Cuban political prisoner Aurelio Antonio Morales Ayala used a crude, even disgusting — but appropriately symbolic — weapon to express what he thinks about the Castro dictatorship.
His own shit.
In a punishment cell in the Castro gulag, that's about all a man has to protest what his jailers are doing to him.
Abajo Fidel, Morales scribbled on the walls of his dungeon cell. "Down with Fidel."
Cuban independent journalist Tania Maceda Guerra reports that Morales was protesting the tortures he had suffered for two weeks at the hands of his captors at the Potosí prison in Las Tunas province.
"The mosquitoes weight-lifted me," Morales told Guerra on Aug. 20 after he was transferred to another prison. "I spent 15 days in the punishment cell without a mattress or blanket, sleeping on the stinking floor with the cockroaches and rats, deprived of my belongings and almost without food, as if I were a dog.
"Then I got up and painted 'Abajo Fidel,' with my excrement, and started to compose a song to Camilo (Cienfuegos), whom Fidel disappeared," Morales said.
Considering what Fidel Castro, and everything he represents has done to him, and to all of Cuba, Morales picked the perfect medium for his protest.
Read my Political Prisoner of the Week profile of Morales, who is serving a 33-month sentence for "disobedience," here.
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