During President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in March 2016, dictator Raul Castro said he would be willing to release all political prisoners; all he needed was a list of names.
Only the biggest fool would believe him, but several groups almost immediately released their lists. Of course, there was no mass release.
On April 25, the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, one of the most credible sources in Cuba for information on political prisoners released its updated list of 93 political prisoners.
A major goal of this blog since its inception more than 10 years ago is to recognize those brave Cubans imprisoned because of their opposition to, and their actions in service of their beliefs, against the Castro dictatorship. It is one small step to ensure that they, and their oppressors, know that they are not forgotten.
In that spirit, Uncommon Sense has revived one of its most important features, the Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week.
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The Kardashians will never meet Cubans like Andrés Fidel Alfonso Rodríguez as they tape their reality show, because for Alfonso and other Cuban political prisoners, there is nothing entertaining about the reality of Cuba.
Alfonso, 57, an activist with the Pro Human Rights Group with the Andrei Sajarov Foundation and the National Civic Resistence Front. has been in jail since Dec. 24, 2013. He has served about half of a 4-1/2-year prison sentence for "assault."
In prison, he has continued with his resistance to regime, refusing to wear the uniform of a common criminal and paying the consequences. In response, he has carried out at least one hunger strike in protest.
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