Internet, please.

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http://www.penhacubana.com/exibeArti...a25b825be023f5

If you don't remember, a few weeks ago the Chinese government had to pull back the censorship on a Chinese newspaper that was publishing political criticism after popular unrest. The Chinese are not alone in their quest for freedom.

A poor, black journalist man is dying on a hunger strike in Cuba. Guillermo Fariñas Hernández is not a political dissident, he simply wants to be allowed connection to the internet, which in case you didn't figured by now, is forbidden in Cuba, except inside Castro's palace.

The hunger strike started in January 31st and nobody in the civilized world has manisfested an appeal to save his life, or pressured to allow internet access to the Cuban population, even if from behind a state firewall, like China (which can be bypassed , though it would be more dangerous to do so in tiny Orwellian Cuba than beyond-control giant China).

Guillermo Fariñas started his hunger strike back in January 31st and after 10 days he had to be taken to a hospital unconscious. His physical condition was severely deteriorated (regular Cubans already don't have access to proper nutrition), and when he awoke in the hospital, he removed his intravenous tubes and refused treatment: "If my destiny is to be a martyr for freedom of expression and internet connection, I will die in tranquility.". Fidel can't complain, the man learned the lessons of the revolution, that's what you get for glorifying martyrdom.

Some NGOs, especially from Europe, requested for the diplomatic missions in Cuba to assist Guillermo Fariñas. However, latin american nations, together with journalist comrades from the same region, have shared nothing but a mute accomplicity, there's no excuse for this silence.

As if to properly get more attention, given the complete lack of interest by Cuban and international authorities, now also journalist Noelia Pedraza Jiménez has joined Guillermo Fariñas in the hunger strike.

It is a true shame to every free being of this planet to let these two journalists die in vain, ignored, in the hands of the most cruel and long martyrological dictatorship ever imposed against its own people in the American Continent.


Guillermo Fariñas