Everything about the Castro dictatorship during the past 50 years — the poverty, the tyranny, the absence of freedom — is enough to make you sick to your stomach. Everything about the so-called "revolution" and what it has brought to Cuba, is revolting.
So it is poetic justice, that Fidel Castro, the man most responsible for the sickness that bears his name, is decaying away from a bad stomach.
Unfortunately, too many of his captives, imprisoned for trying to make Cuba well, are in similar pain.
The sickness, the pain that imprisoned journalist Normando Hernández González is suffering is excruciating just to think about. Suffering from intestinal malabsorption syndrome and chronic colitis, Hernández has long bouts of constipation followed by longer bouts of diarrhea that have ravaged his body. According to his wife, Hernández, who was imprisoned during the "black spring" of 2003, currently weighs barely over 120 pounds.
Of course, the gulag is no place to be a sick man, especially if you are political prisoner. Denial of adequate medical care is just another way the dictatorship carries out the de facto death sentences that Hernández and other political prisoners are serving in Castro's dungeons.
Hernández's wife also recently reported that her husband has been suffering from an inflammation on his throat that leaves him feeling like he is drowning. He probably should have an ultrasound exam to determine the severity of the condition, but officials have not allowed one to be performed.
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