While Jimmy Carter was in Cuba busy advocating for the Castro regime and defending their half-century long dictatorship, members of the opposition were in the streets advocating for freedom and the release of political prisoners. While Jimmy Carter cowardly stood on foreign soil as a guest of a brutal dictatorship and called on the U.S. to capitulate and reward the Castro regime and release its captured spies, courageous and principled democracy activists in Cuba were on the streets being beaten and imprisoned for demanding respect for human rights in Cuba.
While Jimmy Carter and his wife enjoyed the hospitality and VIP treatment from a regime responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Cubans, prisoner of conscience Lazaro Marlon Mesa Romero, who has been imprisoned since March of last year, continued to rot in a Castro dungeon.
Via Uncommon Sense:
Street protesters demand release of Cuba human rights activist
Lázaro Marlon Mesa Romero
Lázaro Marlon Mesa Romero, an activst with the Republican Party of Cuba (PRC), has been jailed since March 2010, after he was arrested for protesting against the Castro dictatorship.
But he has not been forgotten, as fellow activists have repeatedly carried out protests to demand his release.
Most recently, his supporters since March 31 have been taking to the streets of Old Havana to demand that the Castro dictatorship release Mesa, according to a report from independent journalist Julio Beltrán Iglesias.
“Every day we take to the streets so the public can see how we are demanding the release of this defender of human rights who was jailed unjustly, as it is the right of all human beings to protest peacefully and to demand justice,” said Luz María Piloto Romero, head of the PRC in Old Havana.