I have just read the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news website and found out that Cuba will be putting a punk rocker named Gorki Aguila on trial tomorrow for "social dangerousness". Aguila, who fronts the band Porno para Ricardo, has been an outspoken critic of the Castro regime - both Fidel and Raul. He was previously arrested for his political activities in 2005. (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/issues/mail/story/2008-08-18/cuban-rocker.html)
"Social dangerousness" is considered a breach of "standards of communist morality." Now there's an oxymoron.
My question is where are the Hollywood actors who decry infringement of artistic freedom?
I guess they are too busy wearing Che Guevara T-shirts.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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