Cuban Human Rights Leader on Day 17 of Hunger Strike Joined by 21 Others

Sandokan · Aug 17, 2016

Cuban Human Rights Leader on Day 17 of Hunger Strike Joined by 21 Others
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/08/cuban-human-rights-activist-begins-week-3-hunger-strike-hospital/

by Frances Martel8 Aug 2016

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At least 22 Cuban human rights advocates are currently undergoing hunger strikes nationwide, while the most prominent among them, EU Sakharov Prize winner Guillermo Fariñas, refuses hospitalization on day 17 of his 24th such hunger strike.

Fariñas is refusing to eat or drink water and has been hospitalized twice so far — once two weeks ago, once last week — and injected with water through an IV until regaining consciousness. He insists he will continue his hunger strike until Raúl Castro publicly vows to end violence against anti-communist dissidents or Fariñas dies.

Fariñas last underwent a hunger strike in 2010 to protest the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died on his 85th day enduring a hunger strike. Doctors and fellow activists have repeatedly told Fariñas he faces unique dangers due to the damage the other 23 hunger strikes have leveled on his body, but he has refused to end his strike. He lasted 100 days on his last hunger strike before calling it off.
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First some background about Guillermo Fariñas. He is a 54 years old mestizo (mix race), married and father of daughter, that used to believe in Fidel Castro’s revolution. He risked his live fighting in Angola during the 1980s. He was a militant of the Union of Young Communists and member of Castro’s elite troops, but in 1989 when General Arnaldo Ochoa was shot, accused of drug trafficking, Fariñas began to have second thoughts.

Fariñas has a degree in psychology and performed as a teacher, joining the dissident movement in 1997, and became an independent journalist. He said: “I am a firm believer that when the government sees that the result of the hunger strikes is dissidents dying like flies; they will sit down and negotiate. These strikes are our weapons of pressure, we have nothing else.”

joG · Aug 17, 2016

Sandokan said:
[FONT=&]First some background about Guillermo Fariñas. He is a 54 years old mestizo (mix race), married and father of daughter, that used to believe in Fidel Castro’s revolution. He risked his live fighting in Angola during the 1980s. He was a militant of the Union of Young Communists and member of Castro’s elite troops, but in 1989 when General Arnaldo Ochoa was shot, accused of drug trafficking, Fariñas began to have second thoughts.
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[FONT=&]Fariñas has a degree in psychology and performed as a teacher, joining the dissident movement in 1997, and became an independent journalist. He said: “I am a firm believer that when the government sees that the result of the hunger strikes is dissidents dying like flies; they will sit down and negotiate. These strikes are our weapons of pressure, we have nothing else.”[/FONT]

I wish him luck. The Castros are old and might die before he does.

Sandokan · Aug 19, 2016

joG said:
I wish him luck. The Castros are old and might die before he does.

The Casroit regime doesn’t care about Cuban dissidents dying. Hopefully this time the western news media will pay attention. So far only Breitbart has done so.

Fariñas and other activists on hunger strike feel the urge to resort to it for the people of the free world to see the evil of the Castroit tyrannical regime they face on a daily basis.

Let´s not forget Fariñas has been offered to leave the country, and he prefers to stay under the Castroit regime dictatorship and continue with the hunger strike on behalf of his fellow Cubans.

Sandokan · Aug 21, 2016

Cuban Dissident Guillermo Fariñas ‘Critical’ on Day 25 of Hunger Strike
Cuban Dissident Guillermo FariÃ±as 'Critical' on Day 25 of Hunger Strike - Breitbart

by Frances Martel 15 Aug 2016

World-renowned human rights activist Guillermo Fariñas is in “critical” condition on the 25th day of his 24th hunger strike, which he began after being beaten and tortured by Raúl Castro’s political police.

Fariñas, a winner of the European Union’s prestigious Andrei Sakharov Prize for human rights activism, began his 26th day of abstaining from food or water on Monday. A day before, fellow activists confirmed that Fariñas’ condition was “critical,” as his body is significantly weakened from the previous hunger strikes that he has undertaken to protest the Castro regime.

“He is in a critical state,” Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel, a fellow Cuban activist, told the Spain-based Diario de Cuba. “He is very sleepy, very tired, has headache and joint pain. He now also is experiencing pain in his kidneys.”

Fariñas spends most of his days sleeping, but remains conscious and in control of when he sleeps, Artiles Montiel added. Nonetheless, his friends and family “expect that suddenly he will lose consciousness.”

Fariñas has already been hospitalized twice since he began his hunger and thirst strike on July 20. On both occasions he was unconscious and could not refuse the hydration IVs doctors provided him, which allowed him to return to consciousness. He has checked himself out of the hospital on both occasions and refused further care.
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The probability of Fariñas’ death is practically certain, but his sacrifice will not be in vain. A great number of people in the world by now know about him and are aware of his cause. His hunger strike has forced the dictatorship to recognize that the incarceration of a large number of political prisoners is no longer feasible.

Sandokan · Aug 24, 2016

Castro brothers’ military regime calls dissidents "mercenaries” hired by the U.S. Government. Guillermo Fariñas in an interview sagaciously remarks that mercenary are not known for dying for their ideas, he said, “No mercenary (as classified by the Castroite regime) dies for his ideas, mercenaries die for money."

A mercenary is a professional soldier hired by a foreign army. A mercenary is essentially motivated by money. The Cubans dissidents aren’t professional soldiers of a foreign country, nor are they motivated by money. They are motivated by their ideals and patriotism.

Sandokan · Aug 30, 2016

One of the few non-violent ways used to attract attention to the Castroit regime 57 years dictatorship is engaging in a hunger strike as an act of political protest. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime and force change.

Sandokan · Sep 6, 2016

Cuban dissident rejects international appeals to end hunger strike as health declines
Cuban dissident rejects international appeals to end hunger strike as health declines | Fox News Latino

By Elizabeth Llorente
Published September 02, 2016
Fox News Latino

International calls are growing for Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike since he was beat up by government officers in mid-July, to stop his protest.

The head of the most influential Cuban-American lobby group in the United States says he pleaded with Fariñas, who is 54, to end his hunger strike, telling the dissident that he can do more for his cause – democratic reforms in Cuba – alive than dead.

Jose Hernandez, the co-founder and president of the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation, told Fox News Latino that Fariñas has refused his request to end his hunger strike.

“Guillermo is a great man, a great friend,” said Hernandez, who speaks daily with friends and relatives of Fariñas who have been holding a vigil at the dissident’s home, monitoring his health. “I told him that it would only benefit the Castro regime if he dies and is no longer in the picture.”
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Very few media outlets report about Fariñas hunger strike. Marti Noticias reported that Fariñas is very weak, can hardly speak, his lips are bleeding, and he is asleep most of the time.

Sandokan · Sep 26, 2016

Prominent Cuban opposition leader abandons long hunger strike
Guillermo FariÃ±as abandons lengthy hunger strike | In Cuba Today

By NORA GÁMEZ TORRES
ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com

Cuban opposition leader Guillermo Fariñas ended his 54-day-old hunger strike Monday, following unconfirmed reports that the European Parliament approved a measure that links aid to the island to Cuban government compliance with his demands.

“We never thought this would become this important,” Fariñas said by phone from his home in Santa Clara, in central Cuba. “It’s an achievement, a victory. And the most important thing is that this hunger strike managed to bring together all of the [opposition] groups in and out of Cuba.”
“It’s an extremely important victory to halting the violence against the domestic opposition, one that cast a spotlight on the violence against the opposition, self-employed workers and citizens in general,” he told el Nuevo Herald.

Fariñas launched his hunger strike, after he was beaten up by State Security agents, to demand that the Raúl Castro government stop its violence and harassment of dissidents, other activists and self-employed workers and legally recognize the opposition.

According to a statement of a web page that claims to be from the Spanish information office of the European Parliament, the amendment was passed by a narrow margin and had strong opposition from parliamentarians of the Spanish party Izquierda Unida. But the embassies of Germany in Washington and Havana could not confirm the alleged vote. A spokeswoman for the European Union delegation in Washington could not confirm passage of the amendment and said a vote is scheduled for Wednesday.

The Cuban American National Foundation based in Miami, meanwhile, issued a statement in the afternoon warning that the information was false. A CANF spokeswoman told el Nuevo Herald that the organization contacted members of the European Parliament who denied passage of the amendment. According to the spokeswoman, parliamentarians said the amendment would likely be discussed in November.
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Fariñas accuses the Castroit regime of having tricked him into ending his 54-deay hunger strike by hacking and falsifying a European Parliament web page.

The lifting of economic sanctions went into effect in March of this year. The fake web page stated that the new amendment would require the Castro regime to stop its repression of dissidents in order for the lifting of sanctions to remain in effect.

Representatives of the European Union have denied the existence of any such initiative in the EU Parliament. In reality, the amendment was planted in the Spanish Parliament web page consulted by Fariñas and other Cuban dissidents, which were fooled.

Sandokan · Oct 21, 2016

Several Spanish local media outlets found out that the web site was hacked and falsified portions of its content. This demonstrate the lack of scrupled of the Castroit regime.

The lack of support from the press and politicians is heartbreaking. The press should join the cause and give ample coverage to Fariñas and the Lades in White plight.

Sandokan · Nov 7, 2016

Fariñas is a professed admirer of Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Gandhi engaged in several hunger strikes for the independence of India, and he succeeded.

In “Gandhi's Letters to a Disciple” he writes, “Under certain circumstances, fasting is the one weapon God has given us for use in times of utter helplessness.” Gandhi felt strongly that fasting and political action was inseparable. So does Fariñas.

Sandokan · Nov 28, 2016

Cuban-American leaders, dissidents urge Trump to get tough with Castro regime
Cuban-American leaders, dissidents urge Trump to get tough with Castro regime | Fox News

By Elizabeth Llorente. Published November 16, 2016
Excerpts:

Rubio met on Tuesday with Guillermo Farinas, one of Cuba’s most prominent human rights activists, during the dissident’s visit to Washington D.C. Farinas, who has been jailed numerous times by Cuban authorities, has been a vocal critic of the Obama administration’s surprise decision two years ago to normalize relations with the Cuban government after more than a half-century of hostilities between the two nations.

Farinas and other dissidents, as well as some international human rights organizations, say the Cuban government continues to oppress its critics. Farinas went on a month-long hunger strike earlier this year after he was detained and beaten by Cuban authorities when he asked about a fellow dissident who had been arrested. Farinas, who was in New York Wednesday to meet with Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, told FoxNews.com Obama’s U.S.-Cuba policy betrayed the cause of human rights.

“I have faith that President Trump will be better for the people of Cuba and press the cause of freedom and democracy,” Farinas said. “Let’s just say no one can possibly be worse than Barack Obama has been for our cause.”

The Obama administration have remained aloof to the crimes that the Castroit regime commits against the Cuban people. Nevertheless, Farinas keeps his battle for political freedom and human rights of the Cuban people. This courageous leader deserve the support of each and every one that despise the Castroit tyrannical regime.

Orly? · Nov 28, 2016

Crazy story man.. Too bad people are running around saying how much they love castro..