Via Babalú, Punt de Vista has the story about what happened to Cuban independent blogger Miguel Iturria after he dared to criticize an April 16 military parade on the eve of the recent communist party congress in Havana:
Miguel Iturria, blogger, historian, and author of the blog Ancla insular (part of the Cuban Voices platform), was attacked today in Havana, according to a denouncement on Twitter sent by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. On his blog, Iturria had criticized the military parade on April 16th in Havana, which took place before the opening of the Cuban Communist Party Congress.
According to Pardo Lazo's message, Iturria had been "beaten and kidnapped by State Security in plain sight on Saturday in Havana." Pardo added that "those who should be keeping the peace do nothing more than provoke civil war amongst Cubans: beatings, threats, insults, extrajudicial acts, etc." Also, "the objective is for us to flee Cuba but then they refuse to give you permission to leave as a never ending torture before your official deportation."
Here we have another case of physical aggression as a method to intimidate and an intent to send a message through violence to the messenger, as explained in this article for Martí Noticias.
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