At the end of the process of releases in Cuba, in 2010 the European Parliament back to give the Sakharov Prize for the third time in 9 years, a "dissident" Cuban .
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"The EU must maintain the Common Position toward Cuba." Guillermo Farinas, thanking Award 2010 Sakharov
José Manzaneda, coordinator of Cubainformación .- The European Parliament has awarded in 2010, for the third time in the last 9 years, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, worth 50,000 euros, a representative of the so-called "dissidents" Cuba: After Oswaldo Payá and the Ladies in White, this year has been awarded to Guillermo Fariñas. Nominations as of the Saharawi Haidar or Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence has fallen by the wayside, another year. Something remarkable when compared with objective reality of human rights in Cuba with that of many countries, including some of their region, Honduras and Colombia, and furthermore, if one takes into account that Cuba is at the end of a process releases all the European Union considered "political prisoners."
Guillermo Fariñas is one of the most media coverage of the so-called "dissidents" in Cuba. Known for his huegas hunger, defined himself as a "counterrevolutionary" Cuba, and claims to be a supporter of the fight "no violence" against the Revolution. Numerous international media even called him the "Cuban Gandhi." But what is there in what they tell the media and institutions that defend and support?
In justification of the Sakharov Prize, for example, the European Parliament says that Guillermo Fariñas stay in prison due to his political activities. However, if you review his criminal history, we see that this is absolutely false.
Fariñas has been tried and convicted in Cuba on two occasions. In 1995 he was sentenced to three years in prison without imprisonment and a fine of 600 pesos, for assaulting a fellow of the hospital where I worked, which caused multiple injuries to his face and arms. The international press has been silent this entire event, which will undoubtedly shatter the image of his client. Several websites, such as the encyclopedia Wikipedia, arguing relativize the above assault that occurred in the heat of a discussion in which that Fariñas accused of corruption.
Guillermo Fariñas starred in a second violent assault in 2002 in the city of Santa Clara. On that occasion, attacked her with a stick to an old man after a political discussion. As a result, this person is there to practice a surgery to remove his spleen. Farina was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison. The mainstream media have not reflected this event.
Guillermo Fariñas has close ties with people and organizations of the extreme right in Miami, who receives funding. Fariñas payments are recognized by him in a letter, dated August 2009, addressed to Angel de Fana Serrano, known Miami terrorist paramilitary organization connected with the Alpha 66. Interestingly, Guillermo Fariñas recently applied the label of "terrorists" in the Mapuche Chileans who took a long hunger strike during the summer of 2010.
Unlike fighters Mapuche protests, hunger strikes Guillermo Fariñas are widely covered by international media. The last was made between February and July 2010, demanding the release of those who qualify as "prisoners of conscience" in Cuba. These prisoners, many of whom have since been released by the Cuban government following an agreement with the Catholic Church and the English Government, were convicted in courts of the Island by funding from the U.S. government, superpower-remember-submitted Cuba to an economic blockade condemned by the entire international community. Only the Agency for International Development (USAID) allocated for fiscal year 2009, the sum of 15.62 million dollars to the so-called "dissidents" in Cuba, with the intention of overthrowing the constitutional order in Cuba. The amounts from other institutions and organizations which in turn are funded by the U.S. government, multiplies that figure. From a legal standpoint, this funding makes these "dissidents" to staff the service of a superpower, which is illegal in any country in the world.
months ago, the English government offered to Guillermo Fariñas the possibility to migrate and be welcomed into English territory. It may seem odd that someone who, in his constant appearances in the international press, drawn as a living hell in Cuba, refuses to move to the ninth largest economy in the world and prefer to live in blocked a Third World country. But it's not whether you consider that Cuba would leave for Guillermo Fariñas to the substantial financial support from Miami millionaires and prizes of the European Union.
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