Fidel Castro pudiera estar en estado de coma o haber fallecido en las ultimas horas, segun una serie de indicios.  El destierro cubano debe prepararse para tal momento de manera que expresemos al mundo nuestro deseo de que termine la tirania en nuestra patria.

El Plan De Contingencia

Con el proposito de responder activa y responsablemente a cualquier desenlace que pudiera ocurrir a la defuncion de Fidel Castro y posteriormente, el Movimiento Democracia ha discurrido un Plan de Contingencia (Plan Democracia) el cual cuenta de varias facetas. Una de esas facetas comprende al Exilio cubano y como accionar ante cualquier desenlace en Cuba que tambien repercutira en el destierro.

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Osmani Ricardo Segura Garcia y otros siete jovenes cubanos desaparecidos en el mar desde agosto del 2008, luego de escapar de Cuba

A continuacion, articulo en ingles del New York Times, publicado el 31 de diciembre de 2008 sobre balseros cubanos ahogados en el mar por escapar de la dictadura y las gestiones de las autoridades, los familiares y el Movimiento Democracia:

Grief Marks Anniversary of Triumph of Castro

By DAMIEN CAVE

Published: December 31, 2008

HIALEAH, Fla. — Four months after they appeared in the waters between Havana and Miami, the four dead men remain nameless. At a morgue in the Florida Keys, they lie on stretchers stacked like bunk beds, their bodies chewed by sharks, their faces too putrified to be recognized.

Photographer: Maggie Steber for The New York Times

Ramon Saul Sanchez and Nilda Garcia, who is awaiting DNA results to know if one of four bodies washed ashore in the Florida Keys in August is that of her missing son, Osmani, who fled Cuba on a raft.

The police suspect they were Cuban rafters. Nilda Garcia thinks one of them might be her son — and the thought makes her weep. Fourteen years after she left Cuba on her own makeshift boat, she finds herself wondering once again: When will it end?

“How many mothers are going through this?” she said in an interview at her daughter’s apartment here as she awaits DNA results on the bodies. “How many more are crying for their losses? How many young people have drowned in this sea? How many?”

Fifty years ago today, many Cubans cheered when Fidel Castro seized power in Havana, and even now the revolution attracts many fans — as evidenced by the Canadian tour agencies advertising trips “to celebrate five decades of resilience.”

But the bodies speak to a different legacy. Here in South Florida, where roughly 850,000 Cubans have settled over the years, repeated waves of painful exile and family separation define the Castro era. The revolution never met their hopeful expectations, the island they love has slipped into decay, and for many, this week’s golden anniversary provides little more than a flashback to traumas, old and new.

“It pounds in everybody’s conscience every day,” said Ramon Saul Sanchez, 54, the founder of Movimiento Democracia, a Cuban-American group known for using boats to stage protests. “Fifty years is something very hard to accept.”

Some Cubans remain defiant. Huber Matos, a former revolutionary leader who came to Miami after Mr. Castro sent him to jail in 1959 for suggesting that the Cuban government included too many Communists, said that the anniversary inspired him to keep pushing for change. “When you think of what you have to do, you can’t be sad,” said the 90-year-old former soldier. “To continue working, that’s the key.”

But for many, the revolution’s 50th anniversary has inspired a period of reflection. Cubans across Florida say they are mourning privately, or trying to forget, and formal commemorations are being kept to a minimum. If Miami in the 1980s was a place of militants, where “Havana vanities come to dust,” as Joan Didion famously wrote, today it is also a home to newer arrivals who ask: Must the pain go on?

A poll released this month by Florida International University shows that 55 percent of Cubans in Florida favor lifting the United States embargo against Cuba, up from 42 percent a year ago. It is the first time a clear majority has held that position since the survey began in 1991.

Even among those who support the 46-year-old embargo, like Senator Mel Martinez, a Republican, continued damage to families has become a more prominent concern.

“This is an ongoing tragedy,” said Mr. Martinez, who left Cuba at age 15 and spent four years without his parents. “How many people today are still being separated? How many people in Cuba are making plans to leave?”

Ms. Garcia was a “balsera,” one of the 38,000 rafters who fled Cuba in 1994. She said she left her suburb of Havana because her daughter needed medical care she could not get in Cuba for a brain tumor. Her son, Osmani, stayed. He was 20 at the time, a speaker of English and French, who became an independent journalist.

His work often put him at odds with the Castro regime. In one dispatch, published on Oct. 26, 2007, he condemned Cuba’s foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, for mischaracterizing comments from President Bush.

“I will not take the time to point out all the lies told by Felipe Pérez Roque at this press conference, but I will say there was a worried look on his face and those of his cohorts,” he wrote, in an article posted online. “It almost seems that they too are realizing there is little time left to the Castro dictatorship and that change is very near.”

Instead, over the next year, political pressure on Mr. Garcia increased. In June, according to a report in a Cuban online forum, he was arrested and interrogated by state officials. Two months later, his mother said he was filmed by a Cuban television reporter at a protest against the government, scaring him enough to flee.

His relatives said that on the night of Aug. 15, he climbed aboard a boat with no motor and seven or eight other people, pushing off from an area near Havana with hopes of reaching Florida within a few days.

The pace mattered; the sea was churning. By early Monday morning, Tropical Storm Fay had moved through Cuba into the Florida Straits, bringing nearly a foot of rain, swells of several feet and winds that would strengthen to 60 miles per hour.

Ms. Garcia, 64, a home health aide with a slight limp from a dog bite, said she was not sure if her son had known the storm was coming. Even if he did, she said, “He was desperate and needed to go.”

She said her son had done all he could to change Cuba from the inside. “How can Cubans confront the government, with rocks and sticks?” Ms. Garcia said. “Everyone has nothing, and the people are afraid.”

She found out about the bodies from the news. The first one, tagged 0107 in morgue records, appeared in the waters off Craig Key just after 5 p.m. on Aug. 21. A fisherman called the Coast Guard, and two Monroe County police officers pulled him from the teal-blue sea. Three others followed, appearing offshore over the next 24 hours in a line heading north.

Detective Terry Smith, one of the lead detectives investigating the case with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, said the locations and currents suggested the bodies had probably spent several days in the water, drifting from somewhere to the south, though the Coast Guard’s computer analyses were not definitive.

Their identities have been even harder to determine. E. Hunt Scheuerman, the medical examiner for Monroe County, which covers the Keys, said that all four bodies were naked and gnarled, with only three defining characteristics. Body 0107 wore a ring with a Celtic cross and green stone on the fourth finger of his left hand; 0109 arrived with a white sock and blue Lotto running shoe on his right foot; and 0110 had a tattoo on the inside of his lip that said “Raquel.”

Ms. Garcia said the ring sounds similar to one she gave Osmani, but the ring in the morgue is yellow, suggesting gold, and the ring she gave her son was silver.

She said she hoped her son was at the American military base in Guantánamo, where she was processed before coming to the United States. And initially it seemed possible. The Coast Guard stopped a boat near the Bahamas with eight or nine Cuban rafters a few days after Aug. 15. But it must have been another group, Detective Smith said; Mr. Garcia’s name could not be found on the Coast Guard’s list of repatriated refugees.

At least two other Cuban families in Miami are in a similar position. In emotional phone calls, they have told Detective Smith about relatives who left Cuba on Aug. 15 in a boat, never to be heard from again. “What if the four we received are not any of their relatives?” he said, discussing what haunts him most. DNA may be the only way to know for sure. In September, Detective Smith swabbed Ms. Garcia’s mouth and sent the sample to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a comparison with the bodies. For the other two families, the DNA must be collected from closer female relatives, who live in Cuba.

Mr. Sanchez, of Movimiento Democracia, has been trying to arrange for secure samples from the island. “There are hundreds, probably thousands of Cubans who think they lost relatives in the high seas,” he said. But so far, he has received little help from either the Cuban or American governments.

And so the cycle continues. According to Coast Guard statistics, 10,489 Cubans have been interdicted at sea since the beginning of 2005, more than double the 4,223 who were caught in the previous four years. A report in May from the University of Miami’s Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies found that 131,000 Cubans have settled in the United States permanently over the last four years, and its title predicts more of the same: “Not Going Away,” it says. “Cuban Mass Migration to Florida.”

Ms. Garcia said she just wants an end to the 50-year pattern; the uncertainty, tears and tales of woe.

Three months after her DNA reached the F.B.I., she is still waiting for answers. Conversations about her son are drenched with tears and she is never far from a photograph that shows him staring straight ahead, with a stern face, a few wrinkles and thick, dark hair.

It looks like a passport picture — of a man who may have only reached a Florida morgue.

Osmany Ricardo Segura Garcia y otros ocho jovenes cubanos desaparecidos en el mar desde

agosto del 2008 luego de escapar de Cuba

Ocho jovenes cubanos desaparecieron en el mar despues de escapar de Cuba en una rudimentaria balsa.  Su madre en el exilio clama al mundo por cualquier pista que pueda ayudar a esclarecer lo sucedido a estos jovenes cubanos.  Se ruega a quien pueda ayudar en este triste caso que por favor llame al telefono 305-264-7200.

Asimismo, en la morgue de la ciudad de Key West, en la Florida, se encuentran, desde hace meses, cuatro cadaveres de balseros cubanos que no han podido ser identificados debido al estado de descomposicion en que estan.  Las autoridades luchan por identificar si alguno de ellos pertenece a los desaparecidos.

Atacan furibundamente Fidel Castro y su regimen al Movimiento Democracia Por su llamamiento a  ayudar al Pueblo de Cuba ante devastacion de huracanes

Entrevista por Canal 51 Sobre Ayuda a Cuba - YouTube

Miami, En un ataque furibundo contra el Movimiento Democracia por parte de la prensa oficial de Cuba (la unica que es legal en el pais) y por parte del propio dictador Fidel Castro en una de sus "Reflexiones", publicada el 20 de septiembre del 2008, el regimen reafirma sin pudor un extraño pero acostumbrado complejo donde a este no le agradan los gestos humanitarios de otras persona o entidades hacia el pueblo de Cuba.

Respondiendo a las catastrofes naturales producidas por los recientes huracanes en Cuba, el Movimiento Democracia pidio al gobierno de George Bush que dejara sin efecto, al menos temporalmente, las sanciones impuestas contra Cuba en el 2004 (Ver carta a Bush) para facilitar el flujo de ayuda a la Isla y al Exilio cubano y al mundo que se comenzara de inmediato una campaña de ayuda humanitaria al pueblo de Cuba debido a la devastacion causada por la naturaleza a traves de todo el pais.

Al unisono, el Movimiento Democracia reanudo su peticion al Departamente del Tesoro de Estados Unidos para que le otorgara la licencia requerida por ley para el envio de la ayuda a Cuba.  El gobierno norteamericano respondio otorgandonos una licencia temporal (90 dias) solamente.

La noticia de que el Movimiento Democracia habia recibido una licencia para enviar ayuda al pueblo de Cuba irrito de tal manera al dictador cubano, que desde su lecho de enfermo, escribio una de sus "Reflexiones" (20 de setiembre de 2008) donde critica el hecho de que el Movimiento Democracia haya recibido la licencia y amenaza con confiscar o rechazar toda ayuda por "contrarevolucionaria".

Al dia siguiente un calumnioso articulo es publicado en el periodico Granma bajo el titulo "Bush Otorga Licencia a Connotado Terrorista", atacando con epitetos y falsedades al Delegado del Movimiento Democracia, Ramon Saul Sanchez, por haber hecho el llamamiento a ayudar al Pueblo de Cuba.

Un dia despues de la publicacion en el Granma, practicamente todas las demas publicaciones del pais, las cuales son controladas por el gobierno, reprodujeron el amañado articulo. (Oprima aqui para ver articulo)

A pesar de la indolente actitud del regimen militarista de Cuba ante la desgracia de su pueblo, el Movimiento Democracia pudo recoger varias toneladas de alimentos y ropa, logrando enviar los alimentos a Cuba y la ropa a la empobrecida Haiti.  Por supuesto, no nos fue posible hacer uso de los 90 dias de licencia otorgada por el Departamento del Tesoro pues sabiamos que la dictadura de los hermanos Castro la confiscarian al poder identificar la fuente de envio facilmente.  Aclaramos que ninguna ayuda humanitaria estaba marcada en ninguna manera que pudiera indicar al beneficiado que era procedente de nosotros o del exilio cubano.  Todo se hizo de manera humanitaria y sin politizar la gestion por parte nuestra.

Al final, lo importante es que la ayuda cumplio su cometido pese a la indolencia de dos hermanos que desde sus comodos y seguros recintos dictaminan que la empobrecida poblacion cubana no reciba la tan necesaria ayuda que sus coterraneos desterrados les envian con amor para enfrentar la hambruna que han dejado tres huracanes en dos meses y la carestia cronica causada por las politicas ineptas del regimen por medio siglo de ferrea dictadura militarista.

Vea la historia de la lucha del Movimiento Democracia por ayudar a los cubanos durante los huracanes y los ataques del regimen.  Haga click en los enlaces siguientes:

• Nota de Prensa del Movimiento Democracia

• Carta a Bush Solicitando Fin de Sanciones Por Huracan

• Entrevista por Canal 51 Sobre Ayuda a Cuba - YouTube

• "Reflexion" De Fidel Contra Democracia Por Ayuda

• Ataque de Prensa En Cuba Contra Ramon Saul Sanchez

• Fotos de la prensa

• Envía Miriam Leiva carta abierta al presidente Bush

Cubano, Preparate Para Participar En La Gran Marcha De Derechos Civiles Para El Oprimido Pueblo De Cuba.

Con el proposito de responder activa y responsablemente a cualquier desenlace que pudiera ocurrir a la defuncion de Fidel Castro y posteriormente, el Movimiento Democracia ha discurrido un Plan de Contingencia (Plan Democracia) para encaminar nuestras energias adecuadamente a cualquier desenlace que pudiera ocurrir en el escenario cubano una vez que se anuncie la defuncion de Fidel Castro en el futuro.

El Plan Democracia esta conformado por facetas.  Una de esas facetas comprende al Exilio cubano y como este debe accionar ante cualquier desenlace en Cuba que tambien repercutira en el destierro.

La primera faceta dispone que al anuncio de la defuncion de Fidel Castro, se acuda de inmediato a una multitudinaria Marcha Por Los Derechos Civiles del Pueblo Cubano, la cual tendra su principal escenario a lo largo de la Calle 8 del SW, en la ciudad de Miami.  El Movimiento Democracia ya ha obtenido un compromiso con las autoridades policiacas de la Ciudad de MIami, el condado Miami-Dade, la Ciudad de Hialeah y la Ciudad de Sweetwater para realizar dicha marcha con la cooperacion de las autoridades en acatamiento de la Primera Enmienda de la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos que garantiza el derecho a la libre manifestacion de las ideas.  Por supuesto, es nuestro deber tambien contribuir al orden  como siempre lo hemos hecho en medio siglo de exilio.
 
Los propositos de la Marcha de Derechos Civiles Para el Pueblo Cubano son los siguientes:

1) Reclamar Elecciones Libres para los cubanos.  Cambiar de tirano no es ser libre.

2) Apoyar a la oposicion civica cubana en la Isla en su justa lucha por la libertad de pueblo de nuestra patria.

3) Reclamar la liberacion de todos los prisioneros politicos cubanos.

4) Reclamar que se detenga la politica de la division familiar la cual ha causado que cada familia cubana se encuentren divididas por este regimen.

5) Reclamar del gobierno de Estados Unidos que no impida la activa participacion del destierro cubano en la lucha no-violenta hacia Cuba y en auxiliar masivamente al pueblo cubano con ayuda humanitaria y otras logisticas en el momento en que comience a desmontarse el presente regimen en Cuba.

De manera que el mensaje de la manifestacion sea coherente y se fundamente en los pricipios antes mencionados, hemos discurrido una serie de lemas que sirvan de modelo para las personas que deseen hacer sus propios letreros y mantenerlos listos para cuando llegue el momento de la Marcha de Derechos Civiles.
 
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