The hunger strike of Guillermo Fariñas has taken a new turn after he requested to be cared for by a Cuban-American doctor from New Jersey.
Doctor Roque is also a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and serves as mayor of the one-time Cuban exile enclave of West New York, New Jersey.
Roque said in an interview with the Voice of America: “Fariñas doesn’t trust what the Castro regime’s doctors are doing.”
Dr. Roque added that it will be extremely difficult for Fariñas to survive this hunger strike if he doesn’t start eating soon.
Fariñas has already been hydrated intravenously four times at a local hospital after losing consciousness, but has not been allowed to remain at the hospital.
According to Fariñas, the doctors who have treated him are under orders not to admit him into that hospital. “It’s the Health Ministry that is determining my fate,” he said, adding that he thinks that the Castro regime has given orders to let him die, and that that is why they keep sending him back home without medical care.
Does any of this make sense? His hunger strike? The intravenous hydrations? The denial of medical care? The request for a Cuban-American doctor?
No, of course not. This is lunacy, turned into Kabuki theater.
But, then, one must keep in mind that there are few other governments on earth as insanely nonsensical as that of the Castro dynasty, and few other people as desperate as Cubans who realize the hopelessness of their condition.
Will the Castro regime allow Roque to care for Fariñas? Don’t bet on it.
Whole story HERE at Marti Noticias, in Spanish
Just did a google news search for Fariñas’s hunger strike. The only news outlet that his mentioning him is Breibart and Havana Times. Meanwhile all of the major news sources are mentioning the HISTORIC COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS TO CUBA! Tragic, but Fariñas is going to die without a wimper. [see below]
Story image for cuba from NPR
1. First US-Cuba Commercial Flight In More Than 50 Years Has Landed
NPR-3 hours ago
2. The first commercial flight from the U.S. to Cuba in more than half a century landed in the Cuban city of Santa Clara, marking another milestone …
Historic US-Cuba Passenger Flight Just Landed in Santa Clara
Money Magazine-4 hours ago
3. Scheduled Flights to Cuba From US Begin Again, Now With Jet …
Highly Cited-New York Times-2 hours ago
4. A 72-minute trip from Fort Lauderdale to central Cuba makes history
In-Depth-Miami Herald-1 hour ago
5. Getting to Cuba gets easier Wednesday
Opinion-STLtoday.com-6 hours ago
6/ From a Geiger counter to brunch: How Cuba has already changed
In-Depth-CNN-15 hours ago
Well, so much for “raising awareness” or increasing attention to Cuba’s plight–which is perfectly well known to all the usual suspects. If Fariñas (or any other Cuban on the island) dies from a hunger strike, it will make no significant difference. If he (or any other hunger striker) realizes the futility of such a death and ends the fast, as he has done before, the world will have even more reason to ignore such attempts (and the world hardly needs any help in that regard). From my perspective, this is not only useless but counterproductive.