US Embassy Official Visits Guillermo Fariñas

US Embassy Official Visits Guillermo Fariñas / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 9 August 2016 – A note published on the digital site
of the Anti-totalitarian Forum (FANTU) reports that Dana Brown,
Political and Economic Section Chief of the United States Embassy in
Havana visited Guillermo Fariñas at his home in Santa Clara on Monday.
The official showed her “concern” for the health of the opposition
leader, who has been on a hunger and thirst strike for more than 20 days.

Fariñas said that the American diplomat arrived at this house around
noon, interested in his “state of health” and “the demands” that the
dissident made to Raul Castro’s government. She asked the winner of the
European Parliament’s 2010 Sakharov Price for Human Rights how the
United States government could help him. The conversation between them
lasted “almost an hour” and was a “very fruitful and respectful dialog”
according to Fariñas.

With the visit of Brown, two diplomatic representatives have now visited
Fariñas since the beginning of his hunger strike. On 31 July the first
secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Cuba, the priest Jose Manuel
Alcaide Borreguero visited his home in the Santa Clara neighborhood of
La Chirusa.

Fariñas, 54, has undertaken more than 20 hunger strikes since 1995, the
most recent of them in 2010 lasting 135 days, in which he demanded the
release of a group of opponents of the 2003 Black Spring.

Source: US Embassy Official Visits Guillermo Fariñas / 14ymedio –
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