There is enough evidence against Spanish pedophile network that operated in Cuba

Sandokan · Jul 31, 2018

How Cuba’s top-down gay rights revolution leaves out actual LGBT people
https://www.dailyxtra.com/how-cubas...evolution-leaves-out-actual-lgbt-people-86489

Even as rights expand, LGBT activists face growing persecution

By Arshy MannMay 12, 2018, 2:21

Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education smiles before giving a press conference in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 5, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Franklin Reyes

The winds of change appear to be sweeping through Cuba.

For the first time in five decades, the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, is not a member of the Castro clan and was born after the Cuban Revolution brought the communist party to power. And his predecessor, Raúl Castro, reached a historic thaw with the United States and initiated a series of small-scale reforms that have modernized parts of the economy.

The same goes for LGBT rights. The regime that once imprisoned thousands of gay men in concentration camps and forced HIV-positive people into sanitariums is now one of the most nominally accepting of LGBT people in the region.

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Progressives like to remark that Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and director of Cenesex, is at the forefront of the fight for gay rights. What they omitted to say is that the Castro regime control the LGBT movement, and that independents LGBT organizations are not permitted. Every time they try to do something without the regime sanction, they are expose to persecution, repression and risk prison terms.

zyzygy · Jul 31, 2018

Sandokan said:
. Progressives like to remark that Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and director of Cenesex, is at the forefront of the fight for gay rights. What they omitted to say is that the Castro i regime control the LGBT movement, and that independents LGBT organizations are not permitted. Every time they try to do something without the regime sanction, they are expose to persecution, repression and risk prison terms.

And quite right too.

Sandokan · Jul 31, 2018

zyzygy said:
And quite right too.

I see, you approve of independents LGBT persecution, repression and been sent to prison for exercise their freedom. Typical response from a progressive/regressive person.

Sandokan · Aug 13, 2018

The Castroit regime official “gay rights” business, like most official business, is used for its own benefit. The regime does not care at all for any human rights, period. But of courses, the progressives would try to sell the “gay rights” political strategy promoted by Mariela Castro as a way to gain outside support for the totalitarian regime. Most people will see this scheme for what it is and would not buy it.

Sandokan · Sep 4, 2018

Cuba goes all out in IDAHOTB celebrations
https://dayagainsthomophobia.org/cuba-goes-all-out-in-idahotb-celebrations/

A report from the Washington Blade by Michael Lavers

HAVANA — The transgender actress Daniela Vega who starred in “A Fantastic Woman” on Saturday participated in a march that commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia in Havana.

Daniela Vega was sitting next to Mariela Castro, the daughter of former Cuban President Raúl Castro who directs the country’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX), in a 1950s era convertible as the march slowly made its way down one Linea, which is one of the main streets in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood.

Violeta Cardoso Pérez, her partner and the three young children they are raising were among those who attended the march.
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Mariela Castro, which is in charge of Cenesex, said that the LGBT rights depend on “the continuity of the Communist Party's policies that they have been developing”. As we can see only LGTB controlled by the Catroit regime is allow. As Fidel Castro said in June 1961 speech to the intellectuals, “Within the Revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing”, mimicking Benito Mussolini in his Doctrine of Fascism of 1932 that wrote, “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”. That is what you get in s Marxist/Fascist totalitarian regime. Only the regime determined who has the right to speak, write or establishing an independent LGBT organization. The regime does not permit dissenting opinion of any type, it control every aspect of the lives of the people. It rule their lives with an iron fist.

SDET · Sep 4, 2018

Sandokan said:
Mariela Castro, which is in charge of Cenesex, said that the LGBT rights depend on “the continuity of the Communist Party's policies that they have been developing”. As we can see only LGTB controlled by the Catroit regime is allow. As Fidel Castro said in June 1961 speech to the intellectuals, “Within the Revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing”, mimicking Benito Mussolini in his Doctrine of Fascism of 1932 that wrote, “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”. That is what you get in s Marxist/Fascist totalitarian regime. Only the regime determined who has the right to speak, write or establishing an independent LGBT organization. The regime does not permit dissenting opinion of any type, it control every aspect of the lives of the people. It rule their lives with an iron fist.

How do you suppose this will same sex business will shake out with tourists? I can tell you firsthand that the register of each casa particular is inspected by law enforcement. For heterosexuals anyway, having ONE Cubana registered with you for the duration of a trip is considered a "girlfriend", but two could result in both Cubanas with up to two years in prison and a $3,000 fine for the tourist.

The iron fist you speak of is very noticeable. I got yelled at and threatened to be thrown out of the country for offering free computer programming tutoring. I was very sternly told that only the state is permitted to offer any educational activity.

Sandokan · Oct 4, 2018

SDET said:
How do you suppose this will same sex business will shake out with tourists? I can tell you firsthand that the register of each casa particular is inspected by law enforcement. For heterosexuals anyway, having ONE Cubana registered with you for the duration of a trip is considered a "girlfriend", but two could result in both Cubanas with up to two years in prison and a $3,000 fine for the tourist.

The iron fist you speak of is very noticeable. I got yelled at and threatened to be thrown out of the country for offering free computer programming tutoring. I was very sternly told that only the state is permitted to offer any educational activity.

Thanks you for validating my point with your firsthand experience during your stay in the country.

Sandokan · Oct 4, 2018

Cuba may legalize marriage equality. That doesn’t mean it’s a gay paradise.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/cuba-may-legalize-marriage-equality-doesnt-mean-gay-paradise/

By John Gallagher, Thursday, August 16, 2018

Cuba looks like it’s about to join the growing list of countries that have legalized marriage equality. The country is considering a new constitution that would define marriage as between two individuals, not as between a man and a woman.

But at least one scholar is warning that the move is government-sponsored window dressing meant to obscure the country’s continued control over its citizens.

In an op-ed in the Miami Herald, Cuban author and historian Abel Sierra Madero says that the move toward marriage equality is entirely in line with the country’s ongoing effort of “changing to make sure nothing changes.”
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The mainstream media is praising the Castroit regime law allowing same-sex marriage, saying that this make Cuba “one of the most progressive countries in the world.” The LGTB community will have the right to get married, but like the rest of the Cuban population won’t have the fundamental human rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and religion. This is merely a façade to conceal what is behind the new electoral and business laws aimed to represses the Cuban people even further.

zyzygy · Oct 4, 2018

Sandokan · Oct 13, 2018

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“In a very short time a catastrophic nuclear war will break out”

A humorous joke is not the same as a prophecy. Castrodamus also “predicted” that the standard of living in Cuba will be superior than in the U.S.; the citrus industry will be superior to that of Florida; the milk production will reach 30 million liters of milk in 1975; the Cuban people would be counted among the best-fed people in the world; turn the island into a coffee power; would harvest 10 million tons of sugar; breed a super cow; Cuba will become an energetic model for the world. The Babalawo (priest of the oracle) that guided him in the predictions was not a good Babalawo.

Sandokan · Oct 22, 2018

Decree 349 has been condemned by Amnesty International. It states that artists must have a permit from the culture ministry to undertake any artistic activity. It regulate the hiring system of artists in both the private and public sector, using it to legalizes the censorship of any creative activity criminalizing independent art.

Sandokan · Nov 12, 2018

Of course, there is a financial incentive too. Grupo Gaviota in charge of the tourist industry, is hold by “Grupo de Administración Empresarial SA” (GAESA), headed by Raul Castro son in law, an army general, recently signed an agreement with the European chain Muthu Hotels and Resorts to administer a hotel aimed at the LGBT community. The hotel is being built in Cayo Guillermo to cater to the LGBT community and will have 248 rooms. The LGBTQ tourism will help to increase the tourism income control by the regime military.

Sandokan · Dec 5, 2018

The draft of the proposed constitution in fact puts more obstacles before citizen initiatives such as the Varela Project, launched by Oswaldo Payá, to demand civil liberties. He gathered 10,000 signatures, but the new constitution requires 50,000 signatures before such initiatives can be officially recognized.

Sandokan · Dec 20, 2018

Same-sex Marriage in Cuba: Acceptance or Political Strategy?
https://havanatimes.org/?p=139286

August 4, 2018
Osmel Ramirez Alvarez

The same LAWS, the same rights. Foto: ladobe.com.mx

HAVANA TIMES – Only 26 countries in the world currently allow same-sex marriage. And soon, after the new Cuban Constitution is (surely) approved, as well as a Law which they must be writing up right now, our county will join this avant-garde when it comes to human rights.

Because marriage is a social institution which originated and was meant to promote families under a legal framework (read here: procreation and protection), it was obviously conceived for people of different sexes. However, due to new concepts today and the ways that modern society centers on freedom and the diversity of sexual unions (especially homosexuality and the repercussions this has on “the family”), Cuba’s LGBT community’s struggle for marriage is one of acceptance, in search of equality, rather than it being a legal problem that can be resolved with getting a civil partnership or cohabitation agreement.

This is understandable in the scheme of them trying to gain greater social recognition for their rights, beyond whether marriage is a good thing or not or should also be reformed. Prejudice towards homosexuality in our Western culture was mostly introduced by Judeo-Christian influences. And because this history of two thousand years has created strong roots, it’s impossible to get rid of this as if by magic.
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Mariela Castro, CENESEX director, said that, “With this proposal for constitutional regulation, Cuba places itself among the vanguard countries in recognizing and guaranteeing human rights.” She also said, in reference to the UMAP force labor camps, that “the camps were an isolated mistake and that they were never forced labor camp.”

The Castroit regime approval of same-sex married included in the new constitution has been used as a public relation ploy. The mainstream media praised the regime for approval of same-sex married and the “democratic” nature of the amendment of the constitution. Lo and behold the Cuba’s National Assembly announced the removal of the same-sex married from the new constitution, but the new electoral and business laws aimed to represses the Cuban people even further remain. The ploy worked as a charm.

Sandokan · Jan 13, 2019

This is an attempt by Mariela to rewrite history. The first labor force camp established in Cuba, was set up in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Pinar del Río Province, at the end of 1960 by Che Guevara, where according to him were confined “people who have committed crimes against revolutionary morals, to a lesser or greater degree.” These ‘crimes’ involved drinking, vagrancy, disrespect for authorities, laziness and playing loud music.

Sandokan · Jan 29, 2019

The Guanahacabibes camp was the forerunner of the UMAP (Military Units to Help Production), labor force camp stablished by the Castro regime in Camagüey Province in 1965 and were in operation until 1968. The regime sent to those camps dissidents, Catholics, Baptist, Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Santería practitioners, priests, artists, intellectuals, gays, lesbians, prostitutes, pimps, hippies, drug addicts and anyone considered anti-social. Some died from torture, others committed suicide, were rape, beating, mutilated and many were traumatized for life, as shown in Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal 1988 award-winning documentary Improper Conduct that recorded the testimonies of victims and witnesses https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=oATGXqa69TA

Sandokan · Feb 13, 2019

The proposed constitution in fact puts more obstacles before citizen initiatives such as the Varela Project, launched by Rosa María Payá father, Oswaldo Payá, to demand civil liberties. He gathered 10,000 signatures, but the new constitution requires 50,000 signatures before such initiatives can be officially recognized. Article five of the previous constitution established the “irrevocable” character of socialism, is also present in the new one that in article one say, “Socialism and the social revolutionary political system instituted in this Constitution are irrevocable.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. It just reinforce the status quo.

Sandokan · Feb 28, 2019

Report: Prostitution a la Carte in Cuba
Report: Prostitution a la Carte in Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas – Translating Cuba

Luis Felipe Rojas, Posted on October 23, 2018

Luis Felipe Rojas, 8 October 2018 — Brothels in Cuba are within reach of anyone who wants to find them, as the Spanish newspaper El País described this Sunday in a report on the panorama of prostitution on the island.

The journalist Alvaro Fuentes interviewed women in Havana who dedicate themselves to “the oldest profession in the world”. Arlen, a 50-year-old who says she started in the profession at 13, told El País that times have changed. “Now having a prostitute at home is not seen as something bad, and their families support them even, since they bring a standard of living that is unthinkable for the rest of the population”.

In an interview for Radio Martí, the independent journalist Agustín López Caninó evaluated the social phenomenon.

Yanet, another of the women interviewed by the Spanish newspaper who looks for tourists near the Malecón around the Hotel Deauville, explained: “My father is a doctor; his monthly salary is some 50 dollars. I can earn that in an afternoon. It’s frustrating to think about the near future on this island.”

The Cuban Regime has never recognized the existence of prostitution. The U.S. Department of State, in its 2018 report on human trafficking, says that “the Castro government does not fulfill ’the minimum requirements’ for the elimination of the trafficking of people” although it recognizes that the Cuban authorities are making significant efforts to do so.”

Translated by Regina Anavy

Prostitution is rampant in Cuba and for many women, selling their bodies to foreigners and tourists is the only way they can earn enough money for their families to survive. This is what the Castro revolution has brought to Cuba. This is what socialism has done to this island nation.

Tourism has created thousands of jobs in the sex trade. A higher ratio of tourists goes to Cuba nowadays for prostitution, instead of the beaches and climate, than any other country in the world. Hotel workers, taxi drivers and the security personnel involved in the tourist industry, facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children by tourists, meanwhile the corrupt regime authorities look the other way.

Fidel Castro is the main responsible for the increased of prostitution, since in order to survive women need to trade in their bodies. It shows the outside world the real face of socialism.

Sandokan · Mar 18, 2019

Quote from the article:

Now having a prostitute at home is not seen as something bad, and their families support them even, since they bring a standard of living that is unthinkable for the rest of the population.

Cuban prostitution is the consequence of the misery to which the communist regime has led the Cuban people. The regime has destroyed the family, the fabric of society.

Quotes from the horse mouth: Fidel Castro speech at the National Assembly, July 11, 1992, “In Cuba there are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily, and without any need for it. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy.” He also said in 1992 that, “Cuban women become jineteras (prostitutes) because they like sex.” He remarked in 1993 that, “thanks to socialism Cuban girls must make the cleanest and best-educated prostitutes in the world.”
Castro, the Pimp in Chief, turned the island into the brothel of the Caribbean.

Sandokan · Apr 7, 2019

Prominent US activist ‘harassed’ by Cuban officials
EXCLUSIVE: Prominent US activist 'harassed' by Cuban officials

January 21, 2019 at 7:13 pm EST | by Michael K. Lavers

The transgender Pride flag, the gay Pride flag and the Cuban flag (left to right) flutter in the wind at Mi Cayito, a gay beach in Havana. Michael Petrelis, a prominent LGBTI activist from San Francisco, claims he was “harassed” by Cuban officials when he visited the country this month. (Photo by Yariel Valdés González)

A prominent LGBT activist from San Francisco says Cuban authorities “harassed” him during his recent trip to the country.

Michael Petrelis had 10,000 “Love is Love” rainbow stickers and 1,200 Pride bracelets in his luggage when he arrived at Havana’s José Martí International Airport on Jan. 2.

Petrelis told the Washington Blade during a series of exclusive interviews from Cuba and San Francisco that an immigration official in street clothes “tapped on the shoulder from behind” shortly after he went through customs. Petrelis said the official asked to see his passport before bringing him to an “upstairs interview room.”
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Michael Petrelis, a prominent LGBT activist, was harassed by agents of the Castroit regime during his recent stayed in Cuba. LGTB activists abroad believed the regime public relation that it has improve LGTB rights. Only LGBT Mariela Castro Cenesex activism, that is control by the regime, is allowed. Independent LGBT activism continuum to be the target of repression by the regime, which remain homophobic and repressive against the Cuban LGBT community. It never has the intention to legalize same-sex marriage, or tolerate sexual diversity.

Sandokan · Apr 24, 2019

Petrelis find out the reality of it as soon as he arrive at José Martí Havana airport and was interrogated by the regime security agents about why he was bringing in so many rainbow stickers and gay pride bracelets to Cuba. He learned a few thing about living under the Castroit regime, like been under constant surveillance and several interrogations where he was told not to participate in demonstration or attaint meetings, which he shear with the Blade. If these human rights violations happened to him, considered a friend of the regime, what is happening to the Cubans dissident straight and gays, considered enemies of the state, is really much worse that what you think since they don’t have any rights at all.

Sandokan · May 19, 2019

Cuban government blocks Blade media partner’s website
Cuban government blocks Blade media partner's website

The publisher of Tremenda Nota, the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba, says authorities blocked access to his website in the country on the eve of a referendum on a new constitution. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

The publisher of the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba on Saturday said the country’s government blocked access to his website in the country.

Maykel González Vivero, co-founder of Tremenda Nota, an independent online magazine in Cuba that covers the country’s LGBTI community and other minority groups, wrote on his Facebook page that authorities “just blocked access to Tremenda Nota in Cuba.” González in his post also notes Tremenda Nota was blocked on the eve of a referendum on the draft of the country’s new constitution.

González noted to the Blade that Tremenda Nota on Friday published an article about the results of an official survey that indicates 77 percent of Cubans between 15-74 said same-sex couples should receive the same rights as heterosexual couples.
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In December 2018 the regime remove an amendment from the draft constitution that would have extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Cuba. The Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights that works independently of Mariela Castro CENESEX, urged LGBTI Cubans to vote no for the approval of the new constitution.

The Castroit regime did not responded to the Blade’s request for comment. Independent journalists and activists face harassment and arrest if they dare to publicly criticize the Castroit regime. The new constitution is a public-relations stunt. It reiterates the “irrevocable” role of central planning and state control over production and land use. It denies the Cuban people’s most basic human rights.

Sandokan · Jun 7, 2019

Improper Conduct 35 years later: A portrait of Cuban communist intolerance

POSTED BY JOHN SUAREZ
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019

“We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true revolutionary, a true communist militant.” ... A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.” - Fidel Castro, 1965

Restored film screened in Coral Gables this past Sunday

This past Sunday, on March 24, 2019 a restored version of Néstor Almendros (1930-1992) and Orlando Jiménez Leal's film Improper Conduct (Conducta Impropia) was shown at the Coral Gables Art Cinema at 1:00pm.

April 11th will mark the 35th anniversary of the release of Improper Conduct, the film that exposed communist intolerance to Gays and Lesbians in Cuba. Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Heberto Padilla, José Mario and Armando Valladares are among the writers interviewed in the documentary. In 1984 the film was first screened in Paris. In an interview published in the Spanish publication, Faro y Vigo Jiménez Leal explained how this restored version and anniversary screening came to be:
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Thirty five years ago, Néstor Almendros, who won the best cinematography Oscar for “Days of Heaven” and Orlando Jiménez Leal co-directed the film “Improper Conduct” that document the systematic violation of human rights and the widespread persecution of homosexuals by the Castro regime. Testimonies from Reinaldo Arenas, Heberto Padilla, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Juan Goytisolo and Susan Sontag are featured in the film. Orlando Jiménez restored and re-edited the film to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its released. The film is as relevant today as it was when it was released in 1984.

Sandokan · Jun 25, 2019

Gay life after the Cuban revolution has been a horrible nightmare of repression, persecution, massive raids, incarceration, concentration camps and death as depicted in the film. The nightmare for gays and lesbians in Cuba, despite the well-orchestrated Castro propaganda, which includes tours of gay life in his "island paradise", is hardly over.

Sandokan · Jul 9, 2019

Pre-criminal danger to society is a legal charge under the Castroit regime law which allows the authorities to detain people whom they think they are likely to commit crimes in the future. Under the regime penal code, the charge covers behaviors contrary “to the standards of communist morality.” The charge carries a penalty of up to four years in prison. By using this law the regime imprisons people without justification. Many LGBT people through the years have been jailed under those charges.