Marcelino Abreu Bonora
Lying, whether to the Cuban people or to the world, is a basic currency of the Castro dictatorship so it is no surprise that the regime broke a promise to release political prisoner Marcelino Abreu Bonora in the month of August.
That was the deal the regime's agents made with Abreu late last year in a bid to convince him to end a lengthy hunger strike.
"He waited with hope, but it was a new deception by the authorities of the Cuban regime," Angelica Mora wrote in an update posted by the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and of the Press.
I have written about Abreu, a veteran of the Castro gulag, several times before, whether it's documenting how he was arrested and sent to prison or how he continued his fight against the Castro dictatorship by going on hunger strike.
Abreu was arrested Aug. 13, 2012 -- Fidel Castro's birthday -- after the police caught him distributing anti-government leaflets and shouting anti-Castro slogans.
It wasn't until more than a year later, on Aug. 29, 2013, that Abreu was tried, convicted of bogus charges of "assault," "public disorder" and "disrespecting" Fidel Castro -- as if he deserves more than disrespect -- and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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