Reply #162: Read about the Black Spring.

[joshcryer]

It went unreported because the Cuban government timed it with the Iraq War. 75 "dissidents" were arrested for being "too vocal" about a project to allow citizens to chose their candidates.

Wikipedia may be good enough for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spring_(Cuba)

Many members of the Valera Project were arrested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varela_Project

They make up "people acting against their constitution and trying to undermine their form of government." Indeed, this "call" is nothing more than an act of apologists for authoritarianism.

In the United States I can be a socialist, communist, even an anarchist (otherwise known as a libertarian socialist) as long as I don't call for violent overthrow. None of the protesters in the Black Spring were violent nor did they ever call for violence.