Independent journalists like Lamassiel Gutiérrez are on the front lines of the struggle for liberty in Cuba, risking what little freedom they enjoy every time they try to break the Castro dictatorship's blockade on real news and information about the real Cuba. Despite the ever-present threat of prison — and the fact that some two dozen of their colleagues are currently in the gulag — they persevere, and in fact, thrive.
Gutiérrez, the wife of political prisoner Rolando Jimenez Pozada and a former political prisoner herself, is one of Cuba's more intransigent independent journalists, continuing her work despite numerous threats and other obstacles in her way. The latest threat came this week when a secret policeman confronted her on a street near her home on the Isle of Youth Isle of Pines and threatened her with prison if she continued her work as a journalist.
"We read all your news, and know all your activities," the goon said.
For her part, Gutiérrez told her colleague Mario Hechavarria Driggs that she would "continue informing the world of the cruelty and violations being committed daily in the streets and in prisons in our society."
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