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Cuba: Pressures, Blackmail are Unacceptable

Written by Dayami Interián García

Havana, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuba considers pressures and blackmail unacceptable, and strongly defends the life and dignity of the human being, Granma daily sustains in an article Monday.

The text refers to a new media campaign on mercenary Guillermo Farinas, who began a hunger strike in his house 13 days ago with the intention of forcing the release of over 20 counterrevolutionary prisoners.

Those in jail were sanctioned for acting at the service of foreign interests, against independence and constitutional order.

The daily highlights the manipulation of press reports alleging the Cuban government said to let die the wage earner of the US Interest Section in Havana, without saying a single word about our health professionals' multiple efforts to care for him.

Farinas' health has seriously deteriorated due to successive hunger strikes, and remains alive thanks to the medical attention he has received, no matter his condition as mercenary, the text reads.

Granma daily also comments that disorders of his personality have no political overtones, and recalled that in 1995 he inflicted multiple injuries to an official from a health center, and was thus sentenced to three years in jail, and fined 600.00 pesos.

To evade justice, the article continues, he orchestrated his first hunger strike, then dedicated to give distorted information through subversive radio stations, and express his desire to die if his demands were not met.

A second incident in Santa Clara in 2002 ratified his violent nature, when he strongly beat with a cane an old man who had foiled a terrorist act by someone personally sent by international criminal Luis Posada Carriles.

Once sentenced to five years and ten months in prison by the Villa Clara Provincial Court, he made a scene with another hunger strike.

On that occasion, Farinas dehydrated, he stopped the strike, and then retook it on November 4, 2002 asking to have a TV at the infirmary ward of the prison where he was recovering.

On December 3, 2005, he was given an extra-penal license taking into consideration his health situation, in line with our laws and the humanitarian principle of our justice and penitentiary system.

Three years later, this agent, at the service of the US and regular reported of anti-Cuban radio stations, held a prolonged fasting to demand Internet access from his house.

Farinas has also supported all kinds of activities by the US Interest Section in Havana and some European diplomatic headquarters that mastermind subversion in Cuba, from which he receives instructions, money and supplies.

Taken from the web site(www.plenglish.com)