Castro's Cuba

Cuba 1976, the 17th year of Fidel Castro's "Revolution." From the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:

“ … We, the political prisoners of the Prison of Boniato in the province of Oriente, Cuba, have been confined for years without seeing our families, without being allowed even to communicate with them, unable to receive or send letters, shut up worse than wild beasts in cells hermetically sealed with iron sheets. With a hole in a corner as the sole sanitary facility where urine and excrements accumulate, making the little air available so foul as to be almost unbreathable: without sun, without light, in constant semidarkness, almost blind and strictly prohibited from receiving medical assistance of any kind or any medicaments, we are being submitted to the most inhumane and heartless plan of physical annihilation and biological experimentation ever known in the history of the western world. Russian, Czech and Cuban communist doctors direct this Extermination and Experimentation Plan.

“We are weighed in the cells, we are observed, our reactions are evaluated, our metabolism is altered with unknown substances incorporated in the food, to meals consisting exclusively of spaghetti, corn meal, and boiled rice, with a daily total of under 200 calories. Whole months with no salt whatsoever followed by weeks in which the food is so salty that it almost cannot be swallowed. These brusque changes upset our metabolism, raise our blood pressure, cause kidney problems, and the like. Some are monstrously swollen, with the so-called “hunger edemas” produced by malnutrition. We are not men, we are specters, skeletons covered by skin, human scarecrows. We are like those pictures of concentration camps that caused such consternation the world over. If you could see us you also would be filled with consternation; but here no one can take photos; this is a communist prison. Our health is worse each day. Generalized polyneuritis and avitaminosis play havoc among us, we are being killed slowly but inexorably. There are problems with reflexes, with coordination, lack of balance; there are nervous and digestive disorders of all kinds and we are absolutely denied any medical assistance. Our eyelids are inflamed, reddened, our gums bleeding and receding, our teeth loose, dropping out. Lips and mouths cracked, full of sores, bodies full of dark pustules; groins, genitals, feed and neck invaded by fungus, skin scaly, grey … and we are denied all medical assistance. Scurvy is now producing in many of us nose hemorrhages if we merely sneeze. There are here aged men, invalids, heart cases, tuberculosis and asthma cases who have been deprived of their aids and are denied any liquid during their attacks as one more instrument of torture. None of these chronically ill people or indeed anyone has received medical assistance of any kind for over two years. The state of malnutrition and exhaustion, of generalized anemia, keeps many of us in a state of prostration, without strength to stand any longer. We have been beaten in a savage and brutal manager, heads, faces and arms have been broken by sticks and iron bars, systematically, cell by cell.”

There is more, pages of documentation, just from 1976, information leaked from the Gulag.  Imagine the unknown and unwritten horrors that await discovery in a liberated Cuba.  Fidel Castro and his communist thugs, (what would you call these genocidal slave masters?) have maintained their iron grip on Cuba for 50 years. 

Last week we witnessed the U.N., always enamored of rogue states carrying cash, once again trash the "imperialistic" United States, and vote for an end to the embargo.

When is the U.N., going to vote in favor of ending Castro's embargo against freedom for the Cuban people?

Comments

[Lori]

You know what, this is the time to spread these reports all over the place, this is the time, now that Biscet is being honored and his situation brought to the attention of many that would otherwise not know about him.

Everyone who has a blog on Cuba should cross post this.

Regards,