Irreversible Loss
Via La Sonora Matancera (my translation):
Irreversible Loss
I never shared the religious fervor (but I did his dignity and his fervor for liberty and justice for all Cubans) with which Payá carried out his struggle. Nevertheless, I always admired his faith because due to the constant evidence that a large part of humanity are beasts, undeserving of the worthy and thoughtful beauty that idealists brand humanity, it sustained him during his worse moments and gave him the strength throughout his life to confront a cruel, inhospitable, and treasonous reality. I hope that in his last seconds that faith wrapped itself around him, protecting him from all pain and receiving him as a great human being. My condolences to his family and to all of us for another loss in vain in exchange for more misery and more lies. For all of us, for this 54-year-long mourning that suffocates us.
"You can sign the book of condolences for Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, another Cuban victim of the "accident," HERE.
The world will do little or nothing beyond transient lip service. If we don't take it upon ourselves to do what needs doing, it will simply be business as usual.
And yes, there were TWO murders in this "accident," not one.
It appears that Cardinal Ortega participated in a funeral mass, where his main talking point, as far as I can tell, is that the deceased was always a faithful Catholic despite his political activities. This will do wonders for Cuba's liberation, surely. Ugh.
It may well be a VERY unfortunate and unintended coincidence, but yesterday, the main (socialist) paper in Spain, El País, published a review of tourist-oriented Havana restaurants by none other than Yoani Sánchez:
http://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2012/07/23/actualidad/1343057020_608376.html
Apart from the atrociously bad timing given the tragedy at hand, the whole thing is, well, you do the math. Vamos bien.