Cuban youth arrested for wearing bracelets
Up to 60 Cuban youths were arrested this week for wearing bracelets designed to symbolize political protest.
Posted on Fri, Nov. 02, 2007

By FRANCES ROBLES
frobles@MiamiHerald.com

The latest fad among Cuban youth is a simple white rubber bracelet emblazoned with the word ''CAMBIO'' -- change -- and it landed up to 60 young people behind bars this week, according to human-rights activists on the island.

Several dissidents in Cuba said a group of about 16 young people took to the street in Havana on Sunday to protest the second round of Cuba's municipal elections. Many of them were wearing the white wristbands, similar to the cancer-awareness bracelets made popular by cyclist Lance Armstrong.

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The bracelets were sent to Cuba as part of a Miami-based initiative to foster dissent, and appear to have become a fashion trend.

''My son was not even at the protest on Sunday, but they came to the house with an arrest warrant on Tuesday looking for him,'' anti-Castro activist Aurelio Bachiller said by phone from Havana. ``They took the bracelet from him and tossed him in a cell.''