Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez has been on a hunger strike for 57 days to protest Castro’s restrictions on free speech and Internet access.
Guillermo Farinas, a 41-year-old psychologist, went on a hunger strike on Jan. 31 to press Cuba’s Communist authorities to respect his right to freedom of information and allow him Internet access, which is controlled by the government.
Which is 57 days longer than Saddam’s hunger strike lasted. The Liberal-Left in this country will be happy to know that Castro isn’t likely to intervene to save Fariñas’ life by doing something so “inhumane” as feeding him via a feeding tube.
h/t Michelle Malkin
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HA! I hadn’t heard about Saddam’s epic hunger strike…
I hope the best for Mr. Farinas. Believe it or not liberals want the dictatorship in Cuba to end. It doesn’t take a foreign policy genius to see that our policies over the last 40 years have been utterly ineffective though.
You really have to be a true believer to think that economic policies in Latin America outside of Cuba have been a great success. I admire their attempts to provide health care and education to their citizens at levels unseen elsewhere in South America. Alas, in Castro’s hands the cost has been too high.
I’ve spent months in Costa Rica — do you realize that they don’t even have a standing army? I’m a firm believer that whatever economic policies they’re using down there are working brilliantly, and are a great success.
But your point is well taken about the economics of just about any other Latin American country.
I hope to make it to Costa Rica sometime. I suppose from New York Puerto Rico is quite a bit easier to get to- I need to go to Vieques before it is too overrun (too late?).
O/T-
I guess your NCAA bracket is blown now?
Yeah, my brackets are blown — but luckily for me, so is everybody else’s.
I won one of my brackets and took second in another (already, without even having to play the final four games) by simply being the only person in either of my brackets to pick a single Final Four participant (UCLA).
I had a chance to win my pool if Villanova had won- now the best I can do is 3rd.
Strategy: game theory! I didn’t put Duke in the Final Four knowing that everyone else would. If West Virginia had just beaten Texas I would have looked like a freakin genius. If it wasn’t for that meddling Paulino…
(UCLA was my only Final Four pick too…)
Go Patriots!