Sara Martha Fonseca
Chances are long, at least for now, that an Egypt-style revolution can happen in Cuba anytime soon. There are just too many challenges and obstacles.
But the Castro dictatorship is not taking any chances, as evidenced on Tuesday during a roundup of some 30 dissidents trying to attend a gathering of dissidents to discuss Cuba's future.
Among those arrested was activist and former political prisoner Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo, the subject of an international campaign earlier this week after it was learned she had been arrested.
Babalú's Alberto de la Cruz has details of what happened to Fonseca and some of the others detained:
Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo and four other members of the opposition were arrested yesterday and viciously beaten by Castro State Security agents. According to her statement given this morning via telephone, Fonseca and four dissidents that accompanied her were approached by plainclothes agents from State Security on the street who called them out by name, but insisted they produce identification cards. The situation rapidly deteriorated as all of them began to receive beatings from the agents as the same agents shouted that in Cuba no one is beaten.
The five members of the opposition were then put into police cars where the violent beatings continued and transferred to a police station. At the station, the dissidents were once again physically attacked and hit across the mouth when they began shouting anti-Castro slogans before being released later in the day.
The full audio of Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo's statement:
As of today, Fonseca was back at home, which was surrounded by police and other Castroite goons.
This type of barbarity is a staple of Cuban life, especially for those Cubans with the courage to stand up against the Castro tyranny and for their rights.
But recent events elsewhere in the world, and next week's one-year anniversary of the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, ensure that in at least the short term, it's going to get much, much worse.
What to do about it?
You can start making sure that everyone you know, knows about Sara Martha Fonseca and others taking a chance at freedom.
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