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The Miami Herald
July 26, 2006
Posted on Wed, Jul. 26, 2006
Around Miami-Dade
MIAMI-DADE
EXILES PLAN CAMPAIGN OF PASSIVE
RESISTANCE
Three Cuban exile groups announced a campaign Tuesday to
encourage a wave of passive resistance in Cuba to combat Fidel
Castro's government peacefully.
The groups, M.A.R. for Cuba, Plantados until Freedom and
Democracy in Cuba, and Cuban Democratic Directorate, unveiled
posters that emulate street signs that they plan to smuggle into
Cuba and disseminate on the island.
The signs, which are a striking red and yellow, say ''yo no,''
[I don't] followed by different words, sigo [follow], reprimo
[repress], asisto [assist], chivateo [snitch], coopero
[cooperate] and repudio [repudiate].
The groups said the signs will be circulated inside Cuba as
stickers and fliers, although they declined to specify how they
will sneak them in. Two of the groups, Directorate and Plantados,
receive federal funding from the U.S. Agency for International
Development.
Group leaders said the campaign was launched after dissidents
inside Cuba appealed to the exile community to help them spread
the word of passive resistance inside the island. The groups
believe there are signs from the island that passive resistance
is growing. For example, they said, many people now refuse to
engage in acts of repudiation against their neighbors. |
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