TV reports from Panamá: The Castro regime takes to violence against Cuban dissidents and American Citizens. By Eva Belfrage.
09-04-2015
The Castro regime takes to violence against Cuban dissidents and American citizens in Panamá By Eva Belfrage April 9, 2015
When the Parallell Forum for the Civil Society was about to start Cuban officials headed by Abel Prieto, ex minister of culture and advisor to Raúl Castro started what in Cuba is known as Repudiation Act a protest against the presence at the Forum of members from the non official and independent Cuban civil society and started to shout: Mercenaries out and Pim Pom Fuera abajo la gusanera (Pim Pom out down with the worms ) a noisy and shameful repudiation that lasted for about an hour. Finally the representatives of the Cuban dictatorship told the press that they were going to leave the Forum and that they refused to participate if Cuban dissidents would be present.
Here a video from TV Marti:
On Wednesday the 8th of April a Cuban group of representatives to the Forum, well known members of the opposition as Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez “Antúnez” (Resistencia Orlando Zapata), his wife Yris Tamara Pérez (Rosa Parks movement), Leticia Ramos (Ladies in White), González Leiva (Human Rights Group leader), and American citizens, members of different solidarity groups like Silvia Iriondo (MAR for Cuba) Orlando Gutierrez (Directorio Cubano) and Gus Monge,went to a park to peacefully place flowers at the statue of the Cuban Independent Hero José Martí , when a group of people approached, according to Yris Tamara some came out from the Cuban embassy in front of the park and she assured in an interview that she recognized agents from the Cuban State Security in the group. Sara Marta Fonseca denounced on Facebook that she recognized an agent with the SS name "Arcel". According to an American TeVé reporter Manuel Cao informed that he had heard that even the Cuban ambassador was present in the Park for a moment.
This Group of Castro officials and pro-castroists soon started to attack the peaceful group at the statue and beat them up violently in spite of the presence of several TV reporters documenting their aggression. Manuel Cao and his cameraman, however, had to run away as they were also violently threatened. The park was full of Panamanian police who didn’t intervene. Finally the victims were driven away from the park, first sent to a police station and only after several hours assisted to hospital to care for the wounds. Worst hit seem to have been the Lady in White Leticia Ramos and “Antúnez”. During the whole day of Wednesday rumours circulated that the victims would be deported from Panama, which hopefully will not take place. Until now there are no known arrests of the agressors, although they should be well known from the several TV reports.
Here América TeVé’s reports of the aggression:
From Prensa.com:
In this video from Martí Noticias the wounded victims of the assault say that the agressors came out of the Cuban Embassy and attacked us:
How is it possible that the Government of Panama has allowed into the country high officials from the castroite State Secutiry to lead paramilitary mobs to beat and offend pacific members of the Cuban opposition, who only wants to express themselves freely, which in Cuba is not permitted by the imposed dictatorship of the murderers Fidel and Raul Castro? In the video it is clearly obvious that the pro-castros are those who provoke. I recognize officials from the 21st Department of the Cuban State Security among them the person who calls himself "Arcel", all have participated in repudiation acts against me at my house in Rio Verde, Boyeros, Havana, against members of the opposition and corageous Ladies in White.
(In Spanish: ¿Como es posible que el Gobierno de Panama haya permitido la entrada de altos oficiales de la Seguridad del Estado castrista para dirigir turbas paramilitares que golpearon y ofendieron a opositores pacíficos cubanos que solo deseaban expresarse libremente ya que en Cuba no es permitido por la dictadura impuesta por los asesinos Fidel y Raul Castro ? En el video se ve claramente que los castristas son los provocadores, pude reconocer oficiales del Departamento XXl de la Seguridad del Estado entre ellos quien se hace llamar Arcel, todos han participado en actos de repudio en la que era mi casa en Rio Verde, Boyeros, La Habana, contra opositores y contra las valientes Damas de Blanco. )