Dokument #1100025
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
References to a group called Alianza
Liberal Democratica are in reports dated 1996 and 1997.
The most recent reference is contained in a
3 March 1997 press release of the Miami-based Concilio Cubano
Support Group (Grupo de Apoyo a Concilio Cubano, GACC), which names
Ernesto Velzquez Ravelo as vice-president of the group. The report
states that Mr. Velzquez communicated and denounced by telephone a
police home search and subsequent detention of Aguileo Cancio
Chong, president of the Nationalist Action Party (Partido de Accion
Nacionalista, PAN).
A 7 November 1996 report by the Independent
Press Agency of Cuba (Agencia de Prensa Independiente de Cuba,
APIC) names Pedro Brito Hernandez as the president of the Alianza
Liberal Democratica. The report also names him as a member of the
Ethics Commission (Comisión de Etica) of Concilio Cubano,
and states that he had been the subject of continuous harassment
(continuado hostigamiento) by the Cuban political police
(policía política). According to APIC,
although he had been treated respectfully (tratado con
respeto), Mr. Brito had been frequently cited to report before
State Security (Seguridad del Estado) authorities to face
questioning, without having charges or judicial processes formally
brought against him.
A 15 August 1996 list of organizations
signing as part of the Concilio Cubano Forum, published by the
Miami-based organization CubaNet, names Pedro J. Brito Hernandez as
the representative of the Alianza Liberal Democratica.
For additional information on Concilio
Cubano and on the nature, composition and activities of Cuban
dissident groups, please refer to previous Responses.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see below the
list of additional sources consulted in researching this
Information Request.
Reference
Agencia de Prensa Independiente de Cuba
(APIC), La Habana. 7 November 1997.
Manuel David Orrio. "Hostigado Pedro
Brito Hernandez por la policia politica." [Internet] http://www.hermanos.org/docs/apic11114.html
[Accessed 17 Nov. 1998]
CubaNet, Miami. 15 August 1996. "Lista
actualizada de organizaciones firmantes del
Foro Concilio Cubano." [Internet] http://www.cubanet.org/Cnews/y96/sep96/
doc2.html [Accessed 17 Nov. 1998]
Grupo de Apoyo a Concilio Cubano (GACC),
Inc., Miami. 3 March 1997. "Arrestan en
La Habana al presidente del Partido de
Accion Nacionalista." [Internet] http://www.cubanet.org/Cnews/y97/mar97/4pan.html
[Accessed 17 Nov. 1998]
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report.
1994-98.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices. 1994-98.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Reports. 1994-96.
Human Rights in Cuba. 1995
USINS Information Package.
Human Rights in Developing
Countries. 1994-97.
Human Rights Watch World
Report. 1994-98.
Keesing's Record of World
Events [Cambridge]. 1994-97.
Latinamerica Press [Lima].
1994-98.
Latin American Regional
Reports: Central America & the Caribbean
[London]. 1994-98.
News from Human Rights Watch
[New York]. Monthly.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
Electronic sources: IRB databases,
Internet, Refworld (UNHCR) database, NEXIS and WNC.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when
documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must
agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to
Information Request. If they refuse, the Response will read
"no information currently available." Contacting oral sources is
also subject to time constraints; for example, there are periods of
the year when academics are unavailable.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive.
Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not
included.