Cuban independent journalist Léster González Pentón, then 26, was the youngest dissident arrested during the "black spring" crackdown of March-April 2003. Now 30, he currently is serving a 20-year prison term at the Pendiente prison in Santa Clara.
He is in poor health, and he misses his daughter, 5-year-old Claudia.
His wife Yanet Ocaña recently did an interview with the Spanish group, Solidaridad Española con Cuba, in which he describes Léster's hardships — he suffers from a variety of medical ailments, and those endured by her family. For example, the police harass her mother at her workplace, because of Ocaña's activism with the Ladies in White.
So what does Ocaña tell her daughter about her father?
"We have told her the truth. I think it is for the best that she understands who her father is and why he is imprisoned."
Seven years ago, Matt Lauer, you openly advocated for Elian González, who was not much older than Claudia González, to be reunited with his father in Cuba.
When you are on the island next week, will you do the same for Claudia and her daddy?
Read the whole interview with Ocaña, in Spanish, here.
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