The Cuban dictatorship wants political prisoner Lázaro Alejandro García Farah to die.
Now that's probably true for most, if not all, political prisoners in Cuba. Just look at the conditions under which they are imprisoned. They are beaten, whether by guards or other prisoners doing the regime's dirty work, and when they get sick, a doctor cannot be found.
But in García's case, his captors are not shy about what they want.
They want García dead, telling him in December 2007 when he was transferred to the maximum security Boniato in Santiago de Cuba.
Recently, according to his mother, guards have tried to make good on the threats.
"In recent days he was the victim of a beating witnessed by the highest prison authorities," said Gladis Farah. "They have not let him talk with his family on the telephone in nine months, and it is clear he could die at any moment because of his prolonged confinement under appalling conditions has deteriorated his health, and this would be the perfect justification to get rid of him."
García, 40, a member of the Cuban Republican Party, was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to 31 years in prison for his role in the hijacking of the ferry Baraguá.
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