Telephone company refuses service to independent journalist

Telephone company refuses service to independent journalist

HAVANA, January 30 ( Roberto Pérez, Agencia Patria / www.cubanet.org) -
Independent journalist Antonio Femenías Hechemendia thought he'd finally
obtain a telephone when the ETECSA, the national telephone company,
assigned numbers to those living in the historical center of the city of
Ciego de Ávila.

However, when his wife, Irsy Adelina Rodríguez Pérez, went to the
company to sign a contract for the telephone, she was told that service
could not be connected and she would get an explanation from the
government's Popular Power organization.

There she was told that "the benefits of the Revolution" were not
available to dissidents. Then, officers of the political police visited
Antonio Femenías Hechemendia and accused him of trying to enlist people
to become independent journalists.

Finally, employees of the telephone went to the Femenías Hechemendia
home and removed the telephone cable that had been installed.

Popular Power advised the block committee in the historic center that a
telephone had mistakenly been assigned to Femenías Hechemendia.

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