Antunez, Translator: Unstated
Julio Columbié Batista is a young peasant from Batey Grúa Nueva in the
town of Violeta, Ciego de Avila. This co-chairman of the Central
Opposition Coalition in that province, director and founder of the
Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience
Front, is one of the brave opponents devoted to the cause of freedom in
Cuba.
Without long academic instruction, nor a high cultural level he is an
opposition leader in his community, beyond what has been developed in
many in big cities. His sugar workers' town has around a thousand houses
and 3,000 persons engaged in agricultural activities mainly the sugar
harvest.
There he has managed to win the well deserved respect and admiration of
all his neighbors who recognize and like him. The political police, to
get people to participate in their "acts of repudiation," have had to
resort to people from other places because his neighbors not only admire
him but also are willing to stand behind him. It has been determined
when the opposition protests there, they bring a number of members of
the Special Branch and the Ministry of Interior to threaten and
terrorize their neighbors if they join or support the protests.
His home is still thatched and rustic with a dirt floor and no shortage
of large visible signs of non-cooperation campaign to draw attention.
One of the strongest pillars of the Front and the Cuban resistance is
located in the Grúa Nueva village where discontent and the number of
opponents are capitalized, and the opposition wins spaces.
February 15 2012
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