Urgent plea from Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, from Placetas, where she advises that Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez is semi-unconscious in the seventh day of a hunger strike for the freedom of Jorge Vázquez Chaviano and cessation of repression against internal resistance. In Spanish, from @AntunezCuba on Twitter YouTube:

For the record, I know from personal experience that Ileana cares.  I once contacted her office over concerns for the health of an activist in Cuba; I received an immediate response, and she followed through with her promise to help. From the good Congresswoman: PRESS RELEASE For more information: September 13, 2012 Alex Cruz, 305-668-5994 [...]

For immediate release: Diaz-Balart: Cuban Hunger Strikers Need Our Solidarity and Our Support Washington, D.C. Sept. 13, 2012 Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart spoke on the House Floor regarding the hunger strike underway in Cuba by brave human rights and pro-democracy activists to protest the regime's brutal oppression and the unjust imprisonment of political prisoners. The growing [...]