Clara Pérez, wife of Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, says her husband’s hunger strike was a key factor that led to the Cuban government’s decision to release dozens of political prisoners.
She said Fariñas nearly died during the hunger strike, which ended after Cuban authorities announced they would begin freeing more than 50 prisoners still in jail since the Black Spring crackdown of 2003.
Pérez said she asked Fariñas to quit the hunger strike, but in the end had to respect his decision to continue the protest.
She said she knows that Cuban authorities consider her and her family to be “mercenaries” in the pay of the U.S. government, but said the accusation is not true.
See 4-minute interview on the Cuba Money Project’s Vimeo channel.
Clara Perez from Tracey Eaton on Vimeo.
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