For the 26th Sunday in a row, over 150 Cuban dissidents have been arrested by the Castro regime as they tried to attend Mass, then peacefully demonstrate as part of the #TodosMarchamos (#WeAllMarch) campaign.
Those arrested include 80 activists from the Cuban Patriotic Union(UNPACU) in the eastern city of Santiago, including its leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, plus nearly a dozen others in Guantanamo.
Meanwhile, in Havana over 70 members of The Ladies in White -- the renowned group composed of the wives, daughters, mothers and other relatives of Cuban political prisoners -- were arrested.
Castro's secret police intensified a new tactic of trying to keep The Ladies in White from reaching their colleagues on Sunday morning, so it began surrounding the homes of some of its members since Friday.
Such was the case of Leticia Ramos Herreria, a leader of The Ladies in White in the province of Matanzas.
Ramos Herreria was viciously beaten by police officials outside of her home on Friday. They cracked her head and injured her ribs. She has been urinating blood since then.
Meanwhile, another police official beat Ramos Herreria's 24-year old son, pressed a gun to his chest and threatened to kill him.
Yet sadly, for the 26th Sunday in a row, the Obama Administration has nothing to say about the repressive tactics of its new diplomatic partner.
It's "what change looks like."
Those arrested include 80 activists from the Cuban Patriotic Union(UNPACU) in the eastern city of Santiago, including its leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, plus nearly a dozen others in Guantanamo.
Meanwhile, in Havana over 70 members of The Ladies in White -- the renowned group composed of the wives, daughters, mothers and other relatives of Cuban political prisoners -- were arrested.
Castro's secret police intensified a new tactic of trying to keep The Ladies in White from reaching their colleagues on Sunday morning, so it began surrounding the homes of some of its members since Friday.
Such was the case of Leticia Ramos Herreria, a leader of The Ladies in White in the province of Matanzas.
Ramos Herreria was viciously beaten by police officials outside of her home on Friday. They cracked her head and injured her ribs. She has been urinating blood since then.
Meanwhile, another police official beat Ramos Herreria's 24-year old son, pressed a gun to his chest and threatened to kill him.
Yet sadly, for the 26th Sunday in a row, the Obama Administration has nothing to say about the repressive tactics of its new diplomatic partner.
It's "what change looks like."
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