(Guantanamo, Cuba)
Alberto Martinez, 17 years old is the youngest political prisoner in Combinado de
Guantánamo, soon he will be sanctioned for the presumed crime of illegally leaving the
country. This time he claims he was reading a magazine called “ Democracy is a
discussion” but it was confiscated, for the State Security confiscates all literature
that is not related to communism or the communist party.
On the other hand, political prisoner Ernesto Lucas Corral informed that in wing AT 500 of
this same prison, an ordinance has been imposed prohibiting any form of correspondence
between prisoners and their relatives. The internal opposition views this action as an
isolation measure.
Lieutenant Flavio Hernandez Castellanos, second in Command of wing AT 500 of the
Combinado’s prison, read the ordinance in question.
Lucas Corral also pointed out that an uncertain number of prisoners in this jail; sleep in
planks of cane trash when there is no mattress for his assigned bed. Others lack a simple
sheet to cover themselves in the cold nights.
Equally, it has been denounced that the food given to the prisoners is terrible: sometimes
they are given 30 grams of bread and a glass of tea for breakfast, 40 grams of soup and
rice for lunch at about 10 in the morning, and the same portion at three in the afternoon
for dinner. That is all the food they receive in a 24 hours day.
In this same prison, Crescencio Rivelta Corella, a common prisoner, has been on a hunger
strike for the past 10 days, Nestor weighs 30 kilograms with 1,50 meters in height. He
suffers from an ulcer and this strike can only deteriorate his health even more.
The only request made by this humble Cuban to his jailers has been a blanket to cover
himself with, during the cold winter nights. But his request has fallen into deaf ears.
Reporting from the city of Guantanamo, Luis Torres Cardosa, LUX INFOPRESS. E-mailed to
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