For 50 years, the Castro dictatorship has been able to do what it does — the repression, the oppression, the outright cruelty — because it has no shame. The only thing matters is if it helps the Castros, whether Fidel or his little brother Raúl, stay in power. It is an impressive record, made up of state-sponsored cruelties, big and small, with no room for the shame that might be felt by men with consciences.
One such cruelty happened recently to Gregoria Corrales Borges, the mother of political prisoner Luis Campos Corrales. State Security agents visited Corrales in her home and told her that if she stayed calm and quiet, quit hosting anti-government activists in her home and didn't commit acts of civil obedience — that is, if she acted like a good slave of the state — her son would be transferred from the maximum security prison at Agüica, in Matanzaz province to a hospital for treatment of various ailments, including gout and bleeding hemorrhoids.
So you can add the blackmail of an old woman worried about her son to the Castro dictatorship's sins.
Luis Campos Corrales, who is 42 or 43, has been imprisoned since 1994, when he was sentenced to 26 years in prison for his role in the hijacking of the "Baragua" ferry boat.
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