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Cuban leaders
seize dissident's documents
Posted on Fri, Dec. 24, 2004.
The Miami Herald
HAVANA - (AP) -- Just hours after moderate dissidents launched a new
magazine, the Cuban government retaliated by confiscating various books
and written documents, one of the dissidents said Thursday.
Manuel Cuesta Morua, a well-known intellectual who helped present the
magazine Consensus Tuesday, said authorities entered the house of his
former partner that night and took all of the books, writings and
computer discs he had left there.
''It's a clear and direct message of intolerance,'' Cuesta Morua said in
a statement.
According to the activist, authorities presented a search warrant and
said they took the belongings ''to look for counterrevolutionary
literature.'' They said they believed there were documents connected to
U.S. institutions, he said.
Dozens of dissidents arrested in a government crackdown last year were
accused of accepting money from U.S. officials to undermine the island's
government -- a charge the activists and Washington denied.
Consensus was presented in the headquarters of a state-owned
construction company, which was unusual for a dissident activity.
Government opponents generally don't hold public gatherings, especially
not in state-controlled offices.
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