The Catholic Church had a role in the release of more than 100 political prisoners, even if it only amounted to making a phone call to the prisoners and informing them that there was for them a seat on an airplane waiting to take them to exile in Spain.
But not all political prisoners, apparently, were deserving of the church's intervention, as human rights activists say there remain some 60 or more political prisoners in the Castro gulag.
One of those men, one of those prisoners apparently forgotten by the church, is Augusto Guerra Márquez.
Ironically, Guerra was arrested and imprisoned in 2006 because of his leadership of an opposition group called the New Catholic Party of Cuba. He is currently serving prison sentences adding up to 10 years.
This week, Cuban independent journalist Damián Sánchez Sáenz reported that a "re-education" officer at the Agúica prison in Matanzas had blocked delivery to Guerra of a package of medications brought to the prison by a family member, Gerardo Lazacano Naranjo.
The officer said Lazacano would have to return in a few days so that he could be questioned by the prison warden — something that Lazacano said would be impossible because of the expense of traveling to the prison.
Lazacano said the medications included vitamins, cod liver oil pills, antacids and allergy medicines.
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