The Cuban photographer Claudio Fuentes Madan has written a first-hand account of his recent trip from Havana to Placetas, in Santa Clara province, to show his solidarity with Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez), who since Feb. 17 has been on a hunger strike/liquid fast demanding respect for human rights.
In his story, posted on his friend Claudia Cadelo's blog, Fuentes acknowledges the differences that exist among those opposed to the Castro dictatorship, as revealed in conversations with friends and colleagues:
I remember that we reached an agreement of ideas in the things we talked about: the different people who hope for and attempt changes in Cuba, those who question the laws and measures of the fifty-year-old government, those who, on great many occasions, have been on the receiving end of every kind of repression, harassment and violation of their most basic civil rights. We don’t think alike in our analyses of methods and ways when facing the same situation of aberrant deficiencies in which the majority finds itself.But along with the disagreements over chosen strategies, there exists a magnificent concurrent point: we all want the whole range of historically known freedoms, which I won’t talk about, and each day, not only outside Cuba, but from the very entrails of the sparsely bearded one there are more who confront them, out of personal courage, even, of course, at the risk of errors that will take place along the way.
Read the whole thing, including Fuentes' litany of the rights that were violated when he was arrested and detained, here.
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