Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez
They can lock him up in prison, but the Castro dictatorship cannot break Dr. Darsi Ferrer's commitment to revealing the ugly truths about Cuban society.
Ferrer, a physician, journalist and human rights activist, has been held without charge since July 21. Ostensibly, he is being investigated for buying some cement on the black market, but his real offense to the dictatorship is that for several years he has been a tireless critic of the Castro regime and advocate for human rights and for change.
The dictatorship got tired of hearing from Ferrer, so it threw him in jail.
Which for Ferrer, is just another venue for his activism.
Recently, Ferrer reported from behind bars at the Valle Grande prison that tuberculosis and conjunctivitis are at epidemic proportions among inmates. Making it worse, prison officials are using inappropriate quarantine measures that threaten to spread the sicknesses.
The quality of its health care is one of the great lies upon which the myth of the Castro revolution has been built.
It is inspiring that despite his own precarious situation, Dr. Ferrer continues his struggle to reveal the reality of today's Cuba.
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