Dr. Oscar Biscet and his wife Elsa Morejon
One of Raul Castro's so-called "reforms" that has most excited so-called "Cuba experts," was a change in policy that has allowed numerous dissidents and other Cubans to travel overseas without first having to obtain government permission.
Unless, apparently, that dissident is named Dr. Oscar Biscet.
Biscet, perhaps the most recognizable of the Group of 75 prisoners of conscience jailed during the "black spring" crackdown, said this week the Cuban government denied him permission to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in a White House event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Presidental Medal of Freedom.
President George W. Bush in 2007 presented the medal to Biscet's children, as he Biscet sat in a Cuban prison.
Biscet was parole from prison in 2011 -- but only after he refused efforts by the regime, the Catholic Church and the Spanish government to force him to take overseas exile as a condition of his release.
It is his official status as being only "conditionally" free that the Castro dictatorship is using to block him from accepting President Barack Obama's invitation to the anniversary event.
"In reality, I remain a political prisoner," Biscet told MartiNoticias.com.
Another dissident told me during his recent visit to the United States that the Castro regime is allowing him and other activists to leave the country as a ploy to try to fool the world that real change is underway in Cuba.
What is happening to Biscet reveals how much of a ploy it really is.
Listen to Martinoticias' interview with Biscet, here.
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