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	Center for a Free Cuba - Media - Cuba's Most Celebrated Dissident Pays Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roca’s wife, Magaly de Armas, remembers the nine hours that security police rifled their home, hauling away books, papers, a typewriter and a file cabinet.
		They were freed a year ago on early conditional release, but Roca, the renegade son of Communist Party hero Blas Roca, remains in prison in the southern city of Cienfuegos, reading his Bible and waiting.
		Critics of Cuba’s human-rights policy, however, point to the continued imprisonment of dissidents such as Roca as one reason that Cuba last month was condemned for human-rights violations at a UN human-rights commission meeting held in Geneva, a bitter sore spot for the island.
	cubacenter.org /media/archives/2001/summer/dissident_pays_price.php3 (579 words)

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roca is one of Cuba's best-known dissidents, having spent four years in solitary confinement.
		His father, Blas Roca, was a hero of the Cuban revolution and a founding member of the country's Communist Party.
		Dubie reminded Roca of a conversation they had last year in Havana when he told Roca that most Vermonters believe that trade and travel is a good thing.
	timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050821/NEWS/508210416/1002 (1522 words)

	CNN.com - Cuba grants early release to political dissident - May 5, 2002
		Roca was a member of the "Group of Four," leaders of the Internal Dissidents Working Group for the Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation.
		Roca and the three others, Marta Beatriz Roque, Felix Bonne, and Rene Gomez Manzano, were arrested in July 1997 after the publication of "The Motherland Belongs to Us All," an article which called for respect for human rights on the island and which was considered critical of the government of President Fidel Castro.
		Roca is a decorated military pilot and the son of Blas Roca, a founder of Castro's Marxist-Leninist regime.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/americas/05/05/cuban.prisoner (266 words)

	Castro to Free Vladimiro Roca on Sunday - Gift to Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roca, along with three other prominent dissidents who had urged political reform on the Caribbean island, was arrested in 1997, convicted of inciting sedition in 1999, and sentenced to five years behind bars including time served.
		Roca's case has drawn widespread international condemnation since he was jailed with three other dissidents in 1997 for urging political reforms on the communist-ruled island.
		Roca said he suffered no physical torture during his imprisonment but said that the cells in which he was held "are places for animals and not people." Roca's release comes exactly one week before former President Carter arrives in the communist country for a five-day visit.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/678215/posts (1649 words)

	Irish Examiner - 2002/05/08: Cuba's best known dissident blasts system after his release from prison
		Roca's release came exactly a week before former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in the communist country for a five-day visit.
		Roca is well known here because his late father, Blas Roca, was a founding member of the Communist Party of Cuba and remains a revered figure.
		Vladimiro Roca also has roots in the communist government: he was a military pilot who broke with the system in the early 1990s.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2002/05/08/story28122.asp (394 words)

	Cuba Releases Prisoner Ahead of Carter Visit -- 05/06/2002
		Roca was sent to prison five years ago for publishing a pamphlet that urged the Cuban government to allow multi-party elections.
		Roca said he believed he was released early for good behavior, but some observers think Communist leader Fidel Castro may be taking care of one human rights concern ahead of Carter's mid-May visit.
		Roca is the son of the late Communist leader Blas Roca, who belonged to Cuba's communist-controlled labor movement before joining the opposition in the early 1990s.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200205\FOR20020506f.html (378 words)

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		Vladimiro Roca, Cuba's most prominent political dissident and son of a longtime Communist Party leader, won an early release from prison Sunday and vowed that his commitment to the struggle for freedom in his homeland was as strong as ever.
		Roca said he was elated to be back home but that he would continue his fight for greater freedom in his country.
		Roca, 59, a tall man with salt and pepper hair, is one of the most important Cubans ever to break with Castro's government.
	www.hermanos.org /docs/tmh050602.htm (921 words)

	Freed Cuban Dissident Blasts System
		Roca remained in prison, despite petitions from the Canadian and Mexican governments and the Vatican.
		Roca entered prison an atheist, but was baptized Roman Catholic on Sept. 24, 1999 and attributed his new faith with helping him endure imprisonment.
		Roca, who is his late 50s and is the son of a founding father of Cuban communism, Blas Roca, had been due to complete his sentence and be released in 70 days, de Armas said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/679157/posts (1368 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - NEWS
		Roca began his opposition to the Cuban regime after growing up as son of Blas Roca, General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.
		Roca registered his opposition to policies he considered misguided, published articles critiquing Cuba’s socioeconomic situation and was targeted as a dissident.
		Roca was confined to a six-by-seven-foot cell, with a hole in the ground for a toilet and a table serving as a bed; water would run only three times a day for 20 to 30 minutes.
	www.netforcuba.org /News-EN/2002/Oct/News70.htm (1306 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Problem Carter Couldn't Find by Myles Kantor
		His father was Blas Roca (1908-1987), a founder of the Cuban Communist Party and member of Castro's politburo.
		Roca and his peers were soon arrested and held without trial-Roca in solitary confinement-until March 1999.
		Roca didn't become a free man on May 5; his condition shifted from acute imprisonment to the general imprisonment, both physical and mental, of being a Cuban.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3851 (612 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - NEWS
		Roca, 59, was met by his wife, Magaly de Armas, when he walked out of prison in the central city of Cienfuegos on Sunday morning.
		Roca declined to comment much on Cuba's current economic or social situation, saying he received only sketchy information about what had been happening while he was behind bars.
		Roca and three other activists were arrested in July 1997 for publishing a document that criticized Cuba's Communist Party and President Fidel Castro's government.
	www.netforcuba.org /News-EN/2002/May/News21.htm (517 words)

	Cuba's most celebrated dissident pays price / Chicago Tribune - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Roca, a former fighter pilot in the Cuban military and a charismatic economist, is housed with three other Cuban prisoners.
		Roca, however, has served nearly four years of his 5-year sentence, and there is little indication he might soon be released.
		Roca and his father were close, though the son never showed the same enthusiasm for Castro's 1959 socialist revolution.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y01/may01/03e6.htm (1059 words)

	09360 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Vladimiro Roca is the son of Blas Roca.
		Blas Roca was one of the co-founders of Fidel Castro's Marxist-Leninist regime.
		Blas Roca remained on the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee until his death in 1987.
	www.ibb.gov /editorials/09360.htm (231 words)

	The Cuba Free Press Project - El Proyecto Cuba Prensa Libre
		That group is a worker's "collective" created by Fidel Castro after the April 25, 1987 death of Blas Roca Calderío, one of the founders of the Cuban Marxist-Leninist party,.
		The men and a few women with the red-lettered T-shirts were not mobilized to back up the son of Blas Roca.
		On the contrary, their job was to ban any Cuban dissident, independent journalist, human rights activist, curious citizen or even relatives of the accused son of Blas Roca who were not chosen by the Office of State Security (OSS) from coming near the courtroom.
	www.cubafreepress.org /art/cubap990305d.html (1226 words)

	Cuba News / The Miami Herald- Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		He is the son of the late Blas Roca, for decades a Cuban Communist Party leader, and a former MiG fighter pilot, a position achieved only by the most trusted.
		Roca's release came a week ahead of a scheduled visit to Cuba by former President Jimmy Carter, raising speculation that freeing Roca was a goodwill gesture on the part of the Havana government.
		Roca also expressed support for the ''Varela Project,'' a drive to collect 10,000 signatures and force a referendum on government reforms away from the current model.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y02/may02/06e1.htm (2679 words)

	Committee on Human Rights: Cuban Economist Vladimiro Roca Released from Prison
		Roca was one of four members of the Internal Dissidents Task Group for the Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation.
		Roca appeared to also meet the criteria for early release, he was instead subjected to four years of solitary confinement, incarceration in a remote prison far from his family, greatly restricted family visits, and virtually no medical care for his high blood pressure.
		Roca was singled out for particularly severe treatment because he had been a member and supporter of the Cuban Communist Party.
	www7.nationalacademies.org /humanrights/Vladimiro_Roca_release.html (488 words)

	The Hidden Fear in Castro's Heart
		Roca is best known among Cubans as the son of the late Blas Roca, secretary-general of the old-line Cuban Communist Party, whom Castro co-opted for his new Communist Party and elevated to the Politburo.
		Blas Roca was the chief communist negotiator in forming the alliance with Castro.
		Roca and Felix Bonne, the engineer, are both fl, the only known fl dissidents in Cuba, where the nonwhite population stands at 60%.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/1999/Fear.html (1108 words)

	The Cuba Free Press Project - El Proyecto Cuba Prensa Libre
		It is the case that Vladimiro is the third of the four children of the marriage of Blas Roca Calderio with Dulce Maria Antunes Aragon, both deceased.
		Blas was a self-taught man, who from the lowly job of shoe maker in his native Manzanillo, went on to reach the highest levels of Cuban politics.
		Among the decisive qualifications for his selection was having been one of the authors of the 1940 Cuban Constitution and having led the approval of the 1976 Constitution through the referendum held on February 24th, 1976.
	www.cubafreepress.org /art/cubap980522s.html (1657 words)

	A Ball Game, Not a Breakthrough / NY Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His father was Blas Roca, a national hero and a founder of the Cuban Communist Party.
		Roca signed a manifesto calling for a less centrally organized economy as well as expansion of human rights.
		Roca told me that Cuban officials had encouraged him to leave the country but that he had refused.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/bllgmentbrkthru.html (510 words)

	Relatives face own trials as Cuban dissidents go to court: 3/1/99
		Roca, 56, and three other opposition leaders go on trial today on sedition charges amid a new crackdown on political dissidents.
		Also untouched was Roca's bachelor's diploma in international economic relations from the University of Havana and a framed fl-and-white photograph of a grinning Blas Roca in a corduroy cap.
		Roca's father, who died in 1987, is now immortalized by the Blas Roca Contingent -- a group of burly construction workers called upon to break up rare public outbursts by the opposition.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/03-99/03-01-99/a02wn021.htm (833 words)

	The New York Review of Books: DISSIDENTS IN CUBA
		Roca, especially, was considered something of a hero by the regime.
		The son of the late Blas Roca, who co-founded the Cuban Communist Party, Vladimiro Roca was, in the 1960s, a famous young air force pilot; he then served the Party for more than twenty years as a specialist in Cuban-Soviet relations.
		Roca, Bonné, Gómez, and Roque, identifying themselves as the Internal Dissidents' Working Group for the Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation, replied with a paper of their own, "The Homeland Belongs to All." They called for economic liberalization, freedom of speech, press, and assembly, open dialogue on the country's future, and legitimate elections.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/346 (613 words)

	Capitalism Magazine: Fidel's Fig Leaf for A "Useful Idiot" by Jeff Jacoby
		Roca is a scion of Cuba's communist elite.
		For that insult to Cuba's dictatorship, the four were arrested and eventually convicted of "inciting sedition." Roca's co-authors were sentenced to four years in prison and were released in May 2000 after serving half their terms.
		Roca is finally free, but hundreds of others remain behind bars because they dared speak the truth about Castro's ugly system.
	www.capmag.com /articlePrint.asp?ID=1595 (875 words)

	AAAS - AAAS Human Rights Action Network
		Because of his perceived role as the leader of the group, Roca received the longest sentence of five years, the majority of which he spent in solitary confinement.
		Vladimiro Roca is the son of a revered Communist Party leader Blas Roca.
		The elder Roca was a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party and was part of Cuban President Fidel Castro's inner circle until his death in 1987.
	shr.aaas.org /aaashran/alert.php?a_id=217 (559 words)

	Cuba: Dissident Release Hailed (Human Rights Watch, 6-5-2002)
		Three of Roca's co-defendants, sentenced together with him in 1999, were released in May 2000 after serving out part of their sentences.
		Roca and his three co-defendants, attorney René Gómez Manzano, engineer Félix Bonne Carcassés, and economist Marta Beatriz Roque, were originally arrested on July 15, 1997.
		Roca, an economist and former MiG fighter pilot, is the son of the late Blas Roca, considered a hero of the Cuban revolution.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/05/cuba0506.htm (315 words)

	Civil Courage Prize: 2002 Honoree
		Vladimiro Roca Antunez rejected a life of privilege in Castro's Cuba to press for economic and political freedom.
		Roca grew up the privileged son of Blas Roca, General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.
		Roca signed a crucial document, "My Homeland Belongs to Everyone" in defense of human rights and against political discrimination and the distortion of Cuban history.
	www.civilcourageprize.org /honoree-2002.htm (949 words)

	Human rights activist freed from Cuban jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roca said he believes that his release had nothing to do with the upcoming visit, the first in decades by a sitting or former U.S. president.
		Roca, who once flew jet fighters for the military, is the son of Blas Roca, a former leader of Cuba's Communist Party.
		Roca and other dissidents have virtually no support in the country and receive illicit funding from the U.S. government.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /human-rights/roca-freed.htm (363 words)

	Caribbean Net News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roca is a former combat pilot and political prisoner.
		Roca asked Cubans to join the effort to bring change to the Caribbean island's Communist government.
		Roca is son of Cuban Communist Party founder Blas Roca and is attached to social democrats on the island.
	caribbeannetnews.com /cgi-bin/GPrint2002.pl?file=2004/02/12/plan.htm (350 words)

	CNN - Trial opens Monday for Cuban dissidents - February 28, 1999
		Roca, 56, and three other opposition leaders go on trial Monday on sedition charges amid a new crackdown on political dissidents.
		One of the most important human rights cases in Cuba in recent years, the trial is seen as a test of how far the government is willing to bend to international opinion while maintaining its new tough stance toward the opposition.
		Roca, Rene Gomez Manzano, engineer Felix Bonne and economist Marta Beatriz Roque were leading members of the opposition coalition Concilio Cubano when they were jailed in July 1997 for criticizing a major Communist Party document.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9902/28/cuba.dissidents (827 words)

	Civil Courage Prize: 2002 Press Release
		New York - Vladimiro Roca Antunez, who rejected a life of privilege in Castro's Cuba and was imprisoned for challenging the Communist regime, received The Civil Courage Prize and a $50,000 cash award on October 8 at a reception hosted by the Northcote Parkinson Fund at Harold Pratt House in New York City.
		Roca is the third recipient of the annual Prize, awarded for "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk."
		John Train, founder of the Prize and Chairman of the Fund, presented an original medal struck for the occasion along with the cash prize, a portion of which the recipient says he will use "to help political prisoners with financial problems, as well as their families." Mr.
	www.civilcourageprize.org /press-release-2002.htm (1205 words)

	CNN - Prominent Cuban dissidents sentenced to jail - March 15, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The most severe sentence was a five-year term handed down to Vladimoro Roca, 56, a former military pilot and the son of the late Cuban communist leader Blas Roca.
		"It is wrong, it is unjust," said Roca's wife, Magaly de Armas, who learned of her husband's sentence on the news.
		Roca's wife was more defiant and announced plans for an immediate appeal.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/prominentcubandissidents.html (577 words)

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