The Castro dictatorship does not like to be reminded of its sins. Despite their histrionics, the Castro brothers and their agents know that history will not absolve them, so they go all out to silence those who tell the truth about the regime.
One of those truth is that for the almost 50 years it has been in power, the Castro dictatorship has been nothing more than a band of killers. It has been an everyday reality for the regime, and the Cuban people, punctuated by events — like the "13 de marzon" tugboat massacre — that show how far the dictatorship is willing to go to keep Cubans enslaved.
The Castros, however, just don't want the world to know, as evidence by their regime's efforts to silence commemorations this past weekend of the 14th anniversary of the tugboat massacre.
For example, police in across the country rounded up at least nine dissidents planning vigils or other memorial events. In typical "catch, threaten and release" style, officers took the dissidents to police stations, threatened them if they tried to cause trouble and then let them go with warnings that they should stay at home. Former political prisoner Francisco Pastor Chaviano González, who was arrested in Havana, said officers threatened to return him to prison and told him they would not be responsible for anything bad that happened to him if he left his home.
In Cuba, telling the truth about the Castro dictatorship — that it is one of history's great tyrannies, as demonstrated by the tugboat massacre — is a crime, as evidenced by the roundup. But the police are not trying to keep criminals off the street, they are only trying to keep the criminals in power by shielding from Cubans and the world the truth of their sins.
Despite the dictatorship's best efforts, several events commemorating the victims of the tugboat massacre were held in Cuba this past weekend. Read about some of them here, here and here.
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