fifty years on, how can we forget the hopes they brought us? There was the Manifesto of the Sierra Maestra, as a day in Central Park, would be the announcement of the "humanist democracy."
Even today those hopes have the stigma of what would happen next.
A legend for ever: they were the real fighters.
Che winner on the train cars derailed dislocated in Santa Clara, after war in the Sierra del Escambray. A face of the archangel of death, with his snuff and his beret, which one day Celia Sanchez had hung a star, a face looking dull and faded features, giving rise to the skyline forever, which sought future promise of its own annihilation in the service of a revolution that should not end ever.
The cowboy hat Camilo Cienfuegos and pointy beard Ebony, more suited to the times of the gold rush, he, who was said to have summed up all the joy of the children of Havana, and now, however, the strange smile and disabused of Huber Matos, the liberator of Santiago, with its cap raised ear. In it, eleven months later, in his view, had to say: "What we promised to the Cubans? That freedom would be an absolute right, nobody can be persecuted for their ideas .... "
The triumphal march of eight days and eight nights from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, a January, repeat step procession bell Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, La Demajagua, that was released in 1868 for the first time, to slaves of the island and had marked the hour of battle against racism resume later Martí.
And with them, the procession of those centurions wearing a suit and string, ill-shaven, which was the epic and the revenge of a large enslaved people who had achieved victory. Column Eight of dirty shaggy tresses guerrillas, who had cheated death in the tangled jungle of the Sierra, toward where they had believed to refuse because she would eat more safely than the Caribbean Sea. Granma survivors built next to the last minute, everyone was there, marching, marching in a rapture of joy that is always the liberation of peoples. Who could reproach
today if any wanted so much?
Was not the first time in America's army had surrendered to the victorious people who had triumphed, and not vice versa? From Herbert Matthews, who was the first to exalt in the New York Times-righteous Democrats to Errol Flynn, the United States had been the first to celebrate the liberators and the whole world send their images, or set the tone of laudatory articles in the press. Did the "American"-as they say in Cuba had not always been the sponsors of all collections of Cuban revolution, including the latest thinking for the future and buy the conscience of the people free?
was so evil that reigned before. There had been the dictatorship of Machado. Politicians subject to great neighbor and Batista's gangster regime had been evil. A good evil would arise, away forever from the green alligator on the "fiery prophet of the dawn."
many twilight for that morning! The sinking of the great dream of 1959, which would not last more than a few hours of joy. Ludovic
Trarieux, it was a simple man, argued that it happens to evil, or that good can come out of evil. But we also know that evil can come out of evil.
In The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier, who loved both France and whose pen we love, but nothing has been able to open your eyes ... - that when the first insurgent
Santiago had to erect a fort to defend the dangers that lurk, they had no choice but to recover abandoned old cannons. As luck would have had to entrust their survival a heterogeneous mixture of clutter. A cannon of the French Revolution in which case, in gilded bronze, one could read "Liberty, equality, and a English cannon in which curb-and I quote Carpentier-one could read this melancholy expression:" True, but unfortunate. " But they were two adjectives, running 1949 and it was only a novel.
The black and white have little place in Cuba, the island where everything is written, we live, is in color. Multiple and variegated colors, the same as Columbus did exclaim: "This is the most beautiful land human eyes have ever seen." Not only is the monochrome green olive tree. "
But who toils again facing a remarkable longevity will go down in history. We are not here to bark at the statues. Let them be cleared tomorrow or the acquittal of History! We have no vocation to celebrate the illustrious. We stand for the victims. Side of those who struggle, of suffering. We pay tribute to Mandela, but we were in 1984, and was by what he had done before. Others, many were going to celebrate for what he did later.
"Too soon we forget the dead"
The island had never known freedom.
Not a day after that day in October 1492 in which about Holguin, the Taino and Siboney, peaceful inhabitants had discovered those great wooden boats and white men in helmets who welcomed them with fruits, dances and offerings, never dreaming they would subjugate, to contaminate all civilized words , to destroy them and burn them alive. At the end of Bartolome de las Casas, who saw the island just fifty years later, could not conceal their "great pity" to see her "deserted and delivered to the loneliness." And never again
freedom would reign in Cuba for more than five hundred years.
Four centuries of colonization by the English invaders, sixty years indirect colonization interrupted by military presence "Americans." And then?
What to say now that not a single inch of territory is truly free Cuba from Pinar del Rio to Guantanamo!
The geography does not lie. It is she who wants centuries the island itself as a permanent prisoner tries to escape to the big open mouth of the Gulf of Mexico between Florida with sharp fangs and Yucatan, as if the big neighbor had been petrified at the time of sacrifice his greed is easy prey, as if he could restart at any time.
After all, did not long ago that these "Americans" have been confiscated for the exclusive use of the name of your continent?
José Martí, who lived fifteen years in "the belly of the beast," he wrote in New York, in Free Verse: Two homelands
I have,
Cuba and night, Or are they both? On January 30, 1959, the Constitution of 1940-so progressive that René Gómez Manzano called "the landmark constitution that gave people" - in which the right to freedom is enshrined as a constitutional norm Article 29 was suspended, and the death penalty was reinstated.
Since then, the promise so many times consistently restore the constitution and free elections, there never has been met.
Indeed, the referendum exists, but there is a political party, association, an independent press that allows the exercise of suffrage. Do not even have ballots to say "no."
There is no other option between submission, commitment, and prison and death. Over a hundred thousand Cubans in prisons on the island, represent over one hundred Cuban.
to flee the uniform vote, approval or detention, there are only so many, a means of voting.
many years ago on the island do not vote with your hands. What you think Basically, your choice deep, not said. One can not even "vote with their feet," as Danton. You vote with their oars with paddles, and the voting booths are the boats and rafts.
approve or splitting. You do not ever end
counting the number of those votes that have been expressed in a game rather than suffering.
hundred and thirty thousand only during the Mariel boatlift.
Among them, Reinaldo Arenas, who, however, owed everything to the regime, he could not stand being forced to hide in the shadows warm public parks. Before Night Falls, before that night of Cuba in the shadow whispered always unpredictable agents of repression against homosexuals.
And how many rafters, as Erick de Armas and many others, dreaming of finding or building a raft, before finding the plane miracle that led here, to Brussels in 1994!
OK or die.
many have not ever completed the journey of 160 miles driving to Florida! Entrusting his soul to God, and their meat to the sharks. And
squads have not fired their latest downloads.
As Stephen says, the hero of Alejo Carpentier in the Age of Enlightenment: "Too soon we forget the dead." Proclaiming that Cuba is a dictatorship now unacceptable. How to Qualify a country where freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, no freedom of association?
All tyrannies are always their censing and nostalgic. And for that, each year we have to accept clothe a new shirt of Nessus, that every time we burn with a constantly renewed, but always fair. Want something else to Cuba is to be next to the extreme right in Miami. It is also not accepting the horrors of Guantanamo, where crimes are perpetrated under the cover of non-entitlement.
We will always side with those who, risking their freedom and their lives, fighting for democracy, wherever they are. But, after all, is not We have agreed to be classified as quartermasters of communism and the KGB agents, or followers of Islam?
also have to accept now, as ever, our winner is not present among us.
Such is the rigorous law of Ludovic Trarieux
Award.
Dear Members of the jury, we do not have the vocation to honor the protest of living. From the moment we are dedicated to exalt the suffering egregious, as well as to help them, we know that inevitably will be called to the front line who have paid with their lives, like Digna Ochoa, those who learn of his appointment to the fund a prison in which they are forgotten for many years, Nelson Mandela, or Esber Yagmurdereli Najib Hosni, or lawyers whose battle was also prohibit them from leaving their country, bordered of consciousness, as Zhou Guoqiang, Parvez Imroz and René Gómez Manzano.
Should we resign ourselves to all these fatalities? To accept the inevitability of death Hatuey, the fate of colonized peoples, the fate of American hegemony? Determined to recurrent dialectic which opposes the evil empire "axis of evil become" the great Satan, to recapitulate, in a macabre accounting, its procession of dead victims and their cohorts?
"A light in a unique way that favors wealth inadvertent reality."
Is there an inevitability of the dictatorship in Latin America?
After all, we know that dictator. We know the dictionary definition: dictatorship is "a concentration of all power in the hands of an individual, an assembly, a party," and dictator is "a person who, after taking power, no control is exercised" . But also know his portrait, his features, his faults. For over fifty years, the greatest American novelists have described in detail the terrifying world of the dictatorship "American."
is a lawyer, Miguel Angel Asturias, who, having participated in twenties in the uprising against the dictator Estrada Cabrera, master of Guatemala, has drawn the first picture: Mr. President, a president "attentive to what happens in the most secret entrails of the inhabitants", who sees everything, which heareth and always ends up knowing everything, simply because he is evil incarnate.
And because gender could not be without issue, in 1967, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa invited several authors to write about this particular power in Latin America. Augusto Roa Bastos was the first to respond. His novel I, the Supreme escaped and his model José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, dictator of Paraguay from 1814 until his death in 1840, to become the archetype of the "supreme and perpetual dictator" that demands recognition and submission for giving his people "a free, independent and sovereign" ... and for having "defended the attacks of internal and external enemies ... ".
was Cuba that Alejo Carpentier chose for your very Cartesian Method Appeal. But another dictatorship of Machado. His "Head", the incarnation of all tyrants, wearing a borrowed uniform, because "he himself had thrown up as well, with gallons and all, a day of youth riot" - and is expressed in words-hand ... "riveted in different registers, with the corresponding gestural pantomime "and that, however, he knows" worn, old, inefficient "and" a hundred times thwarted by their actions .... "
about the same time, Gabriel García Márquez, in The Autumn of the Patriarch, with little regard to another despot, has carved, at the whim of his endless sentences, the vision of suspicious and delusional tyrant, but that there was a maze of phrases always repeated, never verified, and who "the few newspapers still published were devoted, as in the past," to proclaim the eternity.
and is the instigator, Mario Vargas Llosa, who has closed the procession, the last year of the last century, with the "Benefactor of the Fatherland, the Father of the New Nation," which in the course of the years he has faced and beaten thousands of enemies "buying them, intimidating or killing" and never "repented of nothing." More than thirty years of dictatorship of Trujillo, assassinated in 1961, more than a dark period in Dominican history, is the day to day all the people were terrorized by a man whose ambition is to make his country the outlet for their delusions.
This is, without doubt, the same number of novels that critics classified in category magic realism. Gender, after all, is not more than Carpentier himself defined as "a light that favors a particular way wealth is not perceived reality." The cartoon slash
just the excess. Beyond the novel creation, is the truth that penetrates: The horror of tyranny for the one who suffers. The unique system built in repression of government informers to the rank of civic virtue, the moral collapse of a subject people by terror: levies and executions of all kinds, sometimes killing, greed, foreign protection, be convulsed with power leads inevitably to deny all humanity other. And in filigree, to Gabriel García Márquez, this searing and painful question: who governs with such an absolute power, can escape the corruption it engenders the same power?
None of them had thought of that. Neither the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, García Márquez and Roa Bastos, and especially Asturias, who wrote in 1946 and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966 - seem to have dreamed that the strength of his recall was such that erasing geographical boundaries and policies and the horror of the dictatorship on a universal scale. As the President, the Supreme, the Head of the Patriarch or Benefactor are but one and the same evil.
really know the parade, which stigmatized Asturias, who has lived under a dictatorship, Jorge Ubico staunch ally of the United States and protector of the interests of United Fruit in Guatemala. This gallery of portraits hernaniana describes the "warlords", Latin American dictators, lackeys of the "American" and therefore, belonging to the extreme conservative right.
But why should we care that the dictator is on the right or the left? What is Pinochet and Ceausescu? "Honecker or Videla? "Franco and Lukashenko? Or a judicious mix of both? What does it matter that has ended another dictatorship, even if it was an even worse!
Would you support a right-wing dictator to avoid a left-wing or a left to get rid of one right? Should we accept to be a referee in the competition of dictatorships? Can there be a tyranny better than another? A tyrant may conceal another, and human compassion can not be satisfied comparisons. Every lawyer knows the dictatorship, as counterfeiting can not ever be determined by the differences, but only by the similarities. The state of dictatorship is determined by the location reserved for those who suffer, and those among them find the "worst" of Calderon, the title of one of his works, has said he does not always was safe.
Where should we locate the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable? Could the hatred of the big neighbor to justify everything? "It would only damage caused by the Empire to justify everything? We must continue walking terrible of the men, but indomitable patriots devoted to the defense of others, which are inevitably doomed to rejection, stigma and, sometimes, the exile to escape the ever repeated arrests. Is it necessary to speak here of the ordeal suffered by the lawyers? Some, here are the living proof: Juan Escandell Ramirez or Pedro Fuentes Cid.
defender become dissident dissidents. René
de Jesus Gomez Manzano was on the verge of adolescence in 1959 when Cuban crowds flocked to the margins of the great central highway between Santiago and Havana. It was a teenage revolution. He studied in Moscow and Havana, and for many years agreed to be a lawyer like all of Cuba since 1959: a member of the collective firms. It was during a decade
Attorney Office of the Supreme Court. There, after having defended in the eighties to many dozens of dissidents, was imbued with the higher law is not adapted to the temporal contingencies, borders, or political circumstances: natural law, the law of genre human.
In 1990, considering that the very essence of counsel claim that is not a totalitarian state official, but look for yourself the process of independence in the exercise of the profession, René Gómez Manzano decides to gather peacefully to all lawyers think like him. This is when the current case of Independent Counsel Agramontista. Agramonte
! Beautiful name. What reference as illustrating the Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz! His fate would have it he is, undoubtedly, the least known of the heroes of the wars of independence.
There is always talk Céspedes, Maceo, Maximo Gomez and Jose Marti. Agramonte, meteorite of the struggle, general at age 28, is not always forgotten?
However, Agramonte, Camagüey son, is not perhaps the purest hero of the Revolution? "He whom Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the Father of the Nation, called" the heroic son "and whom José Martí called it" a diamond with soul kiss "!
He is the "liberator", the "savior of the revolution", the "champion of freedom", the "apostle immaculate" posterity has spared no praise. But the lesser-known title and best suit him is "famous lawyer." Lawyer son of lawyers. Unlike José Martí, and long before him, Agramonte did not have time to write. But had no time to argue, fight and die. What
most beautiful sign of patriotism Ignacio Agramonte could have claimed the current members! It is he whom the President of the Republic in Arms, Céspedes, was to appoint Major General of the Mambi Liberation Army. "The Bayardo" without fear and without blemish, the law student who challenged to a duel to English officials that disrespect for the Cuban. The gentleman who started the general intrepid Sanguily from the clutches of execution by force dealt a blow after enemy lines. No segments-as-history: before Martí, that each dispute and confiscated, rather than Gómez, before Maceo, Agramonte was, "Major."
He is the symbol of the Cuban soul of patriotism more demanding and more pure, and all who would come after him would not be more than imitators. After 45 battles fought, died at age 32 in combating Jimaguayú pasture in the heart of the land that would become forever in the "land Camaguey." And the English colonizers took umbrage with the dead hero's body before burning it. Of it would José Martí said: "It was never larger than when the enemies desecrated his body ...."
After all, what would the current of seditious Agramontista?: A state of law, judicial independence, democratization and decentralization of the administration of justice.
In short, this group of independent lawyers claimed the right not to be answerable only to their clients, and not to the Cuban government. They wanted to be so under other skies is called a bar. Was it asking too much democracy? The legalist René Gómez Manzano claimed by the Cuban authorities to register your bar association. He received no response. Then the Minister of Justice sent a: decided to expel the firm René Gómez Manzano group to which he belonged. Was no longer entitled to "attorney." The defender of dissidents had become a dissident.
who used the law in a country not governed by the rule of law, is intended to persecution. The meetings of the members of the current were monitored, spied upon, harassed, forced to seek new havens in each case, the most unlikely-to avoid the first to arrive were the police.
Where there is no opposition there can be no else dissidents. A journalist who works for the official media, as an attorney not in the lawyers' work is considered as an "enemy state" or a "mercenary in the White House before being rejected as a" worm " or "scum."
Nevertheless, the law review of "Agramonte appear since then. Irregularly, at intervals that nobody can foresee. Each number is a dangerous adventure. Each entry must be brought forth in pain and hiding from the writings of resistance. The number that has been published in recent days is only 6. Is it prohibited the newsletter because the comments and the presentations are unacceptable? Judge more by the mere titles of articles, although critics: "The practice of law: vocation, profession, frustration," "Freedom of association, protection of wages and the right to strike", "Democracy in Cuba" "dangerous state", "Legal Immigration, confiscation and limitation of rights", "Fundamentals of law and violations of ILO conventions signed by Cuba", "Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and then some", "Critical remarks on new regulations labor justice, "" The extinction of habeas corpus, "Legislation changing in Cuba." Stop here anthology.
"The truth and tenderness are never useless."
Dissident: one "who professes a religion different from the official religion." The first sentence of the dissent is that it be imposed on himself, to never quit and restart forever.
It called for the empowerment of civil society, nourishing sap of any democracy, who wanted to launch René Gómez Manzano. The silence of civil society could be one explanation: consensus or slavery. The consensus is expressed at the polls, slavery was walled in the inexpressible.
Despite his expulsion and "misadventures" of the current in October 1995 René Gómez Manzano is one of the founders of Concilio Cubano, a group of over a hundred unofficial groups, including organizations that defend human rights and professional groups, "which calls for a peaceful change and respects the Constitution. Dismantled immediately by the State Security, the Concilio Cubano is banned three months later, and René Gómez Manzano will be arrested a first time for activities contrary to the principles of the Revolution.
May 1997: René Gómez Manzano founded a new movement with two economists, Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and Vladimiro Roca Antúnez, a former fighter pilot and son of "revolutionary hero Blas Roca-and engineer Felix Bonne," Working Group of the Internal Dissidence. Soon the group will become famous. Members of the Group of Four have the courage to write and publish a text in response to the draft formal resolution of the V Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, scheduled for October. It was a critical examination of the reality of the country and a call for democracy for Cuba, its title: The Homeland Belongs to Everyone.
"The Fatherland Belongs to All!" That cry was seditious launched in 1884 in New York by José Martí, who is, himself, also of all, since it belongs to the universal consciousness. And he added: "and if she belongs to someone, and then only in spirit, will be to him who serve ... more disinterest."
The Homeland Belongs to All of a response and not revenge. It was a moderate document. It was an instrument of diatribe, but dialogue. Did not express any sense of bending, any judgments about the past. Evoked the place of the citizens of Cuba in human society as it was. I had accounts to settle with the recent or distant past. Took the story at the time than men corresponds write. The Homeland Belongs to All was an act of faith. Conjugate a steadfast love for the homeland with a demand for democracy and progress, both necessary to the future of the Cuban people.
On July 16, 1997, having sent the document to the Party Central Committee, which had called for the discussion of his own text, the four authors were arrested and thrown into prison. For nineteen months would have to ignore the charges against them and remain without seeing a judge.
After nineteen months in detention, a speedy trial was held behind closed doors in Havana. Dozens of supporters of the accused, who came to support them, were arrested the day of the trial.
On March 4, 1999, Vladimiro Roca was sentenced to five years in prison, Rene Gomez Manzano and Felix Bonne Carcasses, four years, and Martha Beatriz Roque, three years. Also, being a lawyer, René Gómez Manzano was disbarred from the practice of law for five years. It was the first time that Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience. After the rejection of three applications for habeas corpus and fourteen additional months spent in a high security prison where he remained for the bulk of his sentence without care, without contact with his family, René Gómez Manzano was finally released on May 23, 2000 It was the second youngest of Four.
not therefore be discouraged. Since his departure, was, together with the other leaders of the Group of Four, one of the founders of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba (APSC), a federation, declared illegal and always regarded as such, several hundred many small movements.
In May 2005 the Assembly was able to hold its first congress for democracy, which had been advertised for many months. Seventeen MEPs, 45 French members submitted applications for permission to go to celebrate. In vain. The conference of dissidents held in the courtyard of a private home. Purpose, the place of the meeting was posted on Internet in the last minute. However, the event far exceeded the limits of the continent.
The success was short-lived. On July 22, 2005, René Gómez Manzano was in bed, suffering from flu. That day the police came to his home to arrest him for disturbing public order. Martha Beatriz Roque had called a meeting with the French Embassy to demand the release of political prisoners and to protest against the normalization of Franco-Cuban relations. The event never took place, but the repression itself. Thirty-three dissidents were arrested.
released the next day to twenty-four of them. Another six out several days later. Only three had a more stringent target, among them René Gómez Manzano. The three were charged under Law 88 of 1999, called "Gag Rule". It is she who has made Cuba the world's biggest prison for journalists and lawyers, after China. Is the charge of most of the indignities: the conspiracy against "the national independence and economy of Cuba." The penalty may exceed twenty years.
Without ever having appeared before his judges, René Gómez Manzano remained shut for nearly two years in a high security prison of Las Villas, named Nieves Morejon. For through his brother filed an application for habeas corpus, a person bedridden with the flu can not disturb public order, he argued. The application was dismissed. René Gómez Manzano was released on February 8, 2007 without being brought before a court. Also on this occasion he had told Amnesty International prisoner of conscience.
Undoubtedly, he is not the only one, and we must not forget here the other lawyers. Juan Carlos González Leiva is also a contributor to the Bulletin of the current Agramontista. Blind, is president of the Society for the Blind Independent Cuba, but also of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights. Also in 2002 He was arrested for organizing in the city of Ciego de Ávila a peaceful demonstration in support of political prisoners. Spent 26 months imprisoned without trial. More than two years of isolation and psychological torture before being tried behind closed doors .... Sentenced to four years in prison for extreme condescension was authorized to terminate the sentence at home.
But where the penalty was life imprisonment, because he should not return to enjoy peace. Since then he has had to suffer harassment, subpoenas, all sorts of warnings undue State Security, which punctuate the daily lives of dissidents. In addition, from time to organize your home "Acts of repudiation."
"repudiation": well-organized meetings in which supporters of the regime are responsible for booing the victim, throwing stones and other objects at their windows, prevent sleep and barred all access to your friends and family. Often, rapid response brigades and the defense committees of the Revolution occupy the forefront of these demonstrations are described as "spontaneous", against which no appeal.
Pozada Rolando Jimenez is another member of Agramontista independent law school. Since 2002 he was the Director of the Center for Human Rights Democratic Pinero, in Nueva Gerona, capital of Isla de Pinos, now renamed the "Isle of Youth." It is the island's prison, one in which all youth who wants to see how they are otherwise destroyed the most beautiful years of his life. This is where Jose Marti was confined before being deported to Cadiz, and was also there that a distinguished leader in prison, but only for about twenty months. Rolando Jimenez
Pozada have painted some signs irreverent or pertained to the Supreme Patriarch. Pozada Rolando Jimenez was arrested in 2003 during the great repression of the Black Spring, while 27 journalists who were tried and sentenced immediately for their alleged collaboration with the United States by the fact that he founded an independent news agency, written or spoken a dissident magazine in one of the stations of the two million Cubans forced into exile.
On April 6, 2007, after three years of isolation in the prison of the Guava, a court, a process too secret, Rolando Jiménez Pozada sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment for contempt.
the end of his last article on habeas corpus, in the Bulletin of the current Agramontista, René Gómez Manzano concluded with a note of hope: "I am convinced that in the times ahead, we will witness the rebirth of this old institution, which is what should happen in a real rule of law, as that irrefutably be restored in Cuba. "
Almost at the conclusion of The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier wrote:" And understand now that man never knows who suffer and wait. Suffering and hopes and works for people who will never know, and that in turn will suffer and wait and work for others who are not happy, because man always craves happiness placed beyond the portion that is granted. But the greatness of man is precisely what is wanting to improve. Is imposed tasks. (...) Therefore, overwhelmed with penalties y de Tareas, hermoso dentro de su miseria, capaz de amar en medio de las plagas, el hombre sólo puede hallar su grandeza, su máxima medida, en el Reino de este Mundo.”
Lo que busca René Gómez Manzano para su país en el Reino de este Mundo es la democracia. Es por ella que padece y espera.
Hubiera podido escoger otra vía: la sumisión, la aprobación, la resignación, antes que la oposición, la rebelión y la prisión. Él jamás se ha apartado de su oposición pacífica, lo que significaba la aceptación de todos los sacrificios para sí mismo.
La tarea que él se ha impuesto, como el sufrimiento que ha padecido y padece todavía hoy, dan la verdadera dimension of his life. Moreover it measures the smallness or cowardice of our own.
And that is why if there is a lawyer in the world among many Cuban lawyers who have deserved the prize, that is, more than any other, but with so many others, René Gómez Manzano. And for that, too, and here it receives through the oceans, despite the prohibitions, beyond the contingencies of a day that will never alter the strength of the messages. Well
posts through space, time and other cross. Animated
premonition of his death, on the eve of his landing in Cuba, José Martí wrote two last letters to his son and his wife, who had not seen for years.
by his son, in a last message he wrote: "Goodbye, be fair." And he sent his watch, and to bequeath a sense of time and the virtue of patience.
to his wife that day, he wrote these words: "Truth and tenderness will never be useless."
was 1895.
justice, truth and tenderness. Also patience. How much longer and how much suffering must suffer Cuba for the last will of José Martí is finally accomplished!
(Translation French direct René Gómez Manzano.)
The current Agramontista (group of independent lawyers Cubans) is pleased once again to present to you, Dear Reader, another issue of its newsletter, the seventh-, which-as usual, we invite you to discuss, disclose and reproduce. They appear in the various articles and speeches, the text, of course, is the sole responsibility of each of their respective owners. 
In practice, collective bargaining is a process that gives parties conciliatory: Management and union, basically. Through it is given the opportunity to exchange formal promises and commitments, addressing points of view born of the daily life in a given entity, which must be congenial harmony, so that these particulars are not within the loopholes in the law, but require collective bargaining for the rights of workers are adequately protected, without exception, from a worker to an HIV patient ex-prisoners, including the highest degree of specialization of a worker. 
has tried to give scientific explanations, philosophical, political, religious and multiple nature to explain the origin of life. Despite the controversy, all or almost all agree on the marvelous, mysterious and wondrous of it, what helps is valued as the main property of the individual. 
some time ago was published in the newspaper Tribuna de La Habana an article entitled "Illegal Sale of Oil Discovery." As expected, this was an action of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) through which were taken over a hundred gallons of cooking oil at a house in the municipality of Regla in Havana, said the source. 
Socialism and totalitarianism are not the same, and even totalitarian regimes have taken the name of socialism, we can not mix them in any way. 
The trip would have been easier for Mr. Ernesto Alonso Martinez if he had sailed through the bypasses that marks the Cuban Criminal Procedure Law , but the nautical chart fell into disuse, and the journey is entangled. It 
I wanted to write for the Bulletin and its importance for education and advisory work for the Cuban population and dissent in particular. 
In 2007, the Cuban government announced that in the first three months of next year sign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly the UN on December 16, 1966 and entered into force on March 23, 1976 . In effect, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, signed the document on February 28, 2008. In this article I give this most important international code, its spirit, essence, legal and applying them in our country. 
SENATE OF THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, 19 OCTOBER 2007 
