Dama de Blanco Álida Viso Bello is calling on international governments and human rights groups to intercede with the Cuban dictatorship on behalf of her husband, the imprisoned journalist, poet and librarian, Ricardo González Alfonso.
Viso writes that her husband has been denied adequate medical treatment for ailments including hypertension and cervical arthritis. He also is suffering from glaucoma and is at risk of going blind.
Before his arrest during the "black spring" crackdown of March-April 2003, González was a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and president of the Manuel Márquez Sterling Society of Journalists. He also was founder and editor of De Cuba magazine — the first independent magazine in Cuba since the dictatorship took power — and director of the Jorge Mañach independent library.
González is serving a 20-year prison sentence for "undermining the national independence and territorial integrity" of Cuba, and is currently held at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana.
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