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

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Prosecutor :There is enough evidence against Spanish pedophile network that operated in Cuba
http://babalublog.com/2011/06/spanish-prosecutor-plenty-of-proof-to-prove-child-pornography-out-of-cuba/

TENERIFE, ISLAS CANARIAS.- The victims of a Spanish pedophile network that had its epicenter in Cuba for more than two decades are depending on the collaboration of the governments for both countries so justice can prevail.

"We have various photos of Cuban boys, but it is difficult to identify them because there is absolutely no collaboration and not international agreement with Cuba that allows us to send an investigative commission and conduct an investigation there," said Teseida Garica, the prosecution's representative in immigration matters in Las Palmas.

The Prosecutors in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, submitted the case back in May before the highest Spanish judicial court, the National Audience (AN), which will decide whether to take the case or dismiss it.

"We have the photos and the statements from those charged, and we have sent them to the Audience (AN). And I understand that in spite of the fact those children were not identified with names and dates of birth, looking at the case in whole and the investigation that has already taken place, it is possible to determine that they were not of legal age," assured Garcia in a statement to Café Fuerte.

In the case that the AN decides to proceed with the case, the entire investigation will be transferred to Madrid, since crimes that take place outside the country have to be investigated by the highest authorities of the country.
Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.
 
Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.

Why would the media cover it when it happened in Cuba. We mostly do not care about third world countries.
 
Of course the Castroit regime is not going to cooperate. Most of the time, as usually happens in the case of Cuba, the world is indifferent. If by any chance this would has happened in a right wing country, the liberal main stream media would have pick up this hot story and run with it, but since the Castroit regime is a left wing dictatorship it is not happening.
I can't find this one on CNN but I did find one back in 2011 covering many countries, so yes they do care. ;)

Scores held in European pedophilia investigation
 
With regard to the Castroit regime response, probably it will be similar to its response to the large increase in prostitution (It is estimate in 100,000 the number of people making a living from prostitution among prostitutes, madams and pimps in Cuba), which was, according to Fidel Castro in a speech in 1993, that: “thanks to socialism Cuban girls must make the cleanest and best-educated prostitutes in the world.” In this case the regime can just say the child porn kids get free education and free health care, so they're not so badly off after all.
 
Cuba has been compare to Thailand as a “paradise of sex tourism” (Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Cuba, Redirecting...). There is a very simple answer to the problem of prostitution: change the Castroit regime and the problem for the most part will solve itself, since the women will no longer need to prostitute themselves out of necessity. This is the result of the poverty created by 54 years of dictatorship.
 
There is probably little impetus on the part of the Spanish government to bring this to a head. A few years back when Cubans tried to get that Spanish prosecutor to declare Fidel Castro an international criminal in the same manner that he did against Pinochet, he made up some phony lame excuse why he couldn't.

The excuse was that Fidel Castro was a sitting head of state, which of coursed didn’t apply today, but they still won't do anything. In the case of Ghadafi the warrant for his arrest took place when he was still Libya's head of state. As we can see it is mostly about ideology, justice is a purely secondary consideration.
 
Ros-Lehtinen Condemns Cuban Regime's Ongoing Promotion Of Human Trafficking
Ros-Lehtinen Condemns Cuban Regime’s Ongoing Promotion Of Human Trafficking | Babalú Blog

Miami, Florida – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) commented on the State Department’s 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report, which once again designates Cuba as the lowest ranking (Tier 3), which is defined as a country that does not comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:

“The State Department’s 2011 Trafficking in Persons report once again classifies Cuba as one of the worst nations in the area of human and sex trafficking. This designation as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act should trigger the administration's reversal of its support for educational and cultural exchanges with Cuba.

"Any Cuba watcher knows that the Havana regime has no intention of eliminating trafficking in or from Cuba. In fact, it relies on this immoral practice to sustain its tyrannical ways. Child prostitution is a common profit-making scheme by the regime and Cuban doctors are used as mere pawns by the dictatorship to repay its debts to other countries.

"Having recognized Cuba's deplorable record on human trafficking, it is reprehensible that the administration would continue to make it a priority to advance educational and cultural exchanges with Cuba. In light of the State Department’s own designation, I call on the Administration to reverse its position."
According to U.S. law, “countries on Tier 3 may not receive funding for government employees’ participation in educational and cultural exchange programs.” Under the repressive Cuban regime, anyone who is involved in cultural and educational exchanges are direct employees of the Castro brothers. The tyrannical regime use these exchanges as a political instrument to promote their communist agenda while maintaining absolute control over the lives of the Cuban people.
 
This report clearly illustrates the failure of the administration’s partial waiver, particularly last year’s, to improve the lives of the Cuban people. These exchanges only serve as a propaganda tool for the Castro brothers’ tyrannical regime and don’t help to bring freedom and democracy to Cuba.
 
Cuba has been compare to Thailand as a “paradise of sex tourism” (Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Cuba, Redirecting...). There is a very simple answer to the problem of prostitution: change the Castroit regime and the problem for the most part will solve itself, since the women will no longer need to prostitute themselves out of necessity. This is the result of the poverty created by 54 years of dictatorship.

Who is going to tell the Hollywood elite who are such fans of the Castro's regime that visiting Cuba has unintended implications?
 
Shame on Cuba: Blind Eye to Human Trafficking
Shame on Cuba: Blind Eye to Human Trafficking | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation

Olivia Snow
July 6, 2011

If the girls give me trouble I hurt them.” These are the words of human trafficker Aktham Zuhair Salem Madanat. Known for trafficking girls from Cuba to the United Kingom, Madanat had no qualms about openly discussing how he lured 10- and 11-year-old girls into the sex trade. In fact, Madanat is one of many involved in the lucrative human trafficking market throughout Cuba and beyond.

In order to fight human trafficking, the State Department annually presents its Global Trafficking in Persons Report, a survey of 184 countries that measures compliance with human trafficking regulations specified in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA).

The 2011 Report places Cuba and Venezuela on the Tier 3 list.
According to Castro I there was no real problem. Then obviously must be part of right-wing conspiracy. The Castroit regime isn’t only turning a blind eye to human trafficking, it is part of it.
 
The Cuban people are suffering a lot due to the role played by the totalitarian regime in human trafficking and prostitution. Ms. Olivia Snow article stand completely with the victims of this horrible trafficking, as the Cuban people stand against it too.
 
Cuba, under the Castroit regime, has become a paradise for sexual tourists who go to the island and take sexual advantage of innocent women and children, who are forced to prostitute themselves in order to survive.
 
[
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Newsroom - Cuba Study Group

For Mariela Castro, gay rights are OK in Cuba but political rights are not, says transgender woman.

By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@elnuevoherald.com

A transgender woman has quit her job at a government-run sex studies center headed by the daughter of Cuban ruler Raúl Castro, alleging that Mariela Castro accused her of disloyalty because of her relationship with a gay opposition activist.

Castro “challenged my life, (asking) why am I with my man?” said Wendy Iriepa, 37, who added that she handed in her resignation Thursday to the National Sex Education Center in Havana (CENESEX), which Castro heads.

Iriepa was a long-time fixture at the center: the first to benefit from Castro’s push for government approval of sex-change surgeries and steady participant in center-organized events for Cuba’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.

Castro, who directs CENESEX, has long been known as an advocate for LGBT rights and widely credited with lobbying the government to crack down on discrimination against gays and offer benefits to LGBT community members.

But a small group of gays has accused her of monopolizing the LGBT rights movement, demanding total loyalty to her father’s government and blocking efforts to establish gay rights groups that are independent of the government-run CENESEX.

On June 28, a small group of independent gays and lesbians known as the Observatory for LGBT Rights strolled down a Havana boulevard to mark Gay Pride Day. That’s a day Castro has refused to celebrate, arguing that such a protest is not necessary in Cuba.
The transgender woman, Wendy Iriepa, was forced to quit her job by Mariela Castro (Raul Castro`s daughter) because she was dating a dissident gay man. She and her family truly feel that they are royalty, and the Cuban people are their servants. The Castros’ royal family have never worked a day in their lives, but they have become very rich, due to the exploitation of the working class.
 
Wendy has conviction and she is very brave. She should be congratulated for it. It is very obvious that the coming out publicly against Mariela Castro is a very dangerous thing to do, especially in the way she did it. She has exposed Mariela false gay rights organization for what it is, another appendage of the regime: nothing more than a front, and a scam.
 
So much for the Castro regime’s embrace of Gay rights: Arrested Cuban transsexual dies in police custody
So much for the Castro regime’s embrace of Gay rights: Arrested Cuban transsexual dies in police custody | Babalú Blog

By Alberto de la Cruz

Over the past year, there has been much hoopla over a series of conciliatory statements toward Cuba's gay community made by the daughter of dictator Raul Castro and head of the regime's sex ministry, Mariela Castro. In addition, the press went wild with the recent "gay marriage" that took place in Havana, pointing to the event as a watershed moment in the gay rights movement in communist Cuba.

The media and various "Cuba Experts" lauded the totalitarian dictatorship of Cuba for its "embrace" of gay rights, and cited Mariela Castro's statements and the "gay wedding" as proof that the tyrannical dictatorship of the Castro brothers is moving in the right direction. However, it is apparent that the "reforms" and "embrace" of gay rights were short-lived.
Via Penúltimos Días (my translation):

Funeral photograph of transsexual Nelson Linares Garcia, who died in police custody


Nelson-Linares-500x375.jpg

Thirty-four-year-old transsexual Nelson Linares Garcia was detained in the early morning hours of September 8 at the Fraternity Park and taken to the police station in Zanja where he died shortly thereafter. A doctor certified "respiratory arrest" as the cause of death, but the authorities did not conduct an autopsy. - Photograph: Ignacio Estrada
The truth is that it is extremely rare for someone that young to die suddenly, overnight, in a police station, and don’t practice and autopsy on the decease to determine the cause of dead. This really smell to foul play by the police.
 
Dissident, Roberto de Jesus Guerra, who was released from prison after two years in 2007, said that in recent weeks had seen repeated raids by police on LGBT meeting at several sites in the Cuban capital. Continuing police harassment in Cuba, including arrests, has been reported on gay Cuban blogs, such as that of the Reinaldo Arenas Memorial Foundation.
 
Herb Sosa, president of Unity Coalition, a Latino LGBT organization based in Miami that has provided materials and resources to LGBT groups, has accused the Cuban government of engaging in extrajudicial executions. According to Acosta of OBCUD LGBT, repression of LGBT in Cuba is increasing, not only in Havana but "we have documented Matanzas [North Cuba] and Guantanamo [East Cuba] cases." He said that his group would protest repression to the United Nations.
 
Thank you, FIDEL!’
Cubans on Facebook: ‘Thank you, FIDEL!’ | Babalú Blog

Meet Libertad Escobar Angulo. She is a graduate of the University of Havana and lives in the Vedado district of Havana. In her profile, she lists as her occupation "Cuba Tourism Promoter."

Facebook profile: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EKDWbTBk7...ura+de+pantalla+2011-09-09+a+las+22.30.25.png

I am a product of the Cuban revolution, and I have had to prostitute myself to survive amidst the calamities left behind by a dead father forgotten in an internationalist mission, and the most militant mother of the PCC [Cuban Communist Party], who as a wife and mother, in her own way, also sells her body. The difference between her and I is that she is paid with a job where she does nothing, but since she sleeps with her bosses at MINREX [Exterior Ministry], she was not laid off, and... she receives a miserable salary that is not enough to cover her or my two brothers' (children of communist promiscuity) most basic necessities. In regards to me, I get paid in Euros, and on my worst night, I make much more than any surgeon with 25 years of experience makes in an entire year working at CIMEX [Castro regime's largest commercial corporation]. Yes, I am a whore, or better said, a jinetera. That is the euphemistic way we Cubans like to jokingly describe half-truths. Someone took this picture of me and uploaded it to the internet. At that moment, I felt ashamed since it was during my first steps into the business. Today I appreciate the contribution that I make, and I leave it to the imagination of others to guess which one of the women is me. How do I have internet at home? It's simple; everything is in the name of an Italian client. He takes it upon himself to pay for it, along with my cell phone and other expenses, in exchange for when he comes to Havana, I am all his. Because of this I say loud and clear: Thank you FIDEL! Today I am a university graduate and a whore; something you boasted about once. I am, as you say, an educated and well paid whore. I am one of those New Pines.
This is one of many examples of how Castroism has destroyed and prostituted the Cuban people's soul.
 
There are many whores who've spent lifetimes prostituting themselves to Castro, Inc. The revolutionary whores have university titles and still try to pass themselves off as paragons of righteousness. That is repulsive.

Looks that Libertad's mother has a fake job that pays a salary in exchange for no actual work. It was one of the pre-revolutionary vices that Castro supposedly did away with. You know, like prostitution.
 
CUBA: A 'paradise of sexual tourism'*
http://www.obligedtooffend.com/2011/08/cuba-paradise-of-sexual-tourism.html

Posted by James Bloodworth

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, because we are the country with the lowest numbers of AIDS cases…Therefore, there is truly no prostitution healthier that Cuba’s”.

- Fidel Castro in a speech to the Cuban National Assembly, 1992.

Since the early years of the Cuban revolution, the government claimed as one of its shining achievements the elimination of prostitution. In reality of course, it lingered on; but through the provision of job opportunities and training for former prostitutes, the revolution did go a substantial way to eliminating the sex trade relative to its documented abundance during the pre-revolutionary era.

Spending time in Cuba in 2011, one cannot but be alarmed by the frequency one notices young Cubans, often no more than 14 or 15 years old, fraternising with European and Canadian tourists of a certain age. Disturbingly, this hustling or “jineterismo” of foreigners often camouflages a more basic sex-for-cash transaction.
It is true that many Cubans, women and men, marry foreigners to get out of the island, due to the horrible situation of the country caused by the Castroit tyranny. Many people have descent into poverty since 1992 and they see as normal to marry foreigners to leave the island, which really is the lesser of two evils.
 
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Their desire to leave take precedence, in many cases, over the concern for the feelings of the sponsor. They are driven to it by the economic situation in the island. This is what poverty does to people. Most of the marriages break down once the Cuban spouse receives the permanent residency visa in the host's country.
 
The economic situation under the Castros regime is so bad, that they have practically no other way of bettering themselves and their families than escaping from Cuba, any way they can, to achieve success and fulfill their dreams. Cubans have suffered the oppression and endure the active promotion of the island by the regime as haven for sex tourists. Most of the child sexual exploitation that does take place in Cuba is perpetrated by tourists with the tacit consent of the regime.
 
While there are undoubtedly sex tourists, there are also a large number of men and women who travel to Cuba for a relaxing vacation only to get pounced upon by the jineteras. There are two types, those who are blatant prostitutes will outright ask you whether you want to take them to your room. On popular resorts such as Cayo Coco, where restriction are relax, you will encounter them with their pimp on the beach. And you have the more subtle ones who work in the 4 and 5 star hotels in teams.

They will sneak their way into your life under the pretext of friendship. They're smart, have lots of experience and the charade will go on for weeks. Don't ever think they care about you. They couldn't care less. As long as you keep sending them gifts or money, they're happy..Eventually they go in for the kill, a ticket out of the Cuba. If you refuse, expect not to hear from them again.
 
Gays in Cuba after the Revolution
Gays in Cuba after the Revolution - Havana Times.org

The fifth of six installments from “Cuba Since the 1959 Revolution”
By SAMUEL FARBER

HAVANA TIMES, Dec 16, 2011 — In spite of not having been allowed to organize independently to articulate and defend their interests, Cuban women benefited in some ways from the revolutionary process. Some traditional forms of patriarchal sexism have become weakened, such as the power of husbands at home.

Women’s incorporation into the labor force and the occasional implementation of affirmative action policies have led to a much greater occupational differentiation and to a larger number of women playing prominent roles in the economy and society.
However, the opposite has been the case for Cuban gays, who have suffered greatly, particularly during the first thirty years of the revolutionary period. For reasons that will be elucidated later on, the Cuban government forced gays out of the closet and politicized their situation to significantly increase their oppression.

As part of this process, the revolutionary leadership created a climate of opinion that not only dismissed gay oppression as a legitimate issue but also portrayed gay life as a symptom of social decay

For example, when in 1967 the British House of Lords accepted the Wolfenden Report and abolished the UK’s laws against sodomy, the Cuban press portrayed the event as a further example of the decline of the British empire. Bohemia, Cuba’s most influential magazine, marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the United States with a cartoon portraying, in a derogatory manner, two men getting married in a church ceremony.160

A long series of events are “high” points of the decades-long trajectory of the persecution of gay Cubans by the revolutionary government. As early as 1962, the government conducted a massive raid known as the “night of the three Ps,” that is, prostitutas (female prostitutes), proxénetas (pimps), and pájaros (birds, one of the many derogatory Cuban terms for gay men). The raid netted thousands of people who were arrested and taken to police stations and city jails.
Farber article expose the persecution of homosexuals and their suffering under the Castroit regime since the early years up to the AIDS infection in the1990s, providing precise and accurate information about the measures taken against the gay community.
 
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