Somos+ Official Statement, Sept 12, 2015

Somos+ Official Statement, Sept 12, 2015, 11:55 am / Somos+
Posted on September 13, 2015
Somos+ Movement

Official Statement, Sept 12, 2015, 11:55 am

Given the increasing involvement of people within the country in the
movement and the human and professional quality of them, we set this
Sunday, 13 September, to hold our Second National Council.

The main objective is to further strengthen our provincial structures
and to continue with the improvement and the exchange of ideas between
our members. Throughout this week we learned that several people who
planned participate in our meeting, including our national coordinator
Manuel Días Mons, were "visited" by or summoned by the police.

This morning we confirmed that Yohana Columbie, Municipal Education
Methodologist, was detained in the Police Unit of the Céspedes
municipality in Camaguey and remains under arrest at this time. She is
being helpd to prevent her traveling to travel to Havana for the
meeting, in a clear violation of her legitimate right. Yohana's phone is
+53 54247379.

The only way we can explain the various events that have marked the last
few months of the repressive atmosphere in Cuba, is that State Security
has launched a drive to infuse fear and to orchestrate a sabotage of the
process of negotiations with United States and the "normalization"
mentioned by Raul Castro.

Far from being consistent with the demand for the end of the embargo,
every day they undertake new actions to assure that the United States
Congress will never approve the lifting of the embargo.

This is the cause which we, from Cuban Civil Society, fight for and
believe in: the well-being and opportunities to all Cubans.

You can follow events from our blog en.somosmascuba.com, facebook and
twitter.

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