Talk:Black Spring of Cuba

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 Definition In 2003 the Castro regime put in jail 75 political opponents; many of them are still prisoners. [d] [e]
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Rename suggested

Probably this article should be named "Black Spring of Cuba", not "The....". Bruce M.Tindall 23:55, 10 September 2008 (CDT)

Have just noticed this for the first time: yes, no 'The' unless part of a title, & will move it now. Ro Thorpe 19:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Unprecedented?

The current version of the article says that the Black Spring, in which 75 dissidents were arrested, was "a wave of repression unprecedented." Certainly it's not unprecedented in world history; Hitler, say, or Stalin, did much worse things at one time than to send 75 dissidents to prison, as have many petty dictators in countries smaller than Cuba. But was it even unprecedented in Cuban history, or even in the history of the Castro dictatorship? On whose authority, or by what definition, shall Citizendium declare this particular repressive outrage to be "unprecedented"? Bruce M.Tindall 19:37, 11 September 2008 (CDT)

Revised language

While I believe the same content is still there, covering the facts, I edited the language; this read like a news release from a protest movement. Howard C. Berkowitz 16:21, 8 February 2009 (UTC)