HAVANA, October 31 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén) - Agents of the Department of State Security searched the home of dissident Pacheco Ávila and confiscated several items on October 26, in Ciego de Ávila province.

Among the confiscated items were a videotape of the debate between Cuban parliamentary leader Ricardo Alarcón and Cuban exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, a copy of the platform of the Democratic Solidarity Party, and several copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Juan Carlos González, a fellow dissident, said that "Ávila has been threatened and his telephone is subject to frequent interruptions, because that’s the means we use to get information about Cuban reality out to Radio Martí, in the U. S."

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