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They Tried to Strip Me, I Resisted, and Paid the Price

October 6, 2012

Yoani Sanchez, The Huffington Post

They wanted to keep me from attending the trial of Angel Carromero, the Spaniard who was driving when a car crash killed Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero. Around five in the afternoon a big operation on the outskirts of Bayamo stopped the car my husband, a friend, and I were driving in. "You want to disrupt the court," a man dressed completely in olive-green told us, as he immediately proceeded to arrest us.
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