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Bolivia to deport dissident to Cuba
 A Bolivian court has ruled that a Cuban dissident who criticized improved relations between Bolivia and Cuba should be deported to the communist country. | "This is a death sentence. Cuba is a country where people who have different points of view, like me, don't have rights," Amauris Samartino told reporters. |
"This is a death sentence. Cuba is a country where people who have different points of view, like me, don't have rights," Amauris Samartino told reporters after hearing Wednesday's verdict.
Ummm... Maybe you shouldn't have gone to Bolivia, which has the same kind of setup.
| It didn't when he first went to Bolivia. Evo and Fidel, however, are two peas in a pod ... |
Samartino, who arrived in Bolivia in 2000, was detained on Saturday on charges he violated a Bolivian law prohibiting immigrants from interfering in the South American country's internal affairs, government officials said. Earlier this week, state-owned Television Boliviana showed Samartino protesting against the leftist government of president Evo Morales in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, a bastion of the rightist opposition.
The main opposition 'We Can' party has criticized Morales, an ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, for the government's moves to deport Samartino. The decision could "give room to talk about political persecution," Oscar Ortiz, a senator for the We Can party said on Tuesday.
Posted by: Fred 2006-12-29 |
