Havana
It was the Primavera Negra, the “black spring”.
In the early hours of the morning of March 18, 2003, when the whole world was watching the beginnings of the American invasion of Iraq, Fidel Castro gave the order to arrest 75 dissidents.
The repression lasts three days.
The "Group of 75" includes poets like Raul Rivero, economists, including a former adviser to Fidel Castro, nearly thirty journalists and human rights activists.
Opponents are summarily tried two weeks later.
Among the most prominent dissidents, the economist Martha Beatriz Roque appeared on April 4, 2003 in the State Security Offenses room of the People's Provincial Court of Havana.
The indictment accuses him of having granted interviews to anti-Castro media and of having denigrated the revolution in economic articles, without mentioning the impact of the embargo of the United States against Cuba.
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In the name of the people of Cuba, we must sanction...
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