Orlando Zapata Tamayo
Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo is dying, as his body is ravaged by the consequences of a hunger strike he started Dec. 3 to protest human rights abuses by his captors.
Protest by suicide is awful to consider, but sometimes you have to use the only weapon at your disposal — your life — to fight a great evil.
Reina Luisa Tamayo Danger visited her son Saturday; she said he looked like a corpse.
Prison doctors told her that they have tried to stabilize his condition with IV medications, but that he risks paralysis and death if he continues with the protest.
Despite the grim prognosis, Zapata, who started the protest after officials transferred him to another prison, said he is sticking to his demands.
Those include, according to a report posted at Payo Libre, the same benefits being given to five Cuban spies imprisoned in the United States — specifically, a television, radio, stove, heater and iron — and the same privileges that were given to Fidel Castro by the Batista dictatorship when he was imprisoned after the failed attack on the Moncada barracks in 1953.
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