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Yoani Sanchez /
Today, Sanchez posts about the secret police shadowing dissidents in Cuba.
Everybody knows about them, everybody can spot them.
"They don’t try to hide because they want this person, who signs his name to his critical opinions, to know they’re there; they want his friends to distance themselves so as not to end up caught in the network of control, in the spiderweb of vigilance," she writes.
I know a little about this subject.
While visiting my cranky old Catholic dissident friend Emil in Cienfuegos in 1999, we were shadowed EVERYWHERE by the secret police.
The "secret" police were easy to spot with their expensive Ray Ban sunglasses, good shoes and short military haircuts. They followed us closely as we crossed in the middle of traffic and expertly dodged through stores and shops.
Sadly, the next time I visited Cuba with gifts for my old friend, I learned that he had died...suddenly and mysteriously...and that his large old mansion and gardens had been confiscated by the state and quickly divided into four residences.
