MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Chile to request Havana details of the car accident in which Cuban dissident died
Chile will request from Cuba all the information on the death of opposition leader Oswaldo Payá who according to the Havana government died in a car accident, something with the Chilean authorities wants to corroborate to “complete certainty”. Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesKirchner's gone quiet on this one. Thought she would be the first to demand answers from the Cuban dictator.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think it could well have been the CIA, or other dissidents, to make Cuba look bad. I highly doubt the Castro governement would be stupid enough to kill him like is being alleged
Jul 24th, 2012 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chile´s right, I hope more Latin American countries will join demanding explanations from Cuba.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is about time our countries start demanding Cuba do something about democracy, liberties, human rights.
The driver was a politician from the Spanish Partido Popular party. So I don´t see Castro involved unless the driver has other details.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Ooooh, the magic letters “CIA”. Nobody has to “help” Cuba look bad. Anymore than anyone has to “help” argieland or Venezuela look bad.
Jul 24th, 2012 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 “our countries”? Whose countries would they be? Don't bother with argieland, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela. None of them would know what the words “democracy, liberties, human rights” mean.
@4 The PP is nationalist. Obvious links to other Spanish-speaking nationalists.
2
Jul 24th, 2012 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you think Cuba looks bad already?
Wouldn't have thought a Country run by a Family Dictatorship would have appealed to your previously expressed sensibilities. But then I guess Dictatorships thrive on servile hypocrites massaging their egos and ......things.
Here are the final three paragraphs of the Cuban police report on the accident. A link to the complete report follows.
Jul 30th, 2012 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The medical forensic report indicates that Oswaldo Paya died instantly as a result of head trauma caused by the heavy impact he received, while Harold Cepero died in the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Surgical and Clinical Hospital in Bayamo city, due to acute respiratory failure as a result of a pulmonary thromboembolism in the upper lobe of the left lung, caused by the fragmented fracture of the left femur.
Angel Carromero told the investigating unit that he could not remember having seen the signs warning about the state of the road. He added that he entered the dirt road at a speed he cannot determine because he had not looked at the speedometer and that when he realized he was driving on gravel he tried to slow down by braking suddenly and the car began to slide sideways until it hit a tree. Jens Aron said he was asleep when he felt the sudden brakes and lateral movement of the vehicle; then he lost consciousness.
From the logical analysis of the travel time (about eight hundred kilometers in less than eight hours, with three stopovers), the statements of the witnesses and the forensic study of the scene and the vehicle, the research team concluded that Angel Francisco Carromero Barrios must have been driving at an average speed of over 120 kmph [74.6 mph], and that his careless driving, excessive speed and incorrect decision to apply the brakes violently on a slippery surface, were the causes of this tragic accident with the loss of two lives.
The investigation and the legal process continue according to Cuban law
Here is an English translation of the complete Cuban police report on the accident. Www.walterlippmann.com/docs3498.html
Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!