Pedazos de la Isla has updates on Alcides Rivera Rodriguez and Rolando Ferrer Espinosa,twvio Cuban activists who are laying their lives on the line to oppose the Castro dictatorship:
As has been recently reported, Santa Clara opposition activists Alcides Rivera Rodriguez and Rolando Ferrer Espinosa have been urgently rushed to the Provincial Arnaldo Milian Castro Hospital during a 29 day (up to now) hunger strike. Rodriguez was taken during the night hours of Thursday the 27th while Ferrer was checked in on the 28th.
In the case of Rivera Rodriguez, upon arriving to the hospital he was diagnosed with bronchopneumonia. Shortly after, doctors informed his relatives that the diagnosis was not very clear and that his potassium levels were alarmingly elevated. The dissident from Placetas, Jorge Luis Garcia ‘Antunez’ informed through his Twitter account that the Milian Castro Hospital was completely "militarized" due to the presence of the activists.
The president of the Central Opposition Coalition and wife of Rodriguez, Idania Yanez Contrera reiterated that the strikers were willing to take their protest, which they began on September 28th, to the final consequences. She added that with the protest, they are demanding "an end to the excessive violence against the non-violent opposition and the people of Cuba in general, that dissidents be allowed to have their own social spaces, and that, once in for all, the activists jailed within the past months in Santiago de Cuba and other provinces be released." Yanez explains that the two strikers did not want to be taken to the hospital, especially after the sudden death of Lady in White Laura Pollan. However, their physical conditions left no other option. "On Thursday, Alcides couldn’t even get himself up from bed and it was nearly impossible for him to urinate“. In the case of Rolando Ferrer, “he has been suffering from severe abdominal pains."
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