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The homeland belongs to us all
Félix Bonne, René Gómez, Vladimiro Roca, and Marta Beatriz Roque |
| On June 17, 1997, four Cuban dissidents - Félix Bonne, René Gómez, Vladimiro Roca, and Marta Beatriz Roque - released a document called La patria es de todos, or The Homeland Belongs to Us All. It urged the Cuban government to hold democratic elections, liberalize the economy, and improve human rights. In July 1997, the four were detained. They were formally charged with sedition in September 1998. After a brief trial in March 1999, they were convicted of sedition. Roca received a five-year term. Gómez and Bonne received four-year terms, and Roque received a three-and-a-half year term. |
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Yocandra in the paradise of Nada
by
Zoe Valdes (Translated by Sabina Cienfuegos) |
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| Provocative fiction banned in Cuba that
exposes the grinding poverty, corruption, and bureaucratic nightmares
experienced by the female protagonist as she searches for
fulfillment. |
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| UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| Cuban State Security police in Havana
confiscated and destroyed an entire shipment of donated library books from Spain
even though the books were considered politically neutral and included
children's literature and medical textbooks. The inspectors discovered 8,000
pamphlets of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights included in the
shipment. Rather than chance that the pamphlet also might have been inserted
into any of the books, the entire shipment was destroyed. |
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| Library books burned, buried, dumped - Mystery solved?
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