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Testimonio de la madre de Orlando Zapata Tamayo

Background (Preamble):
I would like to bring to your attention the case of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an imprisoned Cuban and human rights advocate. On a hunger strike since December 3, 2009, for purely requesting some of his most basic human rights, it appears Zapata Tamayo is on the brink of death, and we are requesting he receive the best medical attention possible immediately.

I am deeply concerned by recent reports of the substandard conditions of medical attention that Zapata Tamayo has received, as well as the conditions of his detention. He was reportedly deprived of water for 16 days by prison officials.

I strongly urge you to order the release of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and all other individuals who have been arrested and convicted on the basis of their peaceful political activities and their efforts to promote and protect basic human rights in Cuba.

According to the 1998 UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which Cuba actively participated in drafting and passing, all persons have the right to effective access to participation in the government of their country and in the conduct of public affairs. The Declaration also provides that everyone has the right "freely to publish, impart or disseminate to others views, information and knowledge on all human rights and fundamental freedoms." The important work of Cuban human rights defenders should be recognized by the government and they should be supported rather than persecuted.

While they remain in detention, I urge you to ensure that Orlando Zapata Tamayo is not subjected to further abuse and that his conditions of detention meet basic international standards. International human rights law requires that all persons held in detention are treated with humanity and dignity and that they are not subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The Cuban government should ensure the application of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the UN Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, which further elaborate the basic standards to be achieved in ensuring respect for the rights of detainees.

I will continue to monitor these cases closely and appreciate your immediate attention to this important matter.

Revolution in Latin America

seems

have moved to social networking. Just remember the great calls
of Facebook groups, no more No more FARC and Chavez in Colombia, not to Keiko in Peru. Today, the ideological struggle has moved to Twitter.

mobilization capacity that has made the famous microblogging network in Venezuela through hashtag # FreeVenezuela has marked a turning point in the now policy 2.0 of the country ruled by the ever controversial Hugo Chávez.

How did?

However, discontent of the Venezuelan population against the Chávez administration and its desire to remain eleven years in presidential power has meant that this label generated 10 000 messages in just over an hour, according to statistics provided by William Echeverría, president of National College Journalists (CNP) of Venezuela.

Precisely, the National Association of Journalists with the National Union of Media Workers and the Circle of Photographers, Venezuela declared the country in "disaster area" for freedom of expression and free exercise of journalism. The three associations of the Venezuelan press issued a statement indicating that "time is not cowards," but "to exercise our citizenship with integrity and dignity."

twitterer deployment response, the response of the network population was immediate: the Venezuelan complaint added to the newspaper guild, the problems with "water and electricity, inflation, devaluation , murder ... "

For the first time in Venezuela, social networks like Twitter and Facebook are playing a central role in communication and coordination of the opposition.

From journalists to academics and the general public since Sunday have provided a growing network of hundreds of thousands of contacts who provided vital information in real time through social networking, Yahoo, Gmail, and even BlackBerry Messenger.

On Wednesday 27 January this year, a message passed through the network creativojuancho @ Twitter: "Shooting with rifles on the student massacres Trigal urgent help."



From Cuba, @ yoanisanchez, best known blogger and persecuted by the government of Raul Castro

, reported to be kept abreast of the situation in Venezuela through text messages received on your cell phone.

And what does Chavez?

The Venezuelan president has realized the magnitude of this movement in the nets, so do not hesitate to criticize and threaten to take the case of Twitter to Parliament with threats of censure on the microblogging network. Which would not be surprising, since Venezuela is undergoing a series of Station closures opposition to the Chavez government, which have even led to confrontations in the streets, leaving deaths. If, however, appear that Latin America's revolution in social networks.

These are pictures of students injured in the marauding army of Hugo Chávez.

Two students died and 30 were wounded, one in the city of Merida.

The crazy bird brings Hugo Chavez

BY BARBARA YUSTE Updated Monday, 10/02/2001 at 11: 39 Internet has become in recent days the scourge of Hugo Chávez. Since Venezuela's president decided to close Radio Caracas Television International (RCTVI), thousands of Internet users around the world have mobilized social networks to protest against this move aimed at silencing dissent with government policy. The chain closure has caused a flood of reactions on the Internet that has led to the Latin American president to declare war against all manifestations of Web 2.0, although most of the artillery was fired at Twitter, the microblogging network (messages of 140 characters) that many "twitterers" refer to as "the bird that brings crazy Chavez 'because this animal mascot of the popular platform.

The Venezuelan president has even been 'de- "from his usual televised speech to those who use these means to combat the lack of freedom of expression in the country, which suffer some of the most influential bloggers Venezuela and Gustavo Azocar, who are living in their own flesh the persecution of the Chavez regime .

is not the first time, however, that cyberspace stands up to Chavez something. Last August, when he announced the Special Law Media Crimes against the English blogosphere staged a major uprising which also came to social networking. A new cyberprotest as this could lead to the Venezuelan president to dust off your gun and blocking Twitter. "Killing a dog is just anger," says the proverb.

Venezuelan students against the dictatorship of the XXI century