The Cuban apostle Jose Martí said that children are the hope of the world. For the Castro dictatorship however, children are tools to be used and abused for the purpose of intimidating opponents and perpetuating their stranglehold on power. Since the beginning of the revolution, the Castro regime has never had any issues with this heinous practice, and they have used innocent and defenseless children as both weapons and shields. There are many uncertainties for children in Castro's Cuba, but there is one thing they can depend on: at one point or another they will be subjected to abuse by the Castro dictatorship.

Uncommon Sense reports on one particular incident of child abuse where schoolchildren were forced to participate in an act of repudiation against an independent journalist:

Castro regime gives Cuban independent journalist its stamp of disapproval

Dania Virgen García

The Castro dictatorship believes Dania Virgen García is one of the more effective independent journalists working in Cuba.

Proof of that can be found in how hard the regime is trying to silence her.

Guards have threatened political prisoners with reprisal if they continue to feed her information about conditions in the Castro gulag.

And even more despicably, the regime earlier this month used and abused children to carry out an "act of repudiation" — intimidation, really —  against Virgen by marching them from their school to her home and ordering them to shout pro-Castro slogans.

Here is the photographic evidence:

Show Dania Virgen García and the regime that attacks her that yes, she a great journalist by reading her blog, here.