Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello

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    Photos sent from Cuba on April 29, 2006, by
    Roque after she was beaten by a gang of thugs
    of the Cuban goverment.

 
 
 
 
  From left, jailed Cuban dissidents Rene Gomez Manzano, Martha
  Beatriz Roque, Vladimiro Roca and Felix Bonne are pictured here
  on Aug. 7, 1997. The four were arrested days after they made
  public a document called The Homeland is for All, critical of the
  Cuban government and calling for democratic reforms.		    Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque speaks in
   her house in Havana on May 16, 2000, after
   having being let out of jail. She was in jail for a
   year and a half, on a sentence of three years and
   six months, imposed for pacific sedition.

 
 
 
   Roque, 55, enters the goverment food store on the first day after
   her liberation on May 16, 2000, in Santo Suarez neighborhood
   of Havana. Cuba freed Roque, the second of four well-known
   government opponents, in a surprise move by the Castro regime,
   which is still stinging from last month's United Nations censure
   for human rights abuses.		    Cuban dissidents Osvaldo Paya, Martha Beatriz Roque, Gerardo
   Sanchez and Rene Gomez Manzano speak to the press after a
   breakfast they had with Louis Michel, a minister of the European
   Union, at a hotel in Havana on Aug. 24, 2001. Michel said he
   listened attentatively to the dissidents and expressed the need to
   have "closer contacts."

 
 
 
   Roque, Communist opponent and leader of the Movement of
   Independent Economists, talks with a Cuban dissident in Havana
   on International Human Rights Day. Some 70 dissidents put
   politics aside and met to urge democratic change in Cuba.		     Roque, right, is seen during a news conference on March 17,
    2003 in Havana. She and five other opposition members, Nelson
    Molinet, left, and Felix Bonne, center, are on a hunger strike to
    demand the release of political prisoners in Cuba.

 
 
 
   Blanca Reyes, wife of political prisoner Raul Rivero, left,
   reads a letter written by her husband during a meeting, on
   Sept. 23, 2004, in Havana. At right is Cuban Martha Beatriz
   Roque, a recently released political prisoner.
 		     Roque, right, talks with fellow protesters Dolia Leal, Marcela
    Sanchez and Isabel Ramos, at a park near the Revolution Square
    on Oct. 6, 2004 in Havana. A group of women began a protest
    demanding the transfer of dissident Angel Moya, sentenced
    to 20 years and who is ill, to a civilian hospital in Havana.

 
 
 
    This photo, provided by the U.S. Interests
    Section in Havana, shows Cuban dissident
    Martha Beatriz Roque casting a symbolic
    vote for George W. Bush on Nov. 3, 2004.		     Roque speaks before the press in Havana for
    the National Congress to draw up next year's
    opposition's politics and to try and unify the
    different dissident groups on Dec. 7, 2004.

 
 
 
   Roque, president of the Assembly for the Promotion of the Civil
   Society in Cuba, sits next to Felix Bonne, right, and Rene Gomez
   Manzanos as she speaks to the press for the National Congress to
   draw up next year's opposition politics and to try and unify the
   different dissident groups on Dec. 7, 2004.		     Roque at house in Havana on Jan. 31, 2005, during a meeting
    with Isabel Ramos, right, mother of Arturo Suarez, who is the
    oldest Cuban prisoner. Ramos is one of many Cubans that go
    to Roque's house to report about problems their relatives face
    in prison. 

 
 
 
    Cuban dissident economist Marta Beatriz Roque talks
    to the media in Havana on Dec. 7, 2004.
 
 
 
 		    Cuban dissidents, from left, Felix Bonne, Martha Beatriz Roque
   and Rene Gomez Manzano talk on May 19, 2005, in Havana,
   about the preparations for the Dissident National Congress, which
   was held the next day. The Congress will be held in the patio of
   Bonne's house, and was financed by dissident organizations from
   inside and outside Cuba.

 
 
 
    Roque talks to journalists in Havana on Sept. 28, 2007. Outside
    her front door, the Cuban regime painted a portrait of Fidel
    Castro and the slogan "Fatherland or Death." Roque said that
    seven protesters, who gathered peacefully outside Cuba's Justice
    Ministry demanding a mass release of political prisoners, were
    detained and escorted home by police. The police also stopped
    dissidents across the island from joining the demonstration.		     Roque joins the Damas de Blanco as they finish their march
    on Dec. 9, 2007 in Havana. The Damas de Blanco, 50 Cuban
    women, dress in white and wear photos of prisoners during
    their weekly protest march in the Havana Playa neighborhood
    to demand the liberty of their husbands, fathers and brothers,
    who are prisoners of conscience. This protest took place one
    day before International Human Rights Day.

 
 



Cuba: Un analisis social, economico, y politico actual (Marta Beatriz Roque, dic. 2, 2005)

2001
Dissident Cuban Economists Launch Website

2002
Dissident Detained After Fox Meeting
Renowned Cuban dissident detained for hours

2004
Cuba frees imprisoned female dissident
Cuban dissident is freed
Cuba releases economist after 16 months of 20-year sentence
In Cuba, Castro foes wage lonely fight

2006
EL EX-PRESIDENTE FLORES Y ALBITA EN HOMENAJE A MARTHA BEATRIZ
Turbas agreden a opositora cubana
Golpeada y arrastrada la opositora Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello por miembros de las Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida.
Carta de Huber Matos a Martha Beatriz Roque
Martha B. Roque pide a la UE endurecer política hacia Cuba
Disidente pide a Europa que revise la política hacia Cuba

2008
Cuban dissident faces scrutiny at home, in Miami