Apartheid of the Cuban People


From Cubanet:

FROM CUBA
November 23, 2005
1) Cuba doctors forbidden to stay at site of convention
2) Home of dissident stoned by paramilitary members

1) Cuba doctors forbidden to stay at site of convention
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, November 22 (Abel Escobar Ramírez / www.cubanet.org) -

Cuban doctors attending an international medical convention at a tourist facility in Ciego de Avila province complain they were not allowed to stay at the same hotels as foreign participants.Instead, they were obliged to stay at nearby guest houses where they say they were well treated but not as well as foreign doctors were at the tourist hotels where they stayed.Under Cuban law, Cuban citizens are not allowed to stay at hotels which cater to foreign tourists.The event in question was the XVI International Congress of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Trauma, held recently held at the Polo Turístico Jardines del Rey in Ciego de Ávila.According to Cuban participants, registration fees for the congress were 400 pesos, the equivalent of two months salary for the average Cuban worker.Among the foreign participants at the Congress was William Stetson, a member of the American association of arthroscopic surgeons.

2) Home of dissident stoned by paramilitary members
HAVANA, November 22 (Ernesto Roque Cintero, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) -

The home of Alberto Moreno Fonseca, president of the Rural Worker Party, was stoned last week by paramilitaries, according to another dissident.María del Carmen Biriau, vice president of the party, said the attack was the ninth against Moreno's home in less than three months.She said the main instigator of the attack was a paramilitary named Esteban Fonseca, who shouted "Down with human rights!" and other anti-opposition remarks.