It's hard to excited about microwaves, DVD players and cell phones for Cubans, knowing that the same dictator that is promising these goodies is the chief warden of one of the world's most horrific gulags.
Here are a few examples of men suffering at the hands of the beast, Raúl Castro, at the provincial prison in Guántanamo, where guards are doing whatever it takes to enforce a prison dress code:
— Political prisoners Carel Albares Rodríguez, 24, and Roberto Tapia Ferrer, 29, were stripped naked and thrown into a punishment cell, because they refused to wear prison uniforms. They have been held there since March 17.
— Political prisoner Aurelio Antonio Morales Ayala has been the target of threats from guards. They threatened to strip and beat Morales, 38, after a disciplinary committee found him in violation of several prison procedures, including refusing to wear the inmate uniform and not standing at attention when guards count prisoners. Morales, who is serving a 5-year sentence for participating in human rights protests, was also accused of being the ringleader of prison troublemakers.
— Guards have denied medical care for political prisoner Ernesto Lucas Corral Cabrera, who is suffering from a cyst on his back and who needs physical therapy for an injured ankle. "But for his dissident ideas and his refusal to wear a prison uniform, they have denied him all types of medical assistance until he changes his ways of thinking and acting," wrote independent journalist Jorge Corrales Ceballos, in a report posted at Miscelaneas de Cuba. Corral is serving a 4-year sentence handed down after he was found to be a "social danger."
— Guards blocked a Roman Catholic priest from visiting political prisoner Osmani Fuentes García, telling the priest that Fuentes' opposition to the Castro dictatorship was proof that he did not have religious faith.
Elsewhere in the gulag, political prisonerOsmany Espada Rodríguez is in poor health, waiting since January to be seen by medical specialists. A member of the Eastern Democratic Alliance, Espada is serving a 5-year sentence at the Cuba Sí prison for being a "social danger."
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