The extent to which some Cuban political prisoners go to demand that their human rights be respected reveals the courage of the prisoner, and the vile nature of those who hold them in the Castro gulag.
Case in point: Political prisoner Alfredo Álvarez Leyva, who has not only started a hunger strike but has gone a step further by taking a wire and sewing his mouth shut, according to a Radio Martí report.
An inmate at El Típico Nuevo prison in Las Tunas, Álvarez is protesting the poor living conditions in the jail, including the poor amount and quality of the food.
I could not determine why Álvarez, a member of the Pedro Luis Boitel Resistance Movement, is in prison, except that this is not his first stint in a Cuban prison.
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