Request from Guillermo Fariñas Hernández to the Newspaper Granma

Request from Guillermo Fariñas Hernández with regards to the interview by Deisy Francis Mexidor, of the newspaper Granma, Saturday, July 3, 2010, with the Chief of Intensive Care at the University of Arnaldo Milián Castro Hospital.

The request was dictated by phone by Guillermo Fariñas to Licet Zamora Carrandi

The journalist Deisy Francis Mexidor intentionally omitted to detail the entire medical team attending Guillermo Fariñas Hernández. It includes: Dr. Armando Caballero López head of Intensive Care and Specialist in the Second Degree, Dr. Elias Becker Garcia, Second Degree Specialist in Nutrition Parenteral, Dr. Luis Alberto Pérez Santos, Second Degree Specialist in Intensive Care, Dr. Mauro López Ortega, Second Degree Specialist in Intensive Care, Dr. Mario Rodríguez Domínguez, Second Degree Specialist in Intensive Care, Dr. Rodolfo Delgado Martínez, Dr. Israel Serra Machado, Dr. Ernesto Fernandez Aspiolea, First Degree Specialist in Intensive Care, Dr. Marcos Castro Alonso, First Degree Specialist in Intensive Care, Dr. Yoniel Rivero Lóbrega, Third Year Resident in Critical Care and Dr . Cartaya Carlos Herrera, who is not part of the medical team because he is fulfilling a mission to Venezuela but on a visit to Cuba he has attended, every morning, the discussions of the medical team with respect to the progress of Guillermo Fariñas, because of his years of experience with the various strikes previously carried out.

Professor Armando Caballero made a slight error because I entered weighing 53 kilograms on March 11, and on occasion have been as high as 69.75 kilograms. All this has been thanks to the nutritionist Dr. Elias Becker, which makes us certain that Orlando Zapata Tamayo was assassinated because had he been given the medical attention that the newspaper Granma reports that I have been given, at this time he would not be deceased.

She omitted explaining the reason for my fast and suggested in the newspaper that it is a suicide and it was not explained to the readers that Guillermo Fariñas has been on a hunger strike since last February 24, demanding parole for 25 of the political prisoners in Cuban prisons as prisoners of conscience because they are in poor health.

I believe that because of my serious condition they have used the humanitarianism of the doctors to prepare the international media for my future death. I am aware of my upcoming death and consider it an honor to try to save the lived of the 25 political prisoners of conscience which our country needs as leaders. The only ones responsible for my future death are the brothers Fidel and Raul Castro. I trust in the medical and paramedic team treating me. That is why I have rejected the various offers that have been made to me to go to other countries. I want to die in my country under the noses of the dictators with their guns, rifles, canons and bombs. I have only the moral standing of a member of the ordinary people, misled and subjugated for 51 years by those who have weapons, violence, totalitarian laws and misgovernment from above.

Guillermo Fariñas Hernández

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Let’s Not Let Him Die

Salvemos la vida de Guillermo Fariñas

Let us save Guillermo Fariñas’s life.

Laissez-nous sauver la vie de Guillermo Fariñas.

Lassen Sie uns Guillermo Fariñas Leben bewahren.

Accompanied by His Friends and Colleagues

Ladies in White visit the hunger striker

From the beginning of his strike,
Coco has not alone a single minute

Coco’s Home

A Request

The ambassador political assessor of the Spanish Embassy in Cuba, Mr. Carlos Peréz, has asked Coco Fariñas to stop his hunger strike in view of the meeting that will take place in the coming weeks between the European Union and Cuba. “Either they release the 26 prisoners who are in poor health or I will die” was the answer.

Translated by: Hank

The Political Assessor of Spanish Embassy in Cuba is at this Moment Visiting Coco Fariñas

The Opinion of Hector Palacios

Once again, the Cuban government finds itself at a difficult crossroads, one which it cannot resolve because it is faced with a man of proven character and deep patriotic roots, a man of courage and leadership shared by very few.  Guillermo Fariñas, once more, is risking his life for all Cubans, I repeat: For All Cubans.  He does so without hate and resentment, and he does it because a change is essential if our country is to survive.  Everyone who has blood running through their veins and feels Cuban can feel the energy that this man, thin in body but huge at heart, gives to us all.

It is the moment that his demand for a free Cuba must be heard, and by authorities themselves who have robbed us of the freedom that we will have, sooner rather than later, and that will open the paths to happiness for a people who have been enslaved for the past 50 years.

Thank you, Guillermo Fariñas, for reminding us what should be ours and for reminding every Cuban that now is the time for changes and that nobody should falter.

Hector Palacio Ruiz

Translated by Raul G.

Ladies in White Visit Coco in his House in Santa Clara, 3.3.2010

Who is Coco Fariñas?

He is a dignified Cuban hero fighting peacefully for freedom.  We must remember that he has previously been on hunger strike in several occasions, one of the last being in 2006 to demand the right of Cubans to have Internet access.

Now, it is a much more powerful reason, for he is only asking that they release the political prisoners who are in critical states of health.

We ask all the Web Surfers of the world, please send your e-mails to President Raul Castro, asking him to not let Coco die.

Photo Caption: Coco Fariñas during his hunger strike in 2006 to demand Internet access for all Cubans.

Translated by Raul G.