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From: pedro1940@progression.net
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À: "NetforCubaNetwork"
Objet: Eng/Esp: Date: March 15, 2005 2:17 AM
(Español abajo)
Cuban Human Rights organizations condemn the Cuban government.
Baltimore, Maryland. March 15, 2005. The Cuban Movement for a Unified
Democracy, the Mexican Cuban Civic Association and CubanosMex.com from this
city send out an urgent call to the international community, and specially
the international press to disclose the actual specific and concrete
behavior of the present Cuban dictatorship regarding Human Rights.
The facts:
On January 26, 2005 the Mexican coastguard authorities in the area of Port
Progress, Mérida, received a call from a Mexican fishing boat indicating
that they had found two corpses tied to a small raft. The Mexican coastguard
responded to the call and gathered the corpses. One of victims had
identification on him and it was determined that they were Cubans. As is
required by law in these cases the Mexican authorities officially informed
the Cuban consular authorities and requested that they make the necessary
arrangements to gather the corpses so that they could be given back to their
relatives in Cuba.
The Cuban authorities continuing with their customary practice for over
forty-six years opted not to respond officially and their ambassador in
Mexico Jorge A. Bolaños Suárez declared that: "if they had left Cuba looking
for freedom, the government of the United States was to blame for their
deaths".
We denounce to the world the cruel practice of the Cuban dictatorship, which
uses only its Cuban embassies and consulates around the world to spy on, to
intimidate and to impose excessive tariffs for any documentation needed by
their citizens around the world.
The Cuban government cannot nor must it continue violating the norms of
decency, Human Rights and protocol in other countries that all the
international community respects and fulfills and which the Cuban government
subscribes to but only accept the parts that are convenient for them and try
to blackmail governments so that they do not have to comply with the others.
The Cuban government which does not fulfill nor respect the laws or minimal
rights of its citizens in the island, must at least fulfill them in free and
democratic countries where a corpse at least has the simple right of being
respectfully laid to rest with dignity by their friends and relatives.
We officially ask all democratic governments of the world and specially
Latin America and the Caribbean to demand from Cuban embassies that they
comply with their international agreements related and well documented in
this matter or otherwise, force them to close their embassies and leave
their national territory.
The Cuban exile represented by the above mentioned organizations, by
industrialists and by recognized artists, at this moment have taken
possession of the corpses. We have notified their relatives. We have
coordinated, as it should be done, for our brothers who searched for
freedom, so that they at least in death receive worthy and respectful
treatment and can have a last good bye from some of their relatives in exile
and from the Cuban community that has come to learn to respect the values of
the life and death.
It is a formal commitment and honor of our Cuban exile that these brothers
will have their day of glory, they will receive as they deserve funeral
honors, and at least will be buried with dignity in freedom, their ashes
hoped to be scattered on a future Free Cuba where so many brave and Cuban
potential do not have to escape and die.
The press, television and radio will receive suitably and with necessary
time the place, date and time of the wake that for security reasons at the
moment is not possible to make public.
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Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos condenan al gobierno cubano.
Baltimore, Maryland. Marzo 15, 2005. El Movimiento Cubano Unidad
Democrática, La Asociación Cívica Cubano Mexicana y Cubanosmex.com desde
esta ciudad hacen un llamado urgente a toda la comunidad internacional, y en
especial a la prensa internacional para que divulguen la realidad concreta y
palpable sobre el comportamiento de la actual dictadura cubana en materia de
Derechos Humanos.
Los hechos:
El día 26 de enero del 2005 las autoridades guardacostas mexicanas en la
zona de Puerto Progreso, Mérida, recibieron una llamada de un pesquero
igualmente mexicano anunciándoles que habían encontrado dos cadáveres atados
a una pequeña balsa. El servicio de guardafronteras mexicano respondió al
llamado y recogieron los cadáveres. Una de las victimas traía identificación
y por ello se determinó que eran cubanos. Como es procedente legalmente en
estos casos las autoridades mexicanas le informaron de manera oficial a las
autoridades consulares cubanas y les pidieron pasasen a recoger los
cadáveres para que fueran devueltos a sus familiares en Cuba.
Las autoridades cubanas continuando con su práctica ya acostumbrada desde
hace más de cuarenta y seis años se limitaron a no responder oficialmente y
su embajador en México Jorge A. Bolaños Suárez. declaró que: "si habían
salido de Cuba diciendo que buscaban libertad, la culpa de su muerte se la
debían al gobierno de los Estados Unidos''.
Denunciamos al mundo la práctica inhumana de la dictadura cubana, que usa
solamente sus embajadas y consulados cubanos alrededor del mundo para
espiar, intimidar e imponer con tarifas excesivas cualquier documentación de
sus ciudadanos alrededor del mundo.
El gobierno cubano no puede ni debe seguir violando incluso en otros países
las normas de decencia, Derechos Humanos y protocolo que toda la comunidad
internacional respeta y cumple y de las cuales ellos son suscriptores pero
solamente acatan las partes que les conviene y tratan de chantajear a los
gobiernos para que no les hagan cumplir las demás.
El gobierno cubano debe verse forzado a si por lo menos, no cumple ni
respeta las leyes ni los derechos mínimos de sus ciudadanos en la isla,
cumplirlo en tierras libres y democráticas donde un cadáver por lo menos
tiene el simple derecho de ser velado dignamente y respetuosamente por sus
familiares y amigos.
Le solicitamos oficialmente a todos los gobiernos democráticos del mundo y
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