Cuba: State security tattlers

Ooooh! Tell-tell! They're going to tell his gwamma on him!

State security agents last week picked up for questioning Lizan Viñas Estrada, president of Young People for Liberty, a dissident organization formed in December.

Viñas Estrada said an agent named Frank told him during questioning at the Calabazar police station in Havana that he could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for "manipulating young people and encouraging them to be counterrevolutionaries." He also said that during 2 ½ hours of questioning the agent threatened to tell his ailing grandmother about what he was doing.

Chavez, hopefully, is taking note. Nothing like fear and trembling backed up with good old fashioned emotional blackmail to stifle the desire for freedom.