Harrassment and corralling.
There's a place in Havana that both KillCastro and Charlie Bravo visited with friends, and which was a magnet for us to hang around and meet interesting people, it is the building of The Hebrew Community, in el Vedado.
At the time, it was more a cultural institution than a religious institution, even though they had a synagogue, but kids from every age group, background, and race used to go to different theatre and music shows, plus their incredible library and gallery, that added a lot to the allure.
Well, they've been harrassed by the government with special "dedication". Our sources tell us that even thought they haven't repeated the anti-israeli demostration of the past (some complete with Palestinian students)on these later days one can notice that some dubious characters with all the traits of chivatos and Palestinian police in plain clothes (from the Oriente provinces, like all the cops in Havana) are lurking around more frequently and taking note of the foreing visitors who come to bring some commodities to the dwindling Jewish community in Havana. A coincidence? Yes, like if kasstro didn't know what Hizbollah is.
Now that I mentioned the Palestinos, I have to say, with all respect to our readers from Oriente, that unfortunately those provinces are the most ladden with fidelistas in Cuba. That's why the July 26th act is going to be held in Bayamo.
It's a small city, where the government still have some sympathizers, and where the group of people who is going to be herded and corralled to attend the kasstro-babbling-festival is significantly smaller and proportionally, the presence of prokasstro elements is bigger. Sorry for the generalization, but that's true, every cop in Havana comes from somewhere in Oriente, all party honchos in Havana are from Oriente. And an Oriental who is gusano in Havana has a double whamming on him or her, because the person has to earn the trust of a population who regards the Palestinos with a lot of mistrust. Things have changed with the presence of a lot of Orientales who are openly against kasstro and who get the brunt from his forces.
It works this way: In Havana, the comite corrals the "regular people" i.e. the ones they can pressure because they have jobs or children who study and they are threatened with getting the kids arrested for "peligrosidad". "jineterismo", etc.
That's the direct result of socialized misery, they have the regular citizen by the neck at all times, since everybody has to resort to illegal actions to survive, well, it's called collective blackmailing.
Then you have youths like I was in my time. We used to sit on the garden wall of one of us and watch how people went into the buses and trucks to take them to the Plaza to listen to the bearded bastard. Of course, we all had fat files dutifully filled by the comite chivatos, but we had nothing to loose.
One thing that happens in Cuba is that people do not go voluntarily to any of these "activities". People are coerced to go, as it fits in a regime of terror and pressure.
In Havana, things are such that now there are rarely any open air public concentrations anymore. The kasstro-circus show goes on behind closed doors, with a cache of sympathizers as only spectators. They like kasstro, so they have to take the seven hour speech without bathroom breaks, but they deserve so.
Let's see what happens this Wednesday. I think that it will be a little bit of the same, with more repression, since evidently the tyrant is weaker physically and he fears being ridiculized.
We have reports of people being already rounded up and "detained". Typical, another day in Cuba.
At the time, it was more a cultural institution than a religious institution, even though they had a synagogue, but kids from every age group, background, and race used to go to different theatre and music shows, plus their incredible library and gallery, that added a lot to the allure.
Well, they've been harrassed by the government with special "dedication". Our sources tell us that even thought they haven't repeated the anti-israeli demostration of the past (some complete with Palestinian students)on these later days one can notice that some dubious characters with all the traits of chivatos and Palestinian police in plain clothes (from the Oriente provinces, like all the cops in Havana) are lurking around more frequently and taking note of the foreing visitors who come to bring some commodities to the dwindling Jewish community in Havana. A coincidence? Yes, like if kasstro didn't know what Hizbollah is.
Now that I mentioned the Palestinos, I have to say, with all respect to our readers from Oriente, that unfortunately those provinces are the most ladden with fidelistas in Cuba. That's why the July 26th act is going to be held in Bayamo.
It's a small city, where the government still have some sympathizers, and where the group of people who is going to be herded and corralled to attend the kasstro-babbling-festival is significantly smaller and proportionally, the presence of prokasstro elements is bigger. Sorry for the generalization, but that's true, every cop in Havana comes from somewhere in Oriente, all party honchos in Havana are from Oriente. And an Oriental who is gusano in Havana has a double whamming on him or her, because the person has to earn the trust of a population who regards the Palestinos with a lot of mistrust. Things have changed with the presence of a lot of Orientales who are openly against kasstro and who get the brunt from his forces.
It works this way: In Havana, the comite corrals the "regular people" i.e. the ones they can pressure because they have jobs or children who study and they are threatened with getting the kids arrested for "peligrosidad". "jineterismo", etc.
That's the direct result of socialized misery, they have the regular citizen by the neck at all times, since everybody has to resort to illegal actions to survive, well, it's called collective blackmailing.
Then you have youths like I was in my time. We used to sit on the garden wall of one of us and watch how people went into the buses and trucks to take them to the Plaza to listen to the bearded bastard. Of course, we all had fat files dutifully filled by the comite chivatos, but we had nothing to loose.
One thing that happens in Cuba is that people do not go voluntarily to any of these "activities". People are coerced to go, as it fits in a regime of terror and pressure.
In Havana, things are such that now there are rarely any open air public concentrations anymore. The kasstro-circus show goes on behind closed doors, with a cache of sympathizers as only spectators. They like kasstro, so they have to take the seven hour speech without bathroom breaks, but they deserve so.
Let's see what happens this Wednesday. I think that it will be a little bit of the same, with more repression, since evidently the tyrant is weaker physically and he fears being ridiculized.
We have reports of people being already rounded up and "detained". Typical, another day in Cuba.
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