Wikileaks: Cuban cardinal pushed to close church magazine
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Vatican expert on Cuba says U.S.Cuban diplomats in 2007 that Cardinal Jaime Ortega led to the closure of a popular Catholic magazine often critical of the communist system, according to a telegram from the State Department made available by Wikileaks.
The Cuban government wanted to close the magazine Vitral for years but fear violence if "should be happy because the Church has done its dirty work for him," the expert noted. The publication was not closed, but its editor resigned and its contents have been watered down.
The spokesman denied Ortega in an email that the church had succumbed to government pressure and said that although the Cuban government had complained about publications of the Church Vitral and other "complaints never turned into requests for closure. "
"It does not matter if the offense is real or not, it simply repeated the same if there is no primary source to confirm in public," the spokesman Orlando Marquez wrote . "It is good to ask who benefits from this."
The cable was sent to the U.S. State Departmentthe Vatican embassy also cited reports earlier unconfirmed reports that Vatican officials had sometimes felt Ortega, who is also Archbishop of Havana, was too friendly with Cuba Raul Castro sovereign.
"The Vatican officials have hinted in the past that Ortega has become too cozy with Castro," noted the cable, dated May 14, 2007, and classified as "secret." He was one of the more than 250,000 documents State Department provided that Wikileaks McClatchy, which owns El Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald.
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According to a report last week in the Miami Herald, a 2007 US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks claimed that Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega had moved to stifle another, more critical church magazine, Vitrales, bowing to pressure from the Cuban
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Biscet added that the order violated Castro's promise to Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega last year to release the political prisoners without conditions. Efforts to contact Ortega's office in Havana on Thursday were unsuccessful.
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