CALL FOR ACTION

CONTACT: Michelle Dean

PHONE: 206-337-1464
EMAIL: info@rnha.org

November 20, 2009

In response to the attacks and defamations made against the Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez by
the Castro regime in Cuba, the American opinion and news site, The Americano, signs this
Manifesto in support of Yoani Sánchez. This site opens a space for its readers to place their
signatures in support of this Manifesto and all it represent. More importantly, voice your
discontent towards this injustice.

Last Friday, November 6th, 2009, Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogger of 34 years of age, was
assaulted when three security agents sent by the Castrist tyranny forced her and two other
friends into an unidentified vehicle. During the twenty-five minutes that she was held captive,
she was repeatedly beat. Yoani Sáchez has won several awards due to her blog Generación Y,
in which she has always voiced her opinion about the real situation in Cuba. Amongst others,
she has won the Ortega y Gasset (Spain) award for online journalism and the María Moors
Cabot award (United States), neither of which she has been able to claim since she has been
prohibited to leave Cuba.

Furthermore, the Castro Regime prohibits her blog to be read within the island, and Cubans
cannot access it online. The causes for all these atrocious assaults against her personal
freedom are all inflicted by the tyrannical regime of the Castro brothers in Cuba. The Americano
condemns this aggression against personal liberty, freedom of speech, and all that the Cuban
government has failed to speak about.

RNHA National Chairman Alci Maldonado released the following statement, “I encourage
everyone who receives this message to sign this Manifesto. I am appalled with the human
rights violations perpetrated by the tyrannical Castro brothers and their despotic regime. May
God protect the Cuban people and hasten their day of freedom and may God protect Yoani
Sanchez and her brave colleagues. Again, I encourage each and every one of you to sign this
Manifesto.”

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