Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Ignores Appeal From Cuba’s Political Dissident’s Wives
U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan stands before a banner demanding the closure of the Guantanamo U.S. naval base in Havana January 9, 2007. Sheehan and a group of other peace activists plan to march to the gates of the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba on January 11 to protest against abuses at the prison camp for terrorism suspects.
New York Sun: Sheehan Dismisses Appeal From Cuban Dissidents’ Wives
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is ignoring an appeal by wives and mothers of imprisoned Cuban political dissidents for her to visit Cuban prisons during her trip this week to protest the treatment of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay.
The Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White, who march silently through the streets of Havana every Sunday in protest at the incarceration of political prisoners of the Castro regime, wrote a letter to Ms. Sheehan inviting her to visit Cuban prisons.
The Damas drew Ms. Sheehan’s attention to the poor state of Cuban prisons, which they say lack clean drinking water and adequate food and where their relatives are imprisoned solely for speaking out against Fidel Castro’s government.
The leader of Ms. Sheehan’s trip, Medea Benjamin, said the American activists had not seen the letter and that they would be focusing solely on Guantanamo.
Cindy Sheehan could care LESS about Cuban political prisoners and the squalor in which THEY live. Sheehan and Code Pinko cohort, Medea Benjamin rather focus on those poor Al Qaeda bastards, like Omar Deghayes in Guantanamo.
U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan (L) hugs Zohra Zewahi, mother of the Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, during a news conference in Havana January 9, 2007.
“It just so happens that this is where the [ Guantanamo] prisoners are,” Ms. Benjamin said. That the group is visiting Cuba, where prisons define daily life for many, is “very incidental,” she added.
The Sheehan trip has angered some who believe she should also address Cuba’s imprisonment of political dissidents during her visit, not just those held in the American military prison.
“The fact that there’s so many Cubans in prison simply for expressing their political beliefs — nobody seems to pay attention to that,” the director of government relations at the anti-Castro Cuban-American National Foundation, Camila Ruiz Gallardo, said.
Cindy is running with the Socialist Worker/radical Islam crowd and would no more anger Fidel Castro’s government than kiss President Bush.
But, she would kiss Socialist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
The Socialists Workers probably paid Sheehan’s expenses or did she use more of her son’s life insurance money?
Stay tuned…..
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) greets U.S activist Cindy Sheehan as he arrives at the meeting with World Social Forum Organizations in Caracas, Venezuela January 27, 2006.
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