{"id":9229,"date":"2010-07-04T17:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2010-07-04T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T21:14:46","slug":"another-cuban-hunger-striker-about-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-cuban-hunger-striker-about-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cuban hunger striker about to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/latin_america\/10500093.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Cuban political dissident who is on hunger strike is in danger of dying, doctors treating him say.<\/p>\n<p>Guillermo Farinas, 48, has been refusing food since February to demand the release of ill political prisoners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone in doubt about the fact that Castro is a despot, thug, murderer, torturer and demonically possessed paranoid madman should read the harrowing account of Armando Valladares\u2019 22 years as a guest in Castro\u2019s gulag, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros\/dp\/1893554198\" target=\"_blank\">Against all Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Stalin, Castro has duped half-witted Western liberals for decades with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-items\/pm\/6\/article\/cuba-in-midst-of-transition-period-7781.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anglican Church of Canada bishops<\/a> being at the forefront of the dimwit contingent.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i9fQcnOhO_g&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i9fQcnOhO_g&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: A Cuban political dissident who is on hunger strike is in danger of dying, doctors treating him say. Guillermo Farinas, 48, has been refusing food since February to demand the release of ill political prisoners. Anyone in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-cuban-hunger-striker-about-to-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[2096,641,873,1214],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-dissidents","tag-hunger-strikes","tag-persecuted-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}