The Guantánamo 36, Cuban Political Prisoners of the Week, 1/17/10

Willing to do anything to keep its iron grip on the Cuban people, the Castro dictatorship devised the notion of "pre-criminal social dangerousness," under which it ostensibly cast itself as mind-reader to determine who might later commit a crime, if not for the intervention of the state.

However, crime-fighting is not the government's intent. Rather, the Castro dictatorship, like the dictatorship in George Orwell's "1984," uses the notion of "pre-crime" crime to neutralize those Cubans who because of their belief in liberty, and their associations with others of like mind, pose potential threats to the regime's monopoly on power.

The Castro gulag is filled with hundreds, if not thousands, of Cubans who have been convicted of pre-criminal social dangerousness, which carries a prison term of up to 4 years. In 2009, according to a new report from CIHPRESS, 36 young Cubans in the city of Guantánamo alone were found to be "social dangers."

Their names and their sentences are:

Armando Guilarte Cardona, 4 years

Pascual Carvajal Ramírez, 1 year

Jorge Luis Roja Cruzzata, 2 years

Eduardo Latamblet, 3 years

Alfredo Rodríguez, 4 years

Jorge Raul Dires Richard, 3 years

Adalberto Lareot Sabon, 4 years

Elmis Peña Cobas, 3 years

Jesús Leguen Mullen, 3 years

Leónides Chivas, 4 years

Manuel Labañino Ordunes, 3 years

Alexis Donatien Suarez, 2 years

Yulian Lestapier Ramírez, 1 year

William Pérez Masso, 3 years

Diosdado Cardona Urgellet, 4 years

Osniel Lescaylle Sablón, 3 years

Oglis Coss López, 2 years

Elmes Pozo Larrazábal, 4 years

Jorge Coba Turro, 3 years

Alexeydis Pérez Machado, 3 years

Elmis Pérez Sablón, 4 years

Alfredo Alfaro Masso, 1 year, 10 months

Yuleivis Larroman Castillo, 3 years

Roberto Izaguirre Martínez, 4 years

Eriberto Sánchez Gómez, 3 years

Wilmer Guilarte Cusa, 4 years

Reinaldo Paniagua Quevedo, 3 years

Giorvis Caraballo Martínez, 2 years

Gean Herrera Meléndez, 3 years

Fernando Wilson Sánchez, 4 years

Manuel Rodríguez Reyna, 2 years

Alfredo Celguera Mondelo, 3 years

Emilio Turcas Lisben, 2 years

Noel Franco Suarez, 3 years

Yoangel Ramírez Domínguez, 1 year, 6 months

Amado Maure Torres, 3 years