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Saturday, October 05, 2013

Prison Diary LVIII Setback Two Centuries

Prison Diary LVIII: Setback Two Centuries
Posted on October 4, 2013

The dictatorship of the Castro brothers has set us back 200 years,
forgetting the freedoms established in the Constitution of Cadiz, whose
first copies arrived at the Port of Havana, in the schooner Cantabrica,
that 13 July 1812, and which included freedoms of the press, assembly
and speech.

The following year, on February 22, 1813, the Parliament abolished the
Inquisition.

How happy we would be to live in that era, because compared to the
present we are at a total disadvantage.

After Fernando VII was acclaimed king and took office, he ratified his
declaration that he would not ratify the Constitution and he would veto
the laws of the Parliament, and so, the emancipation obtained was
reversed, a point of similarity in the eras. There are no differences
between Fernando VII, Fidel and Raul Castro.

Cuba needs to return to living in those years of intense development of
civility, of rights, which with the coming of totalitarianism in 1959,
leading to the fiercest extremes.

We hope that Cuba will soon sign the UN Covenants, then, an opening with
run through the archipelago like a river of freedom.

Ángel Santiesteban-Prats

Prison settlement of Lawton. September 2013

4 October 2013

Source: "Prison Diary LVIII: Setback Two Centuries | Translating Cuba" -
http://translatingcuba.com/prison-diary-lviii-setback-two-centuries/

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