The Group of 75 — those independent journalists, librarians and other activists and dissidents covered by the much ballyhooed agreement between Spain, the Catholic Church and the Castro dictatorship for their release — are Cuba's best known political prisoners, and perhaps rightly so, for how they have drawn attention to the human rights situation on the island.
But it is important to never forget the less recognized political prisoners languishing in the Castro gulag, men Iván Álvarez Mosqueda.
I could find very little about Alvarez, except that he was first imprisoned in 2003 — the same year as the Group of 75 — on charges of "acts against the security of the state," "illegal exit," and armed robbery. At age 17, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
We can only imagine how many others there are like him in Cuba.
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