Félix Navarro and his daughter and wife
More Cuban political prisoners are blogging from behind the bars of the Castro gulag, including Félix Navarro Rodríguez.
Navarro, imprisoned since the "black spring" of 2003, is very proud of his daughter Sahili, who was recently expelled from college after authorities learned she had taken a journalism course offered by the U.S. Interest Section in Havana.
It turns out, she is just following in the family tradition:
Representatives of the totalitarian and exclusive communist government which controls the fate of our people appeared at my home in Perico, Matanzas, on Tuesday January 12, to advise my daughter, Sahili Navarro Alvarez, that she would be permanently expelled from her fourth year of law school at the university because, months before, she took a journalism course in the Office of Interests and, as a principal requirement of Cuban universities, they train only young future professional revolutionaries.
A trial by fire for Sahili, who was beaten in the street by fanatic cheerleaders on April 26, along with six other Women in White opposite the Perico bus station. That order, against anyone in the 21st century, sent a clear message to the Cuban people and to the world, that the political system which rules in our country is more discriminatory and exclusive than the one which ruled in South Africa during apartheid and that it demands humiliation or submission if one wants to accomplish anything, because universities and liberties in Cuba are fief and chaplaincy of the communist party.
In addition, it is a message to whoever of us want to live with the dignity necessary to emigrate, to live either in glorious exile or in prison. But for the communists who give the orders in our country, I say to them from here that the three people in my home were born in this country and that we will continue to live here even if the only option remaining to us is in its slave prisons, but never on our knees. (emphasis added)
Voz tras las rejas ("Voice Through the Bars") used to belong only to political prisoner Pablo Pacheco Ávila, who posted his entries via telephone calls from jail. He has since been joined by other political prisoners at the Canaleta prison in Ciego de Ávila: Pedro Argüelles Morán, Adolfo Fernández Sainz and Navarro.
So now the blog is called Voces tras las rejas — "Voices Through the Bars."
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