By Luis Lopez Prendes, Independent Press Bureau of Cuba (BPIC)
HAVANA, January (BPIC).- Over the past 24th and 25th of December (1996), the National Assembly of the Popular Power enacted an acrimonious law, which, in one of its sections, prohibits the activities of human rights activists, dissidents, the independent press and labor unions from broadcasting, to stations abroad, the news from Cuba.
This spurrious law, lacking of citizen's approval, reafirms the government's policy in its neo-stalinist, autocratic, dictatorial, and drowning of the freedom of expression, among other freedoms.
The wide diffusion, by the internal opposition, of the constant and permanent violations of the civil and human rights (of the citizenry), to which the governing elite subjects what they call their people, as well as, the immediacy of the news distribution by the independent media, are truly an indiputable proof of all the falsehood and distortion which is projected abroad by the bureacratic leadersip, which pretends to control even the biological needs of every individual.
Any nation, after having gone through 38 years of a fierce dictatorship, which has turned usurper of the patriotic destiny of Cuba, maintaining an injurious, for false, economic growth in all branches and levels (of the economy), as well as, a satanic future of "socialism or death", now will attempt, just the same, to immovilize the voices of those who denounce corruption, the abuses, the ill-treatment, the inequalities, and other misfortunes, which are daily committed by an aged and decrepit regime.
In fact: ever since the enactment of the macabre law, in fact, every Cuban citizen turns mute when facing its promoters. It is shameful for a State to use such monstrous means to hold on to power.
What would our Apostle, Jose Marti, a poet, journalist, thinker par excellence, say? when the present regime negates the following pillar of his doctrine: "A man who doesn't express what he feels or doesn't say what he thinks, is not an honest man".