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| | The New American - Castro’s Crackdown - May 5, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | But while jubilant Iraqis celebrated the end of Saddam’s tyranny half a world away, Fidel Castro was conducting a ruthless crackdown on internal dissent, untroubled by the possibility that his regime might go the way of Saddam’s. |
 | | On March 18th, Castro’s secret police launched a series of sweeps across Cuba, arresting physicians, journalists, poets, authors, teachers, photographers, and human rights activists who had dared to speak out against the dictator’s murderous regime and to advocate freedom for all Cubans. |
 | | Her husband, she noted, is "a man who promotes and carries out peaceful, public and open activities in defense of all human rights, particularly the right to life. |
| www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2003/05-05-2003/vo19no09_castro.htm (1281 words) |
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