- Joined
- May 13, 2010
- Messages
- 5,250
- Reaction score
- 763
- Location
- Los Angels, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Slightly Conservative
“Now that there is no censorship, and the press is completely free, freer than it has ever been, and has also the assurance that it will continue to be free forever, without having censorship here again.” Castro Speech, January 8, 1959.“He who says freedom of the press, says freedom, says freedom of assembly; freedom of assembly and the right to choose freely, not only the President, but also for the workers to choose their leaders. Rights which cannot be taken away”. Fidel Castro Speech, January 5, 1959, Camaguey, Cuba.
The Castro regime took away all those rights from the Cuban people since 1959, 61 years ago when he started to persecuted and jailed over 50% of the labor leaders, destroying the rights attained by the workers and the labor movement. He eliminated those who criticized the revolutionary process, coercing them to leave the country under threat, sending them to prison or executing them. That was his goal, which unfortunately became reality.
Since 1959 freedom of the press and information ceased to exist in the island. The regime control and censor newspapers and magazines, radio, television, film industry, and access to the Internet. Independent journalists who send information critical of the regime to other countries are faced with sentences from 3 to 10 years of imprisonment. Their travels abroad are restricted. The regime is the Latin America worse freedom violator, and its laws are the most restrictive laws on freedom of expression and the press.