On July 13, 1994, a group of over 70 Cubans attempted to flee Castro’s Gulag on board of a tugboat named “13 de Marzo”. They was unable to leave the waters belonging to Cuba because the regime’s state security thugs were ordered, by the thug-in-chief Fidel Castro, to sink the boat. 41 people died, among which were pregnant women and children as young as 2 years old.

The crime has remained unpunished and of course it will still remain unpunished with Castro still in power.

Amnesty International has a must-read summary of the facts here

The Weekly Standard has an op-ed here

May the innocent souls rest in peace forever.

July 13th also marks the first anniversary of the new repressive wave by Castro against peaceful dissidents. All begun with the arrest of peaceful freedom fighters who were commemorating the brutal murder of Cuban rafters by the regime on that day in 1994. On July 13, 2005, some freedom fighters took to the streets to peacefully demand justice. Some were relatives and friends of that tragedy. After distributing leaflets to the people and launching flowers in the see at the Havana’s Malecon seaside, a mob of Castroite paramilitary militias started their “act of repudiation” by beating the freedom fighters, insulting them and shouting pro-Castro slogans. It’s to note that the mob was made up of plainclothes agents of the communist militias,the communist party and the political police. No one belongs to the suffering Cuban people. Since then, acts of repudiation and repression against peaceful dissidents are a daily event. Yet, the more repression, the more strenght the dissident movements gain and the more popular they become, as even their neighbors offer them solidarity and refuse to participate in the acts of repudiation. Please, See the video of the peaceful demonstration I spoke about above here, and the following repression by the mob. The new repressive wave followed the decision, by the European Union with pressure from Zapatero’s Spain, to suspend the sanctions against Castro and strenghten “dialogue” with it, whose results has been disastrous for the freedom-loving Cuban people.