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Dozens of Cuban government agents forced the shutdown of a forum on civil society in the hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas on Thursday by shouting over all the speakers until organizers postponed the meeting.
The incident is an example of what pro-democracy activists call a “climate of violence” that the regime has brought to the event.

Communist agitators waving Cuban and Venezuelan flags protested the presence of pro-democracy voices, including a representative of the United States, at the traditional dialogue on civil society that occurs the day before the Summit of the Americas usually begins in earnest. The group chanted “kick them out; get them out;” “Chávez lives, the struggle continues;” “down with the maggots” (gusano is a classic Cuban Revolution slur for members of the Cuban exile community); and “we don’t feel like being a colony of America.”