"If God wants me to die, I will die. I will be a martyr for the free information in the world,"
Guillermo Fariñas Hernández
Guillermo Fariñas is a Cuban. He is a journalist. He is an everyman.
Most of us can only imagine having his level of courage, to have the willingess to take his struggle against tyranny to the end of his life. He is on a hunger strike for the right to exercise the rights given to him by God — the right to express himself and to tell the truth about life and death in Cuba.
Guillermo Fariñas is a hero.
Unfortunately, most of the world does not know Guillermo Fariñas. Unfortunately, most of the world does not know — or worse, doesn't care to know — the reality about Cuba.
Freedom is against the law in Cuba.
You do not have the right to choose where you work. You do not have the right to choose where you live. You do not have the right to leave the country for a better life.
And you do not have the right to surf the Internet or send e-mails to anyone you want.
“The (Cuban) authorities use the U.S. embargo as a pretext for a repressive policy towards the Internet," Reporters Without Borders wrote recently. "The chief reason for keeping citizens away from the Internet is to prevent them from being well-informed.”
Freedom is against the law in Cuba.
Can you imagine that horror?
And can you imagine the bravery it takes for someone like Guillermo Fariñas to take on the enforcers of that kind of tryanny, to lay his life on the line for freedom?
I cannot.
Sign a petition for Fariñas. Write a letter or make a phone call to Havana.
Most of all, please pray for Guillermo Fariñas, for he is fighting, and dying, for his rights as a man, and yours, too.
(Drawing of Guillermo Fariñas by Pat Texidor.)
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